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by whye 17y ago
I wanted to learn a little more about the company, so I clicked on the "about Mahalo" link at the bottom of most pages. http://www.mahalo.com/mahalo How many other web companies serve ads on their "about" page? It seems like a really odd
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by whye 17y ago
Well, that's funny, I also worked in the amazon for several months at a time, away from the internet (in eastern ecuador). I can't say I missed it -- no, I couldn't browse the web, but I also didn't have to deal with email and cell phone c
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by whye 17y ago
why do the votes on this obscure website signify anything?
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by whye 17y ago
Most of them were in high school or junior high, and too busy being teenagers and worrying about the things teenagers normally worry about. All they are asking for is the same opportunity their parents had. You know, those people who actu
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by whye 17y ago
> the authors wanted to design away some common developer errors, which average developer cannot overcome. Even the best programmers make mistakes. When writing for an embedded platform, mistakes can be exponentially more costly and di
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by whye 17y ago
"And yes, Java (and Windows) was designed to use low-skilled labor." This is an assertion I've seen repeated many times, but never with anything to back it up. Do have any evidence for this, or is it just a feeling that you have? Based on
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by whye 17y ago
What's funny about it?
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by whye 17y ago
I'm not sure I'd describe them as healthy, exactly. They do place a strong emphasis on using good ingedients, but portion sizes are huge -- a chicken burrito is more than 1,000 calories. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21838237/?pg=6#TDY_20Wo
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by whye 17y ago
Chipotle's specialty, San Francisco burritos, aren't Mexican, they are northern Californian :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_burrito
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by whye 17y ago
No. It is much, much more sophisticated than that. See this message by Mike Pall, LuaJIT's author for the details: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/58908
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by whye 17y ago
On a computer, you have to also be concerned about error propagation and efficiency, and that can take what might be a very beautiful, simple solution on paper and explode it into a big ugly mess in code. That doesn't mean it isn't fun, but
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by whye 17y ago
I am 34, have used one at work for about one year, and love it.
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by whye 17y ago
I have used an exercise ball instead of a chair for the past year or so and really like it. I tend to have a lot of nervous energy, and being able to bounce on the ball while still seated at my desk help a lot, without having to get up, wa
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by whye 17y ago
Toyota has had a long history with circular looms. Sakichi Toyoda invented the circular loom in 1906. The profits from his automatic loom business were used to start his son's automobile manufacturing company.
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by whye 17y ago
That is correct, but the game does use it for a lot more than just scripting. ps: Lua, not LUA -- it's the Portuguese word for moon, not an acronym :)
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by whye 17y ago
Much of World of Warcraft's user interface is written in Lua, and I'm not sure I'd classify WoW as an obscure example.
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by whye 17y ago
This is a very neat idea, but the lack of support for latex, or any other way to create mathematical expressions is a bit of a letdown.
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by whye 17y ago
The first hard drive my father bought was 5mb. It connected to an Atari 800 through the Atari's 4 joystick ports. It's price was somewhere around $2000. That fact is utterly meaningless when comparing the price of HDs and SSDs (which are
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by whye 17y ago
Yes, I'm sure he's doing quite well, although I don't think it's a given that he measures his success by the size of his paycheck. As far as a positive portrayal of an engineer -- I think it kind of undercuts the message to have an actor ta
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by whye 17y ago
What I don't understand is why Intel didn't use the real Ajay in their ads. Here's someone who they are supposedly honoring as a rock star, and yet when it comes to the ads, instead of using him, they hire an actor. How big of an Intel st
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by whye 17y ago
I'm not sure I'd be so smug. http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/9611/01/e.coli.poisoning/ http://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2006/september/
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by whye 17y ago
According to the article the bacteria can also contaminate surfaces in the kitchen. For instance, if you form hamburger patties on a cutting board, even if you wash the board with soap and water, there may still be live bacteria capable o
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by whye 17y ago
I don't think that's Craig Newark's metric for success.
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by whye 17y ago
How many Acorn offices did these guys actually visit in total? How many times were they able to get advice from Acorn staffers, and how many times were the filmers reported to authorities? I totally agree that we need more investigations l
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by whye 17y ago
if you are female.
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by whye 17y ago
It seem to me like you are trying to jam a square peg into a round hole. Trash collection, at least in major cities in the US, is done either by some branch of civic government (for example New York's Department of Sanitation), or by a pri
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by whye 17y ago
Just because a corporation is a person doesn't necessarily mean it's a US citizen. Maybe it should get deported? :)
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by whye 17y ago
You have it backwards. prevalence of Klinefelter's syndrome (XXY male, with symptoms): 1 in 1000 men prevalence of Transsexual men ("biological" men who identify as women): 1 in 30,000 to 1 in 4,500 (source: Wikipedia, but the references fo
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by whye 17y ago
Lua started out as a configuration language in 1993 and since then has evolved into a more general purpose language that is cleaner, yet more flexible and powerful. It has gotten much better with time. for more information, see: The Evolut
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by whye 17y ago
San Jose's MLK library lets you bring drinks and food, with some restrictions. There is also a decent coffee shop on the ground floor. The down side is the large number of homeless hitting you up for money, the fragrant bathrooms, and som

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