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by azov 14y ago
That tweet is definitely relevant. The whole point is we're trying to protect people from offensive behavior. The definition of what's offensive is vague at best. Common approach - if someone was offended, it's offensive - assumes that we t
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by azov 14y ago
She is a PR person. When the dust settles, SendGrid, PlayHaven, affected developers, women in tech as a group, and our industry as a whole will end up with some reputation damage and setbacks in the struggles on equality front. But Adria p
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by azov 14y ago
Perhaps, Dropbox? They are well positioned for becoming the filesystem of the web, and may have some interest in defending open file formats and protocols.
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by azov 14y ago
No sane company fires a developer over some random acquisitions on twitter. I wonder if he can sue them for wrongful termination. He can probably even claim gender discrimination - would he be fired if, everything else being the same, he wa
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by azov 14y ago
Apparently just being "money-making" is not enough, it has to have an enormous userbase and also be aligned with Google's strategy du jour.
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by azov 14y ago
The article makes it sound as if public vs private is the only way in which schools differ. Even if all schools are public, some of them are good while others are bad, and you still have to somehow select students who get to attend good one
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by azov 14y ago
> If you asked me in 1980 what an encyclopedia would look like in 2013 I would not have guessed static text + static pictures. Static text + pictures is exactly the way I like my encyclopedia to be. It is simple, lightweight, works e
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by azov 14y ago
> As Privacy Engineer Monica Chew at Mozilla asks, “Is it really worth having a preference panel that benefits fewer than 2% of users overall?” — obvious spoiler alert: The answer is no This logic is so wrong that I don't even know wh
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by azov 14y ago
There's at least one person who spent over a year in space during one flight, almost two years combined between several flights. And that's not just in Mars gravity , but in total weightlessness. He's alive and seems to be doing fine. htt
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Happy Pi Day(newsfeed.time.com)
2 points by azov 14y ago|0 comments
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by azov 14y ago
If it really was that simple, mastering a new VCS would take 5 minutes. But it isn't. If you need to branch, you also need to know how to merge. Then you'll need to know how to resolve conflicts. You probably need to know what branches are
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by azov 14y ago
Joel's very own article on the Law of Leaky Abstractions ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm... ) comes to mind. Kiln Harmony might abstract away which VCS system you use, but I think in the real world you will ju
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by azov 14y ago
Honestly, I don't give a rat's ass whether they call it buying or licensing . I want to be able to resell my digital goods. This is what needs to be legislated. If a company wants to enjoy legal protection agains someone breaking their D
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by azov 14y ago
Not sure it's a good idea. Remember why your interviewer is asking those questions? So that he can compare candidates. You're making his job a bit harder because you now have advantage over people who did it on a whiteboard.
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Yahoo doesn’t trust their people(medium.com)
1 points by azov 14y ago|0 comments
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by azov 14y ago
This will just lead to low wage workers in some third world country being hired to flip pages on huge racks of Kindles. The thing is - popularity is a stupid metrics to use for picking reading material (or almost anything else). There's a s
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by azov 14y ago
Msgpack library is almost an order of magnitude smaller then protobuf lite, and almost 100 times smaller then full protobuf. This is not counting the size of generated protocol classes. There are situations when size matters :-)
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by azov 14y ago
Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is proven that onsite employees are more productive then remotes. So what? Some employers will do what Yahoo just did. Others may say: look, I want you to be productive, but more than that I w
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by azov 14y ago
There are many use cases when pulling money is more convenient for the consumer. This is how most people pay their bills for example - they let providers deduct a different sum every month based on usage. There's a lot of value in being abl
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by azov 14y ago
Wow, look at all the criticism! I think the OP is making a valid point, and I'd like to throw my $0.02 in support. Look, there are two crowds in Silicon Valley. First are the people who seem to collect connections almost as if it was some s
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by azov 14y ago
When the title says "Quickly copy a file..." it is reasonable to assume that we're talking about something quicker/easier then at least the most obvious ways to copy. But if we're talking about something you made just because you wanted to
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by azov 14y ago
We're not even talking about 6 characters - the article says they reduced the search space to 22472 combinations, which is barely 3 characters. Yes, 3 char passwords are easy to crack, what else is new?..
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by azov 14y ago
There was about 1.5 million apps and just one world the last time I checked. Not every app needs to save the world. Making it a little better is a noble goal.
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by azov 14y ago
HBO more innovative then Tesla? Starbucks & NFL more innovative then YCombinator? This deserves the title of the most innovative rating :) Or is there something I don't know about HBO?
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by azov 14y ago
I disagree. CS2 could do almost everything I'm doing with PS today. To take even more extreme example, I would be pretty happy with MS Word 1997 if I never had to open new document formats introduced in the later versions. Yes, it's 15 ye
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by azov 14y ago
> But you don’t become wealthy by spending and consuming; you become wealthy by producing and saving You can't be producing and saving without somebody consuming and spending (unless by 'saving' you mean just hoarding the stuff you pr
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by azov 14y ago
The view from Kala Patthar summit is pretty different angle, this picture must be taken from somewhere north of KP. I would guess it is from Pumori Advanced Base Camp.
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by azov 14y ago
Actually, it is even more dramatic. Infection rate is essentially binary: either the disease spreads (which means the number of sick people goes up until pretty much everyone in the community who is not immune gets it - this is called epide
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by azov 14y ago
From what I've heard and seen Erlang is great, but this article doesnt tell me anything about why it is great. Message passing? Come on! You can do message passing in C++, or Python, or any other mainstreem language. Its a matter of conve
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by azov 14y ago
This is exactly the arguments to apply in Padmapper vs Craigslist case.

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