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by seanc 11y ago
This was the blog post that finally unlocked double-entry for me: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu...
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by seanc 11y ago
(forgive me if this is unnecessary review. hazard of message board communication) My understanding is that up until now they've been using a reference kilogram (Si sphere or, for the watt balance, a reference object) to measure Planck
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by seanc 11y ago
That's the beauty of it! Since they are now yielding the same result you can (in theory) use whichever one you want.
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by seanc 12y ago
They're in a ring.
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by seanc 12y ago
Having experience with it, how do the parents connect in? Our board uses Apps for Education, but I don't have a parent account. I suppose I could get in the game by using my child's account, but often it is helpful to interact di
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by seanc 12y ago
Not in my experience, no. There's no stigma when you are part of a mass layoff that was national news. People understand the ax swings wildly at times like this.
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by seanc 12y ago
There's another advantage the toddler has, not mentioned in the article. People expect the toddler to speak poorly, and don't make fun of him or treat him badly for doing so. I found being laughed at was a huge barrier to learni
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by seanc 12y ago
For those might get discouraged when struggling to read this book (of which I am one), don't forget that Hofstadter struggled quite a bit to write it. So it's not just you.
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by seanc 13y ago
They most certainly were not! They were written for CIO's and the like. For the record: MDM - Mobile Device Management - a thing to integrate management of a companies cell phones BES - BlackBerry Enterprise Server - the MDM made by B
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by seanc 13y ago
Not that I'm firmly in the camp of 'everything should be free', but in this case the agency promised the designer "There's no money now, but since you hold the copyright on the work, if we decide to distribute it, w
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by seanc 13y ago
If no one will do a job that pays less than $2800 per month, then how will those jobs get done? Historically, wealthy societies that guaranteed incomes for citizens had slaves. I'll bet if you go digging around in these proposals you&
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by seanc 13y ago
I know a handful of electrical engineers with scars on their fingers from getting these things too close to a hot board. It's a beautiful idea, but sometimes you don't want a high wattage resistor on your dominant hand...
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by seanc 14y ago
I know humorous links are discouraged on Hacker News, but this is barely humorous, and actually has a point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA As an independent contractor he owed it to himself to think through his choices and p
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by seanc 14y ago
To something like the Internet Archive? Yes. Yes you are.
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by seanc 14y ago
I think the criticism misses the point. The reason why governments make very risky bets in new technology companies (and pure research) is that unlike private investors, the government's upside is spread across the whole industry. They tax
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by seanc 15y ago
If only defending a patent suit was as simple as finding the prior art. Most patent trolls will happily invite you to take your prior art claim to court, knowing full well you can't afford to do it.
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by seanc 15y ago
> You don't need to be sympathetic with the workers either. They're just negotiating for higher pay in a unique way. Completely within their rights. Nobody is jumping. The ones who are going to jump won't advertise it or ask for anythin
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by seanc 15y ago
One thing to keep in mind about guys like Branson is that they have a small army of assistants and secretaries. So they can get a lot more done because of this help. I saw a talk from some young dude in Salt Lake City who built and sold a l
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by seanc 15y ago
It might sound like I'm quibbling, but while it is clear there are more algorithmic trades, the article does not provide any evidence that there are fewer human trades.
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by seanc 15y ago
"Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." - Rounders
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by seanc 15y ago
I always point to the team's accomplishment and say "We built this", and then point out the part that I worked on specifically. People apportion credit to the leadership differently, so there is no shame in saying "I lead the team that buil
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by seanc 15y ago
The most thorough accounting I've ever read of the story is in The New Yorker, here: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2 Read the article and draw your own conclusions, but it seemed to me that Perelman simply wante
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by seanc 16y ago
Many good podcasts at the CBC! (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation): Dispatches: Former international correspondent Rick MacInnes-Rae talks to his international correspondent friends - http://www.cbc.ca/dispatches/ Ideas: One hour lecture
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by seanc 16y ago
If you're looking to recreate the lemmings experience on modern hardware, don't forget Pingus: http://pingus.seul.org/ My kids and I have hours of fun with this game. My only complaint is that the penguins can't swim.
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by seanc 16y ago
I would encourage you to go read the proposed policy and see if you have anything constructive to add. http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Conference_ant...
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by seanc 16y ago
I couldn't get over how powerful the message was when presented in clear technical language. By articulating the problem in a simple factual manner and offering specific concrete solutions, some of which are already under way, she makes it
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by seanc 16y ago
No, it's all about bit errors and error correction. Highly concentrated radiation is more likely to cause multiple errors to a particular DNA strand, which can defeat the error correction and cause a mutation. The same radiation distribute
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by seanc 16y ago
That is a good post, but as Christopher Mayer points out on the NPR piece, you have to be very careful about the market. Cities with historically strong housing markets, such as Seattle and New York, have a very high ownership premium. Oth
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by seanc 16y ago
Debt is only an insecurity if your income is insecure. A renter with a long term lease holds just as much obligation as a home owner as far as that goes. I would say that the risk of getting the boot from your rented dwelling is much larger
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by seanc 16y ago
People buy things for all kinds of reasons that aren't discussed in the article. Convenience! For me this is a prime motivator. I have sufficient demands on my time that added expense of owning a car is worth the 20 minutes it would take t

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