toomuchcoffee

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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
The CEO leaned across the table, got in my face, and said, "this is a MONUMENTAL fuck up." It certainly was -- on multiple levels, but ultimately up at the C-level. Blaming a single person (let a lone a junior engineer) for it just perpe
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
>For us, if we didn't make an offer it's either because the applicant is a jerk, a liar, or incompetent. What an incredibly cocky and pretentious view of the world.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Not to try to temper your frustration (which is quite legitimate), but in this context, "we're looking for a different skill set" is almost certainly a foil. Quite often companies will say things like that when really they mean they were j
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Awesome point there. Almost by definition, anyone who really is a badass, rockstar, ninja, etc. at what they do is viscerally repelled by the cockiness exuding from job ads seeking people who describe themselves as such... and would never d
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Or as they say in Eurasia, "behaving abnormally": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464298
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
We've asked Amazon why the ads are US-only, and whether customers can pay to turn them off. If there is such an option, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Kindle Fire announcements or the Amazon sales pages. The prices are quite good,
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourse
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Sweet. Now you just need to grab a few more more domains, e.g. "EscapeMyDate.com", etc.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Apparently the auto-kill filtering is source-, rather than pattern-based. For example this article seems to have made it through: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4487658 Even though its title also mentions the Unnameable Politician.
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Ron Paul's Plane Briefly Detained by TSA(reason.com)
1 points by toomuchcoffee 14y ago|0 comments
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Really now? Let's try a little experiment: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4487628
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Umm, so you're saying vi is "new wave"?
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Interesting article, but the title should probably be "How stock market decimalization killed IPOs and saved our economy." That is, whatever the cause-and-effect relationship between decimalization and IPOs, it's a bit fatuous to maintain
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Umm, "broken" isn't what the title says. Nor is it what the content of the article implies.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
It's always that way, with creative types. The more they try to just fade back into the woodwork... the more intently people try to grab a little piece of them. Till pretty soon, even more so than for their considerable accomplishments, th
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
You're probably right, and I've had to apologize to Python a number of times in the past. So let this be another. I'm still a bit scarred from a certain 2.7-era experience, so presumably you can empathize.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
In order to keep my costs down, I stayed with a friend the whole week... I cooked all my own food. That's not "travel." That's "staying with friends." Completely useless to compare day-to-day budgets for the two categories. On that note
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Yesss but there's lots of apps like that do similar / overlapping things that you'll sort of have to steal/borrow from. In particular, some form of social bookmarking/tagging would seem to be a necessary component of a service of this kind
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Thanks; I'll give it a whirl.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Something that auto-retires tabs after some egregiously long delay, with some kind of latent tagging functionality (based on tags for similar pages I've bookmarked) might be useful. Then again, it will probably just encourage me to open mor
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Talk about promoting way-skewed sampling bias. But then again, that was pretty much always what the Kinsey Report was about, wasn't it?
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
But if Python really ♥'d you back, it'd at least attempt to offer something resembling first-class Unicode support.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Later that day (6 hours to be exact) call them and let them know that your refrences came back great, but that there was a meeting that day and they decided that they're no longer hiring for that position. I know someone who was told mid-
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
I actually like the austere minimalism of JFN's page; it practically exudes sprezzatura , we might say. Reminds me of some of his early papers, in that sense.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Libertopia in our time, at long last!
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Op-ed: Is the energy boom a mirage?(nytimes.com)
1 points by toomuchcoffee 14y ago|0 comments
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Maybe it's the rats who are experimenting on us , faking hippocampal replay responses to control the dreams of neuroscientist "researchers", making them run through cognitive mazes while drooling after the ephemeral crumbs of peer accolade
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Should I feel bad knowing that ... someone wasted valuable time... No, but you should feel bad for thinking "it looks pretty" ==> "someone spent a lot of time making it look that way." In particular, what you need to consider is: may
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
These RFIDs are even easier to disable than cell phones since they can just be kept in a metallic pouch when not needed, Hey guess what? If they can coerce you into carrying the devices, they can also threaten you with penalties -- rangi
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Then you get either marked for absenteeism, or hit with criminal penalties for "tampering with school property."

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