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by weeksie 9y ago
I've never read Journey to The End of The Night in French but it's my absolute favorite novel. I wonder about that as well. I am always quite specific about recommending the Ralph Mannheim translation. Similarly, I had a copy of R
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by weeksie 9y ago
Apologies for completely misreading your post. And I agree with everything you've said.
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by weeksie 9y ago
I find people who say things like this don't understand the great amount of good that elementary education provides. Basic literacy and mathematics skills are tough things to teach effectively. They're not at all difficult to prov
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by weeksie 9y ago
It was only ever superficially similar and is becoming less so over time.
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by weeksie 9y ago
This part is clutch: > Neighborhoods where African Americans lived – often restricted to due to segregation and redlining – were more exposed to both indoor and outdoor particles that triggered asthma symptoms. My girlfriend used to be t
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by weeksie 9y ago
That's a perfectly reasonable point (which I agree with). It's naive to dismiss the concerns of content creators out of hand, but surely there's a middle ground we could get to legally over what constitutes fair use (or fair
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by weeksie 9y ago
Nobody said they don't get cracked but it's far easier to pay $10/month for a Netflix subscription than it is to hunt down rips of everything on there. If there was no DRM you could just save the movie to your HD with little
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by weeksie 9y ago
Yeah, this right here. DRM might be technically impossible to get 100% right but you don't have to get it 100% right if you have regulation to back it up. The alternative is that there is no way to protect IP on the web, which means th
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by weeksie 9y ago
I can suggest Francis Fukuyama's "Origins of Political Order" for a decent survey of that. Couple it with Steven Pinker's "Better Angels of Our Nature" for a holistic look at violence in human societies in gene
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by weeksie 9y ago
Off-topic, tangental, but related. In a fit of sheer political science nerdery I got the Sovereign from the cover of Leviathan tattooed on my shoulder. Been wanting it for years but finally got it done a couple weeks ago.
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by weeksie 9y ago
The best advice I can give is to reach out and talk to people. Cold emails, calls, etc. . . . It's uncomfortable as an engineer, believe me. But the way to get the work you want is to reach out and search for it. I have a pretty deep n
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by weeksie 9y ago
I'm 40. I work 6-9 months out of the year. When I'm consulting I get great contracts, just wrapping up an idyllic green field Elixir and React product development. Zero to product in six months. Happy customers, happy colleagues.
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by weeksie 9y ago
Another 1977-er, but I didn't get to it until I got a second-hand C-64 in 1986.
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by weeksie 9y ago
I'm not totally sold on the heavy BDSM type systems, but one of their clear advantages comes from trivially handling this problem. Elm's package manager simply won't let you publish an incompatible update without bumping the
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by weeksie 9y ago
It's definitely an old metaphor. SICP is the "Wizard Book" after all, and IIRC they even used the term "incantations" to describe commands and programming constructs at some points, though it's been well over a
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by weeksie 9y ago
Religion for techies. Apocolyptic millenarian beliefs (Singularity)? Check. Transcendence and life after death? Check. Belief in purity and rituals (Vitamins and workout routines)? Check. Hold a service at the TED Talk, etc. . . . It might
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by weeksie 9y ago
Do a little more research. NY has not built nearly enough to keep up with demand and much of the outer boroughs are not zoned to build as dense as needed. That's before even getting into the weird economics of rent control. Today'
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by weeksie 9y ago
Yeah, cut down 2mb of CSS files and you're gonna get a speed up :| I know, I know. LinkedIn is big and has a big team and this level of rigid formalism is what's required to manage a large team of developers and keep them from com
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by weeksie 9y ago
As an old-ish guy who doesn't like people on my lawn, I agree with the sentiment. A big struggle when balancing how to use the knowledge gained over decades of experience in today's context is trying to figure out which tools are
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by weeksie 9y ago
I wonder if this means the US will become more or less belligerent with Canada?
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by weeksie 9y ago
Totally. This is why in the more recent gerrymandering thread I was making such a big deal about the efficiency gap rather than geometry for detecting this stuff. Geometry is just a flawed heuristic for a multitude of reasons. That's w
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by weeksie 9y ago
That's a fair point. My feelings on this might be very US-centric since we get paid a lot more than our counterparts elsewhere. Translators def have a solid situation, I met a translator last year when I was traveling and she lives tha
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by weeksie 9y ago
For me software dev is the perfect mixture of money and freedom. In fact, I am hard pressed to think of a profession that offers more personal freedom. I don't make as much as my finance bro buddies, but they work A LOT. And they work
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by weeksie 9y ago
That's because compactness doesn't actually tell you anything about unfair voting, demographics, party representation, etc. . . . A district can be shaped like a busted IUD and still be perfectly fair and that's precisely why
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by weeksie 9y ago
Weird geometry is at best a flawed heuristic for gerrymandering. There are good reasons for oddly shaped districts (coastlines, natural features, "logical" constituencies in an odd layout, etc. . . .) Some of the geometric approac
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by weeksie 9y ago
I haven't completely disconnected but I HAVE turned off all notifications for anything except for direct messages. Lo and behold my usage rates dropped right off a cliff. I can now use Facebook and Twitter like they are tools for keepi
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by weeksie 9y ago
The pay is definitely better, more than makes up for 9-5. Can't recommend it enough :)
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by weeksie 9y ago
I'm 40. Some of my work I get through my network, for sure. But I'm picky about what I work on which means that I will often do business development for myself and actively cold call/hustle to scare up work in the area I pref
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by weeksie 9y ago
If you're an emacs user there's nothing worse than doing an on-site interview where someone wants you to pair program using their editor. Nothing works right and you spend half the time flipper-handing it over the keys trying to r
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by weeksie 9y ago
Document databases are for data you know will be hierarchical and you know you won't have to do much cross referencing on. That's not as broadly useful as it might sound and then once requirements change you end up reimplementing

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