b4lancesh33t

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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
I don't think that's how it works. A model doesn't become a good model simply because it's hard to or nobody has bothered to make a better one.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
This can be stated more generally: If you didn't explicitly control for it, your results probably only reflect selection bias.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
No, I mean that many motorist lives would be saved if they all literally wore helmets. They should be required to. Airbags and roll cages help, but they are (obviously) insufficient on their own to prevent the 20k car deaths every year.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Motorists should probably be required to wear a helmet too, by this standard.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Oh. I thought for some reason that their index included the top 25.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
I'm not sure this is such good advice. It means you're guaranteed to miss out on high appreciation of anything but the largest coins. That's all well and good for a less volatile scenario like the stock market where the top20
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
This is a thing others have already done, although I don't have citations to hand.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
> Given that stop-the-world pauses are never evenly distributed throughout time That is not a given. And, even distribution is only part of the equation. If they are sufficiently short, then even being somewhat unevenly distributed shoul
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Overall latency is important. Where it comes from isn't very important. Transferring data a few light-nanos of distance into or out of a colocated Mongo DB instance simply isn't going to move the needle on any important metric.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Most people don't espouse the FSF's definition of evil.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Technically the tithe is to be given to the church. Charity giving is above and beyond that. And you are supposed to tithe out of your gross income -- your "first-fruits." It's an expensive habit! One of the many reasons I&#x
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
No. There is a holdback set of pages that are never displayed. At least according to the lawsuit.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
It's just management, after all. I don't mean to be too flippant, but isn't this whole article an instance of exactly what the author is complaining about? Let's have good managers rather than bad ones. Good managers tru
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
One does wonder how much damage this memo does to that case. It will be interesting to see.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Sarcasm often doesn't come across on the internet. Is my surmise that you are joking correct?
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
I think what's concerning is that advertising that an app is in a sandbox suggests to those out of the know that they can use it safely. They expect that the integrity and privacy of their information will be preserved. That expectatio
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
I'm kinda surprised Netflix weren't already using THP.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Theorems are all well and good, but ultimately the thing that matters is the experience of using the system "IRL" as the kids say. If spanner is up 99.99% of the time, and is consistent at all times, it is probably not going to be
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
The first slide, which names the presenting company as "[redacted] data broker llc" already had my bullshit alarms firing. Does someone really name their company that? Who would trust such a company?
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Does the average f2p shovelware author really have the resources to implement a system like the one contemplated in this presentation? I doubt it.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Microsoft would seem to be one counterexample.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Their medium article explains the reason apple rejected them. They use chromium on their servers to render pages. Apple wants them to use webkit.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Hah. I'm not sure it would matter that much to me if I were the only person who saw the flaws. Comp, work-life balance, interesting problems, and a minimum of local bullshit are what matter to me. My coworkers' attitude toward the
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
If I thought that every single person who leaves a job leaves because of their manager, I would have said "ten out of ten times" or "always." But what I actually said was "seven out of ten times." :)
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Agreed. And seven times out of ten (made up statistic, ymmv) that event is precipitated by one's management chain. Just yesterday someone reposted the article "People don't leave jobs, they leave managers."
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
Yeah I've been at Google a decade and I strongly don't agree with the notion that it's hyper evangelized as the best place to work. In official communications, yes, but I think most people here are aware of the drawbacks and
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
I have a lot of trouble with hot takes like the quoted tweet. It's not funny. It's so dumb. It's pointlessly negative. Sometimes I feel like this kind of midbrow objection is sucking out all the headspace that should be reser
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
It's hard to separate causality here. Maybe they can afford to pay people a lot because they make a lot of money, and maybe they make a lot of money because people like their menus and ingredients.
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
I don't understand what criticism you're trying to level here. Would you please expand?
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by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
TJ's in Manhattan on Friday evening can have a line that wraps all the way around the store, even with forty registers going.

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