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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I have some MPX5100 pressure sensors connected up to an Arduino. When I first experimented with them, I was shocked to find that they were accurate enough to report pressure change simply from lifting the device off my desk and up to eye l
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
The spiral in healthcare was also caused by the government taking over the industry in the late 1960s. I'm guessing that you're referring to the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, which is hardly "taking over th
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
This reminds me of a Reddit post from yesterday: http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/2dyi9j/look... In particular, the bit about the persistent apologies. From the Reddit link: He's
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
The key with ageism in tech is to move into mgmt. Where are these abundant management jobs, ready to absorb every programmer over 30? Personally, having had several awful managers who were worker-bee programmers, I find nothing worse tha
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Have you ever considered that other people's circumstances might differ from your own? Certainly, but I haven't met many people who didn't have parents, and very few who couldn't live with them (or other relatives) whi
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Western Oregon University is around $3,000 per term for 15 credit hours. Let's call it $12,000 per year with books. OSU estimates resident tuition at $9,123 and $1,965 for "books & supplies". I worked part-time during s
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Here's a wild ass idea: have you engineers do all the resume reviews, screening calls, and interviews. Leave HR and most of management entirely out of it. Then just hire people who can intelligently speak to a relevant resume, and wh
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Could you elaborate more on your experience? Well, I had absolutely no negative effects from it, and many positive effects. It stopped the internal negative feedback loop. It improved my mood. It allowed me to focus on my work. I had
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
10x faster is 10x faster, regardless of the size of the data you're moving. There's a reason that Macbook Air reviews report that it's shocking fast and snappy for such a (relatively) underpowered machine.
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I wouldn't want to kick out for another 256Gb SSD when I already have one. All current Macs[1] currently use PCIe SSD drives, which are not interchangeable with SATA SSD drives. They are, however, around 10x faster than SATA SSD dri
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
With regards to the relationship, I've been in a similar place. I'd say it takes about five years to truly get over such a profound loss. It's really true that ending a deeply-felt romantic relationship is not much differen
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Is there a suitable material for a lightweight "roof" you could put over your property Yes, well-placed trees, plants, and some lattice material. I once visited the roof of the Limn building on Townsend in San Francisco. It tur
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Things that worked well for me: 1) Rock climbing gyms. I made a lot of great friends at Mission Cliffs and Berkeley Ironworks. I have no natural talent for climbing, but I love the mental and physical challenge, and I enjoy the social as
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
to the best of my knowledge, there's no good that comes from it I'm drinking my second Diet Coke (with Splenda®) of the day right now. I find it to be a nice way to get a continual, low-dose of caffeine. More importantly, the
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
How much of your day would you say you spend thinking about how oppressed you feel?
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I eat at McDonald's once a week, and I log onto Facebook a couple of times per month. This sounds like a recovering alcoholic ranting about how alcohol is evil and nobody should drink it.
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
A good friend of mine has worked in the games industry for over a decade now. He worked on the Spore project at EA. It was insane how many hours he put in while on-project. He'd have to answer his phone at any time, and sometimes
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
But, in reality, OpenSSL had only one full-time developer and three “core” volunteer programmers in Europe, and operated on a budget of $2,000 in annual donations. This, despite the fact that OpenSSL is used to encrypt the majority of the
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Resume: * Starting with "Greetings" makes me think of the nerd from The Simpsons. * "KICKASS" really? * Terrible attention to detail: Geocities not capitalized, no space between popular and the open parenthesis, "I
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
"In the real world I'd be sued" Well, maybe, in the real world, if anyone even noticed, you might get sued. It would be baseless, but you wouldn't have the resources for a court battle, so you'd just tuck your tail
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Knowing what a test is going to be like is pretty useful if that test matters at all. Knowing and understanding the subject matter is likely to be pretty useful if the test matters at all. This is why you study and understand the entire
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I don't have to work with (many) crazy people. At startups and small businesses, I found that one crazy founder or manager (who is probably related to the CEO) can completely ruin the experience. Google has processes to avoid hiring s
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Not the parent commenter, but: >Because jesus, if you are, and those tests are consequential to the kids future, that's a pretty damn relevant and reasonable question. The point of a test isn't to test every single detail of wh
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I fail to see how your comment is the least bit relevant. in the days of Ellis Island and had just enough education to work as bakers and butchers So in other words, for the time in which they lived, they were pretty skilled. The immigra
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
The thing I've always found funny about job interviews is that they're always "looking for candidates who can hit the ground running," so they'll reject anyone missing one out of the ten required buzzwords. But I&#
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
those races that are left alone, and not made into an issue, do quite well. Consider an alternative: those non-white races who predominantly arrived here as a result of passing modern immigration requirements, often having secondary educ
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I have no problem with the ethics of any part of this, but this sounds like a great way to grab a bunch of self-selecting people with significant combinations of personality defects, poor interpersonal skills, and overly-high estimation of
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I was curious about one of the deadest male names, Isadore, so I looked it up. It's of Greek origin and it turns out the female counterpart, Isadora, is the ninth most popular name for baby girls in Chile in 2006. The website linked
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
Hell-banning also drives me nuts, for similar reasons. Hell-banning is for spammers and the mentally-ill. The way HN uses it is utterly despicable.
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
What a stunningly off-topic, irrelevant comment.

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