JCzynski

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by JCzynski 9y ago
As someone who also worked there, the official company line internally is a suspiciously specific denial that does not actually deny the main accusations I had heard previously. I consider it just as plausible that Yelp squelches negative r
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by JCzynski 9y ago
What is the value of Whole Foods without its pricy image?
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Before you hit enter Bing gives him as well, with a headshot.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
I will communicate cryptographically with people using C, so no.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
>How so? I can't think of anything I know about IT and my profession that I couldn't learn from open free sources or experience. That's irrelevant to the claim being made. It's not education or knowledge that's i
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by JCzynski 9y ago
If you'd checked the article, you would see that actually he's solidly in favor. But yes, it's basically "represent a quantum computer of this size", which we legitimately can't do classically beyond a certain
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Holy mortality, Batman!
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by JCzynski 9y ago
>The average American believes that the richest fifth own 59% of the wealth and that the bottom 40% own 9%. The reality is strikingly different. The top 20% of US households own more than 84% of the wealth, and the bottom 40% combine for
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by JCzynski 9y ago
It uses wealth as a measure of inequality, which is an instant sign that it's not written by someone who has thought about the problem and tried to honestly change minds. I'm about to start a first job at one of the big programm
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Working Effectively With Unit Tests is quite useful. It's focused on Java but the advice given applies well beyond that.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
When this happened with radio we created NPR. Now we need NPN. It's a public good, not a private one, and so should be funded publicly.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
As it is said on Tumblr itself: "This Blue Fucking Hellsite"
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Ugh. I wish no one would do this, so I could auto-form-fill things faster.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
It's perverse that this article is talking about AI figuring out price discrimination and somehow manages to turn that into "and this will be terrible for the poor". Price discrimination is _wonderful_ for the poor. Extract t
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by JCzynski 9y ago
That can't be right. I basically don't eat fish because it's too bland. Salmon's a little better than white fish, but it's all just a vehicle for whatever sauce you put on it. Chicken at leasts tastes umami.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
That abstract looks completely consistent with the submitted title. I don't see any reason to change it.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
If suddenly we had a black box containing a superhuman intelligence and no details about how it worked, then absolutely, we could not control it. For human minds we have something similar, but the box isn't totally black; we've
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Polls were accurate in both those cases. Media coverage of them was wrong, but the polls were right.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
Don't worry. 4chan has already prepared their opposing-British-Orwellian-government outfits.
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by JCzynski 9y ago
I didn't read much existing codebases and started doing it myself. I probably stuck with it because vim does visual highlighting of TODO/XXX/FIXME/etc., but I definitely picked it as a searchable "I'm not goi
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by JCzynski 10y ago
Another recent update, with a lot of common features: https://austinstartups.com/an-updated-joel-test-for-2017-315... His list (with its diff): -1. Do you use source control? +1. Is your source control effective f
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by JCzynski 10y ago
Not really. The Kochs put some money into the tea party (not ideological libertarians) and some small-government think tanks, but the Libertarian Party and most of the people who'd call themselves libertarians aren't really connec
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by JCzynski 10y ago
Precision is totally compatible with deliberate ambiguity and playfulness. As examples: Esperanto tries very hard to be precise, but there are playful neologisms, like "gedormi", which conjugates "dormi", "to sleep&
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by JCzynski 10y ago
AirBnB has been subject to even more complaints from neighbors and competitors than Uber, though.
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by JCzynski 10y ago
Reading what they actually did (or accused of doing, technically), it's not shady at all.
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by JCzynski 10y ago
This seems entirely appropriate and not fraud. For a flat rate, you're charged based on a somewhat longer, non-ideal route, rather than the optimal route which you'll take if everything goes well.
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by JCzynski 10y ago
I agree that the quiet working environment is still important, and the research that suggested the open office was better has largely been superseded. (Google, who started the trend, has moved away from it.) But this generally provides a mu
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by JCzynski 10y ago
No, it's working as intended.
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by JCzynski 10y ago
In the American political climate, the only people advocating something like traditional liberalism are the libertarians. And libertarianism is, roughly, exaggerated liberalism. I know personally I identified as a left-libertarian and then
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by JCzynski 10y ago
"A breath of fresh sanity" When in doubt, portmanteau the idiom.

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