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by pkilgore 7y ago
Same. Five years as a federal patent litigator and I'm shocked how much of the soft skills, and thought processes apply in my new life as an engineer.
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by pkilgore 7y ago
Wikipedia: > Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums, is an American Internet forum dedicated to the ongoing harassment and stalking of online figures and communities it deems "lolcows": the eccentric, artistic, or mentally
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by pkilgore 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Can I post a job ad? > Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN. > A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Mos
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by pkilgore 7y ago
> "There's this myth that treating cancer is expensive," ... "And that's because the data is almost all from high-income countries..." > Much of the savings, the authors report, comes from the low cost
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by pkilgore 7y ago
Fun link, thanks!
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by pkilgore 7y ago
Thank you.
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by pkilgore 7y ago
Thanks for a great answer. I suppose it's rather quite like discovering a program isn't entering a code path. Knowing that is the first step to figuring out why it doesn't create a side effect at the end. (Metaphors all suc
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by pkilgore 7y ago
This is an exceptionally insightful point, thank you.
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by pkilgore 7y ago
Now granted I only have a undergraduate degree in Chemistry, but to me, the statement "the lack of nucleotides causes cells to age" is akin to saying "the lack of steel causes a car factory to stop". Of course if a cell
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by pkilgore 7y ago
It definitely takes longer, but this is why I avoid interstate highways if I have the time. I also find pathfinding and turning more fun than passing.
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by pkilgore 7y ago
This is nonsense whataboutism backed by...poor memory?? Also, just because there are concerns about Chinese back-doors does not mean the author is entirely unconcerned about US back-doors, nor does it even tangentially relate to his argumen
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by pkilgore 7y ago
That game (though proprietary) already exists: no man's sky.
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by pkilgore 7y ago
> a support layer for Emacs The best part of this joke was that I can't tell if it's shade or earnest appreciation.
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by pkilgore 7y ago
This. Also, as an attorney, I view all descriptions of possible sentences with extreme skepticism. A hyperbolic explanation [1] so I don't have to retype something similar: > Federal sentences are calculated using the United States
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How do JavaScript’s global variables work?(2ality.com)
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by pkilgore 7y ago
This is something I've been wondering about for quite some time, particularly given that large providers can hash the images and conserve storage space by storing only a single copy of the image per hash. I would suspect there are priv
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by pkilgore 7y ago
Am I.... Missing something?
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by pkilgore 7y ago
> There are tons of wrongs with mutating arguments. What leads you to this dogma? Why is mutation of a tightly scoped local variable bad? The initial accumulator of a reducer usually does not exist until the reducer is invoked, or is def
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by pkilgore 8y ago
Cool site, but proof that it doesn't take JavaScript to build a rough browsing experience in 2019. I think I heard my Pixel 3s fan kick on when I started to scroll.
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by pkilgore 8y ago
Honest legal Invoice Task. By. Rate. ------------------------------------ Fix form. Paralegal $ 100 Knowing what Lawyer $ 3,900 form to fix. Accepting. Firm $ 1000 liab
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by pkilgore 8y ago
> Invoice > Task. By. Rate. > -------------- > Fix form. Paralegal $ 100 > Knowing what Lawyer. $ 4,900 > form to fix.
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by pkilgore 8y ago
It's like Uber, except we take on massive liability for each thing we do because by law we have to. /s This company is about the closest I've seen to disrupting anything so far. https://www.legalpad.io My experien
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by pkilgore 8y ago
Disrupted how in this case? Lawyers usually use forms / boilerplate because they have worked in the past. Many of these forms are the sum total of thousands of hours of time and refinement over tens of years. Nobody wants to pay a la
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by pkilgore 8y ago
Oh man, this made me remember how much I loved this course. I highly recommend the Coursera version to anyone who didnt come from CS and wants to truly understand how a bunch of on and off switches become a computer. That reminds me I shoul
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by pkilgore 8y ago
Can't wait to find the forum of fighter pilots bitching about Rust vs. C.
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by pkilgore 8y ago
Doesn't happen for me when I just tested (and I cannot recall it ever happening). Android 9, Security Patch Feb 19 Chrome 72
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by pkilgore 8y ago
This is a great comment, and really a key here. If you have a nail (environmental problem) hit it with a hammer (environmental regulation or tort liability deregulation). You can hit it with back end of a plastic screwdriver (regulate sup
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by pkilgore 8y ago
Hey y'all. (At least in USA) ask for a provision awarding attorneys fees and costs to prevailing party in the event of a dispute over major contracts. Disputes happen less frequently, go faster, settle more often, and are easier to fun
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by pkilgore 8y ago
It's fun watching everyone learn the other freedom in the 1st amendment is the freedom of association. (Even though that doesn't matter for the non-governmental entities here.) Also, good riddance
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by pkilgore 8y ago
Quick suggestion to massively improve your writing for general consumption: strip out the passive voice where not absolutely necessary, e.g., "was decided". Not only is the active voice "I/we decided" generally much

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