pmikesell

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by pmikesell 7y ago
Yes - I just meant that we're going to see a ton of comments here from people who want to let it be know that they think Uber, Postmates, etc are super evil and everything the government can do to shut them down is what they deserve. I
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Not the point of the story, but he didn’t do it though, right? It was probably this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Sort of, I guess. But it’s also the idea that most people receive a lot of information passively as a result of whatever ads are shown to them on tv, YouTube, Facebook, etc - so all that money goes to the volume of propaganda pushed out pro
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by pmikesell 7y ago
You can absolutely fake this. There’s a huge difference between coming up with and implementing something vs understanding it enough to be convincing. Have you actually tested this out?
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by pmikesell 7y ago
“twelve different ways to spell the same damn thing” Sorry, what does that mean?
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by pmikesell 7y ago
I secretly suspect this is everybody, and the people who claim to be coming up with real solutions in their sleep are back justifying what happened when they had enough time to sleep well and felt nice.
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Because that’s also what a brain is doing. The thoughts of a housefly may not be very apocalyptic, but there’s an evolutionary path from there to humans, which definitely could be.
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by pmikesell 7y ago
I worry that tech workers may be under-informed about what a union may mean. A union can be in many ways similar to a corporation with its own power structure and demands. Just 4 examples from my time in a union shop: 1) Pay raise and p
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Have you ever worked a unionized job before?
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Why? I guess it's because some interpreted languages are also compiled? "Compiled" traditionally means "not interpreted", or rather "compiled to machine code".
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by pmikesell 7y ago
That would remove rental units from the market and further increase cost of living for folks who can’t purchase. What would be the positive effects?
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by pmikesell 7y ago
>>> If you made a viable investment in a property and are currently renting it out, wouldn't rent increases just need to equal inflation in order for you to maintain the same level of profitability? Not necessarily - taxes on
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by pmikesell 7y ago
This is common. Most places use their revision control system as backup for their source code and take backups of their database. This makes sense because the source code holds no state. Why would you back up the server? What would you do w
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Well, Linus is one of those people: https://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3 >> I happen to believe that not having a kernel debugger forces people to think about their problem on a different level
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Hey - good point! What does that even mean? I think , from reading that abstract, that they’re claiming it causes drug prices to rise and lower the overall rate of drug use. If they don’t mean that, then I have no idea what that’s supposed
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Good point - this was information leakage that, even if you had traded on it - would not be insider trading.
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by pmikesell 7y ago
... I'm talking about before that. Netscape went from 90% to 6% once IE started bundling on Windows. Firefox "taking over like crazy" is a later comeback.
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Netscape Navigator was something like 90% at one point. Netscape fell down to single digits against IE and then started climbing back up. That's the point at which the chart in the article begins. That's what I'm referring to
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Can you explain this a little bit? Isn't there a big issue right now between India and Kasmir? You're saying it's actually under the administration of China? I'm sorry if this sounds naive - I guess I have no idea what&#
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by pmikesell 7y ago
I'm a technically minded person. I've been using web browsers since NCSA Mosaic. I switch browsers probably once per decade (mosaic -> netscape navigator -> firefox -> chrome). At the time I started using Chrome IE was th
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by pmikesell 7y ago
I used to work a hard labor job. People got injured. I got injured more than once. Some people died. It was part of the job and we knew what we were getting into in exchange for money. It was the best way we had to make a living. I don&#x27
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by pmikesell 7y ago
```--max-line-length=120``` passed to flake8 will switch it to 120. Use another number for a different length. Things like max line length should be something your org or your fellow contributors decide on, not something dictated to you no
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Is it possible for you to figure some idea out that could be your last chance moonshot for this company? Maybe it’s better to go out with one last boom or bust push instead of slowly dribbling away? Best of luck to you - sounds like a tough
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Everything you say is true, but I also remember every time slashdot would publish browser usage percentages it was something like 70% IE. visible perception did not match reality, even then.
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by pmikesell 7y ago
I’ve never heard of spacious but it’s something I would have totally used. It sounds like a great idea.
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by pmikesell 7y ago
What I mean is, at least in the US it is defined as an arc minute at the equator, not just any great circle.
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Also at the equator - the earth is not a perfect sphere.
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by pmikesell 7y ago
Yes, or 1 << 31, for example.
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by pmikesell 7y ago
I don’t think this is a great approach. You’re selecting for good talkers. There are many great engineers and coworkers who don’t do well on these types of verbal psychological games. Folks are given all sorts of interview advice about lead
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by pmikesell 7y ago
It sounds like this was email addresses only, and they're very shady about how they acquired this information in the first place. "The real question that the researchers and Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned?, want to know i

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