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by athenot 9y ago
I think the reason for high compensations is that software is the enabling factor for capital. If software can automate, reduce inefficiencies and generally be the means to accomplish the business goal, then it makes sense for the business
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by athenot 9y ago
I really like how much effort they put in to make things as natural and unintruive as possible. The article mentionned there's no interaction yet; I wonder if they could track eyeball movement and use eye blinks for clicking. (Someone
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by athenot 9y ago
I could be wrong but I think this is how Apple Pay is supposed to work. (Though a non-proprietary version of this would be fantastic, but this is a baby step I suppose.)
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by athenot 9y ago
> it took me many years to realize that the posters who upvote and share these articles are not only aware of the heavy fog, but are able to read though the fog Follow the money. I'm always asking myself "what does this author
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by athenot 9y ago
Maybe for us on the younger side but I guarantee there are many ways teeth/gums/bone fail with age, no matter how well you brush and floss.
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by athenot 9y ago
The problem is you'll never know what were the actual criteria used to deny your claim, it will remain some vague denial reason. Or you will get to know but after much back-and-forth during which it incumbs to you to pony up with that
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by athenot 9y ago
This reminds me of a goal Larry Wall for Perl when he was designing it: "make the easy things easy, and the hard things possible".
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by athenot 9y ago
Two points that always put a dent on "surveillance in the name of safety" 1. Make all the camera feeds accessible to the public. Afterall, shouldn't more eyes help a place be safe? 2. Install cameras around Police HQs. Don&#x
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by athenot 9y ago
In Paris, you have the national train company (SNCF) who competes with the Parisian subway system (RATP). To make matters even more complicated, some suburban rail lines are operated by one over the tracks of the other. This is seamless unt
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by athenot 9y ago
One of the problems is poor primary care and a gap in urgent care. In many cases, patients have no way of getting triage advice over an issue that occurs at 3 AM, leaving with a choice of waiting till morning then going to a doctor (after w
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by athenot 9y ago
Insulation is not as easy to achieve once you consider structure framing in poured concrete, and humidity load (AAC is very permeable to moisture). http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/qa-spotlight/.
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by athenot 9y ago
> Node.js isn't particularly excellent at anything That's not very kind. Yes it has its flaws but it's not bad at being a higher abstraction over async-everything, augmented with a huge module repository. Support for isomo
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by athenot 9y ago
Why? Having many languages allows to pick the sweetspot for each subsystem. Each language has special strengths and weaknesses, there is no silver bullet that excels at everything. Go, C/C++, Lua, Ruby, Perl, Scala, Node.js, Python...
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by athenot 9y ago
I guess it would be useful for programmatically building the DOM tree. But for writing DOM fragments, pug[1] is also an option. I happen to like the clean-looking syntax. Transposing their example: body h1 Hello World inpu
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by athenot 9y ago
I'm no defensor of Java but PHP was never entrenched in Enterprise the way Java is. It's "good enough" for most business uses who treat software as a comodity and outsource to multiple vendors.
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by athenot 9y ago
This will be hard to do because it depends on your definition of quality. There are many factors that affect call quality and you can optimize for resillience against some while getting bitten by others. Lately I've noticed web browers
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by athenot 9y ago
Yes I should have qualified my comment in that I assumed a functional and healthy manager. Optimizing for a dysfunctional one would lead to what you describe.
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by athenot 9y ago
> Knowing what your employer finds valuable is a difficult proposition Yes. But you probably have an idea how to reduce the number of headaches for your manager, and how to make him or her look better in front of that person's own m
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by athenot 9y ago
> unless they deliberately exploit addicting behaviors to increase engagement and retention I can assure that this is something on the forefront of any consumer-oriented service. This stuff is tracked, tweaked, reported on, KPIs are buil
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by athenot 9y ago
Umm, isn't that highly illegal? If you make a good profit and it can be traced to your rumor, I don't think the SEC finds that very funny.
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by athenot 9y ago
I was in Whole Foods yesterday and was half-expecting to see USB cables for sale between the tomatoes and the oranges—the real-world version of Amazon's product recommendations... :) But then that got me thinking that Whole Foods just
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by athenot 9y ago
In the eary days, Jira was an awesome bug tracker (free for OSS), compared to Bugzilla or Trac. But they focused on adding lots of features without much thought on the overall user experience. Their latest UI revamp only made things worse.
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by athenot 9y ago
Trello will probably be assimilated into Jira's answer to GitHub projects.
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by athenot 9y ago
Yes, it's a tradeoff for quality of life. Any active medication has side-effects. But if the depression—even though it may have an unknown cause—prevents a person from functioning in life, then the medication might be worth it. But i
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by athenot 9y ago
Yes... mostly. Jealousy factor can't be beat. But beyond making your friends/acquaintances drool on social media, yes the ergonomics stink for classic development. However , I think variety is nice. Just like in an office situati
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by athenot 9y ago
One side-effect of all these commercials is to shorten the attention span of viewers. I feel that kids are taught to only get into a thought/storyline for a maximum of 8 minutes then switch mental contexts 4 to 8 times before returning
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by athenot 9y ago
The generalization of that is when you see high customer acquisition costs relative to what you think a vendor might earn from you, ask yourself why.
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by athenot 9y ago
That's what Apple Maps does (but only for the very last announcement): "Your destination is on the right, 123 Main Street."
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by athenot 9y ago
> but because it's sexual assault, for whatever reason, it's very easy for some folks to sweep this under the rug Wow. Just wow. I get that resources are limited and they must prioritize. But to view sexual assault as a low-pri
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by athenot 9y ago
While RF transmissions keep getting better and better, sending data over a link where you own the entire spectrum (Copper, fiber) is always going to be faster to maket a given speed than doing so in an environment where you share spectrum a

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