icky

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by icky 18y ago
How do you like TimeSvr? (Thinking of getting a VA as well).
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by icky 18y ago
[In "Fat Tony" voice]: That is a lovely University you've got there. It would be a shame, if something were to... happen...
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by icky 18y ago
Wanted: Someone who can solve problems and write solid code. If you lie about these qualifications, you must fight our stable of real ninjas, who have never heard of the web, because they are too busy practicing deadly ninja moves.
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by icky 18y ago
"Making it" is a journey of several steps: 1. Realizing you haven't been checking price tags on food or household items for a while now. 2. Making money faster than you can find things worth spending it on. 3. Being well-off without having
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by icky 18y ago
> You should meet my Grandparents. My Grandma especially is a firecracker. She's done more this past year than some do in a decade. Must... resist...
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by icky 18y ago
And all this time, I've been injecting it into the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Oh, what a fool I've been!
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by icky 18y ago
I'll do it later... Edit: I was reading this article while procrastinating taking my sister-in-law to the DMV. Meanwhile, she discovered that she had forgotten to bring her passport (for ID), and couldn't actually go today. Hooray for p
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by icky 18y ago
Why buy, when you can found?
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by icky 18y ago
Then his "offtopic" disclaimer is apt.
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by icky 18y ago
I am Spartacus!
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by icky 18y ago
You might accidentally end up volunteering that way...
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by icky 18y ago
> Offtopic : I am frustrated with people ignoring no free lunch theorem and trying to use GAs everywhere. GAs don't violate No Free Lunch. After all, you're a genetic algorithm...
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by icky 18y ago
> What were the odds I'd get to say that twice in one day? Just don't say it a third time, lest you create an unkillable meme...
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by icky 18y ago
No, interest usually compounds. This is more like a one-off currency trade of now-dollars versus future-dollars.
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by icky 18y ago
I wonder if there's a way around this: instead of an explicit interest or profit, make it a trade-based market: I'll give you X dollars-today, in exchange for 1.1 X dollars-N-months-from-now. Or I'll give you X dollars-in-a-month in e
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by icky 18y ago
> My loan was one of the success stories: I couldn't have gotten a student loan through a traditional lender ("Your brother is going to cosign this? From Japan? Via fax? Pull the other one, kid, it's got bells on"). My peers, other len
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by icky 18y ago
> Man was that snarky. Yes. We methane-breathing anti-gourmets are known for our occasional lapses into snarkishness.
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by icky 18y ago
> And I don't like reading stuff that's interesting. I mean I do occasionally, but it rarely holds my attention. I can totally relate: I hate food that tastes good, and breathing oxygen.
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by icky 18y ago
If you look at "sleep"'s response: Dear Sir, You have found the right person to do the job. I am a representative of a company that has recently completed a large enterprise commercial project related to the development of a HaltLib.NET li
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by icky 18y ago
Read your Joseph Campbell before categorically dismissing half of all fiction in human history.
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by icky 18y ago
[SPOILERS and SHAKY HYPOTHESIS below] I think that if you look at the claims in the essay through the lens of Card's Mormonism, a very different picture emerges. Ender's celibacy until marriage is [ostensibly] normal in Mormon society, and
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by icky 18y ago
Yes, they work wonderfully. Start with simple, quick-to-solve and quick-to-check problems, since the vast majority of applicants can't actually code.
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by icky 18y ago
Start with simple and fast screens, then progress to more fine-grained tests. A simple programming question will filter out a huge chunk of the candidates (i.e., those not smart enough to code or to cheat), then email screen, phone screen,
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by icky 18y ago
No, thank you! You can take your good food and functional health-care system elsewhere!
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by icky 18y ago
If he's programming before he's potty-trained, it's all your fault. ;)
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by icky 18y ago
"16384 PB ought to be enough for everybody!"
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by icky 18y ago
The SBCL thing makes me wonder if there are any modern lisps that can be restricted to a 4GB (32-bit) address space, while still using 64-bit values and registers... Then, cons cells would take up only one machine word.
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by icky 18y ago
If you set up git's bash completions, and run through a git tutorial, you'll know enough git to work on your projects. The more esoteric subcommands are generally useful in specific situations and simply don't have equivalents in most othe
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by icky 18y ago
I am more interested in why they got this special dispensation...
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by icky 18y ago
See, this is why I post pseudonymously.

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