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by timb07 8y ago
The book is so good it deserves to be listed twice. :)
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by timb07 8y ago
One of the best pieces of advice I've received as a sysadmin was "Don't just do something, stand there!" :)
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by timb07 8y ago
Do you mean the 3.6 GHz band? The auction commenced a week ago: https://acma.gov.au/Industry/Spectrum/Spectrum-projects/3-6-...
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by timb07 8y ago
In a properly-operating democracy, politicians require votes to be elected; money helps, but isn't sufficient. The 1% may have 50% (or more) of the money, but they only have 1% of the votes. The 99% (or rather, those members of the 9
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by timb07 8y ago
And just to prove I did study Latin, I actually remember the end of that poem: "atque in perpetuam, frater, ave atque vale"
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by timb07 8y ago
Well, that's the result. The change is not to interview for "cultural fit" but for "values alignment".
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How to disrupt the brogrammer vibe with 1 simple change(atlassian.com)
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by timb07 8y ago
I studied Latin in school, and we studied Catullus 85 and 5 (which is mentioned in 16). We discovered there was a book of English translations of Catullus in the library, which we used to "help" with our homework. I'm pretty
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by timb07 8y ago
"Trimester" is a word commonly used in English in relation to the stages of pregnancy.
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by timb07 8y ago
The Mercury compiler is written in Mercury, which is syntactically derived from Prolog. The original compiler was bootsrapped by stripping the non-Prolog parts from the code and executing it on NU-Prolog. The compiler first successfully com
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by timb07 8y ago
Alternatively, get ready to leave. But before you do, push back against the founder. The next time he pushes directly to master, immediately revert the commit, but cherry-pick it over to a development or staging branch instead. Then notify
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by timb07 8y ago
Even further OT: I was good friends with Frank Calegari's older brother (also a mathematician) at school, and used to play bridge with Frank at university. I'm not a mathematician but I do sometimes read articles when they're
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by timb07 8y ago
> How do I edit the code in my preferred syntax? Do I need an editor plugin? > When working on the project, each developer runs forest dev, which mounts a virtual filesystem in the local directory using FUSE, called dev/. > de
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by timb07 8y ago
"My hope is that python will serve as a "gateway drug" to other languages like ruby, ML, C/C++, SQL" Your inclusion of SQL in that list really shows you have no idea what you're talking about.
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by timb07 8y ago
Nice reference to Karel Čapek's "R.U.R." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R. ).
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by timb07 8y ago
> We can't predict the future. What tosh. Of course we can predict the future... and sometimes our prediction is correct. Data compression works by modelling the data stream and predicting the next symbol based on that model, and th
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by timb07 8y ago
Is the Boeing team that worked on the schedule for the 787 Dreamliner involved in this schedule?
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by timb07 8y ago
President Bush also proclaimed "Mission Accomplished".
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by timb07 8y ago
Embarking on a complete rewrite just to make deployment easier seems odd -- deploying Python code might be trickier than code in some other language, but it's not that hard.
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by timb07 8y ago
From a quick look at the Sagefy code, it seems you've written your own web framework, including your own database layer. Was there a particular reason you didn't use a framework like Django?
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by timb07 8y ago
The generally accepted definition of autism spectrum disorder is that in DSM-V. This physiological test is compared against ASD diagnoses based on DSM-V, and based on that comparison, the accuracy of the test (for the given sample tested) i
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by timb07 8y ago
> I think it’s more likely to never get off the ground It's a tunnel, duh.
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by timb07 8y ago
The point of The Boring Company is to reduce the cost of tunnelling by digging narrower tunnels (designed for custom vehicles, not regular trains or cars) and using an electric tunnel boring machine.
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by timb07 8y ago
"While RMS has undoubtedly contributed much to the FOSS community" RMS would vehemently disagree with you: he founded the Free Software community, and has nothing to do with Open Source Software.
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by timb07 8y ago
"Excess electrons bubbled off as hydrogen gas, thus storing that energy for future use." Just wow.
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by timb07 8y ago
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwvgeq/an-incompl...
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by timb07 8y ago
How do you debate designs that haven't been built yet? Historically, nuclear power plants take years or decades to build, and at great cost. The risk to investors is so high that they only proceed with some kind of state-funded insuran
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by timb07 8y ago
And there's a black button with black lettering which lights up black if you press it which tells you not to press it again.
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by timb07 8y ago
"Mosquitoes and ticks and the germs they spread are increasing in number and moving into new areas." Why? I suspect that climate change is a factor, but how do we know whether that's true and the CDC isn't allowed to rep
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by timb07 8y ago
If China is a threat to Australia, maybe we shouldn't have sold them the port of Darwin...

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