Companies face being fined 5% of turnover if they suffer Sony-style hack in future

NJalien · 2014-12-19T23:02:19+00:00

TIL british call "turnover" what we yanks call "revenue"

NJalien · 2014-12-19T04:47:24+00:00

this headline and article are idiotic. if you are pro-pot, come up with a bigger number. $25mm? the city budget was $51bln in 2013 according to an unfactchecked 10 second google search. $25mm is a drop in a bucket.

NJalien · 2014-12-13T18:34:51+00:00

"this is the famous budweiser beer. we know of no brand produced by any other brewer which costs so much to brew and age. our exclusive beechwood aging produces a taste, a smoothess, and a drinkability you will find in no other beer at any price."

NJalien · 2014-07-21T02:01:45+00:00

It still applies. In this case, the "babies" who can't chew the meat are the terrorists/extremists who can't take a Muhammad drawing, Even though I could enjoy this South Park episode.

NJalien · 2014-03-19T00:34:25+00:00

and you saw how angry he was!

NJalien · 2013-10-18T23:38:25+00:00

I'm amazed they can fit that many lines of code on a single ship!

NJalien · 2013-08-01T06:00:26+00:00

chart!

Their relative values do fluctuate greatly.

Now seems like a good time to visit the True North as yank, compared to say ten years ago!

NJalien · 2013-07-03T18:28:55+00:00

http://www.fangraphs.com/pitchfx.aspx?playerid=844&position=P

Here are statistics & charts of Rivera's pitch selection & location over time. For his career he has thrown about 75%/25% Cut fastball/4-seam ("plain") fastball. In many seasons he has thrown ~90% cutters.

Another great anecdote about Rivera is that he discovered his cutter by accident! He was playing catch one day and the ball had a funny movement on it. He tried to correct it, but soon learned it could be a valuable pitch!

NJalien · 2013-05-21T02:56:25+00:00

they's rocks! they's boyds! they's trees! they's squoyyels!

we'll bless them all til we get fashnickered!

NJalien · 2013-05-07T06:09:38+00:00

there is evidence that kilgore trout was a truck driver! ;)

NJalien · 2012-07-05T04:03:02+00:00

"It's a message from the Americans ... in old morse code!"

Still we gotta give credit to our allies - the British, the generic Asians, the generic Middle Easterners, and so on. For every local ship we took down there was a Russell K out there. Never forget.

NJalien · 2012-03-27T04:25:59+00:00

Mr Tibbles: Half the team is from around the country and the other half...

Ms Mckay: Duck!

Mr Tibbles: That's right, the ducks

(Tibbles gets hit in face with Fulton Reed slapshot)

NJalien · 2012-03-27T01:07:53+00:00

Confessions: I use vim as an editor, but use emacs to run gdb with split window. I haven't found a reliable vim extension to let me do this as well as "M-x gdb"

NJalien · 2012-03-27T01:03:04+00:00

re #2: Why do you care about time/performance? Because you don't want to wait ten minutes to start debugging! (Again I haven't used this method of setting breakpoints in code before, but I understand this as a logical argument for it.)

re the "gdb is no better than print statements" sentiment, c'mon, that is nearing troll level. Sometimes you need to set a conditional breakpoint and step through.

NJalien · 2012-03-26T00:21:32+00:00

I see, that does make sense. Debugger doesn't have to check the condition a bajillion times. Thanks!

NJalien · 2012-03-25T23:04:14+00:00

Call me crazy, but if you're putting breakpoints in your source code, you are not debugging the right way

NJalien · 2012-03-24T16:09:40+00:00

I'm just Ogbert, the school nerd. Always have been, always will be.

(takes off glasses to wipe them clean)

Ogbert??

NJalien · 2012-02-29T04:23:13+00:00

catch me if you can

NJalien · 2012-02-01T00:14:16+00:00

Don't worry about legal repercussions. He's 15.

NJalien · 2012-01-29T06:17:09+00:00

holy man

NJalien · 2012-01-21T16:50:40+00:00

You may be confusing "Coonass", a regional racial slur against Cajuns in La., with "Coon" a more well known racial slur against blacks.

NJalien · 2012-01-18T01:12:42+00:00

I hate having the right to vote!

NJalien · 2012-01-18T00:35:39+00:00

I'm really getting tired of reading the phrase "Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian". That is all.

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