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by pinko 16y ago
Hopefully we agree here that the most important goal is to understand the entire chain of events (from plant design to construction to operation to earthquake to tsunami to power failure to meltdown to vessel breach), in order to better avo
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by pinko 16y ago
Yes, this. An accidental defect may not have an incidence, but you can bet the corruption that led to it being covered up does.
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by pinko 16y ago
But the one next to it has! Do you really think the corrupt construction of one of these structures has no bearing on the failure of the others? That they're independent events in history?
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by pinko 16y ago
Wait, how is a coverup and botched inspection leading to an unsafe containment vessel unrelated to a situation decades later in which a sister vessel is compromised? EDIT: clarified that the vessel from this story was not the exact one th
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by pinko 16y ago
Uh... can you be any more specific, or does the meaning not matter at all ?
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by pinko 16y ago
Making something "my bitch" isn't a compelling metaphor for a lot of people, myself included.
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by pinko 16y ago
This is a nitpick, but the first sentence bothers me. Theoretically, the world shouldn't be divided into time zones at all, but rather one continuous timeline, where local noon is always when the sun is at its highest point. I don't actual
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by pinko 16y ago
The fact that you're getting advice from people you know rather than strangers and spammers seems like a huge advantage, but I don't think they've nailed the right QA model yet. This seems more awkward and harder to search than something l
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by pinko 16y ago
I type ~100 wpm with essentially two fingers. I do use my thumb for the spacebar and my middle fingers for ~4 specific edge keys, but otherwise it's all index all the time. I have a hairbrained theory that this has helped me avoid carpal t
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by pinko 16y ago
Over 500 (or somesuch -- it's a moving target) gets you the ability to downvote. Which raises an interesting point -- badges do nothing for me, but feature unlocking is compelling, as much as I wish it weren't. I don't actually care, but
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by pinko 16y ago
For a second I parsed this as indicating that HN had instituted a system of badges, about which you were unenthused... phew!
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by pinko 16y ago
Interesting, but this isn't true for any of the major US carriers (e.g, UA/CO, AA, DL), so I don't think it undermines his presentation.
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by pinko 16y ago
I believe the comment above was meant as a response to the "The response to the bug report looks depressingly typical" comment elsewhere in this thread. It took me a minute to sort that out ("hmm, why is he referencing Bruce Evans?"), so I
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by pinko 16y ago
My only wish is that you could blacklist (or whitelist) people from whom you recieve notifications, rather than have to disable the feature entirely. Otherwise this may turn into an extremely effective way to spam high-value developers.
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by pinko 16y ago
Thanks -- I had trouble producing a long-term graph on that page. Did you just load each year separately and eyeball it?
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by pinko 16y ago
innovate and deliver products that are aligned with my long-term objectives I'm tempted to simply make a joke about whether Red Hat also leverages your synergies and upscales your key metrics -- but I'll ask the question: what does that m
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by pinko 16y ago
Not sure if this was the OP's intent, but doesn't "a place where people can learn by being given some random topics" basically describe sites like Hacker News? Edit: Just noticed that the OP is the post's actual author, so I assume this wa
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by pinko 16y ago
Fascinating. Can I assume GPS coverage has in fact become more robust over time as the number of healthy satellites has increased? Or is there a non-linear relationship between the # of birds and the likelihood of picking up a strong sign
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by pinko 16y ago
Am I the only one who sees the irony in HBGary's CEO complaining that "Google’s call center set up elaborate hoops through which they expected [him] to jump in order to validate his identity"?
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by pinko 16y ago
Can anyone explain the concluding slide's assertion that "A/B testing is useless when evaluating dramatic changes"?
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by pinko 16y ago
I'm sure it's well-known acronym in marketing circles, but I appreciated being introduced for the first time to the pejorative acronym HIPPO: Highest Paid People's Opinion.
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by pinko 16y ago
I had the same two reactions to the ad: (1) no way that's going to work (i.e., not look like crap) on airport wifi; and (2) what in the world does watching streaming TV on your laptop in an airport have to do with cloud computing?
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by pinko 16y ago
For those who'd prefer a primary source, here's Comodo's actual report: http://www.comodo.com/Comodo-Fraud-Incident-2011-03-23.html
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by pinko 16y ago
I'm always curious about which (if any) laws this sort of scam breaks. They seem particularly insidious because they target the uneducated and jobless/desperate.
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by pinko 16y ago
I'll add one more: as you go along, document a summary of any non-trivial discussions from the code review, in the code itself. If the reviewer and the coder needed to talk over some aspect of the implementation at length, it's a safe bet f
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by pinko 16y ago
Okay, let's say I buy the argument that there is a lot of money to be made becoming the premier "real-time" intermediary between consumers and long-tail small businesses. I'm not entirely clear on why Groupon is uniquely positioned to becom
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by pinko 16y ago
My point is that you or your child getting thyroid cancer, even if you or she recovers, is a pretty horrific outcome, and might deserve to be considered somehow -- not just fatalities.
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by pinko 16y ago
The thousands of children (now adults) near Chernobyl with thyroid cancer don't show up in these stats, since they're not all dead. Doesn't necessarily change the conclusions but worth noting.
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by pinko 16y ago
If the cofounders have only known each other for about 1 month, how do you /know/ you'll work well together? You can't reassure someone of something that isn't yet clear...
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by pinko 16y ago
I'd love to see a similar modern interview with him to compare and contrast... anyone know of one?

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