ganley

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by ganley 9y ago
High pay? A really good courier makes maybe $40K. Most make less than that.
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by ganley 9y ago
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/tesla-is-underselling-autopil...
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by ganley 9y ago
In my family we call this "protective incompetence."
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by ganley 9y ago
I'm not at all sure that's true. That is, I agree that many people probably understand that mean and median are both things, but suspect that a minority of them understand how and why they are different, or when and why one makes
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by ganley 9y ago
Good advice. My first (sometimes only) question when I interview people is: Tell me about your favorite project.
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by ganley 9y ago
Back in the days when I traveled a lot, I would ask for some sort of on-the-spot compensation - usually, put me in first/business class on the rebooked flight. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not.
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by ganley 9y ago
I've looked at this pretty hard and concluded that, inexplicably, it is not an April Fools joke.
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by ganley 9y ago
You Europeans with your sensibly-designed cities. My shortest commute ever was 12km, and my current one is almost 30km.
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by ganley 9y ago
There are many hunters who believe that it is wrong to eat meat unless you kill and butcher it yourself.
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by ganley 9y ago
I was a vegetarian (abruptly) for a couple of years. Eventually I started to feel sort of icky, not properly nourished, though this is probably the fault of my specific dietary habits and not vegetarianism in general. Since then I've s
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by ganley 10y ago
No idea which of us is more typical, but my doctor is awesome. Preventative care is deductible-waived, so there's really no good reason other than laziness for me not to get a regular annual physical.
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by ganley 10y ago
A health problem that you are aware of . You're supposed to see a doctor periodically because they might catch health problems that haven't yet advanced to the point that you know they're happening.
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by ganley 10y ago
About a decade ago, I got a physical after having not set foot in a doctor's office in about 12 years. The doctor asked what made me come to get a physical after so long, and when I said nothing in particular, he pretended to write on
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by ganley 10y ago
I thought I remembered reading that the average price of the preorders was in the $40K's, in which case that $35k price isn't very realistic.
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by ganley 10y ago
It's surprisingly difficult to find the median car price. I just spent 15 minutes googling and could find neither the statistic itself nor a source of the data from which I could compute it.
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by ganley 10y ago
I'd like to see that math. Highly skeptical.
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by ganley 10y ago
Please. A shitty, low-paying, long-hour job with a great mission is still a shitty, low-paying, long-hour job.
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by ganley 10y ago
The best movie I've (finally) seen in recent months was El Mariachi. He made that for like $8K. Assault on Precinct 13 (the original one): $150,000. The list goes on and on. The Way of the Gun, a more recent favorite of mine with a bun
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by ganley 10y ago
Zaks is one of the best programming books ever.
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by ganley 10y ago
Starving, no. But making a lot less than you could make elsewhere.
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by ganley 10y ago
Well, it definitely filtered me out. And BTW, $163K is for a step 10. New government employees almost always start as a step 1.
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by ganley 10y ago
Totally agree. I'm inspired by what they do, but working there would involve a big pay cut and a punishing commute, so (with some sadness) nope.
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by ganley 10y ago
Turbo Pascal was also where I wrote my first professional software (not for $$$ - it was an internship - but I'm counting it). It was a program to gather, process, and display thermal data from an experiment rig. I also wrote a ton of
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by ganley 10y ago
A colleague and good friend of mine was a surveyor before he went to college in CS. He said the surveying was very pleasant, but the job also involves a lot of driving.
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by ganley 10y ago
As with Tesla, I skimmed for the price, and once I saw it, closed the window. I never cease to be amazed that there are enough people who will spend $100K on a car to make these businesses work.
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by ganley 13y ago
I see Tesla's future as a race between saturating the market for an $X car versus reducing the value of X (i.e. producing less expensive cars), thus enlarging their potential market. It'll be interesting to see which way that goes. Speaking
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by ganley 14y ago
The email also pointed to a new forum - http://forum.cppgm.org/ - which sheds no further light on things so far. I thought this would be a fun exercise if it weren't so ridiculously over-scoped, but in any event once I discovered that I c
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by ganley 14y ago
If I had a nickel for every hour I spent doing this as a teen... (Sinclair ZX-81, then TRS-80 Model 1.) Also, that Zaks book rocks. To this day one of the best programming references I've ever used. http://www.z80.info/zaks.html
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by ganley 14y ago
Also, good luck putting a spiral-bound notebook in a tight pocket.
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by ganley 14y ago
My criterion (which is no more valid than anyone's) is that it's art if it elicits emotion. This clearly does. I'm fairly confident that this has already intellectually/emotionally stimulated the human race more than, say, some stodgy Renai

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