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by reeses 16y ago
Well, you also run into a practical testing ceiling. Most of the general purpose IQ tests (WAIS, Stanford-Binet) don't measure very accurately over 160. 132 as the mean of a set systemically limited to a maximum of 167 paints a different
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by reeses 16y ago
Having lived in Europe and the US, I see what he's saying. He's referring more to Miller's "seven, plus or minus two" guide for the human's ability to differentiate values along a single axis. With Celsius, you're using an extremely narrow
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by reeses 16y ago
I meant that it's your friend when you are saving money. Go ahead and play with different numbers in one of those 401(k) calculators.[1] Basically, you deposit the interest from previous years' deposits with your current year. In just a
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by reeses 16y ago
"Keep food"...relates mainly to my wife, who doesn't seem to get that there's a link between "not eating" and "being hungry." We'll leave on a four hour trip and she won't think that it might be a good idea to eat before leaving. Let's jus
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by reeses 16y ago
That's why I use horizontal screens as well. If you're looking at a screen or paper all day, you want narrow text to avoid a lot of unnecessary eye movement, and relatively short windows so you avoid unnecessary head movement. Readability i
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by reeses 16y ago
If you do get a ticket, hire an attorney who just deals with tickets. $400 and it's almost guaranteed to go away, with no impact on your points, insurance, etc. The $400 easily outweighs the NPV of the recurring costs over the next few ye
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by reeses 16y ago
Amen to this one. I found a sock I like (Cole-Haan black pin-dot socks) and just load up once a year at the Nordstrom men's sale. The old ones get washed and donated (they fade slightly in a year, so don't mix-and-match). Keep a reserve p
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by reeses 16y ago
* Pick an editor and stick with it. If it's EMACS, learn enough keybindings to be useful and learn elisp. Go through the phase where you run gnus for email and erc and all those silly add-ons. Get your .emacs up to 50-100k. Use that for
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by reeses 16y ago
This was also the time when the legendary "Microsoft interview" started coming together. I.e., you'd have an all-day interview with everyone on your prospective team (if you were targeting a particular position), and each interviewer would
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by reeses 16y ago
Being there in the old days, I really liked two things. 1) Any question I had, someone could either give me the answer, direct me to the book (yeah, that long ago) that had the answer, or do the back and forth so I could figure out the answ
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by reeses 16y ago
It's disturbing even at a subconscious level. I left two windows open, creating a cross breeze, and a brief gust at 2am days after the quake caused my window blinds to rattle. I awoke from a deep, deep sleep with all the hair standing up
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by reeses 16y ago
Archiving is the best deal around. $25 and I have 1.25GB of my past ten years of bookmarks saved. (Minus a few hundred dead links from the early days of del.icio.us.) I bookmark so I can look at something later, and the unpredictable peri
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by reeses 16y ago
As a manager, this is the best part of my job. Almost every other bit is drudgery, administration, and distasteful politics.[1] I love it when an engineer, junior or senior, wanders over and asks a question about something deep or complica
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by reeses 16y ago
It's a very common problem with certain levels of firmware. Fortunately, OCZ has been very good for replacing bricked drives for us, almost no questions asked, so yes, keep backups. Drives fail. SSDs are no exception. That doesn't mean i
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by reeses 16y ago
I was going to be snarky and ask,"Do you use a 386 to go shopping at the grocery store?" but then realized I use an Apple A4/Cortex-A8 to go shopping at the grocery store. (Never mind whatever is embedded in my car.) I think I'm going to st
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by reeses 16y ago
My brain had a hash collision with SEAForth and thought that it would be exceedingly unlikely to get much traction if they're expecting people to program enterprise software in Forth. Not that it wouldn't be...fun?
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by reeses 16y ago
And the new disk is RAM. Whoa, you just baked my brain.
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by reeses 16y ago
I found a (the?) paper on the topic: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf I was going to ask you for a citation but realized that would be lazy when I could google[1] it myself. I've had a couple arguments with a hos
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by reeses 16y ago
I wouldn't expect them to pay for you to learn Hindi either. However, Marathi might get you further in Pune, especially with the locals, as it's the official language of the region.
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by reeses 16y ago
It's not just black people, although that's the majority where I live (Oakland, California). In most states that border mexico or western states with large agricultural economies, it tends to be hispanics. Among those hispanics are a lot
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by reeses 16y ago
Edit 911 was one of them. They claim all their editors have phds. I think the other one was something such as "A 1 Editing Service." they definitely sound cheesy but better than nothing if your own skills are lacking.
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by reeses 16y ago
In addition, the blog just needs to be good enough to keep people buying her books. The best is the enemy of the good.
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by reeses 16y ago
I remember reading about ten years ago that authors were unhappy about print-on-demand systems because quite often, their contracts included rights reverting to the author a number of years after the last printing date. With POD, that can
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by reeses 16y ago
Hah, you just described my wife, who is a very well educated attorney and international policy expert. If it has a vampire in it, she'll read just about any book. Before, by some strange twist of fate, she finds me talking about her online
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by reeses 16y ago
In re #2, I really do dislike the lack of editing in every self-published ebook I've read. It's too easy to get distracted by poor grammar, spelling, or sentence structure. Most of my reviews of ebooks on Amazon are driven by a pedantic ha
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by reeses 16y ago
I have a feeling the young adult fiction area (where this author is focused) is where much of the ebook money is coming from in general(but it's going to balloon everywhere). I can see how serial authors who get kids hooked on their series
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by reeses 16y ago
I might have missed it shooting through the threads, but has anyone announced a PCI express card with thunderpeak? I'd love to have 10gbit between my workstation and my NAS without having to buy multiple FC HBAs. In fact, I'd probably take
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by reeses 16y ago
Mach isn't a microkernel. For example, NeXTSTEP was based on Mach 2.5, which is a monolithic kernel. Mach 3.0 was the only microkernel version, and to my knowledge, no one has adopted it with any success.
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by reeses 16y ago
Are you stalking the ex? There should be a seven-year waiting period before doing that kind of thing. Then it's just "catching up on Facebook." If your knowledge of the company is material, then the most you'll want to do is possibly tell
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by reeses 16y ago
Done! :-)

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