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by sswaner 10y ago
But some end up really wanting to live anywhere but there.
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by sswaner 10y ago
Or Independence Day in Texas.
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by sswaner 10y ago
Here is an interesting self-assessment: scroll down through Figure 1 and 2. Form a mental image of how big you think the satellite is. Then scroll down through 3 and 4 and see how far off you are. I was imagining a much larger satellit
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by sswaner 10y ago
As CTO of a mid-sized insurance company, I spend less than an hour per week writing code. My job is to lead the architecture and infrastructure teams in meeting company objectives. It is not my job to personally deliver solutions. CTO is
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by sswaner 10y ago
No: https://github.com/mitsuhiko
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by sswaner 10y ago
I worked in a college neuro research lab in 1991 that had received samples of MPTP for research purposes. The project had ended before my time, but the drug was a frequent topic of conversation. We were studying various dopaminergic condit
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by sswaner 11y ago
Followed by a link to a Plankalkül web framework on GitHub.
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by sswaner 11y ago
I still own a Newton. Used it heavily back in the 90's. At MacWorld in '97 or '98 I was in an Adobe presentation where John Knoll was demonstrating how he did special effects for a Star Trek movie. At one point, he offered
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by sswaner 11y ago
Labs typically don't pay for journal subscriptions. University libraries and academic departments subscribe as a benefit to the collective university community. A per-article subscription/purchase model would be more appropriate
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by sswaner 11y ago
I was involved with one of those UML -> Code systems back in the early 2000's. It was company called Nuevis. I had proposed a simple CMS to be written in ASP (or maybe Cold Fusion). We had a project plan, requirements and design
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by sswaner 11y ago
Stymied by one of the hardest sentences to parse: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." But, I did find it handled typical sentences very well. Good job.
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by sswaner 11y ago
This is the explanation we were given as employees: That the federal government helped us meet our contractual obligations to our policy holders. And, that we would have to work very hard to pay back the taxpayers.
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by sswaner 11y ago
Actually, the government did very well considering that the loans (especially the AIG loan) were short term and fully repaid. The government made $5.6 billion on $67.8 billion loaned, the Federal Reserve made a profit of $17.7 billion. ht
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by sswaner 11y ago
I am giving Microsoft some room for redemption for many mistakes made in the Ballmer era. This support for Python in VS may be a step in that direction.
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by sswaner 11y ago
The Really Big One: earthquake wipes out the Pacific Northwest. Really needed that?
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by sswaner 11y ago
It is not meaningless, it is describing parallel (or at least comparable) revolutionary technology. Think about each you mentioned: How many industries where positively impacted by the advent of cheap pocket or desktop calculators? Would
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by sswaner 11y ago
What is BSG?
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by sswaner 11y ago
Marc Andreesen made a comment on a recent a16z podcast that they were interested in the challenges of global remittances. This seems like a related interest: How can we use technology to provide credit, transfer and remittance services to
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by sswaner 11y ago
And if you sit through one of those pitch meetings, take note of who they bring along to demonstrate capability. Other than your account rep, you will never see any of those people during the actual project. You will be sent a bunch of &q
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by sswaner 11y ago
I hope they are able to make some good, lasting progress. I fear that a Republican administration would dismantle the startup style team and replace it with a more enterprise approach (bring in IBM or Accenture type companies) that would s
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by sswaner 11y ago
Not sure if you have a better method for getting feedback. First sentence in 12.6 has a minor typo: "“Subscripts allow you *do define a way of allowing your class”
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by sswaner 11y ago
Not true. It is called the autoblock for a reason. You tie it by wrapping it around your rope. To descend, you simply apply a slight amount of downward pressure to the top of the knot. This is the easy to release part. If you remove th
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by sswaner 11y ago
I learned this knot as the GRB - "Guide's Rappel Brake" and also as an autoblock. There are several entries each year in "Accidents in North American Mountaineering" that describe failure to properly use a mechanic
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by sswaner 11y ago
I think the Black Buck missions during the Falklands war are among the most impressive combat missions of any conflict. The most comparable mission I can think of is the Doolittle raid in WW2. But, considering the technical complexity, env
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by sswaner 11y ago
Maybe BJP and Congress are the groups you label "secret societies". It is not unheard of for parties to cater to the political views of their most active constituencies.
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by sswaner 11y ago
I think he is referring to Verizon. Now that they are part of the Verizon family AOL can get you online via, fiber, cable or dialup.
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by sswaner 11y ago
My daughter and I were discussing middle school (she will be in 6th grade next year). She said she wanted to replay DragonBox to help get her ready for algebra class. She mastered the game in a day last year and still recalls it as her f
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by sswaner 11y ago
Have you ever tried to bake in a solar oven? In anything less than ideal solar conditions baking either fails completely or takes a long time.
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by sswaner 12y ago
High pressure describes an environment that can exist anywhere, independent of the decisions to make it that way. I like to listen to a famous controller at JFK. I detect no pressure in his voice. Every line of work has a share of high p
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by sswaner 12y ago
I called Apple customer support last night for the first time ever. Called to get confirmation of AppleCare support for an iPad -- I didn't buy support :( My experience with them was the best customer support experience I have ever ha

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