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by phuff 6y ago
Most of the popular strategies for playing Diplomacy include telling people that the player is going to do one thing and then deliberately doing a different thing. Those strategies mean that essentially the player has to lie in order to be
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by phuff 6y ago
This is a video from google about how laying undersea cables works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9R4tznCNB0 I've always wanted to know! Super cool!
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by phuff 6y ago
One way some federated, decentralized communications platforms in development try to solve this problem by ensuring that there's a small charge of some kind to interact -- for example by putting a cryptocurrency into the platform and r
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by phuff 6y ago
Hey there, I'd be happy to talk to you about mentorship (and I'm sure lots of other people here would, too). Please shoot me an email and I'd be happy to talk you through some options. I'm currently managing remotely f
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by phuff 8y ago
Have you seen http://helena-lang.org and Ringer? The author has been building tools for doing what you are describing I think.
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by phuff 11y ago
Courage! You can do it! It would also be a great learning opportunity since you have the other 2 libs to use as an example. You should go for it and then put it up for code reviews before using it. Seriously! Give it a shot and then ask
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by phuff 11y ago
Put it up as a gist on github. Or put it up as a PR on github. Branches are cheap! :)
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by phuff 11y ago
Hey Iris, if by chance you read this I just want you to know you should never be ashamed to be who you are, that there is hope in this life and that you are worthwhile. I am sorry things are so terrible and that you feel so bad. Thanks f
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by phuff 11y ago
This song seems completely relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oKn3Hz2u_Q
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by phuff 11y ago
"Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, when microcomputers like the Apple II were all the rage, computer time was expensive, pressure-packed and cumbersome." Does no one fact check anything anymore? If you're going to base part of your
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by phuff 12y ago
More commonly linguists talk about Swadesh lists. For the most complete modern collection of Swadesh-like lists and a program/algorithm for automatically generating a language family tree from them see: http://asjp.clld.org
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by phuff 13y ago
I think he meant bug as in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device whereas you might be understanding bug as in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
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by phuff 13y ago
For what it's worth, go further south to Naples for better pizza... :)
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by phuff 14y ago
Aren't most of those people gone? :) Doug Cutting (Hadoop) is at Cloudera now...
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by phuff 14y ago
So, that's a sample size of 1. Not quite what we would call scientifically rigorous ;). I'm not saying it's not a useful question. I'm just saying, you jump to a whole lot of conclusions that are clearly not based on evidence in your hirin
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by phuff 14y ago
I think this is the part where you're doing some magical thinking backed up by anecdotes. Have you done any actual experimental work on those who have failed the question but that you've hired anyways? Have you then been able to objective
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by phuff 14y ago
Based on Marc's reasoning given on the site, sounds like they have an easy pivot into annotating everything if the rights issue takes them out of the lyrics game...
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by phuff 14y ago
I frequently speak with people in my neighborhood about my experience of working from home, and they say: "I don't think I could handle it." For me, it's just a different type of distraction. When I got bored when working in an office, I w
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by phuff 14y ago
Having studied Chomsky a fair bit in grad school, and also studied cognitive linguistics a fair bit in grad school, I think the idea that Chomsky's models will ever win anything is just wrong. Chomsky's central problem is that his modeling
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by phuff 14y ago
I've heard from a lot of ex-amazonian's that in practice there's a lot of blaming as part of the process at least in part because of the compensation/promotional processes. But maybe that's changed recently? Of course, I've also heard that
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by phuff 14y ago
Does anybody have any insight on how a process like this is debugged at Apple? I've heard, for example, that at Amazon there is a process of blame-finding after a major issue/outage like this, whereas at Google I hear things are more post-
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by phuff 14y ago
I don't doubt the NSA is spying. I think making the assertion without documentation that Google et al. have huge teams of people dedicated to helping them spy is a bit beyond the pale.
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by phuff 14y ago
It doesn't take a wild imagination, but it should probably take a reference or two to a documented source...
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by phuff 14y ago
I was talking to a friend in HR and finance at a company. He has some processes they go through for placing bids with customers that are horrible and based on people copying and pasting lines from one word document into lines in another.
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by phuff 14y ago
Is this a first for google? I don't think I've ever heard of them selling a product/team to another company before. If not a first, certainly a rarity.
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by phuff 14y ago
Off topic, I know, but the local library often has a lot of good ebooks + audio books which are mp3 or on CD which you can rip... You probably could get an account with the library where your job is, too, if the rural one is too low-scale.
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by phuff 15y ago
To split hairs even further, the source is not _open_ so much as _publicly available_. There is a big difference. "Open source" is a term of art with a specific set of legal requirements attached to it. If this code is illegally publishe
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by phuff 15y ago
The graph in this article shows revenues continuing to go up over the next 3 years... Just at a slower rate. That doesn't sound like "things don't look good" but more like "things don't look as amazing as they did, but still look pretty g
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by phuff 15y ago
The fact that there exists functionaljobs (even though there's just two) is cool enough. :)
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by phuff 15y ago
I try really hard to make sure all my music is bought and paid for, or obtained for free legally (promotional CDs, etc.). I don't download movies illegally (a really great public library makes that easy). But I disagree with the way the co

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