tyree732

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by tyree732 11y ago
> A troll who comes after them and knows that they sue even when a case is backed away from (regardless of prejudice) will be less likely to drop the case at that point. Perhaps, but it also serves to deter future trolls from engaging Ne
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by tyree732 11y ago
My favorite of the wavelengths presented is radio, as right in the middle you see a bright radio source that I'm guessing is Sagittarius A , (probably) the location of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. https://en
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by tyree732 12y ago
Sure, three months is a long time to fix an issue, but what does Microsoft have to gain by taking longer to fix an issue of this severity than it believes it needs to? If Microsoft released the fixes when they were going to, and Google then
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by tyree732 12y ago
The Pepsi segment isn't integrated advertising, as Ira Glass notes: "And of course, feel free to pop open a delicious Pepsi as you listen to this next act, Act One. By the way, we are not getting paid for that at all." I&#x27
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by tyree732 12y ago
These regulations seem like a win for Bitcoin as a currency. Most of the clauses themselves don't seem so onerous for any company that intends on legally dealing in Bitcoin, the government gets its framework for dealing with fraud and
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by tyree732 12y ago
While that would be nice from a cleaning perspective, from an eating perspective that might make certain meals awkward to eat and prepare.
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by tyree732 13y ago
I'm having some difficulty getting competitors, with no indication of how long it will take to find one, and when I did find one, about 3 seconds into the game I was told I lost with my opponent having performed no moves. I feel like t
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by tyree732 13y ago
If I had to refrain from saying any joke which someone in the world might find hurtful, I wouldn't have very many jokes to say. Besides, in this case, he was talking about releasing pathogens upon, or lighting up with a flamethrower, h
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by tyree732 13y ago
That is not the same situation. With a politician, one source can contribute X, and another source can contribute Y, and both of their contributions influence the politician. In other words, if the politician loses a source of donations equ
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by tyree732 13y ago
This. Part of being a good communicator is understanding how other people communicate and being able to adapt your communication to their style.
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by tyree732 13y ago
Consider an alternate universe where Southwest Airlines has a worse reputation due to a variety of bad practices they've engaged in. These banner ads have the potential for pushing many hits describing these practices further down the
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by tyree732 13y ago
Sure, but it's not too difficult to run out of the materials necessary to usefully collect those energy sources.
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by tyree732 13y ago
So, that seems like a reasonable answer, but historically that wasn't sufficient for me. When I was an HSBC customer in college a few years back, I had disabled overdrafting because I did not want to receive overdraft fees and, in a pi
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by tyree732 13y ago
So getting to the first principles of your response, you believe that any interview where someone attempts to ascertain your technical abilities is a series of impractical challenges, regardless of the contents of that interview. That in it
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by tyree732 13y ago
Companies are chock full of asymmetric negotiations. Aside from obvious things like discussions with your manager, companies have all sorts of structured and unstructured power asymmetries.
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by tyree732 13y ago
Neither of us have statistics on that, so a yes/no battle here is pointless. I and many others find it to be a useful signal when someone demonstrates intense anxiety under pressure, you and many others do not. Agree to disagree.
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by tyree732 13y ago
I'm sorry to hear about how stressed you get during interviews, but unfortunately the stress you demonstrate during technical interviews is a useful heuristic when determining whether or not a candidate would be a good fit for a compan
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by tyree732 13y ago
He's a big fan of the C in the CAP theorem, but not so much the A.
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by tyree732 13y ago
According to wikipedia, 7.9 people per 100,000, so ~21k people, get Lyme Disease every year. Imagine if suddenly ~16k fewer people got the disease, do you think those people would find the vaccine terrible?
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by tyree732 13y ago
SqlYog does, not sure about other tools.
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by tyree732 13y ago
If Google doesn't pay Mozilla, Yahoo or Microsoft will. Furthermore, the reason Google pays so much money to Mozilla is not out of goodwill, but for all the revenue that Google makes off of the traffic the search bar generates. Google not p
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by tyree732 13y ago
A single percent performance gain for all Linux using systems sounds massively worth it to me.
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by tyree732 13y ago
Your response I think only enhances the point parfe was making towards the end. She probably could afford most of the perks her jobs provides, but for some reason a nursery gets singled out as some outlandish thing. The fact is that they ar
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by tyree732 14y ago
So what you're saying is that C lets you write it on your own. In fact, and this might sound crazy, but you can do that exact same thing in C++, it's just that people don't because the C++ standard library provides plenty of performant and
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by tyree732 14y ago
I've recently switched to having all of my energy come from renewable resources, it isn't all that difficult to do at this point.
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by tyree732 14y ago
What exactly are you trying to imply with this quote? It seems like you're suggesting that Schneier's quote may become infamous one day should 256-bit key cryptography become crackable, which it might, but you say nothing as to how Schneier
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by tyree732 14y ago
While that may have been a general policy, I always just assumed that was Apple preventing Flash from becoming a part of the App Store ecosystem.
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by tyree732 14y ago
And once they get around to adding std::make_unique (or you add it to your codebase yourself), you won't even need new there either.
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by tyree732 14y ago
Well good thing the author of this post bothered to talk to anyone before throwing this out there on the internet.
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by tyree732 14y ago
How? If Instagram charges for anything or adds ads to their interface people will shift to different photo sharing service, plain and simple.

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