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by praptak 4y ago
When I had to integrate a system at a customer site there was one service which was so slow and crappy that we joked it had been written in Excel. Later we found out this was actually the case. At first somebody manually tracked stuff in a
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by praptak 4y ago
How does this work? Is it possible to install a fresh copy of Windows on a vendor laptop without a separate, expensive, "boxed" license?
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by praptak 4y ago
> Is there an English word for completely pointless cynicism towards other people's writing styles that adds nothing to the conversation? My bet is "lowbrow dismissal" (Is there a word for knowingly answering rhetorical qu
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by praptak 4y ago
Daylight saving messes this up a bit.
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by praptak 4y ago
Enter tap code, most often used by prisoners to communicate between cells. Row and column in a 5x5 table of chars, encoded by series of taps.
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by praptak 4y ago
You're free to love your job, just don't confuse it with your career. Also you're loving something that cannot love you back.
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by praptak 4y ago
Solid advice but it doesn't really help in this case. "Bullied out of a job you don't love" is as bad.
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by praptak 4y ago
Hashing parts of the problem works for interactive proofs. I know a graph colouring, so I hash the {color, random salt} pair for every node. The other party chooses two connected nodes at random at asks me to reveal the {color, salt} pairs
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by praptak 4y ago
The only truly obligatory relationship is between you and the physical world. It's dictated by the laws of physics.
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by praptak 4y ago
This is not about obligation to fix bug reports. It is about respectful communication, which is pretty orthogonal.
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by praptak 4y ago
People, who always wear jeans and a loose t-shirt: Markdown on Github.
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by praptak 4y ago
Language is a class shibboleth even in the present days, even moreso in the Victorian era.
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by praptak 4y ago
It's obviously to show more ads.
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by praptak 4y ago
"then the software development output is a gating feature for real-world contractual obligations" Cool, I hope that whoever agreed to these obligations knew full well that they were taking a gamble and are prepared to deal with th
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by praptak 4y ago
Wolf-goat-cabbage is definitely the version which is popular in Poland.
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by praptak 4y ago
NewUserProfile, obviously :-)
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by praptak 4y ago
I'd say it gets the worst of both worlds, or maybe even worst of three worlds. It is long, it is cryptic, and it actually leads you down the false path of trying to guess why jeans and why they're blue. I mean if you go with crypt
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by praptak 4y ago
"unessential such as [...] and radiant heaters would be need to be turned off." Can anybody explain the radiant heaters? Aren't they are actually more effective in keeping people warm compared to heating the air?
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by praptak 4y ago
This advice is about recurring grungy toil work, aka "don't run your systems on human blood". So I'd say that's kind of a different advice.
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by praptak 4y ago
My mistake, make that p-doped. Anyway, from the pure "electrons and holes" view the diode is actually electrons(metal), electrons (silicon), holes(silicon), electrons(metal). So electrons-holes-electrons. No explanation for the as
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by praptak 4y ago
To me even a diode is slightly mysterious, or at least the "electrons and holes" explanation is. It kind of skips what happens at the metal-silicon (n-doped) junction and why this doesn't work like a diode even though "h
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by praptak 4y ago
I went with our cat for a USG. I held her while the vet examined her. Suddenly I felt some vibrations in her throat (didn't hear purring) and alerted the vet to it. He said that it's probably a quiet purr, cats often do that when
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by praptak 4y ago
To me "eating the frog" comes from a joke. Two peasants find a frog and take a bet. One says he can eat the frog raw and the other bets $5 that he cannot. So the first peasant starts to eat the frog; halfway through he starts to f
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by praptak 4y ago
It's a pun, "pain" means bread in French.
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by praptak 4y ago
So what about breaking the condition not to tell? Weren't the TED people even miffed about this?
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The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (2010)(thetech.com)
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by praptak 4y ago
So you want young people to start working on some interesting ideas which have potential to help humanity? Well, my top priority at that age was not to be poor. The optimal strategy was to work in the boring parts of IT and hopping to a bet
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by praptak 4y ago
I do believe there was a game which had an easter egg based on this. While the game controls were keyboard-based, it detected the erratic mouse moves to display something like "Don't whack your table!".
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by praptak 4y ago
Clojure also prunes the excessive parentheses whenever the structure is obvious from context. E.g. "(let ((a 1) (b 2)) ...)" becomes "(let [a 1 b 2] ...)" and Clojure just requires an even number of elements so that the
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by praptak 4y ago
If two independent teams recreate this song based on our best knowledge about how the song sounded, can you tell these renditions are two versions of the same song? Not a perfect test (experts can recognize more similarities) but generally

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