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   by abalone 7y ago

   This doesn't answer the question. That is exactly what Square Capital does (perhaps PayPal too).
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   by abalone 7y ago

   Stripe is really coming after Square. Square Capital is an extremely similar product (prequalifies you & autopays based on your payment volume). Square has a platform / payments SDK but if you look at the Github repo it's a di
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   by abalone 7y ago

   Uh, PVTL's market cap is $3.73B. Isn't that one hell of a discount? Wouldn't shareholders sue? Can someone explain this please? I feel dumb.
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   by abalone 7y ago

   You left off that it’s also the company that sold you music, movies and TV shows to play on your iPod and iPhone. This is perfectly consistent with that winning strategy. iPhones are now payment devices so why not sell a superior, well inte
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   by abalone 7y ago

   I would like to understand this better because WeWork has a lot of open positions right now. Is it all a front? Much of this article seems to focus on it not having the margins and network effects of Apple, Facebook, etc. Devil’s advocate:
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   by abalone 7y ago

   Not sure who you're arguing with, as the post you're responding to literally only addresses sequestering. Offsets alone are not a solution to the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change. They offer an easy way for CO2 emitt
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   by abalone 7y ago

   Just to summarize (warm up those downvotes...): * “almost certainly more” than 84% of stripe’s emissions will not be sequestered because it’s “financially infeasible” * no mention of stripe’s actual carbon footprint * talk of startups and t
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   by abalone 7y ago

   > Now, I’m not sure that Apple has thus far triggered that kill switch. But they can do so at any time. This is just scaremongering. Apple has not, in fact, triggered a "kill switch" or "locked" anyone out of using
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   by abalone 7y ago

   Fun fact: this is not the first time Yelp has done this. I recall over ten years ago they tried exactly this feature as a way to monetize listing phone numbers as part of premium business listings, or something like that. They would charge
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    by abalone 7y ago

    The main gripe I have with this analysis is it weds the short-term sprint cycle with customer exposure & feedback. It then argues that, well, we can't let customers change their minds every two weeks and Big Serious Things take 20
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    by abalone 7y ago

    You’re comparing getting decapitated by a truck to an array overrun, which might be a sign your analogy is strained.
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    by abalone 7y ago

    Let's analyze Tesla's statement here, because it's useful training in intellectual self defense: "Our data shows..." Note the use of the keyword data . This appears frequently in Tesla statements. It implies certai
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    by abalone 7y ago

    > For example, if you're doing text classification then tfidf+svm is a solid first thing to try This is screening for specific domain knowledge (text processing) not general programming aptitude. That's ok if you want specifi
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    by abalone 7y ago

    > I have found pair-programming with a dev on a current problem you have in your codebase to be the best litmus test. This has its drawbacks too. You're biasing towards familiarity with your code base's specific tech stack. G
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    by abalone 7y ago

    Improvement doesn't mean making it harder. SAT questions don't get harder every year (ideally). They're just different. It takes effort to come up with something different and novel though. Most places don't. Maybe that&
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    by abalone 7y ago

    Maybe you should start a coding interview prep course...
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    by abalone 7y ago

    Can you give an example problem? I wonder how rigorous non-algo challenges can be inside of an hour. Or how you would “get a sense” of CS fundamentals without algo tests.
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    by abalone 7y ago

    I think this is good for Square. Maybe not a good reflection on their previous, scattered product strategy but they appear to be getting more focus on fairly horizontal services for SMBs. Caviar was always a bit nichey for them. I’m trying
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    by abalone 7y ago

    Being exactly of those people (experienced but would have failed algo screen and had to brush up), I can confirm it would have false negatived me despite years of competent productivity... and yet I also feel I have filled in some significa
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    by abalone 7y ago

    To be clear I think it’s good to test CS fundamentals even if you don’t use them every day. It’s a good screen for aptitude. I’m just concerned that taken to the extreme it mistakes excessive pattern recognition prep for true comprehension
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    by abalone 7y ago

    I've noticed there are SO many of these "coding interview prep" courses lately. Like, obviously it's a hot job market, but there's just so many and of a certain vibe that it seems like some are selling a dream. Ther
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    by abalone 7y ago

    I was pretty impressed by Rust's latest showing in the techempower benchmarks. The Actix framwork blew the ceiling off of previous benchmarks. SIMD code, lock free, static dispatch, pipelined postgres driver, and other performance enha
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    by abalone 7y ago

    Your own source disagrees with you. It clearly shows the US is the top cumulative CO2 producer and one of the highest annually.
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    by abalone 7y ago

    "The consequences of global warming have had the most impact in developing and mountainous countries like Nepal..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_adaptation_in_N...
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    by abalone 7y ago

    > Of course we want governments, corporations, and other institutions to act. History shows that the fastest most effective way is for each of us to start first. Exactly what history shows this? Every major case of social change I can
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    by abalone 7y ago

    Don't give up, I won't give up Don't give up, no no no Don't give up, I won't give up Don't give up, no no no - Blockchain guys (I know I know.. I couldn’t resist.)
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    by abalone 7y ago

    This is a nice option but a totally different problem. It basically turns incoming calls from strangers into texts. It's for the "millennial" phone user that rarely takes calls and then only from friends. Wouldn't work w
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    by abalone 7y ago

    Exactly. iOS does something like this with notifications where it added an super easy button right next to them on the lock screen for silencing / delivering them quietly. You just swipe left. Neat, right? Except I accidentally hit it
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    by abalone 7y ago

    I've found that it's pretty easy to get people to inadvertently accept FaceTime calls if you continuously spam them. (I was on the receiving end of this attack.) Here's how it works. 1- It's very easy and instantaneous t
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    by abalone 7y ago

    Full disclosure: This is an op ed piece from a right-wing "free market" think tank funded by the Koch brothers.[1] [1] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mercatus_Center