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by watermoose 10y ago
This is an article essentially about how anxiety affects political views, so here's my experience on that matter. I'm an independent that leans conservative especially on fiscal but also somewhat on social issues, and I know that
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by watermoose 10y ago
Sam, thanks for taking the time to talk with us. I hope it's ok, but I've got a few questions about something not directly related to YC applications. As a middle-aged developer, I've seen a lot in my lifetime, but I believe
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by watermoose 10y ago
I'm incredibly excited about this. I would actually like to hear more about what happens on Mars: the steps to generate oxygen, food, energy, water, and the fuel for the return trip. What are the various ways that Mars could be terrafo
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by watermoose 10y ago
Google didn't intentionally change the world in Angular 2 to make sure that developers were learning new Angular 2 stuff vs. something else. If they wanted to do that, they were too late, because a lot of people had moved to React alre
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by watermoose 10y ago
I wasn't aware of that. Thanks!
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by watermoose 10y ago
I would think there is a high chance that if aliens are capable of listening to us, they would be using AI to do so. After all, within decades of starting to listen for Aliens, we've already made significant progress in AI development.
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by watermoose 10y ago
> Suppose an octopus stacked rocks in piles of prime numbers (not including unity). Would we care beyond possibly putting it on display in an aquarium? Considering that a lot of research is done on animal communication, I think that&#x27
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by watermoose 10y ago
Yeah- I changed my wording to "scalable". And I appreciate the developers and community around SQLite. It has its uses, and I appreciate it. However, I think it could be better with concurrency.
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by watermoose 10y ago
> Do people agree with this? I don't. I've corrupted SQLite DBs enough to not have warm and fuzzy feelings about it like I used to have. I think it's only a good choice when you just need a database for your app that will
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by watermoose 10y ago
> At the same time I cannot use toy languages that have no compile time type checking This guy seems like and sounds like a serious developer, so I'm totally confused by this statement. Dynamic languages that don't do compile t
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by watermoose 10y ago
This explanation dismisses refraction because it assumes the atmosphere is of a single consistency. The atmosphere is composed of different types of elements at different densities and temperatures depending on altitude, etc. Also, our atmo
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by watermoose 10y ago
As a correction to the title, they said four, but then said, "There is a fifth, undefined group, representing 10%, which the algorithm is unable to classify in relation to a clear type of behavior. The researchers argue that this allow
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by watermoose 10y ago
I'm glad that they are doing this to raise awareness about the problem, and it seems like a good idea to request prior art on this page. And, it looks to have a great team behind it: https://unpatent.co/about So, I&#x2
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by watermoose 10y ago
> P.S. I could interview well with a mid-senior electronics role or a junior programmer role. What do you mean by "electronics". Electrical engineer? Electrician?
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by watermoose 10y ago
Agree with everyone that is saying LinkedIn. Even if you barely touch your profile, you'll very likely start to get recruiters within a few weeks contacting you. If you don't, you need to work on what information you are providing
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by watermoose 10y ago
This is great, but I would recommend Robert Greenberg's "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music". He goes through the history of western music in a way that makes it clear why Amin != Cmaj, and other questions that the O
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by watermoose 10y ago
I've had ADD and slow executive function all of my life, along with a few other problems. I was in denial or at least unsure about it for years. I'd had docs diagnose me with ADD, one who tested me extensively who though ADD was o
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by watermoose 10y ago
> This is much better than trying to estimate bandwidth from packet loss. This definitely seems like an improvement, however is it possible that this changed could result in one or more additional attack vectors? In addition, what about
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by watermoose 10y ago
One of the answers mentioned: https://livesshattack.net/ On which there are leaderboards for password attempts: https://livesshattack.net/leaderboards A password that was tried 11633 times, almost as much a
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by watermoose 10y ago
While Daniel is correct that open source projects require upkeep and typically require a community of users and developers giving back to the project in order to succeed or at least continue, I think this could be misused as a reason to bac
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by watermoose 10y ago
> For smaller projects out on GitHub I often see attempts at this that fail. Stuck in "Open" status for years or outright rejected. This is why you fork. Some forks even merge branches that were PR'd to the original fork a
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by watermoose 10y ago
Thank you John Brooks!! You are the best!! Warning: this is going to get mushy... While my first computer was the TRS-80 COCO I, I spent more time coding on my second computer, the Apple IIe, coming home each afternoon after school to just
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What the ‘sixth extinction’ will look like in the oceans(washingtonpost.com)
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