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Also Amazon sells an MP3 collection of "The 99 Most Essential Chopin Masterpieces" for $5. I bought them because they were on sale for $1 -- that was the start of my real appreciation for Chopin.

I've started collecting recordings of different performances of some of my favorites. It's interesting to listen back to back and try to pick out the nuances of how different performers interpret the same score.

They do that to slow or stop traffic when there's debris or an accident ahead.

I'm curious how you got that. Are you sure "a" is on /dev/sda1? What OS and FS are you using?

$ du -sh /tmp/a

4.0K a

$ tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 | grep "Block size"

Block size: 4096

"I’ve interviewed people with a good deal of experience in industry, with degrees from prestigious universities, who have founded startups or done any number of impressive things, who just melt down when asked to write a simple piece of code."

Doesn't this just show that the ability to write code in an interview situation is a poor predictor of future performance?

See also patio11's own IAMA Salaryman: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9g79p/i_am_a_japanese_...

How about "martythemaniak"?

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> 1 point by onetimetoken 23 hours ago | link

> I was just trying to empasize my point. Just out of curiosity, how would you go about identifying me?

http://searchyc.com/empasize

Here's an alternate explanation for the phenomenon (linked to from the blog post): http://prolost.com/blog/2010/2/15/memory-colors.html

The origin of the idea is to preserve skin tones and other "memory colors" (stop signs, taxi cabs), regardless of how the rest of the scene is rendered (bright or drab).

So it's not that film colorists are intentionally making everything teal and orange (or actually maybe the lazy ones are now that's it's become something of a cliche.)

That was the second or third item I got too.

VMware Server (formerly GSX) is actually free as well.

Keyword affinity for news.ycombinator.com:

hacker news: 1700.0x, whois: 25.0x, google analytics: 19.0x, google voice: 14.0x, tiger woods: 7.4x, avatar: 7.4x, brittany murphy: 4.6x, amazon: 1.9x

So Google thinks Hacker News readers 4.6x more likely than the average internet user to search for "brittany murphy"?

I wonder how accurate this stuff is. It'd interesting if pg (or anyone else with a site large enough to show up) could confirm/deny the accuracy of the results...

This is another cool one, the MotoCzysz Ep1c: http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/08/motoczysz-releases-pics-o...

They entered in the Isle of Mann TT this year, and probably had the fastest bike in the zero-emission class, but ended early due to mechanical problems.

"[T]he national AMA top speed record", ie. the fastest a motorcycle in its class has gone in an AMA timed event -- not necessarily the fastest any electric motorcycle has ever gone.

If you really want to stay in your current position (ie. you have a strong desire to contribute to the goals of that organization), another option would be to negotiate reduced hours for the same pay (say, 20 hours/week).

Depending on the organization, you might be able to recruit some part time volunteer or intern help to pick up the slack.

Then use the extra time for side consulting and/or working on a startup.

That is certainly not an argument that IBM's actions are not "hurting America"

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:5jpzoD4xfiQJ:www.microp... -- google cache of the "report"

Take a look at the "extract fields" feature in Splunk for an example of a much nicer interface for this kind of thing, although Splunk tends to make really ugly regexes.

Google Search Appliance? http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa We have a couple of those where I work - they seem ok. Way better than the search function that came with our stupidly expensive "Enterprise Portal".

Reminds me of the escalating bumper sticker wars between the Jesus fish stickers and the Darwin fish (with legs) stickers... recently I've started seeing "Jesus fish eating a Darwin fish" stickers. I'm still waiting for "Darwin fish eating a Jesus fish eating a Darwin fish".

I can't wait to see Microsoft's meta-meta-response.

Needs controls to play/stop/pause, and a volume slider please!

I also hate having my right-click menu hijacked. Please re-think that...

I think you could modify scuttle or pligg to do that in an afternoon or two...

Can employees?

I agree. Among other things, it allows you to easily substitute head or tail for cat when building up a pipeline to work on the output of large files.

"But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."

That's comforting.

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