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by sankyo 10y ago
I ride a motorcycle in SF daily and frequently "split lanes". I saw one of the Ubers all decked out with spinning radar and wondered how it would react as I passed through at 10-15mph. There was a person at the steering wheel, I a
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by sankyo 10y ago
My pet theory is that we are isolated and there are less ways to feel connected to society (suburbs, too much TV) and the over importance of image, wealth, and status. Too many McJobs and lonely suburbs and people start to get depressed an
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by sankyo 10y ago
I also concluded Dell XPS 13 or Thinkpad Carbon, but never did a writeup. Still have not bought anything. I want: 16GB, no touch bar, good keyboard, retina screen. I want a stripped down OS X, there are so many processes on El Capitain t
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by sankyo 10y ago
This is not true in all cases, but H1B workers show up to work hard, show strong understanding that they are being paid to do a job as opposed to being entitled for some lifestyle, and have more respect for the hierarchy of the org. They wi
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by sankyo 10y ago
A meeting that does not result in 1) a decision 2) action items or 3) information distribution is a waste of time. As a team, meetings are necessary to get "on the same page". It is true, sometimes in a meeting we think, &quot
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by sankyo 10y ago
in Clojure we use EDN (Extensible Data Notation) for config files and a data transfer format. https://github.com/edn-format/edn It is really a pleasure to use compared to JSON and XML. While it may not be as compact
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by sankyo 10y ago
It is not simply a matter of providing homes. Most of the street people in San Francisco have serious mental illness and drug addiction problems. They cannot take care of themselves. Giving those people a home will not solve their problems
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by sankyo 10y ago
Nope. I read it and laughed. I love the New Yorker. It just got me thinking about if my father owned a rubber empire in South America and I did have a trust fund, how long could I really travel, and where would I go. Then it got me think
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by sankyo 10y ago
Good question. It is possible, I think, especially if you can incorporate some craft or skill - like playing an instrument, writing, photography along the way. You have a chance to practice your craft in so many settings, any of which may
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by sankyo 10y ago
Traveling around the world for 6-?? months is really eye opening and gives you a lot to think about. Solving puzzles about getting money, how to get to places, crossing language barriers, trying to tap into the underground, cool scene, not
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by sankyo 11y ago
Next we can expect an article about how giving someone the title "Engineer" can give them some dignity and increase retention rates. "sanitation engineers" should only refer to themselves as Waste collectors http:/
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by sankyo 11y ago
Point of clarification: there is no such thing as an "ex" con. The conviction stays even if the person never breaks the law again.
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by sankyo 12y ago
"While the homeless may always be with us, we need to ensure that we are helping them in the most effective ways possible. For the city named after Francis of Assisi, a nobleman who gave away everything he had when he saw a poor man on
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by sankyo 12y ago
With 30-40k LOC, could you please share the extent to which you feel protected when refactoring given that Clojure is dynamically typed? Some of my colleagues argue that often times a static compiler is the only thing keeping the ship upri
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by sankyo 13y ago
Whatever it is, it is the beginning of something really great and thanks to flyingmachine for creating it and sharing his knowledge. If it is a course, article, or tutorial, either way it is something that get more people familiar with Cloj
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by sankyo 14y ago
The comments that he shows are pretty worthless. However, comments are often necessary to explain WHY we are doing something. oven.setTemp(350) // 400 will burn them, 300 they will be mushy fluxCapacitor.setOption(THRESHOLD, 1.21E9) // l
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by sankyo 14y ago
By the time most people could afford any of this equipment their hearing has probably degraded to such a point that they can only hear 12kHz to 14kHz anyway. Although unscientific, I played some tones on youtube in the office and the twenty
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by sankyo 14y ago
I split lanes (San Francisco) to avoid being rear ended by an inattentive driver. The safest place to be is between 2 cars at a red light. Of course I like going faster than all the cars around me and I can get a block or two ahead of eve
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by sankyo 14y ago
My six year old son and I attended the maker faire. It was nonstop fascination and engagement for both of us all day. He loved the Lego Jeep, building squishy circuits with play-doh, 10mm LEDs and DC motors, building switches with aluminum,
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by sankyo 15y ago
It is a cool tool, but to me it means that people in the SF bay area use the web for housing; other areas not so much.
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by sankyo 15y ago
When someone asks me for an estimate I like to pose this question: You just realized that you lost your keys. How long will it take you to find them? You've lost your keys before so you should be able to estimate how long it will take, rig
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by sankyo 16y ago
in 2011 we do not know phone numbers anymore, but those braincells now store passwords.
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by sankyo 16y ago
I never saw one in the wild, neither in SF nor Seattle. I think it died because from the beginning the perception was like getting the Dodge Neon instead of the Honda Civic. Also with iTunes in the national lexicon, who wanted to be left o
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by sankyo 16y ago
If you are unable to take care of yourself, then the state has a responsibility to take care of you. However, with freedom comes responsibility, so if you cannot be responsible to take care of yourself then it follows that you should lose s
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by sankyo 16y ago
I have been digging into the pyramid docs and writing some toy apps with it trying to learn it, and I think that you will not be disappointed. I am confident that turbogears / tosca widgets will be integrated in such a way that it is loose
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by sankyo 16y ago
It seemed to me that a lot of the reviews were from people who worked in the call center, not developers, network engineers, etc. No doubt that it is quite a different experience between the two groups.
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by sankyo 16y ago
if you want to get people to buy into your idea, you often have to convince them that the idea was their own.
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by sankyo 17y ago
way to "gear up" steve. no helmet, no gloves, no jacket. But I guess he didn't have to worry about so many people talking on mobile phones and texting while driving.