Xkcd: Ten Thousand

louiebaur · 18 days

Merriam-Webster claims there are two accepted definitions, of which yours is listed first.

sigpwned · 1 month

(*) unless the program you're debugging is a compiler.

Shadow_Jack · 1 month

there was no Internet

There was no WWW, but ARPANET and later Internet certainly existed in the 80's and had a dense population of SFF fans. SF-Lovers newsgroup and digest existed at least as far back as 1981. Google's archive goes back to May-15 1981

cyborg527 · 1 month

cited in the section immediately below the OPs link.

abahgat · 2 months

His point was not that it was a monumental technical achievement, but that it was a creative one

kcrobinson · 2 months

10,000 sq.ft is a a square 100 ft on a side. That's over a quarter of a typical city block (single story). That's a big ass minimart.

silentcrs · 3 months

way before google or yahoo

Yahoo appeared in early 1994.

dorkson0 · 3 months

Why did the dead baby cross the road?

Because he was stapled to the chicken.

mepper · 3 months

MD5 is 128 bits, that's 16 bytes

fmaasnt · 3 months

A vegetable is a plant or part of a plant used as food. Claiming a tomato is fruit, so it isn't a vegetable is like saying a square isn't a rectangle. All fruits are vegetables, many vegetables are not fruits.

quikjl · 3 months

Not quite a contrary argument. The question is not "does spending influence election outcomes?", it's "does the perceived need for spending influence political behaviour?".

quikjl · 3 months

Here's Levitt's paper. I'd love to hear comment from someone more skilled at this sort of analysis than I.

The conclusion that campaign spending has a very small impact on election outcomes may be true without fully countering the argument that campaign spending undemocratically distorts politics. The overwhelmingly widespread belief that campaign spending is critical to winning elections motivates elected officials and candidates to cater to the concerns of their donors over those of their constituents regardless of the efficacy or necessity of those funds.

hongminhee · 3 months

You need a better editor. Indent/Unindent should be actions distinct from insert/delete character.

sin666 · 3 months

Typically a package named <lang>-dev includes header files and tools required to build extensions for the language runtime, but which aren't required or supplied by the core language package or standard modules/libraries.

You can see a package's declared dependencies with apt-cache show. Looking at python-pip, you'll notice the above apt-get redundantly named python-setuptools, but did need to be explicit to get python-dev:

$ apt-cache show python-pip | grep Depends
Depends: python (>= 2.5), python-support (>= 0.90.0), python-pkg-resources, python-setuptools (>= 0.6c1)
$ apt-cache show python python-support python-pkg-resources python-setuptools | grep Depends
Depends: python2.7 (>= 2.7.1-1~), python-minimal (= 2.7.1-0ubuntu5)
Depends: python (>= 2.5), python (<< 2.8)
Depends: python (>= 2.5), python (<< 2.8), python-pkg-resources (= 0.6.15-1ubuntu1)
Depends: python (>= 2.5), dpkg (>= 1.14.19)

slaterhearst · 4 months

TIL Iran's population of 75 million includes about 20,000 Jews, the largest community in the Middle East outside Israel, and they face no restriction on their religious practice, though they must follow Islamic dress codes such as head scarves for women. They have one Jewish representative in the parliament under the constitution.

fap_on_it · 5 months

GoDaddy's revenues are in the $700-800M range, not multi-billions. Any business is hurt when a significant number of their customers leave.

EquanimousMind · 5 months

We need to be calling and writing our media reporters, not filling out do-nothing petitions that get ignored anyway.

FIFY

thetorpedodog · 5 months

He started out as a corp and securities lawyer for WSGR. He was an exec at $100M failure RealNames, and cofounder at Achex. He was not a VC until after TechCrunch.

B0TTiG · 6 months

I did not miss what you said. It obfuscates the real thing you are trying to describe. There is no need to behave as if karma is real, because it is not. Behave as if acting well to your fellow beings promotes your personal and communal wellbeing and you will discover that such behavior and belief is supported by fact and experience.

heybigpancakes · 6 months

Such sophisticated repartee! I am in awe of your command of the English language. Your bon mot is quite resonant -- truly the epitome of a biting rejoinder. This indisputable argument has left me crushed and humbled.

B0TTiG · 6 months

Karma is a concept from Hinduism and has nothing to do with payback in this life. The goodwill you receive and/or foster for acts of kindness and goodwill in this life is the real social force, not the superstitious nonsense of karma.

B0TTiG · 6 months

People are welcome to have their beliefs while I retain the right to mock them when their beliefs are superstitious nonsense.

B0TTiG · 6 months

Regard polite correct PM, rectify situation, acquire real life goodwill for being a good person and correcting the situation.

FIFY. In real life, "karma" is superstitious nonsense.

mardix · 6 months

So, when you think of not-ACID, do you expect (!A & !C & !I & !D), or !(A & C & I & D) ? "NoSQL" data stores will typically relax one or two of those attributes but not throw the whole thing out. Durability is probably the worst thing to relax if you want to store anything someone might care about.

heybigpancakes · 6 months

false arrogance

Nope. In science and technology there are actual correct answers. Bullshit doesn't cut it. If we require that you actually demonstrate the ability to comprehend and work with the fundamental concepts in the field, then you get to to keep working on mastering the field. If you fail to grok the fundamentals, then it's a poor allocation of resources to have you filling a spot that someone competent and interested would like.

Every degree should have weeder classes. Fail early so you can redirect and pursue something more fit for your interests and abilities.

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