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by MarkMc 7y ago
Headline reminds me of this Dilbert cartoon: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25 A troll tour guide says, "Over here we have our random number generator." The troll places its hands on a slab of rock and r
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Programming time and time zones is difficult(twitter.com)
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Paul Tough's book, "How Children Succeed" [1] has a great section on how mother rats (called dams) can significantly counteract the stress of their offspring (called pups): "Scientists in rat labs are always picking up b
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Sorry I wasn't clear - I haven't committed to purchasing a Model 3, I've simply given a deposit to reserve my place in the queue when they start shipping to Australia in August. I'm still not sure whether to pull the tri
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Incredible that Google has been able to sustain almost 20% revenue growth for so long - much longer than most people expected. For the past 6 or 7 years people have been predicting that Google's growth would soon slow because: (a) The
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And Avengers Endgame has brought in $1.5 billion in revenue. If India focused on commercial satellite launches it would generate much more revenue and employ far more engineers than moon or Mars missions.
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Does Tinder really have that kind of leverage? Google could kick them out of the Play Store, and requiring users to side-load their app would cause them to lose far more than 30% of their user base...
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Simple question: Why doesn't Google prevent this? Eg. "To publish an app on the Play Store you must provide a clear way for the user to pay or subscribe in the app"
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Hospitals should record audio and video to systematically reduce accidents and infections, the way that data recorders have systematically reduced aircraft accidents. A few years ago I was severely immunocompromised and treated in an isolat
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I'd say failure to align financial incentives is a bigger problem than jealousy of colleagues in the staff cafeteria. Zoom has crushed Google Hangouts and is now a $27 billion company, yet the Hangouts team are still rewarded with swee
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The Fish Is Boneless. (Fishless, Too.)(nytimes.com)
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It's not really the size of the fine compared to total annual revenue or size of the war chest that matters. The correct comparison is to the boost in revenue over multiple years: Did the shady privacy practices increase Facebook'
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Interesting Features of the Dart Programming Language(renato.athaydes.com)
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Norway also has the world’s lowest recidivism rate at 20 percent, while America sees 75 percent of its prisoners re-offend within five years of release. [0] It's interesting that in the U.S. many people champion the power of incentiv
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McLaren College | Bangalore, India | Online Teacher of Software Development | REMOTE We are a small online coding school looking for an online teacher. You will be teaching mobile app development using Dart/Flutter and/or Java&#x2
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The 'One loop two arrays' example looks like premature optimisation to me. Going through the list twice is much easier to understand: let exampleValues = [2, 15, 8, 23, 1, 32]; let truthFn = (x) => x > 10; let truth
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That's great news! But please make this policy more explicit on the Sign Up page.
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I think Telegram is open source, so they could just fork it
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In 1984 Apple figured they could build a better general computer than anyone else, so they launched the Apple MacIntosh In 2001 they figured they could build a better music player than anyone else, so they launched the iPod In 2007 they fig
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Facebook Won't Launch Its Cryptocurrency Wallet in Its Biggest Market(fool.com)
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I've been programming mostly in Java for 20 years, and in the past whenever I picked up web development it always felt like a kludge. JavaScript was inferior to Java, CSS was frustratingly difficulty to lay out components, and HTML for
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Crapware is orthogonal to the Windows licence - if Linux had become popular with the general public then OEMs would have been just as happy to bundle crapware with their Linux boxes. You're right that all OEMs pass the Windows licencin
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Microsoft's previous success didn't just cripple their smartphone OS development - it also damaged their sales . Handset manufacturers like Samsung could see the exorbitant 'Windows tax' that ate into the profit margi
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The Gender Gap in Computer Science Research Won’t Close for 100 Years(nytimes.com)
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Anecdotes Aren't Data(news.harvard.edu)
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Female academic applications are going to the top of the pile(theguardian.com)
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Would there be anything stopping Google making this offer to users? "Tell us your Libra wallet ID to get YouTube premium for free!"
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Currently most online payments involve a 2% credit card fee. Will Libra lead to a significant reduction in this cost? If Libra can be 0.5% cheaper than credit card payments for consumers then it will become the dominant form of online pay
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Candidates don't often appreciate the unequal disincentives for the interviewer in making the wrong call. For the company, hiring one poor programmer is usually worse than rejecting 10 good programmers. So a coding test which reduces
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I agree that the candidate should be able to demonstrate ability to write code, but I'm surprised that the author is unable to find interesting, short, diagnostically useful problems that crop up in the course of his day-to-day program

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