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by smoyer 7y ago
> leads to projects not using anything at all We're counting that against products when we're analyzing what services to adopt/purchase. You doing nothing at all ... or something non-standard results in everyone else havi
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by smoyer 7y ago
Maybe I'm in the minority but I don't want light-weight at the expense of compatible/standard. It's being recognized that validation is more important than we'd expected - the recent ACM guidelines for moderation o
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by smoyer 7y ago
If you want some good Feynman quotes, read "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman" or watch the videos of his lectures. You're really not going to "get" Feynman in 140 characters anyway (and yes, I know it's d
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by smoyer 7y ago
Or if you read "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman".
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Female Computers Mapped the Universe and Brought America to the Moon(atlasobscura.com)
10 points by smoyer 7y ago|3 comments
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by smoyer 7y ago
I also noticed that the caption under the sail broken up through the ice called the submarine a "ship". When my dad was stationed at SubLant in Norfolk VA, everything was a ship except the subs which were always "boats&q
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by smoyer 7y ago
I can understand wanting to live a healthier life ... the best advice I can give is to maintain a healthy weight as it impacts so many other facets of your life. My second piece of advice is to get a dog that needs to be walked 2-4 miles a
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by smoyer 7y ago
I learned a hard lesson in one of my start-ups - the company is NOT your child. That start-up did in fact give me a sense of satisfaction that I was making the world a better place (think of the Rural Electrification act's effects).
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by smoyer 7y ago
I'm 55 but so far they haven't noticed! I guess HR can be as disfunctional with mandatory executions as they are when they present us with coding puzzles during the hiring process.
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by smoyer 7y ago
A pair of 27" monitors on adjustable arms and an ErgoDox Infinity keyboard in a fully adjustable keyboard drawer. I've actually modified (without damaging it) a beautiful old maple desk. Everything is adjusted to maximize postur
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by smoyer 7y ago
Yes it is ... I like the second video better but I should have mentioned the first as context.
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by smoyer 7y ago
I am not a physicist but as a layman there are two interesting things that my mind (which admittedly finds connections in things that others don't) thought of while reading the article: 1) Conway has obviously been in the news recentl
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by smoyer 7y ago
I've been developing software for over 40 years now (35 years professionally) and I still love the idea that I can create something from nothing. I always have a couple hobby projects that I can spend a few minutes on ... things that
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by smoyer 7y ago
I'm not here to gain karma ... and I'm willing to have a discussion with Alex Jones fans too so long as they stick to facts and avoid hyperbole, mis-truths, etc.
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by smoyer 7y ago
We certainly need more educational materials like this - especially in this time of social-distancing. I'm on the board of a small Christian high school and the teachers and students need materials that can be shared via Zoom/Tea
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by smoyer 7y ago
My favorite fight between two economists - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
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by smoyer 7y ago
I read the article to the end and was half expecting the answer to be "Alex Jones". Hopefully he doesn't reappear so easily after being banned from so many platforms!
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FOXSCAPEuC(mw.rat.bz)
1 points by smoyer 7y ago|0 comments
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by smoyer 7y ago
I've been using this since I asked HN why BugsEverywhere failed ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20963039 ) about six months ago and have to say it's far superior to BE. So far, I haven't found a case wh
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by smoyer 7y ago
Senators and Congressmen selling off their stock after private briefings about COVID-19 is a pretty good example of how the legislative branch is no better. They probably could have weathered the storm pretty well ... those of us in the mi
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by smoyer 7y ago
The use of "dictatorship" in your comment brought a smile to my face because I thought of the BDFL title given to Python's creator ... and then imagined the Elm team forgot the "B" at the beginning of the acronym.
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by smoyer 7y ago
WebCams were actually quite scarce in early March ... I looked everywhere on-line as well as quite a few physical locations.
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by smoyer 7y ago
That's a very good point ... I wouldn't be long on restaurants at the moment either. The difference is that I think we'll return to restaurants once COVID-19 isn't a threat. I think that our "practice" at tel
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My favorite beverage is a 2k-year-old energy drink from ancient Rome (2018)(qz.com)
2 points by smoyer 7y ago|0 comments
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by smoyer 7y ago
I don't feel bad for them ... they used the previous bailout to buy back their stock and then spent their profits to buy back more. Maybe they should put some of those shares back on the market if they need money?
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by smoyer 7y ago
The title used for this HN submission isn't the title chosen by The Economist - but it's so much better! (And really sums up the article's content in a terse manner)
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by smoyer 7y ago
This is the university (his employer) celebrating his accomplishments and grieving over his loss. I don't think it's their job (morally or legally) to determine COD or even to speculate. Watch for an obituary in the Baltimore pa
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by smoyer 7y ago
Does anyone else feel like we've been living in a comic strip lately?
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by smoyer 7y ago
Not really ... I had a couple fake dumps on our private cloud storage that got flagged by our security team as PII but I actually thought that validated the idea. The biggest downsides to the idea is that you would really need to flood the
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by smoyer 7y ago
There are quite a few at Penn State's world campus: https://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/

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