whyaduck

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by whyaduck 11y ago
I'm curious - wouldn't it be cheaper to check in with a sat phone daily, rather than having a bush pilot do a flyover?
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Just as important - keep your diet on track. Lay off processed food, sugar, simple carbs (bread, pasta, etc.), and eat plenty of protein and complex carbs.
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Complex cross-geo projects aren't the same as local projects, except everything happens overnight. There are explicit and implicit expenses involved in managing and supporting projects in widely varied time zones that aren't obvi
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by whyaduck 11y ago
I think the fact that music is so easy to get for free makes it difficult to assess what value people would place on it if that outlet wasn't there. Surely some portion of the pirates would pay for the music they're torrenting if
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by whyaduck 11y ago
GM's been on an "insourcing" drive since 2012: http://www.engineering.com/Blogs/tabid/3207/ArticleID/7469/G...
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Most games are essentially just massive databases of pretend stuff with an enjoyable alternative to SQL as the interface.
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Well, the Lottery profited from the game - they lost money on the tickets purchased by the MIT group.
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by whyaduck 11y ago
I wish they'd spend a few bucks on a head, too. That thing looks like it was just decapitated and is in its death throes, running on reflex.
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by whyaduck 11y ago
We need to work on creating robotic civilians (bystanders | peasants | victims), too. Then the circle will be complete and the war-makers can burn through their $trillions without actually killing anyone.
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the most un-Google-able joke ever written!
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Same here. Working on a large codebase where people "just build software and document it properly" without following standards is not fun. Not to mention that frequently people end up shortening that to "just build software&
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Did he make the offer without consulting HR? I've received occasional buyout offers - they're always subject to approval and capped based on a number of factors.
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by whyaduck 11y ago
What I got from the article was that they did NOT set their hours, train themselves, etc. Workers are picked up in vans by their employers, are trained by their employers, directly supervised (very closely) by their employers, etc. About
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Define "willing".
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by whyaduck 11y ago
I won't argue that there isn't cross-pollination between NASA and the military, but if you're looking for a test pilot for your new, high-performance aircraft (or, say, rocket), you'd be hard pressed to find a more quali
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by whyaduck 11y ago
No you're not. I'm listening to "You're Gonna Miss Me" right now. So is he in touch with Roky?
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by whyaduck 11y ago
FizzBuzz is a test, not the results. If you can point to a study that has administered it to a well selected group representative of professional software engineers that displays a bi-modal distribution, then I'll accept that as evide
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Given the daily 10% increase, anyone selling would have to be desperate for cash and, simultaneously, a horrifyingly bad risk. A loan at significantly lower than 10% daily interest could probably be secured using the securities as collater
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by whyaduck 11y ago
> Guess what, they couldn't get it to work because they didn't understand how it worked. This isn't necessarily a good sign.
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by whyaduck 11y ago
Yeah - the "heroes" in this story don't come off as terribly appealing. The "happy ending" caption was the nail in the coffin for me.
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by whyaduck 11y ago
The daily increase is capped at 10%. All else being equal, in the real world, the only way to limit demand is to raise the price - eventually it will reach it's actual market value. Until then, "demand" doesn't really h
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by whyaduck 11y ago
It's not a euphemism, it's a crowd-sourced renaming.
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by whyaduck 11y ago
You seem to be confusing compression bit rate with audio frequency. Even if my ears can't hear frequencies above, say 15 kHz, that doesn't mean I can't hear compression artifacts in music compressed at any particular bit rat
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by whyaduck 11y ago
I take my coffee seriously and I'm willing to spend some time (and money) making it. Even for me, that looks a bit more involved than I'd like.
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by whyaduck 12y ago
I think you're off by over an order of magnitude. Apple employs over 90,000 people worldwide. In the Cupertino area there are probably 30,000-40,000 Apple employees.
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by whyaduck 12y ago
The attached article was discussing open, "pay to publish" journals that don't care about the contents of submitted papers. They will publish just about anything that sounds vaguely scientific as long as they get paid. The p
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by whyaduck 12y ago
Is that your response when someone has their dog "play dead"? "Does the dog understand what death is? Is the dog aware of it's own mortality?"
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by whyaduck 12y ago
At this point I don't think there's any way to determine that. Given the nature of the article, all comments are suspect. I like it - I think it's time for me to re-read Pale Fire.
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by whyaduck 12y ago
I can toss a rock over my back yard fence into Tempe from my home in Chandler - no fiber for me!
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by whyaduck 12y ago
Wow - Terminals Terrific was selling a spell checker (Spell Star) for only $144!

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