EnFinlay

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by EnFinlay 10y ago
I would disagree with this. Facebook definitely has no problem creating an endless stream of content with >5% ad density.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
> To summarize, the WeChat team found ways to be scrappy, compete with their own products, built features that answered cultural needs and emphasized group interactions and most of all they have relentlessly focused on creating a simple
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
For people who aren't professionally familiar with C or C++ it's an easy mistake to make considering how often things refer to "C/C++" like they are a single skill. Example: https://sjobs.brassring.com&#x
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Wasn't the lawsuit kicked off by Waymo accidentally receiving an attachment intended for Uber from a manufacturer that looked incredibly similar to their designs? Isn't that design proof that they were using Waymo's custom Li
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Many engineers are in the business of providing dopamine hits to users, most aren't in businesses considered "questionable morality".
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
You are wrong. We only ever got to space thanks to our personalities, our persistence, and ingenuity. Edit: Just to be clear, space is extremely hard.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Seems like a solid list of youtube channels that won't just give you what you already know. A little bit of feedback: > It’s this kind of entrepreneur — the disobedient kind — that we’d like to converse with over the pages of this
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
I'm far from an expert on art, but I would argue that "The Stanley Parable" is art. Ironically, there is also debate about whether it's a video game at all.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
> At this point simply not using AWS is a competitive advantage.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Living in Vancouver, I know several people who have/do work at D-Wave, and I am certain that they are not a company of shysters. There are a lot of smart people working to make the thing do the thing, and I think the majority aren&#x27
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
That sounds amazing. My car made in 2015 has a touch screen with a 0.5-1.5s lag, it's infuriating.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
> Remember that we should be willing to kill hundreds of people with self-driving cars just to push the technology forward even one week I will never agree to that. A negligent death is a negligent death. We are not on the same page and
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
> hard to prove now ... But they're real deaths of real people. That's a contradiction in my books. I don't want to get into a metaphysical discussion of what "real" is, but I challenge you to say that things th
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Best practices !== detailed designs Best practices are not 9.7 gigs of data, designs, and calculations. Edit: I am assuming that the 9.7 gigs was data, designs and calculations. Could have been the best cat pictures ever. I just don't
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
I dunno about all that. "For the greater good" "Ends justify the means" all come to mind. If it's theft, it's theft. If it's within the law to stop them from continuing to develop off of allegedly stole
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
This sort of sentiment is sexist, demeaning, and false.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
In this case, I think regulation serves as competition - either you get the money from the fare, or take a double financial hit from missing the fare and owing a fine. Edit: Also I disagree that discrimination can be solved by competition.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Breaking News: Love, Gratitude, and Hope are More Important Than Anything Else Today
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Where I'm from a taxi driver gets a fine if they refuse service to someone. Seems that Uber has that built in. Seems like it could easily abused for discrimination.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
I agree. This is less a description of best practices and more of a stream of consciousness about Lambda.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
So, anyone up for getting an Uber interview and using their laptop as a honeypot?
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
There are two options: 1. Everyone is lying about their experiences just for pageviews / attention 2. You haven't experienced the described culture first hand, and are rejecting something you haven't seen as "weird alter
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
> ‘white-hat’ hackers whose job is detecting any security breaches from ‘black-hat’ hackers. White hat hacker attempt to find and report vulnerabilities before black hat hackers are able to exploit them. Incident Response Teams handle d
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
I just want a loose leaf printed version of all the books I've bought through Humble Bundle.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Large text + overly verbose + two sentence paragraphs + huge images = a scroll bar so tiny, I realize I need to get back to work
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Most destructive troll ever.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Second time this has been posted. It's a cute idea but doesn't solve the underlying problem that most people need to simplify and give themselves time/permission to not be "succeeding" at all moments.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Exactly. Most developer jobs pay slightly over half the quoted amount.
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
Looks like they still are [1]. But the salary seems unbelievably high for the experience levels they're asking for. [1] https://ca.indeed.com/cmp/Zenefits-Development,-Inc./jobs/So...
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by EnFinlay 10y ago
It might be under control. I don't think your shooting computer analogy is quite right - the equivalent would be making selling houses illegal. This is like your computer was constantly restarting, so you unplugged the weird printer.

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