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by AdamSC1 9y ago
I'm not a developer but I do serve as an adjunct professor for some technical courses at a local college. I had some students ask me the same thing this semester and so I tried to really dig in to the different offerings and these are
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
While I love the detailed growth article, I've been disappointed by Grammarly recently. It used to do a really good job fixing my notes, but I feel like it's detection ability dropped off a cliff recently. I've had some piece
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Ask HN: What software (desktop or SaaS) can you not live without?
2 points by AdamSC1 9y ago|2 comments
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Yeah, looking at the stackoverflow model would be good. It's also worth noting that the anonymous nature of this will probably drive down engagement. Look at Quora, people use it solely to build their personal brand. Right now people w
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
One of the most fun theories I've heard came from a friend of mine. He believes Satoshi hasn't been found because there isn't a Satoshi, but rather that it was a code name for a major research project. Creating, designing a
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
The reason some people are complaining about this chart is that the weighting of the sources they use seems to bias towards new technologies. They aren't listing this based on a single metric such as 'jobs in this programming lang
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Ask HN: What first inspired you to work at or build a startup?
2 points by AdamSC1 9y ago|0 comments
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
This is just one man's opinion but you may want to revisit the approach. I don't think this article is as strong as the interviews you've done in the past. When you are interviewing you help remove some of the bias and really
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Oh I hadn't considered the statistical advantage here. You do lose out on a lot of human bias in the research process, but you also create blind errors that are hard to validate. I know in my work there is plenty of times I run analysi
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
You're right these systems are currently flawed, and may remained flawed. But, the same is true for all systems. Don't get me wrong I agree in theory that every company should not retain any customer information - I work for one o
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
To be clear, I think you're right that no tracking is better than trying to protect data. However, it's important to understand that 'anonymization' is very different than the practice of "Differential Privacy.&quot
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
I'm unclear - how is this different than an eCommerce system (say Shopify or WooCommerce) that had a plugin to accept Eth? Is it just that the registrations are handled in contracts too?
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
I'd have said not a chance. I dealt with him a great deal in a previous business, he is an individual who is absolutely reputable. The kind of person where had he asked to borrow a decent sum of money, I'd have probably wired it t
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Had no moral right. Did he have a legal right? That's more complicated. (Still don't think he should have)
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
No. If a company let you store world of warcraft cold and took some of that gold they'd go out of business, but it wouldn't likely have straight forward legal ramifications unless their terms of service had very clear expectations
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Terrible move, yes. As for legality, that depends on jurisdiction. Cryptocurrencies are not recognized as a legal tender currency in many areas. In some areas they are, in other areas they are considered an asset like a stock, in others a c
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
I knew Mohland and the DogeTipbot project pretty well. He did have a few employees mostly working in customer support. He was a stand-up guy and a strong advocate for the Dogecoin community. People are talking about the fact that he liquida
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
To be fair "Executive" means "A person or group having administrative or managerial authority in an organization." Seniority of the product manager role depends on a number of factors. Sure, most FB product managers are
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
Considering how much institutes pay for journal licenses or the $20 - $50 I pay for a single article, I don't have much of an issue with $8 a month to find the right article. Not to mention, you can still find articles for free if the
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
And employees complain today if they don't have a fridge stocked with free Jamba Juice!
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
More that half the browsers I experience crash or freeze on a constant basis, and yet Chrome seems to handle it in significantly more cases.
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by AdamSC1 9y ago
I'm really hopeful for this. The world needs a new browser engine, there is dwindling competition in this space and time and time again I find myself dissatisfied with browser offerings. I've tried every obscure browser out there,
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Clearly you have never faced the wrath of a small town town-council member who has the ability to ratify by-laws and knows everyone in town by their first name! I pity the high-priced lawyer who thinks he can battle small towns. It'd b
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Right? This is an odd choice. Google just built their massive new campus in Waterloo, and University of Waterloo is one of the best engineer schools and computer science schools in the world, but they build this an hour away in a market tha
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
So there is the version of "anonymized" that most companies currently use which is as you say 'depersonalized' - they remove your personal information and think it is safe, but data is still tied together in unique recor
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Wow only 30 links, that is both impressive and horrifying. I have very few tweets < 200, but I think you can find 30 outbound links in my first 50 posts since most of my use for it was sharing interesting articles. Can you imagine combin
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
The zip code was intentionally not anonymized because it was seen as acceptable to release, and that is part of the issue of anonymized data. US Zip codes serve around 7,500 per code on average (US Census 2010) which is different than commo
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
This article fails to take into account that time and time again we've seen that 'anonyimized aggregate data' is never truly anonymous. In the AOL anonimized data leak there were plenty of individuals identified: http:/
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
You're asking a question about how your company should continue on in its legacy when you haven't even started it yet. Just get started. Over the span of your working lifetime the approaches to this are going to change a great dea
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Disclaimer: I work at DuckDuckGo and this is on our company blog at spreadprivacy.com At DuckDuckGo our overall goal is to raise the standard of trust online. To do that we've focused heavily on search, but try and support organizati

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