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by tossaway1 10y ago
> I've been reading these stories for ten years. About 8 years ago I started taking them seriously and stopped using swap. Not sure what you're referring to here. This story doesn't recommend eliminating swap...
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by tossaway1 10y ago
As I recall, War and Peace had a huge number of characters with a reference at the front that I always had to refer back to. Do you keep a notepad handy for this sort of thing or have you mastered the use of bookmarks to jump around (I stil
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Seriously, I feel like you could just as easily write an article comparing drug lords to poorly run companies -- like not betting your life and that of your family on a hugely risky venture. Don't nearly all drug lords flame out in a p
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Can you describe what a polar change in values would be on a small scale (moment/beat)? I can kind of understand at the scene level but even then I don't feel like most stories have many scenes with polar changes. I must not be in
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Isn't your stomach already extremely acidic...?
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by tossaway1 10y ago
I think most would intuitively attribute that to sleep restoring energy levels so the baby feels better, not anything to do with memory.
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by tossaway1 10y ago
That's because people outside the bay area don't care about the distinction. People don't generally differentiate between Boston and Cambridge either. Is that sloppy? I'd say it's just understood that references to
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Hubris? Sounds like he was assaulted.
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by tossaway1 10y ago
I'd say that preventing potential employers from asking questions about salary while allowing applicants to ask whatever they want is creating, not removing, assymmetry. In both cases, parties are free to refuse to answer questions. On
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Massachusetts did this last summer. Seems like a strange trend. Not necessarily bad (though it makes things harder for me as a hiring manager) but I wonder what group is pushing for this. Laws don't tend to get passed unless they'
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by tossaway1 10y ago
> reard Is that a combination of heard and read? I like it!
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by tossaway1 10y ago
> The researchers say that they are extremely lucky to be able to witness the birth of this ocean as the process is normally hidden beneath the seas. What??? The birth of oceans usually happens "beneath the seas"...?
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by tossaway1 10y ago
> I didn't even know till now that Google has a new personal assistant your thing that's not Google Now. I'm guessing you're an iPhone user and therefore don't have much interest in Android...? There were a lot o
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Most people need to go to a branch rarely, so the number of branches doesn't seem like a big deterrent for most. As for the number of ATMs, both credit unions that I belong to are part of the sum network (free reciprocal ATM access) an
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by tossaway1 10y ago
The question was what tech skills will you be hiring for and your answer was essentially I just want a plodder who's not overly smart and won't question my authority. Sound about right?
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Well, they focused more on that, but the first thing they mentioned was that they hired more people to reduce the workload...
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Well keep in mind that the name of the company is SpotHero, so it kind of fits with the company theme...
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Did you create an account just to make this comment???
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by tossaway1 10y ago
"Trolling the trolls" was language spez used. What does this have to do with the mainstream media?
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Why Stalin? Might as well just go straight to Godwin's law if you want to attack Amazon...
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Inserting [sic] into a quote usually comes across as a pretentious nitpick.
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Either way, the Mariana Trench seems to dwarf the valley that's described in the article.
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Nearly all Americans descend from immigrants who left other countries to come here. Were they all privileged cowards?
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by tossaway1 10y ago
> familiar principle of 32 feet per second per second takes over. I took high school and college physics courses (in the US) and have spent 15+ years developing physics-related software and I don't recall ever hearing gravity expres
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by tossaway1 10y ago
I've seen pretty good reviews across the board, even from Walt Mossberg, who I generally think of as an Apple fanboy.
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by tossaway1 10y ago
That's what "punishing" means when people use it in the context of stock prices.
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by tossaway1 10y ago
One reason it matters is because our Constitution explicitly grants citizens (not foreigners) certain rights. Our government is not allowed to violate those rights and if they do, they can technically be held accountable. The government can
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Well you didn't express your criticism a the reason C++ is difficult to learn, you described it as "the problem with C++" and it sounds like you don't have enough familiarity with the language to make that sort of assess
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by tossaway1 10y ago
I'm tempted to Google about this but I assume I'd end on a government watch list...
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by tossaway1 10y ago
Also, there were birds flying all over the place so it was obvious to everyone that it was possible...

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