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by alexbecker 8y ago
But there is no money or prestige in that. Harvard didn't get a $37B endowment by trying to level the playing field.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Lots of people have no sense though.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Isn't this what git branches are for?
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by alexbecker 8y ago
#1 is not false. They say: > their capacity is largely fixed... Bitcoin has an estimated maximum of 7 transactions per second vs 24,000 for visa Yes, Bitcoin could raise their artificial transaction cap. But they haven't recently, d
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by alexbecker 8y ago
There are two kinds of lazy loading--that which blocks the content, and that which doesn't. If you have e.g. a bunch of JS libraries that aren't necessary to display the page, only for certain interactions, it makes sense to lazil
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Oh man, I used to be on the team that built that. It's just enormous. If you're on Chrome, the optimizations are sometimes enough to make it smooth. If you're on any other browser, god help you. I used to see 30s(!) reflows i
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Scrolling even on desktop was janky for me, and it was hard to center the paragraphs that were supposed to overlay the maps.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Coalition | Back-End, Full-Stack, Product Manager, Engineering Manager | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence comm
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by alexbecker 8y ago
I got so frustrated using pipenv at work that I created an alternative package manager: https://pypi.org/project/dotlock/ . It's not 1.0 yet but if it suits your needs I'd love if you tried it out.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
This is Simpson's Paradox[0]--Iowa comes out on top because it has more white students, and white students in Iowa do better than non-white students in Texas. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Pretty much. Shelters are either provided by charity or the local government, and state/federal money is only for very sympathetic classes like women with infant children.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
I think they mean if you can tell that it's a .NET app (e.g. because they left the X-Powered-By header on), not if it's a .NET app in general.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
That's because the 14th Amendment extends the "due process" requirement to the states, and under the [Incorporation Doctrine]( https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine ) respecting the 4th Am
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mchap.io/using-foia-dat...
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Coalition | SRE/DevOps | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community veterans building a better cyber insu
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Navigation in particular is nearly impossible for me.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Can the URL of this be changed to a non-AMP page?
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Coalition | SRE/DevOps | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community veterans building a better cyber insu
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Is the implementation at the end of the article complete? I don't see anything that looks like the "galloping" behavior described just prior.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Back when I was working on Django codebases, I saw almost no use of `full_clean()`, largely because some validation was performed on `save()` (by virtue of being database constraints, e.g. non-nullability) while other validation was not,
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by alexbecker 8y ago
You must not have read the section "Validation defined on the model is only enforced on the form". The validations I referenced, e.g. `choices`, are only run in when [`full_clean()`]( https://docs.djangoproject.com/
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by alexbecker 8y ago
I don't remember running into any of these issues learning Django or maintaining a Django codebase, but I've written the problems I ran into: https://alexcbecker.net/blog/django-is-dangerous.html In general,
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by alexbecker 8y ago
I think Theranos' case is more like: If you really really hope something will work , but you know it does not work now , is it lying to say "it works"? Yes, it is.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
+1 to not dismissing prestige, although I'm not sure I agree with this plan. Prestige is easy for some people to dismiss, but it can be a very big deal to others, especially (in my experience) in Asian cultures. My girlfriend's fa
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by alexbecker 8y ago
"At Google" is such a broad category that no single answer suffices. For anyone working on the hot-path of search/ads/knowledge graph back-end, sure, they need to know their algorithms. Same for the language teams like N
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Speaking as a former Googler, many (most?) Googlers never work on complex algorithms at huge scale. The interview questions are often completely irrelevant to their work.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Most of front-end work isn't making stuff more "user-friendly". It's an arms race of "fancy", showing off that your company is technically up-to-date and has money to burn.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
On the flip side, when you do define these things formally, you end up with those who can and will game the formal rules more effectively outperforming those who don't. This isn't fair either, and there are probably all sorts of b
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by alexbecker 8y ago
I find the animations and numerous different interspersed formats (text, square card thingies, profiles, three boxes side by side, one box in the middle, etc.) very distracting from the content.
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by alexbecker 8y ago
Coalition | SRE, Data Scientist | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community veterans building a better cyber

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