rabidrat

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1. 691.▲
   by rabidrat 9y ago

   I think how it works is that you take the top N.
2. 692.▲
   by rabidrat 9y ago

   If you read the article, you would know that it is in fact not illegal for police in Australia.
3. 693.▲
   by rabidrat 9y ago

   Yes, it needs to be rememberable by the owner. This is non-negotiable.
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   by rabidrat 9y ago

   So it's that other 10% to which racist terrorism is a sensible response.
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   by rabidrat 9y ago

   Objectivity is not a binary, and just because we can't be 'truly' 100% objective doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be more so. If you ask everyone different questions, you don't have a baseline of responses, so
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   by rabidrat 9y ago

   The "big money" I want is about 50% more than what I hear they're offering to new grads. I've seen new grads take an entire day to do something that I can do in about 20 minutes.
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   by rabidrat 9y ago

   While I agree with you for the most part, many companies want a "standardized" interview process, for both diversity and CYA reasons. Tailoring the interview to the candidate is actually illegal in certain organizations (like gov
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   by rabidrat 9y ago

   Addiction is an "every minute" kind of thing. Sometimes you can put something off for an hour, or know that e.g. dinnertime is the time we open the wine, so you can wait. But then after an hour, it's still there, and anothe
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   by rabidrat 9y ago

   But it does involve trusting their expertise and ability to deliver. After they mess up it's a bit late.
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    > Ignore // for italics processing if immediately following http: or ftp: That kind of special casing is pretty much a deal-breaker. Other schemes (anyone ever heard of https?) will need that same deal.
11. 701.▲
    by rabidrat 9y ago

    Discipline can be structural and social. You still do better with a checklist; otherwise you're limited to a memorable meme. Or were you making a joke? (Sorry if you were)
12. 702.▲
    by rabidrat 9y ago

    I have an autoscaling group that goes from 0 to 1 every day for some batch processing. It took a bit of finagling but it's definitely possible.
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    Thanks for posting this, but not all data is created equal. These crosswords only go back to 1976, are in .json format, and require nontrivial processing to get into a useful format for data analysis. By contrast, I very meticulously des
14. 704.▲
    by rabidrat 9y ago

    Oh, good point! We should definitely have representatives for other species too.
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    It sounds like they wanted to do the scraping themselves, but for anyone else who wants to play with this data, it's available for download at http://xd.saul.pw/data .
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    I love this idea. We have representatives for space, so why shouldn't we have representatives for time as well? A representative for the past would be welcome as well. Maybe preservationists try to hold on to the past, and conservat
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    Have you successfully followed this plan? It seems to have a couple of holes in it. I tried #2 at 3 separate jobs over 10 years, to no avail. Best I got was "does it have to be on the books?" i.e. I could call in sick or take ra
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    Michael Dell is worth $22.9 billion; $36m is 0.157% of his wealth. For you to donate an equivalent amount, you only have to donate $157 per $100k of your net worth.
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    Your attention to detail does not inspire confidence...
20. 710.▲
    by rabidrat 9y ago

    I wanted to buy some Tasty Bites meals. Normally I get them from Costco but they only have one kind and I wanted to try some other flavors. So I went online, found them on Amazon, and literally said to myself "I'd rather buy the
21. 711.▲
    by rabidrat 9y ago

    Essential complexity vs. accidental complexity
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    How much sales did you have ultimately? Over $10k?
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    Yes! One time payment for life storage is a great idea. I would also want to be able to serve some content publicly for ~100 years, so that it would be accessible even after my death. I called it the 'Century Archive' and wante
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    Is there a way to have a backlog board with github issues?
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    watch date +%s
26. 716.▲
    by rabidrat 9y ago

    Yes it is! VisiCalc was a pioneering 'killer app', and I feel like this is the next iteration :)
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    This should really straightforward (like maybe 1-3 hours) for someone who knows use the Python3 modules for those databases. See the SQLite addon, for example: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/stable&#x
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    There is a bin/vdtutor in the git repository, which only has one sheet so far. Also the animated screenshot links to a page with a tour of the commands used. More of each are planned, but it seemed more urgent to release a beta right
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    by rabidrat 9y ago

    It can already connect (read-only) to SQLite databases. Use `-f sqlite`. It would not be too hard to implement UPDATE/DELETE queries. Let me know if you're interested in helping and we can make this happen!
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    Show HN: VisiData – vi for data(github.com)

    221 points by rabidrat 9y ago|23 comments