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by sswaner 12y ago
That "modicum of tinkering" is what sets you (edit: and I) apart from the other >99% of Apple's customer base and is why Apple has the cloud strategy they have: No tinkering required.
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by sswaner 12y ago
I am on my 3rd Macbook in 6 years. All 3 are running great and have not had this issue. I am one of the lone Mac users in my company and I can't imagine switching to the Dell laptops my coworkers have to use. They don't wear wel
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by sswaner 12y ago
That is an atypical scenario unless your job requires frequent presentation. Even then, you are used to having an adapter in your bag or pocket. To me, this is a great tradeoff: I get a lighter and thinner laptop for 100% of my computing,
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by sswaner 12y ago
I support Hellwig and the Conservancy in their claim, but I see an unfortunate consequence: This further hinders corporate adoption of open source software. This lawsuit reinforce the corporate legal mindset that "use of open source in
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by sswaner 12y ago
Well, at least our generation has "My Dinner with Andre".
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by sswaner 12y ago
Actually, I studied philosophy in college, with a focus on logic. But it is hard to find work as a philosopher, so I took that logic training and now apply it to computer systems. So, back to my original point - Spock the character and N
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by sswaner 12y ago
Black Bar please, it would be a great show of respect to the calm, stoic logician that many of the people who read HN can either respect and/or would cite as an inspiration for our chosen career paths.
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by sswaner 12y ago
Thanks for the response. Yours is the clearest intro to Markov Chains that I have found.
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by sswaner 12y ago
Kind of a weird crow cargo cult. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#Pacific_cults_of_Wor...
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by sswaner 12y ago
That is a great intro. Thanks for putting it together. If you were to continue this to a Part #2, I would be interested in seeing the approach for determining if something was "abnormal". Is it considered abnormal to add a node
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by sswaner 12y ago
And rrgrr's concern about China overtaking the US will happen shortly after the Fed looses it's independence. The open deliberations of Congress lend little to the fight against special interests subverting common sense.
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by sswaner 12y ago
> we decided to build our infrastructure on top of the telecom infrastructure because it was ubiquitous. I am not very familiar with Authy, but I have built pin-code 2FA solutions using Twilio. Based on your comments, I am not sure the
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by sswaner 12y ago
Maybe NOT vaccinating any of us real top predators may be the best way to save the rest of the predators.
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by sswaner 12y ago
We (enterprise buyers) would never agree to that. In all contracts I work on, there is a lengthy back and forth between lawyers working out the terms. Something like a premium fee if we are late on a net 30 payment would be a deal-killer.
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by sswaner 12y ago
No, I realized that as much as I really wanted to be a research scientist, my true love was computers. I ended up being the lab computer specialist. That led to a very rewarding career in software development. If they ever come up with a
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by sswaner 12y ago
That something, likely some kind of protein (not aluminum as was suspected back then), was blocking retrograde motion within axons, leading to reduced ability to support synaptic transmissions and causing ALS. I learned later that I was h
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by sswaner 12y ago
Many years ago, as a young undergrad, I ambushed Oliver Sacks right after he finished addressing a Music Therapy conference. I asked if I could run an idea by him, he said we could talk while he walked to his car. I explained my hypothesi
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by sswaner 12y ago
Contrast with the comments on the Paul Carr post - several comments asking "Who is this guy?".
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by sswaner 12y ago
Finding the right balance of "stim" is really important to people with Autism. Too much or too little creates a panic. Temple Grandin's Hug Machine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug_machine ) is anothe
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by sswaner 12y ago
I am one of a handful of MBPro users in a sea of corporate Dell laptops. My 18 month old Pro still looks great. Dell laptops look very used after just a few months. This is true even of the newer Dell ultrabooks that look like plastic im
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by sswaner 12y ago
Armor (tanks) and other forms of mechanized infantry contributed more to the end of trench warfare than airplanes.
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by sswaner 12y ago
But truth is fleeting. Despite all Sarah's work on Serial, there is a possibility that some contradicting detail will emerge as some point in the future. Even the infamous Best Buy phones waver between fact and fiction. To this poin
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by sswaner 12y ago
The user should have a reasonable expectation that an app upgrade won't wipe data. Barnes and Noble failed to invest in enough quality (either design quality or quality assurance) to at least offer a warning that data would be lost. H
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by sswaner 12y ago
I disagree. "Pythonic" and "Unpythonic" are inherently subjective and are always used as an expression of opinion regarding the consistency of some code, routine or library in relation to the larger body of Python. Unle
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by sswaner 12y ago
I agree, I remember the first time I had the option to rent a Ford and was excited to try out Sync. It is horrible. For me, the test was to pair my phone before I left the rental car garage. Ford was the most difficult compared to Nissan,
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by sswaner 12y ago
There are providers of indemnification for certain components. OpenLogic is a big provider. I agree that Ford appears to consider the benefit of a QNX system high enough to accept the risk of patent lawsuit.
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by sswaner 12y ago
This is spot on. The last sentence is a very important point in enterprise IT shops: Lack of self-confidence in line managers is a big disincentive to hiring smarter developers. They worry that the smart developer (who often shows up with
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by sswaner 12y ago
Luke has been a F-16 base for some time.
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by sswaner 12y ago
I am not certain that population density reaches its nadir in the Rockies. In those states (Utah and Colorado in particular), the population is clustered in towns and cities along the Wasatch and Rocky Mountain ranges. In the midwest th
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by sswaner 12y ago
> 9. I found the disparity of income in the mountians of Utah very depressing. Ironic comment from "marincounty". In my experience growing up in Utah, it seemed the wealthy people moving in all came from California.

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