LargeWu

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by LargeWu 14y ago
And somehow, Twitter, Groupon, Instagram etc., have not yet figured out how to actually make money off of those 2 BILLION PEOPLE. And last time I checked, making money was the whole point of investing. Edit: Just to clarify the above, mak
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by LargeWu 15y ago
> Finally, 50% of any group are below average Not necessarily, but 50% are below the median.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
I hear this all the time from Best Buy sympathizers. The question I don't hear getting asked is "Why are they then buying from Amazon, and not bestbuy.com?" The reason is that Best Buy doesn't want its online business cannibalizing their
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by LargeWu 15y ago
The problems start at corporate HQ. I worked there as a contractor for a few years. Getting anything done there is a huge political struggle. When I was there, at least, B&M and dotcom were two separate concerns, often with conflicti
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by LargeWu 15y ago
Your customer isn't paying for the code you write, they are paying for a finished product that works. How much code you write should be irrelevant to them. In fact, one could argue it is far more dishonest to quote without testing since th
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by LargeWu 15y ago
They were originally going to call it the Distract-o-Matic, but I guess inPulse has a nice ring to it too.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
Just a heads up for those who only read the TL;DR: Please be aware that if you just put that single line of code in your initializers for your existing app, your app will break anywhere you are using update_attributes(). They do call it out
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by LargeWu 15y ago
No, I think you're missing the point. I took a pay cut a few years ago to take my current job. What I got in return for that cut was way less stress, a more fulfilling work life, more quality time at home, etc. When people say "There's mor
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by LargeWu 15y ago
There is a foolproof solution to this. It doesn't even require any time or effort on your part. It's this: Don't click on the link. Just don't click it. I'm not even going to speculate why you are so worked up over the fact that other peopl
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by LargeWu 15y ago
The assumption here seems to be that a user is interacting directly with the client. in that case i can see where HATEOAS has some benefits. I see far less benefit in using HATEOAS for systems that are primarily used within lower layers of
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by LargeWu 15y ago
For me, the 2 things that set off my bullshit detector about HATEOAS are these: 1. Everybody who buys into it, including Roy Fielding himself, has to constantly say "no, that's not what I meant" and "you're not doing it right" if a REST se
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by LargeWu 15y ago
"Obama Weak on Airport Security, Charges GOP Rival" sounds like the headline that results from this course of action.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
My advice to you: stop taking it so seriously. It is just meant to be a metaphor for one's skills evolving from the concrete as a beginner to acquiring the ability to think more abstractly as your skills improve.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
Exactly. I can see this being useful in, say, coal power plants which release a lot of water vapor, but also a lot of toxic chemicals. If one could develop a useful filter from this, could the burning of coal actually become a clean sourc
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by LargeWu 15y ago
Learning how to accumulate facts is a completely different problem than learning how to think about ideas. I think teaching children how to think about things is far more important than focusing on specific skills at that age, even if they
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by LargeWu 15y ago
It might be minimizing driving time, which would in fact give preference to right turns over left, since you often have to wait for left turns.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
There are probably processing fees and whatnot that make anything less than $10 useless or even cost them money.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
I assume that $16,000 would apply to each user affected, in which case that would be very unprofitable.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
We used knockout on a recent project and it has been a disaster. Maybe for trivial UI's it's fine, but for anything complex you spend a lot of trouble hacking around knockout's way of doing things, resulting in a completely unmaintainable
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by LargeWu 15y ago
It doesn't matter if a competitor can spring up overnight, because at the end of the day, is Drinkify really providing any value, other than that of fleeting novelty? I argue that no, they are not. Real entrepreneurs create value, not produ
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by LargeWu 15y ago
What you describe as an engineer would probably be called a technician here in the US - somebody with a relatively specialized skill set whose responsibilities are mainly operation or maintenance of equipment or systems.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
Here's my advice: STOP BEING SO GODDAMNED SERIOUS! You're 15. You will have your entire life to work. The whole point of being 15 is not having to worry about this kind of stuff. I'm not saying don't work hard, or don't be passionate. I'
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by LargeWu 15y ago
Also, it required a very specific hardware device.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
Thiel argues that the value of a BA from Harvard is almost ENTIRELY credentialing and signaling, and has very little to do with learning; and therefore, a BA from any school holds little value because it represents very little about what so
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by LargeWu 15y ago
Because writing well is really hard, and people don't realize that before they start.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
The real problem is that we have laws that are classified.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
I'm concerned what will happen when they run out of wells to drill. The area has seen an oil boom before, but nothing like this. 5 years ago the town of Stanley had about 1,500 residents. Today it has over 10,000, many of those in tempor
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by LargeWu 15y ago
I wish they'd focus a bit more on some of the usability aspects of their core platform instead of this sort of thing, which is useless to me. For example, I still haven't figured out how to use the web interface to edit something I posted
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by LargeWu 15y ago
If your code is that hard to test, it's also a sign that it will be hard to maintain.
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by LargeWu 15y ago
It depends on how much variance you normally have, and the size of the change you hope to measure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_power

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