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We haven't exactly spelled out the terms precisely, but the spirit of the wager is that self-driving cars will be involved somehow. Certainly public transit could be part of a mix of transportation options, but I wouldn't win if s
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I have a bet going on with my wife that our 1-year-old daughter will never take driving lessons when she grows up.
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Two options for how a driverless car without human controls might handle these sorts of hand-off scenarios: 1) It hands control to an out-of-car human driver, similar to how military drones and driverless trains are operated now. 2) It turn
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I had a situation where I asked for a certain salary and they said it was out of the salary band for the job title. The solution was to change the job title to one where the salary was in-band.
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I'm more familiar with HSMs (Hardware Security Modules), which are larger devices used to securely store and manipulate cryptographic data by certificate authorities and so on. But the security requirements are similar, and HSMs are de
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The closest equivalent I can think of immediately is Amazon Glacier, which is intended for 'long-term' storage where they take care of transferring the data as necessary to preserve its accessibility. Obviously they're thinki
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1) MitM on TLS requires being able to issue trusted certificates for any domain. That means you either own an already trusted certificate (which basically means you're a state-level actor), or you can install a certificate on the victi
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Yes, this conflict exists. On the other hand, if a large gap appears between an employees' salaries and their market rate, that increases the company's turnover. Turnover is very expensive, somewhere between 6 months and 2 years o
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She says right after that it was for a prescription. In this case, the doctor prescribed her some medication, but didn't administer it at the hospital. In Canada, medication dispensed through pharmacies isn't covered by our provin
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Netflix already has local boxes on ISP networks that act as a local cache for customers on that network to ease the load on the ISP's peering connections. A similar architecture could handle that fanout for live content as well.
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I have no idea really, I only have my own experience to go by. But it sounds like you're really being underpaid. That's very low for a developer unless you're still in school or something. I know that I made $52k as a co-op s
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I wish Amazon would switch to a 'provisioned throughput' model for ELB like they have for DynamoDB, where you say what level of throughput you want to support and you're billed on that rather than actual traffic. Then they ke
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Just putting this out there that I personally make >$120k as a developer in Ottawa, and I doubt I'm all that rare seeing as there's people at my company with a more senior job title than I have. I don't think Shopify being
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Using something like Chameleon can get you up and running in a very short time. Literally, it took one afternoon for me to get our app running on Chameleon. True story. I actually did it without management approval on the day they said &quo
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In this metaphor, all code (new or old) is a liability and the revenue/value stream derived from it is the asset. As a developer, you're trying to maximize assets minus liabilities. It's okay to take on a liability as long as
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In software, there's a whole industry around this: we call it SaaS and/or cloud services. And in fact, it's basically what it means to be a 'services' company. Your customers are paying you to move that liability I
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One of the important lessons you need to learn is that code is a liability not an asset! All else being equal, from a balance sheet perspective having more code puts the company in a worse situation. Your job as a software developer is, rou
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If you want something that works now, there is Chameleon, the project this is based on: http://chameleonproject.org/ Unfortunately, it seems the project's maintainers have mostly lost interest in the project (last push
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I know, right? When my wife mentioned this, that was the first thing I said: there are plenty of fields where the research has life-or-death consequences and they use control groups. Education, by comparison, is low stakes. In medical resea
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My wife is a science-educated high school teacher, and as part of getting her B.Ed she had to do a literature review. She was alarmed by the lack of rigour in education research. Almost all the studies she found in education journals were p
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The premise of "financial independence" is that you save enough enough money and reduce your expenses enough that you can live for the rest of your life on your investments. Whether you choose to retire or not is up to you, but th
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I really don't understand why this post says that "mocks are a smell". For the last few years I've been mostly a Java developer and I've settled on a style of using a very mock-heavy testing style focusing on unit t
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Earlier this year I was was laid off from a startup that went bust. We failed to find a market that could support us, and the investors lost confidence and pulled the plug. It was the prototypical startup failure story. Here's the thin
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It's for Solidity, a language created by the Ethereum folks for writing smart contracts. https://ethereum.github.io/solidity/
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In the United States maybe. Elsewhere, public school systems seem to be able to deliver a high quality education at a reasonable cost to the public. In Ontario, Canada, the public spent $23.6B on education in the 2013-2014 fiscal year. That
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Here's a chart of housing prices over time in Canada, adjusted for inflation: http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Rabidoux_h... In their index, housing prices were about 100 in 2000 an
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Read this like Linus Torvald's comment about how Linux "won't be big and professional like gnu" comment from its early days. I'm not saying Redox is the next Linux. But big things come from small beginnings, and goo
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Anyone able to give a compare/contrast here with other cluster management systems... Apache Mesos or Kubernetes, for example?
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In general more space between you and the airbag is safer. You want it to be fully inflated before you hit it. But they're designed to inflate in the time it takes a typical person to impact the airbag. Basically all you need to do is
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You commit your issue database to the same repo as your code and track it alongside your code. Then you just need a tool to manage the database for you, and there's a few tools out there to do this: http://ditz.rubyforge.org

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