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wheaties

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About wheaties

Just another programmer, going to a place for programmers to read things that interest programmers and perhaps post a comment or two. I've got a blog: http://staticallytyped.wordpress.com/ but it's nothing special.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #44842199

    So a perfectly good plane that someone could enjoy and fly sits languishing at an airport because the owner, who now can't fly or doesn't want to, won't sell it? I get the attachme…

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    Comment #44812796

    Why would they remove Habeus Corpus? "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require…

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    Comment #44261146

    I love all the innovation we're starting to see here. AI can't write everything but it can do so many tedious tasks.

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    Comment #44015022

    You just defined the role of COO at most companies. CEO has always been about sales, brand, vision, (capital raises,) etc. It's the COO who keeps the company moving.

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    Comment #42832188

    TL;DR - We think it's essentially gambling and not fit for a long term portfolio. I agree.

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    Comment #42612833

    National security has always beaten First Amendment (and many other rights.) I love watching TikTok but even i know how this will shake out. Now the question will be, who will rush…

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    Comment #42574126

    I've been told there are two places which value experience: 1. A large organization where they have enough people with decades of knowledge to recognize what that is worth. 2. A sm…

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    Comment #40686666

    Good to see this happening. I remember sitting down with a Google engineer who told us that even though our ad code looked suspiciously like we had copied it from Google itself (we…

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    Comment #39697116

    I feel this. I got the "you look older than your profile pic" comment during an interview last year. That one was fun. Dude wanted to know if I could even code anymore.

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    Comment #39246493

    This is a regulatory issue. There are far better lighting used in EU and from the same auto manufacturers. They have pushed for these in the US but the regulations are slow.

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    Comment #38961735

    No, you might not and here's why. I worked at a place that told us we'd be PiP'ing people on our teams that had been selected for us. The condition was some would be on a 2 week, s…

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    Comment #38418056

    Hedge fund, data analysis/BI, any marketing department of any DTC company (soap, food, etc.) or any research group located in and/or around DC. Tons upon tons of jobs are basically…

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    Comment #38291572

    I/O, backups, and such. Just having the instances cost money. Using them costs even more!

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    Comment #36125758

    You are prompted to confirm an external group being added as admin. Someone purposefully ignored it. Good luck. You're trying to do the right thing but if they lawyer you, remind t…

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    Comment #35874008

    Why you should never use any translation automation blindly, reason #6153671...

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    Comment #35263031

    This is how the effects of Magnetorheological fluids work with sound and vibrational damping. Glad to see they have figured out a corrolary with EM waves.

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    Comment #33982951

    ...and people believed him! Hopefully this goes on FB, Reddit, and every other social media thing it can.

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    Comment #32314707

    This is why adding language features needs to be carefully thought out and explored to great lengths. Sadly C++ never got that memo. Here's hoping Python remains "simple."

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    Comment #31162788

    Alan, nice to see you on the front cover of HN. Life has been good for you post-Arena, eh? Most of those critical of what you wrote haven't had an article like this happen. Don't s…

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    Comment #28539885

    Mathematicians? No. Computer Science? Yes. If you want to group to math, you're going to have to compete with the likes of Euclid, Reiman, Bayes, Newton, Gauss, Cantor, Erdos, Ferm…

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    Comment #28511340

    6!? They used an N=6 to make such a bold claim? If I had ever thought about that as a sample size for any scientific research my professor would have run me off campus.

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    Comment #28351514

    This should be something added to an AWS Security Hub check, e.g. do you have Route53 pointed to an unregistered domain. Otherwise, I can't find fault with AWS at all. Now I have t…

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    Comment #28201746

    I don't have the time to read and research exactly what happened. I see you settled for a large sum. Thus, I don't believe you. We've all been burned by companies that claim one th…

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