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by ptero 6y ago
> With the Spanish flu a century ago, people adapted their individual behavior, but social life proceeded more or less as before. “Public places of amusement” were shuttered, but work and business were little affected overall. This is a
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by ptero 6y ago
It seems to me as well -- we are in a witch hunt run amok. You do not need truth, you do not need actual witches, just keep raising fear. Once the fear is high enough, even those who do not support such causeless insta-firings would vote fo
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by ptero 6y ago
I do not have a well-organized one, especially specific to JS. I have my favorite set that I personally like over the years. I think at least a couple are from "The Practice of Programming" by Kernighan and Pike; I especially like
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by ptero 6y ago
I agree with the advice to read a few books and solve problems using core language and avoiding non-standard libraries and especially frameworks. This is important. But what much more important to me (and is often missing in this "how
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by ptero 6y ago
I see it as a good thing for both you and the Microsoft. The fact that you had a chance to play with it before buying it (and hated it) means that Microsoft avoided either really pissing off a customer or handling an expensive return; and
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by ptero 6y ago
> It seems like the stores were a missed opportunity, but they always had the odds stacked against them. Odds were against Microsoft stores being profitable because Microsoft is now an underdog in consumer tech. If you want hardware (pos
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by ptero 6y ago
Agree on "this is a real shame" feeling. I am not, in general, a heavy Microsoft user: my workstations both at home and in the office run Linux. But a few years ago, when I saw a Microsoft Surface tablet when I walked by the Micro
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by ptero 6y ago
> They might control the DSLR space, but they certainly hold no candle to Sony, Fujifilm, and co in the mirrorless space. Agreed, but mirrorless is not a full replacement for DSLR, at least not yet. For static scenes in good light my pho
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by ptero 6y ago
I agree with 90% of your points: competition is healthy and sad to see a company go. The market today is a duopoly, with Canon and Nikon as two pillars of high-end DSLR world. This, sadly, is unlikely to change because high quality lenses a
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by ptero 6y ago
The fact that you are not hearing back may not be the negative indication. The companies you are applying for might just be in a "hold for now" mode, so even a positive initial interview may be stuck waiting for the next step. &qu
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by ptero 6y ago
It is tempting to blame the lack of funds for the problems in the US public infrastructure, but problematic management seems to play a much bigger role. Almost any public infrastructure project around me: paving local roads, repairing a br
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by ptero 6y ago
TLDR: the author is asking an honest question, not trying to say that non square matrices have little use in linear algebra. As linear transformations of space into itself, a very frequent operation, are described by a square matrix those m
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by ptero 6y ago
Yes, but to me this (the contradictory nature of a large set of rules in life) is a nuisance, not a feature to be welcomed. Sometimes it is unavoidable or very expensive to clean, but we should discourage adding complex rules contradicting
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by ptero 6y ago
Personally, I am not sure. The lawyer can give great advice but will also likely to pressure author into accompanying, not talking to the owner on this or that, implicit assumptions and risks, etc. etc. That's just seems to be the natu
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by ptero 6y ago
Talking to a lawyer as others advised may be a good idea, but I recommend talking to the owner first. Once you bring the lawyer in the conversation becomes a competitive zero sum game and that switch is generally irreversible. The reason I
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by ptero 6y ago
Good points, but we still do not know how the second wave will look like in the countries that had quarantine (or in Sweden). We should revisit in a year. And there are other factors -- I personally know people whose cancer treatments were
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by ptero 6y ago
Not lifting travel restrictions is not realistic unless you are talking about North Korea. If you do not lift restrictions you are also punishing your own citizens (if you let your own citizens travel they can bring back the gift that keeps
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by ptero 6y ago
The guy is a scientist and his answers have to be viewed from that angle. A politician goes for spin and tries to project confidence; "I am not sure this is the right approach" from a politician usually means "hell, no!"
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by ptero 6y ago
Can you define what you mean by saying other countries squashed the thing? They may have flattened the curve, drove numbers down, etc. but until they get either a herd immunity or a wide vaccination the infections will likely flare up again
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by ptero 6y ago
To me, phone cameras work great for most cases in good light . For flowers and landscapes I never bother with DSLR now. Poor light though and real DSLR with large aperture glass and a big sensor works a LOT better. And for some cases like
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by ptero 6y ago
Best of luck to it (no irony!). That said, it might not hold. Stamping out the virus (2) requires keeping a perimeter around all existing carriers. New Zealand, being naturally removed from other countries, has some advantages in this regar
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by ptero 6y ago
I think on most Linux systems a time string in a specific timezone is just a visual representation. Internally, times are kept as a number of seconds from 1/1/70 UTC midnight (with leap second adjustments if needed). When a user w
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by ptero 6y ago
Agreed. I assumed a particular interpretation of "under control" which could have been different from what the poster meant.
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by ptero 6y ago
Not the OP, but "not enough antibodies" is a crystal clear case: once antibodies get above HIT percentage, the epidemic dies out very quickly. In general, a contagious virus, like COVID-19, can be stopped in only one of three wa
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by ptero 6y ago
You make it sound like cutting your own hair is the main hardship, which I suspect is not quite honest. What about being forced to walk outside in a mask, deferring medical care, not being able to hug your own {parents, grandparents, kids,
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by ptero 6y ago
At least in many (most) schools in the US K-8 education is pretty worthless. As a parent I would be just fine with my kids skipping a grade (uhm, zoom-ing through one, that is). College though is a real education, and I want it to be face t
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by ptero 6y ago
Going with a US outfitter is the most efficient option, but is also expensive . A poor student with little money and a lot of time could try joining a research team as an unpaid helper. It has been years since I toyed with the idea, but wh
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by ptero 6y ago
Day of the week might be a useful sync to keep, but for most people (certainly for me), the time of the day is way more important. There is a risk that sleep/awake cycles float once rigid schedules disappear. This happened to me once
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by ptero 6y ago
I think the (perfectly sensible) idea is to keep "working" from SF to get a large bump in salary from Facebook (or others) that should more than offset the higher taxes. It just happens that your living expenses dropped because yo
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by ptero 6y ago
Is this for the current coronavirus outbreak or historical? If current, can you share a few links to those. Honest question.

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