RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 10y ago
> In my opinion. If anything is destroying journalism, it's the fact that half this country does not care for fact vs fiction. Why is this a problem that needs to be solved though? A big part of being free is being able to choose wh
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Sure, but sometimes being rude is what it takes to be truthful. You can quote a lot of Firefox users who are saying this - follow this path, and they will no longer use Firefox. This isn't some idle threat, it's just what people w
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Why would betting odds displays escape from Enterprise Java? Seems like the kind of thing that would get it in spades for regulatory and CYA reasons.
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If it's specific apps, usually it is just bad coding. 'Enterprise Java' style coding where performance is not even tested for, let alone designed into the algorithms. Usually culprits are things like downloading multiple data
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Well going off common sense, it seems likely that Obj C and Swift definitely would not be supported on purpose.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Google's embrace-extend-extinguish destroyed XMPP. They made their chat system XMPP compatible for a short time which caused many people to swap to their solution. When they ended support, most users simply stopped using XMPP.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
If you show most of your customers a factory slaughterhouse chicken being killed and packaged, or a grass-fed truly free-ranging chicken being taken inside and killed and packaged, they will actually have a worse reaction to the second one.
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That's not how many people see it today. A video of a chicken being killed and de-feathered by any means causes a very harsh reaction in a large percentage of the population. The use of the organic label is to distance people from this
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Judging by the post here, 512kb buffers seems like a good bet?
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If you think of it as a 'guilt tax' it makes a lot more sense, and also the direction these stores need to go to improve profits. It's never really been about the food itself: it's been about selling a positive self imag
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
> There are some industries that are natural monopolies, like water and electricity, because it's incredibly expensive to build both last mile connections and core infrastructure. Is this not beginning to change though? Setting up a
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Those ships were ordered a long time ago.
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Successful people manage many other people, and successful CEOs have many successful people under them. Successful companies also spend large amounts of money on lavish office space, employee morale boosting functions, and other perks. So t
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No single guy with no family to support has to fear failure though. It only becomes a fear once you have a wife and children to support - but that's why it's generally accepted that you first get financial stability before startin
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Nobody mentioned quicksort. You're assuming quicksort, which is what the issue is. Many languages don't actually use quicksort, fyi. The practical performance considerations of just quicksort itself also change depending on how yo
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Right, that was my point in the following two lines.
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I think this is a great manifesto that would produce amazing software. I'd also never hire anyone who used this manifesto unless I've personally known them for years, and even then, the number of developers I'd trust with thi
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
In Cairo, most of the roads during rush hour are so packed with cars that you can't drive faster than 5km/hour. Those packed roads with slowly moving cars have the lowest accident rate in the country. So yes, you can definitely re
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Well you can blame them, but it won't solve anything. MBAs are filling a business 'need'. Professional management and all that it entails was going very strong before MBAs even came onto the field. If you removed all MBA prog
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Practicality of management (as opposed to actual good management). This isn't really the fault of MBA, but rather the fault of office politics. In a large modern corporation with a constantly revolving door, everyone moving their caree
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
I think you're confusing TDD with unit testing. You can unit test without TDD.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Remember the mind map craze? For a few years, educators everywhere wanted you to do almost all learning by drawing circles with words and connecting them. For many people, this type of visual link between concepts allows them to learn far f
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Could be a big part behind companies re-purposing common words? If you give it a unique word, it becomes it's own thing. But if it's something like "Yoga", then you will always have to refer to it as "Facebook Yoga&
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Except Google does police the auto complete, which makes the one's they don't police stand out. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0... Article is from 2013, and they do
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Definitely! But the majority of the deaths are concentrated in a tiny geographic area. It's important to note that fixing that tiny area would have a larger benefit than fixing the rest combined. Also the dust from those mine dumps ca
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
For some extra context here, a lot of this fine particulate matter is not from burning the coal - it's from decaying exposed mine dumps. The wind in Johannesburg blows the fine sand on top of the mine damps into the communities living
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Except we've redefined what "the level at which a human can subsist on". Go 50, 100 or 200 years back and look at the kind of life most citizens lived. It was far below what even a person without a job today has - and a perso
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
I like that vouch goal, sounds great! Makes sense about releasing more stats - how about internally then? Could you take a look at the number of pro- and anti-YC stories that you've turned the system off for and see if it seems unbiase
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As duncanawoods says, that seems far too convenient. Is there some list available of which discussions have had the 'overheated discussion detector' turned off on them? Then we could see the number of PRO-YC vs ANTI-YC articles an
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Ah right, that makes a lot of sense. I was probably just being naive there. Probably best to discuss YC related topics on different forums.

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