rabidrat

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by rabidrat 10y ago
They can't install anything on their computer, so no pidgin. Is it possible to use the web interface with Gtalk without having your personal email open?
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by rabidrat 10y ago
The "Subscribe to Updates" button on that page doesn't work. Also, above the "Full Name" field, it says "invalid".
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by rabidrat 10y ago
That's great, but I also need a web client for friends who can't use irssi.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I would love to have a linux curses client for encrypted chat. Something that irssi can connect to, perhaps?
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Soylent released Powder 1.7 a month ago. http://blog.soylent.com/post/154513593367/powder-17-now-ship...
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I would say this must be satire but you seem sincere. You are promoting a thin slice of modern "best practices" which are not the only way to do software development. And it doesn't sound like you've ever worked on a m
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Being considered an outsider is not bad. Being treated as subhuman or as an enemy because you are an outsider, that's when it becomes a problem.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
After lung disease, the second largest consequence of tobacco smoking is heart disease, which is due to the nicotine itself.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
"He" is the pronoun that was used in their past, "she" is the pronoun for the present. When we're talking about the past+present for this person, I think "they" is not unreasonable. At least, it's m
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Yes, and pretty easily if you buy into all the new features that no one else will ever have all of. If you stay clean with simple storage, compute, DB, email, then you should be okay. Ideally you'd have some kind of plan though from t
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by rabidrat 10y ago
What do you use now?
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by rabidrat 10y ago
This is a must. Otherwise, things are never finished, no matter how productive you are.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
On the other hand, I came here to suggest that knowledge of Simpson's Paradox ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox ) could resolve a lot of political fights. And Simpson's paradox is only app
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I was a lead once, and had an employee that was slow. He took 3 days to make a tool that should only have taken 1 day. He would sometimes get stuck on a bug for hours, and would stay late or come in early to try to figure it out. Sometim
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I sleep 2-8:30am during the week, and 2-10am or so on the weekends. I could maybe try going to bed at 1am, but going to sleep before midnight usually results in being awake from 3-5am which is stressful if I feel I have to get up the next
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Yes, it's one of those 'joke' things. Stay cool :)
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by rabidrat 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doogie_Howser,_M.D .
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by rabidrat 10y ago
> Transitive, persistent reputation is key to solving this issue Reddit/HN/etc make the username behind each comment as small and discreet as possible. As much as I dislike the low content/cruft ratio of BBForum, its desi
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by rabidrat 10y ago
JavaScript is a great example. It was hastily thrown together, not well thought-through, and didn't wind up being a substantial competitive advantage for its corporate owner Netscape, which is now defunct. But we are still suffering f
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Oh how I wish I had that skill! And the complementary skill of knowing when what little data you have is totally enough and you should trust your gut instinct. I've waited far too long to make a decision when the answer should have b
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Just, wow. I'm sorry you have to deal with that. For my next job, I've thought about offering to work for free for a week or so as a kind of mutual trial period. I want to know what the entire office is like, what the codebase i
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I want to work in a group where they appreciate that I was basically born to code. That despite my youthful features, I have still been coding for over 30 years. That I can do many tasks in an hour, that other people would take days to do
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by rabidrat 10y ago
A major vice presidential candidate (2008) claimed she could "see Russia from her house". So I think we know it's pretty close-by.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I made a tool "mkizo" that generates .iso files that are also .zip files: https://github.com/century-arcade/src/tree/master/tools/mkiz...
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by rabidrat 10y ago
They'd rather it shut down completely so they don't have to give it any more attention.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
The key here is "meaningful". I'm not sure about 145 talking to 115, but I can imagine that 115 talking to 85 would be downright painful. We would just not care about the same things.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
There's an old analogy that running a business is like taking a road trip, with money as the gasoline: you need to get gas along the way, but that's not the point of the trip. So effectively you're wondering how much fuel yo
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Wages lag inflation, unfortunately.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
There are also cases where DNA fails, notably twins and chimerae.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I've used Upwork in the past. Which site should I use for freelancers going forward?

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