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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Note: MBNA Canada is owned by TD.com (one of the 5 major banks in Canada) and not the US MBNA. In my estimation, it's likely that they've looked at the numbers and are essentially 'firing' FF customers b/c they don&
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
REST, SCRUM, Agile, etc these are just cargo cults built from temerity (in the blindness sense).
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Investopedia were pretty sure they were: https://web.archive.org/web/20171230012928/https://www.inves...
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
A 'Canada' should be another word for an oligopolistic (maybe that's a word?) state. Mobile carriers - 4 control 98+ % of the market Internet - 4 control likely 90+ % of the internet market Banks - 5 control 90+ % of retail b
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
I think it's closer to: CIA -> CSIS (intelligence) FBI -> RCMP (federal police) HN, please correct me if I'm wrong!
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Have a look at Canada for your future. TLDR: Canada is about TWICE as expensive as PT. Mean house prices 2022may (CAD) . Vancouver 1.374 MM . Toronto 1.354 MM Median HOUSEHOLD income 2022apr: . Vancouver 71.5k CAD . Toronto 70.6k CAD price&
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Also, we need to show that the data costs, dev costs, training costs, maint, etc, and inference time costs are cheaper than human alternatives for some reasonable loss function, for most tasks. If you look at the FN and FP rates for many ta
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Let's rewrite the microservices wiki as bit: "A microdata architecture – a variant of the data-oriented architecture structural style – arranges data as a collection of loosely-coupled data. In a microdata architecture, data are f
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
I went to this site and all i saw was a Blank page.
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Solar cell tax coming soon. I'm sure there's already somewhere that does this already.
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
TLDR: Canada (Toronto in this ex) has much lower salaries, higher taxes, worse weather, but lower one bdrm rents. According to goog, Boston is comparable to Toronto so... Soft dev average salary in: . Toronto: 60k USD (77 CAD) [0] . Boston:
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Saved you a goog and pop-over: "FIDO ... is an open industry association ... whose stated mission is to ... help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDO_Alliance
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Bullet points for requirements and one "box, swimlane, and cylinder" diagram (with no standard elements) for analysis and design if you're on a 'strict' project. If we can't even decide on language A or B, CSV
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
plant needs to have a UI to manipulate the drawings and round-trip the adjustments back into the spec. This is required for any non-trivial diagram.
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Facebook made fake accounts scraped from their school athletic websites. reddit initially made fake accounts to seem like they had more users. Ashleymadison made fake profiles to lure users (I'm sure almost all dating sites do this). T
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
Steinbeck once said "a man has only himself as a meter stick" (paraphrasing). Given an accusation of bias, most ppl imagine that they have wronged someone (b/c they can only imagine doing so honestly). For narcissists, someth
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by RandyRanderson 4y ago
One of my favourite Go posts from awhile ago was a Go v Java/C where both beat Go handily in speed. The author then went on to declare the winner Go b/c Go used less mem than Java and had mem management while C didn't. This l
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
Jun 2021: Canada Is Now 50% More Dependent On Housing Than The US At Peak Bubble: https://betterdwelling.com/canada-is-now-50-more-dependent-o... The S&P was flat for 6 years following 2007 in the US. Doesn't seem
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
The Canadian economy is almost entirely dependent on real estate[0][1]. It's almost a certainty that the Liberal government would never hurt that sector in any meaningful way. I'm guessing that they're run the numbers and the
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
In the limit, every configuration file becomes turing complete.
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
Every current architecture is a good one, until there's enough support to replace it; it is then, clearly a poor architecture - always has been. More seriously, creating architectures in a systematic way produces 'good' archi
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
And I was just considering ordering a bunch of their gear. I guess I'll go with ring - what choice have I?
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
I understand your point. The article is about Java dev from a Java dev's perspective so your assertion "if I know Docker" is often not true for this class. As opposed to my assertion: "a Java dev knows one of {gradle,mav
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
To be clear, I think the authors of the browsers have in general done a heroic job. I'm not talking about the browser impl, I'm impugning HTML and CSS as UI specification mechanisms.
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
This is a great comment. I'm pretty sure every non-trivial website would be better specified (as opposed to HTML) in almost any measurable way (LOC, clarity, etc) in say raw opengl. Yes, creating a UI in an immediate mode tech would be
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
Answers to your questions: Yes, Yes, Yes, often teams use shells script, gradle or maven. The same config you'd put in the docker yaml or whatever would go into the maven or whatever config except that the devs would be familiar with t
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
"co-designer of CSS": right up there with "I invented anti-personnel mines".
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
They're coming for python now. Want to reverse a string? You simply need an abstract-factory-decorator-observer. The 'enterprise python' battle begins. Good luck.
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/ - low fees; easy to use.
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by RandyRanderson 5y ago
Does anyone else think Mark might have had a stroke? I'm actually concerned.

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