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by rusabd 6y ago
Military should be interested in this, they also pay more than sparse civilians in the middle of nowhere.
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by rusabd 6y ago
> Humans evolved as social creatures and we crave attention from each other this is not entirely true. Humans evolved to crave attention from their tribe or extended family. Since we don't have tribes anymore we try to please random
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by rusabd 6y ago
Why DC is different? Bellevue and Kirkland in Seattle expected visitors with AR-15s.
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by rusabd 6y ago
Nah, I implemented a simple wrapper around an internal tool for auto-translating Oracle PLSQL to SparkQL. Data Engineers liked that a lot
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by rusabd 6y ago
Back in Amazon I found some ancient code written in Common Lisp. Doubt any production services left, but I updated the build system to support Clozure CL. My contribution in $BIGCORP :)
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by rusabd 6y ago
Eventually, somebody will write bots to deal with this robotic bureaucracy and it will be matter of how much licenses and CPU power you have to negotiate a better deal. Essentially, it will be like rich people nowadays solve issues between
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by rusabd 6y ago
You can earn 250k and donate 190k if you want. 190k per year will go very far. If you don't to whom to give I can send you names of specific people who are struggling at the moment.
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by rusabd 7y ago
Is this article just rehashing a chapter from "The Debt, first 5000 years"?
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by rusabd 7y ago
Small villages where everyone is a relative are very common in the recent past. In same places it is still the case. Modern man has up to 1000 "relatives" for sure. It just happened to be people who don't care about that pers
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by rusabd 7y ago
I accept that I cannot fix it for myself, but I am trying to make it easier for my children. Hopefully, they will have enough resources to fix it for their children.
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by rusabd 7y ago
It is much simpler than this. Humans are social animals, we need upto 1000 close family members. Not friends, not colleagues, not church members - relatives. They should be really close, like you should see them almost every day. If you don
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by rusabd 7y ago
We had a rare occurrence of snow in our small town. Some kids went outside to play and a neighbor called on them to the police. Lesson learned - just stay in the freaking house all day.
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by rusabd 7y ago
Are you a professional educator? Because you sound like one. Teaching 7 years old divisions is the simplest thing ever. I've done it in the car driving to hockey practice using sharing scenarios. You just need to know what kids interes
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by rusabd 7y ago
I just checked my gmail account - found that I had an interview with ITA Software in 2005. The task was about finding palindromes in the dictionary. Man, I bombed that one really hard. The language barrier was one thing, but lack of practic
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by rusabd 7y ago
The North has plenty of water. It is historically underdeveloped and still hasn't caught up with South- East
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by rusabd 7y ago
Let's not forget "stukach". Your friend or relative might be the one who meets a curator from KGB and reporting everything "interesting" you have said. Each big enough organization had a permanent curator assigned t
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by rusabd 8y ago
this quote caught my eyes: ``In San Francisco, said Gascón, prosecutors moved away from incarcerating children for low-level offenses like truancy or petty theft as research showed that even one stint in juvenile hall led to a higher likeli
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by rusabd 8y ago
The headline is a click bait. Slightly better one would be "is idiomatic C++ fast"
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by rusabd 8y ago
Does anyone know specific teams in Microsoft which are mostly F#? I might start to target them :)
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by rusabd 8y ago
Ah, "effect", of course. This is what I meant
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by rusabd 8y ago
Well, I made a mistake by saying that "NHL players most likely to be born in December" when in fact they most likely to be born in January. December is the horrible month to be born for a future NHL star ( https://www.qu
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by rusabd 8y ago
It is similar to hockey paradox when NHL players are most likely to be born in December
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by rusabd 8y ago
Typing from my phone, so just keywords. Emacs, SLIME, single repo, pair programming, monolith applications, mercurial, PostgreSQL. Most influential was pair programming which I personally hated but had to admit it works.
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by rusabd 8y ago
I would gladly work on large scale Haskell project and make a fair comparison! I managed to write my code in Java like Haskell (using FunctionalJava) and it was very successful, so there is a big potential for Haskell in more traditional s
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by rusabd 8y ago
Laziness is quite dangerous given existence of side effects in Clojure - this would the most common error for new developers. I missed LOOP even it has a bad reputation - nevertheless it covers almost all useful cases in practice. We were m
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by rusabd 8y ago
I have worked on fairly large Common Lisp project (around 500k lines of actively managed code). That was the most pleasant experience in my professional life. The refactoring was easy, introduction of new features was simple and clear. I at
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by rusabd 8y ago
If you didn't know Microsoft used to have its own version of Unix a long time ago: Xenix. Never seen it personally though, my first experience with PC was MSDOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
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by rusabd 9y ago
I used obscure languages as a filter for interesting jobs in interesting companies, worked really well. Unfortunately, Common Lisp now is so strong filter pretty much nothing left :) Try Haskell, it is great.
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Surgery free, 3D printed implants(bioimplant.at)
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by rusabd 10y ago
A local butcher who throws away perfectly good beef fat! jokes aside I understand it not all thrown away (some parts are) and used in pet feed, cosmetics, fertilisers etc.. But the primary reason those cows are grown is a human consumption

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