websterisk

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by websterisk 2y ago
I suspect that the issue here is that either the VP was insecure or that the engineer said it in an accusatory way (or both). In all likelihood, the engineer meant "that approach/idea/decision has risks we should consider.&qu
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by websterisk 5y ago
Depending on how large the company is, how it is structured, and how long they have been around, it might be the first time they've had to facilitate this exact transaction. It is possible that they are dealing with their lawyers to gu
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by websterisk 5y ago
The optimal mode of locomotion in an aquatic environment (at least for medium-to-large animals that find themselves neutrally buoyant) represents a similar evolutionary minima/descent toward a "fish-like" shape and anatomy. T
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by websterisk 6y ago
And any hands for Google Reader? I don't think any other tool has had that level of impact on my content consumption, prior or since. It was everything it needed to be and not anything more. RIP.
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by websterisk 6y ago
Speaking for myself; one of the most meaningful pieces to me was understanding the "why". For example, if you read a cookbook, it will tell you precisely "what" to do. A good cookbook or a recipe-like youtube video will
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by websterisk 7y ago
I think this is particularly true in the sense that woodworkers (like software people) can make much of their own tooling in their native media. Nothing I've seen on youtube is a better example of that than Matthias Wandel. Need to mak
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by websterisk 7y ago
Absolutely not. I suspect that the folks in admissions had more than enough 800's (from all walks of life) to choose from admission-wise. Their balancing act was trying to offer competitive scholarship and aid packages that would seduc
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by websterisk 7y ago
I'm glad this distinction got teased out. I find that it rarely does. When people discuss the merits of Diversity (capital D), the implication is that they are referring to the value of bringing in people from a variety of walks of lif
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by websterisk 8y ago
I read an article a while back, probably a couple of years (sorry, I can't find/cite). The observation in the article paints this "theft" in what they perceived to be a cultural distinction... Specifically, in the US (an
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by websterisk 8y ago
Barcelona is particularly awesome in this respect. Historically, it was a few distinct villages. Then during a period of growth each of those separate areas were connected by a modern (at least at the time) grid. Looking at this area on goo
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by websterisk 8y ago
I had the odd, but unique, experience of taking "Computer Engineering" and "Formal Logic" (a neurology/history-of-thought course) during the same semester. One observation from that experience is that there is a gre
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by websterisk 10y ago
...and phone number and physical address and all of the other "real-life" metadata that is commonly defined but disparately stored/leveraged/shared.