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by tghw 13y ago
While I agree this is a somewhat troubling trend, it is also ignoring the vast majority of students who go there and get an education as expected. It does seem that some conflict of interest rules should be put in place, but the hyperbole o
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by tghw 13y ago
Agreed. "Natural" doesn't mean that it's better. And, there are very few things we eat at this point that are natural anyways. Shoes and clothing are not natural, but I don't see Mr. Taleb running around barefoot an
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by tghw 13y ago
Randall Munroe wrote a python script with actuarial data in it. Give a list of age and sex and it will tell you when deaths would be expected. http://blog.xkcd.com/2012/07/12/a-morbid-python-script/
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by tghw 13y ago
Really? Those three words cause you such distress that you abandoned an entire forum? And to be clear, someone mentioned a moon and a space station.
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by tghw 13y ago
That's no moon.
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by tghw 13y ago
I tried all three of their offerings, didn't like any of them. Then I tried Dorco's three blade and love it.
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by tghw 13y ago
It's not exactly the same, but a TPM does something very similar by keeping it at the hardware level.
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by tghw 13y ago
It doesn't really matter how much work goes into something. That doesn't make it "Viable" or a "Product". Right now, it's only accomplishing "Minimal".
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by tghw 13y ago
I hate to say it, but it does suck, quite a bit. The interface is nice and clean, but the functionality isn't there. I tried redoing my recent search for a good SUV-like vehicle. I started off in SUV, hoping I could pick models to comp
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by tghw 13y ago
Care to cite your sources, or do you plan on just making wild assertions and trying to call them facts?
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by tghw 13y ago
> Which is why almost every country outside of the US has a lower standard of care than we do. Uh, where do you get that from? The JAMA study, one of the most comprehensive such studies done, concluded that the US health care outcomes ar
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by tghw 13y ago
You are correct. I hadn't noticed that change.
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by tghw 13y ago
Doubly dumb since StackOverflow doesn't even require an actual account to post questions.
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by tghw 13y ago
Assuming it was hinted to the intended resolution. But that's still an extra step.
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Are Yahoo Mail users better customers than Gmail users?(keacher.com)
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by tghw 13y ago
The first Python example throws up a big red flag: manually parsing command line arguments instead of using argparse. Why reinvent the wheel when there is a standard library to handle it? Likewise, asserting that "For storing general r
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by tghw 13y ago
While the causes of road damage you cite are certainly more salient, they're not actually very common causes of accidents. Much more common is driver inattention or driver error. Inattention is directly addressed by self driving cars,
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by tghw 13y ago
He's now a "trusted reviewer" who is given access to pre-release units. That helps him write these articles before anyone else, which helps him get page views and eventually revenue. Therefore, he is corrupted. Given how Appl
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by tghw 13y ago
Actually, it is his fault, at least partially. If Apple was judged on its merits, instead of through the reality distortion field, and managed to hit it out of the park every time, that would be one thing. But that's not how it works.
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by tghw 13y ago
I have Cree LED bulbs throughout my house. I've been very happy with their quality of light. I haven't done any in depth analysis, but being a photographer, I've come to notice light quality, and these are similar to most inc
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by tghw 13y ago
Just remember, Bitcoin is far from anonymous. In fact, it's pretty easy to track, unless you can source the coins anonymously.
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by tghw 13y ago
gzip and a file that contains sequences of only two different characters should compress pretty well.
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by tghw 13y ago
a) Fog Creek doesn't have an HR department. At most, it's been the two office managers dealing with incoming resumes, booking travel for candidates, and scheduling interviews. b) If you step back and imagine taking a non-cynical v
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by tghw 13y ago
Both sales and service completely lack the trust I'm talking about. There's even more oversight and micromanagement. Are you making your numbers? Are you doing the required number of cold calls per day? Do we need to take away som
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by tghw 13y ago
Fog Creek had a long standing no-remote policy. The first experiments to change that started about two years ago, when I moved away from New York and started working remote. They are still getting the hang of it, these policies seem to be a
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by tghw 13y ago
I was Fog Creek's first full time remote dev. I left the company about 18 months ago to pursue my own company. There seems to be some confusion and questions in this thread, so let's do this: AMA (Ask Me Anything)
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by tghw 13y ago
This is clearly targeted at more permanent remote work. Shorter stints are much easier to work around.
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by tghw 13y ago
They pretty explicitly call out "chat, commit messages, code reviews, cases, Trello boards" as ways of pinging the rest of the team.
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by tghw 13y ago
I am. At least partly. I was the first remote dev at Fog Creek, and I can see very much where some of these rules came from. There are essentially two main themes here. The first is communication. When I started work, we hadn't been do
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by tghw 13y ago
Do you really think this is a literal rule? "Can I work remotely?" "Will you have a room to work in?" "Yes" "But does it have a door?" "Well, no, it's a desk in the living room, but I'l

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