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by TheGRS 10y ago
Maybe, though streaming seems to me like more of a form of free marketing for these publishers than anything. Watching a game being played several times over will probably turn into a sale for a lot of people (though not everyone). If you h
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Our company recently did a trial of looking for unconscious bias when we are making decisions, especially in terms of hiring practices. We all took a test to see if we had any unconscious bias toward gender and then discussed our results as
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by TheGRS 10y ago
Automate the Boring Stuff is also free online: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
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I can see the huge cost savings from doing it this way, you can print far smaller textbooks that aren't loaded with questions, you can grade assignments much more quickly and have one teacher do more subjects or classes. I don't k
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by TheGRS 10y ago
You should try the Go game. It may have some lasting power I haven't seen yet, but its not the normal Pokemon game by any stretch. The core gameplay is actually pretty boring once you've done it for a little while (i.e. once the i
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by TheGRS 10y ago
So I had an observation about AWS scripting that I'd like to share. I've been working on some AWS scripts lately for both personal projects and stuff we deploy at work, which means that I often use 2 sets of credentials. A lot of
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by TheGRS 10y ago
I'm not sure what ben_jones had in mind, but we've been doing a lot of pairing and mob programming where I work. I really enjoy it and it feels like the code review is basically just being done at all times (the reviewer is sittin
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by TheGRS 11y ago
This isn't so much an article as it is an excerpt from a book that is linked at the bottom. If you are looking for a pithy expose on the link between slavery, iPhones and environmentalism, you won't find it here, but the book does
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by TheGRS 11y ago
This is a variation on the idea that you need to show up every day. Send some e-mails, talk to your loved ones, write some code, cook dinner, go on a jog, etc. Being goal-focused helps a lot, but I think the secret is to always show up.
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by TheGRS 11y ago
Huh, haven't noticed that yet. This re-brand is so thoroughly weird in every way you could imagine. The original Uber site that I remember had a mark of professionalism and gave me a luxury limo vibe (though I knew it was just people&#
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The alternative is to change a majority of people's minds that this is something morally wrong with the world, make cases to supreme court and/or lobby congress and eventually turn the tide in your favor. Not really sure which way
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You got engaged over slack?
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I thought I just jumped in a time machine. This exact article and pretty much the same discussions popping up.
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Zappos, in the article at least, seemed pretty fine with how it was going so far.
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I think there's some good dialog here, but I wanted to offer my own experience as a volunteer (I've been wanting to get around to writing a blog post about this topic actually!). First of all, kids love Minecraft. And I mean LOVE
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Indeed, games are a neat way to apply the technology, but flying a space ship in Elite Dangerous is the same on an Oculus as it would be on your monitor. The VR headset may be able to improve things like storytelling, gameplay and interacti
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by TheGRS 11y ago
I'm a bit skeptical, maybe because I see the potential for some cool short-term stuff, but not so much long-term stuff. I can see how I would be entertained by this concept for awhile, maybe years even, but I'm not sure it would r
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by TheGRS 11y ago
I love that github reads the .ipynb files natively. So I just began using Jupyter for my own note taking on an EC2 free tier server, really loving it. Granted, I don't really do any data science stuff, but the wiki markup + the ability
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by TheGRS 11y ago
At work there's often new tools and processes being built and used and I've been noticing that many of my co-workers struggle to figure out the new stuff. Its frustrating to have them go back to old ways when we're in a time
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by TheGRS 11y ago
I had heard about this a few years ago and I find it fascinating. Entertainment being used for good! Its interesting how effective this particular show has been, so I have to wonder how effective those heavy-handed episodes of Family Matter
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by TheGRS 11y ago
I think one of the big takeaways from that article is that Winamp could have been Spotify, but AOL unintentionally/intentionally sand bagged it.
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by TheGRS 11y ago
I really don't like to marginalize others by what type of personality they are. This is yet another way of putting people into buckets so that you can more easily go about your day without thinking about it much. Before facebook people
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by TheGRS 11y ago
This is kind of just a long "how many toothpicks can you fit in the moon" kind of article...
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by TheGRS 11y ago
I always figured the other shoe would drop for companies like Uber and Airbnb. Their model works really well in a vacuum where they are not stepping on anyone else's toes, but now that they have scaled, their business model is starting
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by TheGRS 11y ago
Heh I was just about to say that we shouldn't conflate one experience to "all cops in the US", but then realized all of my experiences have also been in Washington, so maybe we just have kinder police.
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Really surprised they didn't shut down the thread sooner and I'm a little disappointed the devs didn't get a better "zinger" in there at the end, but major props to yuyichao for being a class act the whole way throu
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I'm interested if they changed the model on this too. The current model encourages lots of low quality videos instead of encouraging well-produced, high quality video. If this simply pays the content creators in the same way that ads o
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by TheGRS 11y ago
I was following the logic of this post up until this part: > In 2008, Dropbox hit a key milestone on the path to their MVP when they released a video demonstrating their product. Tens of thousands joined the waiting list. So actually, th
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One really nice anecdote from that response: > In fact, the freight rail system is so efficient that to some extent we've obviated the need for the Panama Canal. Many Asian container ships bound for Europe actually make port in Sea
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At first I balked at the idea of watching a movie in VR, but the more I think about it the more I like it. I could easily watch it while lying down on a bed for instance. It would need to be very high resolution however.

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