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by aparsons 6y ago
Generation X has the benefit of learning from X-1. The “better” part is a given. Zero signal. What’s more impressive is pushing the boundaries of a sport - ie, being good while others suck.
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by aparsons 6y ago
That part is not clear. From the buyer perspective though, unless I intend to use it, or the seller gives me a pretty steep discount, this is equivalent to buying “cash”... so it’s generally a bad investment? I think the numbers may work
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by aparsons 6y ago
It’s a payday loan for businesses from what I can tell. I see about 10 ads a day from these guys, so some more things I observed: - They’re trying to build a capital market aspect on payday loans - essentially, turn “SaaS subscription stock
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by aparsons 6y ago
Having watched four generations of American professional sports, it’s really obvious to me that athletes should be judged by “dominance” which is implicitly based on the other athletes of the same era as a reference. There might he a better
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by aparsons 6y ago
Lovely article indeed . I loved the attached photographs. I probably predate you and the author by a decade, but growing up in the 70s in rural Michigan, I did not even know what a computer was until my late teens (and by a stroke of luck a
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by aparsons 6y ago
In my experience, airline “price optimization” is wildly overblown a boogeyman tale. Airlines price classes of seats individually. If one is sold, the next user sees a different price. A rule based system is fairly common. They’re not using
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by aparsons 6y ago
And you know what's the cherry on the sundae? A certain sect of people who signal/preach love and equity the loudest - almost always preach it in a 'for thou, not for me' sense. I had coworkers who would live in the whi
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by aparsons 6y ago
> some companies won't work with you It's a pretty big deal when that company is your employer. We need better protections around speech in this country. Firing someone for something they said cannot be a one-sided decision. At
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by aparsons 6y ago
It has been 2-3 decades since I’ve worked on this, so this may be outdated advice. In fact, I just learned of Ghidra when I read the article. In general there are three cases: - Developer forgot to strip/obfuscate symbols, in which cas
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by aparsons 6y ago
That was a brilliant investigation. Reminded me of when I used to work on Windows debuggers. I wish the author touched on symbolization more. That is where a lot of the fun lies when dissecting precompiled binaries.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Also timing out as of 9:28 AM EST on Firefox
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by aparsons 6y ago
Stop trying to incite a religious flame war. FYI, Buddhist extremism has resulted in two (ongoing) genocides.
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by aparsons 6y ago
I worked with Steve Sinofsky briefly, and he was a brilliant engineer. Unfortunately had to lead some products with very stiff existing competition. What I find interesting is his fascination with the periodic table. I recall Bill also bein
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by aparsons 6y ago
HN has not been welcoming of political discussion and for good reason. US politics over the last 3 months was noticeably absent from the front page. That being said I do think there is a finer tech ethics issue here: If a government asks yo
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by aparsons 6y ago
> We in no way want to give off an impression of mistrust or carelessness That's exactly the point. You don't want to give off that impression . Nobody does. That's not some noble goal.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Browser history is also hijacked on the login page...
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by aparsons 6y ago
Disagree on 3. There is no obligation to buy. Agree on 4 that options you sell need to be covered.
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by aparsons 6y ago
If we did that at Microsoft when we were bringing Hotmail under the MS umbrella, DOJ would have ripped the company into 10 pieces
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by aparsons 6y ago
You hit the nail on the head. This started during the HW/first Clinton admin
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by aparsons 6y ago
Haha, I chuckled at this :)
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by aparsons 6y ago
Disagree on this analogy. The standard deviation in the driving ability curve is much smaller than the one for coding ability. There are a TON of mediocre coders who many companies won’t touch. The other commenter’s basketball analogy is mo
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by aparsons 6y ago
100%. We’re seeing a huge (loud) “help the cons” movement, but the fact is a lot of them are bad people and we need to tread carefully. I for one will certainly not hire somebody who has committed certain classes of crimes, no matter how “r
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by aparsons 6y ago
What’s this in reference to? I thought it was used for therapy in children
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by aparsons 6y ago
How does pass reordering relate to the halting problem?
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by aparsons 6y ago
Perhaps fix the link to point one directory up? Right now, it is in the linked-list dir
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by aparsons 6y ago
Religion vs culture is a subtle but important difference. Religiously, India is not very diverse, but culturally- that is, along ethic, language and racial lines - it is probably the most diverse country in the world. I never claimed the Br
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by aparsons 6y ago
Question: Is there a pre-colonization “Indian” culture? I’m thinking not. The British unified disparate cultures, kingdoms, and races for ease of administration/exploitation. The country is so large - but more importantly- so different
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by aparsons 6y ago
I posted it expecting downvotes. On the surface, yes I am generalizing the country. But really - and perhaps I should have made it more clear - the reason for my disillusionment were structural/cultural issues: - Willingness to oppress
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The reason Wall Street is terrified of the GME situation(reddit.com)
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by aparsons 6y ago
Completely off-topic reply: You had replied to a comment of mine asking what I’d meant by “Google figured out hardware didn’t matter on the server” by 2000 and how that changed the internet to make Bill’s vision come true. I do not check th

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