thoman23

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   by thoman23 11y ago

   Wow, any system that brings in the brightest from around the world to be educated at Harvard or Stanford but then can't find a way to keep them here for work is very broken.
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   by thoman23 11y ago

   lol...the Carl's Jr. BOGO offer would probably go a long ways toward teaching the average American who he even is.
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   by thoman23 11y ago

   Well I guess that settled that.
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   by thoman23 11y ago

   My vote is for parody. If we find out that a service that charges in the neighborhood of $40 a month to roll out your trash cans is real, we are on official bubble alert. If we find out that they are backed by $5 million in venture fundin
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   TrashDay: Parody or peak bubble alert?(blog.sfgate.com)

   4 points by thoman23 11y ago|3 comments
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   by thoman23 11y ago

   And yet engineers wonder why we are thrown into open offices like cattle and compensated with foosball tables and Mountain Dew. We are skilled professional workers. How about starting with some self-respect? Grow up and put on a collared
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   by thoman23 11y ago

   Wait, you went to the interview in blue jeans and a t-shirt? Do people do that? What's wrong with putting on some real clothes for one day?
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   by thoman23 11y ago

   Would love to hear some thoughts on the System 76 laptops. I'm tempted by the 15" Gazelle Pro, but haven't heard any first-hand accounts from real users.
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   by thoman23 11y ago

   I could see the idea of randomly projecting employee desktops to a large, central screen gaining traction in management circles.
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    I myself find steaks to be a motivating tool. Or at least I'm motivated to eat them.
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    Very nicely done! I am just about to choose a charting library and this will be a great help. Have you considered adding some sort of user rating system? I find myself kind of just wanting to know which one is most popular or highest rate
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    Wait, what?
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    The FBI is depressing.
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    I think many people assess risk differently when they are passive vs. active participants. When you are the driver of a car, you tell yourself that you can avoid any possible accident and it's only "other people" that will b
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    I think it's important to recognize that he still assumed some risk with each spin. That risk was reduced from 1/6 to some much smaller number, but the risk was not zero. His concentration or timing could fail on any given spin,
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    Among the many interesting things in this story is the reaction of the show producers and how different things were back then. Today's producers would jump ALL OVER this and make him a huge celebrity, driving up ratings and attention
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    TIL I am part of the "older generation". Kids today don't know to leave a jacket on a chair or movie theater seat to claim your territory? Regarding the original question, the couple that arrived early should have "clai
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    Well, isn't Elon Musk one of those guys who thinks he's going to live forever? He probably figures he can spend time with family 1000 years from now after things settle down a bit.
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    I know nothing about farming, but I wouldn't have guessed the farming lifestyle would afford more free time than many programming jobs. You can get a good (but boring) programming job at a megacorp/bank/government and work 3
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    by thoman23 11y ago

    Open dev tools console: document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 3.0;
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    by thoman23 12y ago

    You seem to be spending on a lot of energy on your hatred.
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    by thoman23 12y ago

    I'm no Rumsfeld fan, but I never understood why that statement would be ridiculed. The quote below makes perfect sense to me. "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know,
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    by thoman23 12y ago

    Man I wish this had been in place in the 90's when I went to Stanford. I grew up lower middle class in the Central Valley. My parents did everything they could to help, but that didn't make a dent of course. Stanford was fairly
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    by thoman23 12y ago

    I am excited for the possibility of "Scala Everywhere". Scala -> Scala.JS -> React Javascript -> Native code I'll have to try this out on a small project and write about it.
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    by thoman23 12y ago

    The Mustang series I'd say is close enough that especially when you factor in price, volume control, portability, and flexibility, it makes a ton of sense for home use vs. a tube amp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0F
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    by thoman23 12y ago

    I am in the market for a Linux developer's laptop. It looks like the System76 laptops have this beat. Gazelle Professional: 15.6" matte display 2.8 Ghz quad core i7 16 GB RAM 250 GB SSD Wireless AC Price as configured above: $147
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    by thoman23 12y ago

    Interesting. I wouldn't think you would need a "natural intuition" for big O. You just need to know what it is and how to determine it. It would be like having a "natural intuition" for long division.
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    by thoman23 12y ago

    Surprising that it's not profitable. It's still probably better than having lost a major chunk of internet traffic to another player, like they did with social networking and real-time info (i.e. Twitter).
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    by thoman23 12y ago

    Simple. I'm an introvert. Having another human by my side all day long does not just sound exhausting to me, it sounds unbearable. It completely turns the joy of programming on its head for people like me who need alone time to rech
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    by thoman23 12y ago

    I would literally change careers before I worked at a place that pair programs.