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by B-Con 11y ago
Just skied for the first time in years and the resort didn't even have attendants checking passes. You just put your pass in your left pocket and when you got to the front of the line a turnstile would admit you.
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by B-Con 11y ago
> it then produces a delay if the ad can't be downloaded, rather than silently skipping it. I've seen at least two other popular video sites over the years that had this symptom. (Can't remember them, maybe Hulu 6+ years a
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by B-Con 11y ago
Seems to me that it's more about what opportunities will arise to take advantage of higher speeds. Most services aim at the typical consumer, general public, so until the general public has high speed access on average there will be fe
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by B-Con 11y ago
> Why is it that so many people (such as this author) use participation rates as an indicator of equity? It's easier to chase metrics than fix problems. Any many are deaf to the possibility that equal treatment would not yield equal
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by B-Con 11y ago
You stream from the content source straight to the device. Google is only involved with the content if you stream it from Google services (eg, YouTube, Play).
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by B-Con 11y ago
Without knowing the experiment details (number of trials, ratio of people laying vs telling the truth) we don't know if 50 is actually significant. What's the curve of success for participants assuming random guessing (in line wit
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by B-Con 11y ago
As with many things, I think time spent is best a balance of the two sides (quantity vs quality). Quantity means little if you're constantly distracted, and quality means little if you don't have enough to warm up the engine.
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by B-Con 11y ago
I wrote a bit of code that generates a random number that passes the Luhn test.[0] It was one of those random things I did in high school when I was learning to program. [0]: http://bradconte.com/cc_generator
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by B-Con 11y ago
> Oh, and remember that Chrome on iOS is not Chrome at all, but Apple WebView, which on iOS8 is supposed to be the same as Safari. That’s because you are not allowed to install other rendering engines on iOS. What exactly does this mean:
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by B-Con 12y ago
> I see so many job applications that are exactly a laundry list of achievements, and nothing about what the applicant could do for me. Seems like to me that the unspoken implication by a lot of employers in how they conduct the hiring
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by B-Con 12y ago
> I'm not sure what value this adds over charging with wire in terms of functionality. Not sure if it's adding functionality but rather convenience. I think the goal of "charging furniture" is to pick up a collection
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by B-Con 12y ago
But many trusted ones are, and most importantly most of the ones a user interacts with are legit. If a significant portion of the domains a user visits on a new TLD are shady, they may just write it off.
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by B-Con 12y ago
You make it sound like every non-existent product was a failure, at that many were press-release driven. But companies do try weird things just to see what sticks sometimes. > (remember google glass? Yeah, it really is gone, it made no s
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by B-Con 12y ago
> But it wasn't the right thing Given what they knew at the time it was the right thing to do. That was the point.
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by B-Con 12y ago
If for no other reason: We would probably be surprised and saddened to see how much software abuses the longevity of "temporary" files and being able to persist them across reboots.
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by B-Con 12y ago
What you're describing is "homeschooling" used as code for "no schooling". Both I and many of my friends were homeschooled. In the circles I was in, most homeschool parents were ambitious and committed to their kid&
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by B-Con 12y ago
I believe that most people agree the Left tends to attract idealists. While that has advantages, it also has disadvantages. Many extreme viewpoints are born out of what people wish were true and nothing else. If you dare say something that
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by B-Con 12y ago
I'm nowhere close, roughly 10:30 to 7:45. But judging from e-mail and other activity, I think half my team is shifted about two hours earlier.
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by B-Con 12y ago
> Between 2-4% of requests can’t be served via our caches, and there are users who always need to be served by our main (uncached) application servers. This includes anyone who logs into an account, as they see a customized version of Wi
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by B-Con 12y ago
It's mostly before my time, but they used to be a prominent tech journal, started in the late 70s and were fairly popular in the 90s. In my head I picture them as a small company, not just "some website". $1m in revenue doesn
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by B-Con 12y ago
Yeah, I am in the US market. My impression was that impressions were much less popular campaigns to run. But that's really an aside, and I might be wrong. :-) My point was that (by my understanding) an ad aimed at generating clicks or
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by B-Con 12y ago
There are different goals of advertising. Brand awareness and purchase oriented (I forget the technical names). Most online advertising has revolved around driving purchases, with brand awareness only establishing even a non-negligible onli
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by B-Con 12y ago
And note that one of the companies mentioned by the OP (Google) is very up-front about screening for "culture fit". Sometimes people get hired and then get very unhappy with their "fit" in the company or the way things a
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by B-Con 12y ago
> Since it isn't impacting most people beyond a mere rare inconvenience Most people. The reason no one is pushing to change it is that it's hard to lead a big effort with lackluster support. Very few people feel any impact at a
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by B-Con 12y ago
Because it's an agreed upon widely used standard. Making standards and getting near-universal buy-in is hard. Tweaking them is too. Since it isn't impacting most people beyond a mere rare inconvenience, it's hard to convince
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by B-Con 12y ago
> Am I the only one that finds the MS Windows ping more useful for quick troubleshooting that the Linux/Unix variants? If you can read the output, or just recognize the difference between successful and unsuccessful lines, it works
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by B-Con 12y ago
> memorized the equation so I could carry it around with me in my head and play with it. If m and a were big numbers, what did that do to f when I pushed it through the equation? If f was big and a was small, what did that do to m? How d
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by B-Con 12y ago
> I guess the only website I can think of that allows comments and is super-popular with the general public is Facebook, but since it's sorta-non-anonymous, people don't spill hatred all over the place. That's actually a v
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by B-Con 12y ago
> I don't mean to belabor the obvious here, but do you consider HN a "large Internet community?" No. I'm talking about the largest 30 or so Internet communities.
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by B-Con 12y ago
> One thing I sincerely hope reddit will do with the new injection is to increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board. Often the advice given is "you've got to find the smaller subreddits" and w

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