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TheTaoOfBill · 1 day

Ask them "what don't you like about working here?" I often phrase it as "what's your favorite thing about working here, and your least favorite thing?"

The goal at this point is to find out if you'd like to work there. So you should find out things that you know you would like or dislike about a workplace. "What tools or languages do you use?" "What kind of training does the company offer?"

mcandre · 2 days

I'd also recommend arc (Hey akkartik! Didn't know you were on reddit too). It's very clean and, while not perfect, produces some of the prettiest lisp code I've seen.

As a side benefit, you'll be one of the experts in it, because almost no one uses it!

roger_ · 4 days

The search feature looks for posts that match certain criteria.

What's the point of a search feature? To help you find what you want. Are these posts what people want? If they aren't, then having them in the search results is bad. It's like saying "the point of reddit is to allow comments", and therefore allow spammers to do what they want. I'm not accusing /u/frontbot of spamming; I'm just saying that it has a deleterious effect to search results.

jipe · 4 days

1 out of 3 people who are not affiliated with any religion still pray or meditate.

Whoa there. That's lumping together two incredibly different things. We know that meditation causes physical changes in the brain, so it's not surprising that atheists meditate. It would, however, be interesting to know how many atheists pray. I would not be surprised if someone -- I'm not accusing the author here of doing so, but someone will do this -- uses this number as the percentage of atheists that pray.

Edit: escape close-paren in the link. Sorry about that.

roger_ · 4 days

That's why I posted! To tell people.

While your suggestion is useful, it's just a band-aid. You want to not be injured in the first place.

FaberCastell2 · 5 days

The speed of light is 299,792 km/s. Say, for the ease of calculation, 300,000 km/s, or 186,000 miles/s

How long does it take light to travel 50 million miles?

50,000,000 miles * 1s/186,000mi * 1min/60s = 4.48 minutes.

Voyager 1 is the furthest man-made object from earth. It's currently 17,937,846,073 km away. What if we had a mirror on it?

17,937,846,073 km * 1s/300,000km * 1min/60s * 1hr/60min = 16.6 hours.

Edit: ah, Melchoir is right -- I forgot to account for the return trip. A mirror 50 million miles away shows us 9 minutes back in time; Voyager 1 shows us 33 hours.

asi_es_la_vida · 6 days

Because it happens in it's own self-contained window...

This is the default behavior, yes. If you want it in a terminal, run emacs -nw or, equivalently, emacs --no-window-system.

...I always expect it to behave like a text editor with a point and click GUI...

It does have menus and such, but it's definitely not the recommended way of using it. Not every function is in a menu, and things that are aren't always easy to find.

...I've always found the commands to need obscured keys combinations to use.

It does take some learning, but once you get past that, you're largely good to go. Some -- but in no way all -- things make more sense than vim -- to go to the next line, press <C-n>; to the previous, <C-p>; forward a character, <C-f>, backward a character <C-b>. Certainly more of a mnemonic than hjkl. ;)

It's definitely an advantage for vim to be installed everywhere. I have some sysadmin friends that use vim for that exact reason. If you switch to new computers a lot, that's a large advantage. I'm lucky in that I use a small number of computers I'm allowed to install things on.

Ultimately they both do the same job.

I agree! I don't understand when people actually get angry that someone chose something differently! If you like vim, and it does what you want, that's fine. It's not like you're using Notepad.

asi_es_la_vida · 6 days

In Emacs, to type a command's name to execute it, press <M-x>, type the command's name, then hit enter. You can tab-complete the command.

To read documentation for the command, hit <C-h f>, then type the name. Again, tab-completion works here.

To search for documentation, press <C-h a>, then your search query.

TheNativeRaver · 7 days

Source.

Naga14 · 9 days

And back and forth, according to another pg article.

niggahdoe · 9 days

Free chicken isn't a job. bitparity was talking about his or her favorite assigned task at work, not the favorite thing about the job.

MartianCube · 12 days

Beat it in 7 days. Nice upgrade system.

jsh · 12 days

If you wear [high heels] regularly, she advises visiting the chiropractor or a naturopathic physician...

And here you lost me. I'm a fan of barefoot running too, but it's vital that evidence be science-based. Neither chiropractery nor naturopathy is science-based.

This entire article cites only a single source, and is "reprinted with the permission of: Bottom Line Publications/Daily Health News. This smells like a PR piece put out on behalf of the source cited.

Rogerup · 12 days

The limited lives sucked a lot of the fun out of this game.

depr11 · 12 days

This is pretty cool, and I could see this helping out some kids.

Why does the map rotate? It's very hard to click on states while it is moving. If you want to make things difficult by having the map upside down, just have the map upside down -- don't spin it.

sic_transit_gloria · 12 days

The song was released two and a half years ago.

agehayoshina · 13 days

I'd really like to see this more than four seconds at a time.

drQuirky · 14 days

Your comment in the upload:

and bar the fact that i literally have no idea how we are gonna mount drums on a unicycle, we are a few small steps away from a unicycling band :)

You could get a marching band snare drum and use that. The problem would be wearing it high enough to keep away from your legs, but low enough to still hit it.

r0Lf · 19 days

...I just tried that, but it doesn't seem to work.

When someone's looking at this post, it's very hard to help. Try posting something like "I tried this: [INSERT_CODE_HERE]; I expected this to happen: [STUFF_THAT_SHOULD_HAPPEN]; but this happened instead: [STUFF_THAT_HAPPENED]". It's very very difficult to guess what didn't work, or why it didn't.

mepper · 22 days

Is Barnes and Noble really stupid enough to think that in 2012 it's possible to effectively censor anything?

So you think that, because Barnes and Noble can't get rid of any information, they should carry anything anyone chooses to print, no matter how objectionable?

rev_bird · 27 days

It'll also cost me two months' rent to move out and break my lease agreement...

If you find them a renter to take over your lease, will they agree to waive you breaking the lease? It's worth asking -- the worst they can say is "no".

LukeHasAimbot · 27 days

It's not outrageous that longer-necked giraffes could reach more leaves, and thereby have more time to mate. Sure, female giraffes are shorter -- that fact seems to check out -- but that doesn't mean that evolution is false. Giraffes can also use their necks to feed above the reach of other animals. We don't know why it was evolutionarily useful, but those are not bad guesses, and certainly not disproved.

The "maybe they were too proud to eat grass" statement is ridiculous. Do grasses give the same nutrients as leaves? Are they as plentiful where giraffes are?

Let me paraphrase the cardiovascular system argument: giraffes couldn't have evolved their "complex blood pressure regulating system".

Why couldn't they have? Might it have taken a while? Sure! But that doesn't disprove evolution.

And the article ends with a claim of missing links. This is easily disprovable. Searching "giraffe taxonomy" leads to this page with a discussion of its evolution. Also, the wikipedia page for the giraffe's biological family has links to many of its members, including some with pictures of fossils right in Wikipedia: Honanotherium, Bohlinia, and Mitilanotherium, for starters.

This comment took me less than twenty minutes to research and write up, using freely available content. The inaccuracy of the blog post you linked is indefensible. (This is not a comment on you, but on the blog author).

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