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by zorked 7y ago
And it's not like you can infer anything from an IQ test other than an IQ test result.
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by zorked 7y ago
If anything they are as different as possible. And part of that was to avoid legal problems with BK.
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by zorked 7y ago
I know at least one person in quantitative finance that is starting a greenfield project in Fortran. He says it works and has great performance, doesn't get in the way and appeals more to people with science rather than programming bac
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by zorked 7y ago
Growing, stable or declining?
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by zorked 7y ago
My very unofficial interpretation of hiring processes like that isn't that what's demanded is that people know algorithms from memory, it's that they are so familiar with algorithms that knowing from memory isn't hard to
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by zorked 7y ago
Most tech-company engineers have exactly the same infrastructure at home as everybody else. Comcast and the like, also mad about data caps, latency and DNS hijacking.
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by zorked 7y ago
That was indeed cool, but it also belongs to the "pet" phase of computing and this is the "cattle" age.
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by zorked 7y ago
Most of the "hardware maintainance" is defragmenting the workload so that the VMs run in fewer physical machines to retire racks of old hardware. Some load balancing too.
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by zorked 7y ago
Old school Unix people have been gatekeeping Unix since the 90s at least. Some still resent having a Unix that is available to anyone and runs on home computers.
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by zorked 7y ago
They published "The Anatomy of Melancholy", which is a insanely long / funny / wild 17th century tract on (considerably more than just) depression.
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by zorked 7y ago
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." People who actually achieve something are just subject to more scrutiny. Also changing social mores means
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by zorked 7y ago
As we all know, English is the hardest language, except for all the others.
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by zorked 7y ago
You know it will disrupt you so you never even start the deep work. Victory!
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by zorked 7y ago
Nothing of what you said is incompatible with the HK government being the largest shareholder.
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by zorked 7y ago
Does American law really fall for that sort of cheap scheme? In most other places that would be an additional law broken.
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by zorked 7y ago
"He warned that the decision would go beyond Facebook and effect all social media plug ins, which are important for many firms to expand their reach on the web." Add an image on your own website that links to Facebook. Problem sol
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by zorked 7y ago
Brazil's fertility rate is somewhere between France and Germany.
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Climate Winners and Losers(medium.com)
53 points by zorked 7y ago|27 comments
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by zorked 7y ago
So is Europe, Russia, China, India, Brazil, etc. Moving is an option.
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by zorked 7y ago
Great if you are in the 0.001%.
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by zorked 7y ago
Still looting though.
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by zorked 7y ago
It was indeed a chore. Your local shop might not have the game - it might not have been released in your country. Media could be damaged. DRM that wouldn't work on your system. You buy that huge box and all it has is a leaftlet and a C
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by zorked 7y ago
Quick reminder that a browser with JavaScript is a way to run unprivileged code on your machine.
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by zorked 7y ago
FWIW: sr.ht is pretty cool, has a nice no-nonsense UI, and the build system is really simple and powerful. It's not "done" but it works and is going in the right direction. It's a very nice corner of the Internet. I&#x27
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by zorked 7y ago
I feel that the general attitude in the US to people slightly outside the norm is "you have a disorder, go take pills". In Europe it's "you are less intelligent, go to an easier school and then do manual labor". Bot
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by zorked 7y ago
Meh. I watched the trailer, it seemed desperate for attention. When the first two or three MK games came out they were indeed a big part of a culture of its time, being both controversial and a kind of (trashy, commercial) statement against
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by zorked 7y ago
I have kids around the age of ten and moved countries. It's very, very hard for them.
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by zorked 7y ago
I don't think it's desirable to let individual voters verify that their votes were counted. That means that the privacy of your vote can be compromised under duress a long time after the election. Paper and pen, such a beautiful s
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by zorked 7y ago
Being government for a year is a better deal than military service, and people don't complain too much about that.
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by zorked 7y ago
Where does the Modern Fortran community congregate? Any websites or mailing lists?

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