jeff_petersen

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by jeff_petersen 8y ago
The Caesar series was my favorite growing up. And the other city-building games that followed, like Zeus, Pharaoh, and Emperor. There have been a handful of indie games lately doing things in the same style, but nothing that seems quite pol
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by jeff_petersen 8y ago
> I think the major distros defaulting to GNOME is not going to end well I agree. While standardization has its benefits, I think homogeneity also has significant drawbacks. Unfortunately, rare is the Linux desktop environment that gets
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by jeff_petersen 8y ago
> I spent six months working at a Fortune 500 company building a system to give mid-level knowledge workers better access to their data. I've never felt as demotivated as I did when I realized that at the end of they day they were j
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by jeff_petersen 8y ago
> is it fair to say things are this way due to no gun control? I don't think so. Maryland isn't the most restrictive state when it comes to firearm policy[1], but it's a long distance from "no gun control." I&#x2
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
Bush and Trump both will be remembered for a long time. We’ve only had 45 presidents, the English learn about god knows how many insignificant kings in school, so the notion that two of your least favorite presidents will be forgotten in sh
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
Vaporware
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
In my (bigcorp) experience, its all windows all the way with macs available only to developers who have a need (iOS dev usually). And don’t forget that developers are a tiny minority of employees.
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
Yep his blog and books are great. Incidentally I started looking into Dart yesterday. Seems like a comfy language, more so than Typescript in my opinion.
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
I do, it's pretty much a necessity in an open office where I'm surrounded by several people talking loudly into several different conference calls on speakerphone. Right now I use Beyerdynamic DT770s because I heard they were very
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
Perhaps the AR-18 would fit, the IRA were big fans
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
Wasn't this actually an X-files episode? I remember a rich techie developing a home AI that Scully and Mulder eventually fooled by stealing a license plate it recognized and putting it on a different car.
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
Vimium is fantastic (and I say that as an emacs user). Does vimfx for Firefox have similar smooth scrolling? Last time I tried FF vim extensions I was disappointed that they all seemed to scroll jumpily by lines
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
> Contractors never say no. It's not their fault. They're not paid to say no. I'm a contractor, working for a consulting firm, and we say no all the time. Sometimes it's not a hard no, but more of a gentle nudge in a
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
> Not sure he would have wished its publication. The first half of the book is collected published works of his (columns, articles, etc.) including an introduction to P.G. Wodehouse's posthumously published and unfinished Sunset at
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
Great series of books, I'll second this recommendation
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
> Despite the fact that one could make a strong argument that these Mac fans are the reason Apple existed long enough to even make the iPod in the first place. There's an interesting pop poli-sci book called The Dictator's Hand
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
Homophobia isn't excusable no matter what position the target holds.
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
I'm a very happy injector user, nice close shave, minimal plastic waste. My only complaint is that the blades are expensive compared to double-edges (still cheap compared to cartridge razors)
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
Ah I see, I thought you were just talking about carbon sequestration
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
> CO2 capture is an area of active research and it's entirely possible that advances there will make Tesla and Solar City moot. I don't know how likely that is. Even if carbon capture comes through, the low hanging fruit of fos
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
I don't know too much about Star Wars, but is there anything that actually indicates Darth Vader would be politically right-leaning? The empire could very well be authoritarian-left.
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
> Rural areas vote red, urban vote blue. Don't let the electoral map fool you, there are very few places that skew overwhelmingly to one side. Many places may have a majority favoring one major political party, but the minority isn&
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
The space before the ? Is a dead giveaway
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
> if there is a "Competitive Bridge-Engineering Not really related to job interviews, but West Point used to do a bridge engineering competition (maybe they still do) where you downloaded a software package and had to design a brid
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by jeff_petersen 9y ago
I suppose the contrast is with JIT compilation, which has a lot of mindshare now so it's valuable to make the distinction
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> you (probably) can't patent the dodo You definitely can't patent a corgi, but they're still quite expensive. Considering that dodo breeding is probably nontrivial, they could potentially make a profit. Depends on how the
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
As with every Nazi comparison with the current administration, this is neither helpful nor honest.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
I have 2. One was a computer teacher in elementary school, she started a computer club for a handful of nerdy kids to do some BASIC programming. We never had enough time for it to stick, really, so it was just something to mess around with.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
I'm the evolved-into-a-software-being version of you, of course
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
That is a fair point. Exploration for resources (including non-consumables like hard-to-reproduce phenomena) certainly would still make sense

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