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by beager 9y ago
All web automation and automation prevention is a cat and mouse game where you never stop the scrapers, you just create more effort for them. It’s like traditional and digital security in that regard, except that security often has an eleme
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by beager 9y ago
It seems to me like one of the big problems with "affordable" housing in desirable areas is that everyone who has bought an "unaffordable" house is now in on the con, and "affordable" housing threatens to corre
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by beager 9y ago
For sure, but the disparity between median income and home price in SFBA is much greater.
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by beager 9y ago
Isn't that just disguised NIMBYism though? Extreme permit costs, favors/bribes that make the threshold to action on building new housing higher?
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by beager 9y ago
They can be flipped, but it takes three hours to know if it was heads or tails.
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by beager 9y ago
Somewhat unrelated, it would be great to have a Medium-style highlight feature for codebases, where you could onboard developers toward excellent practice by highlighting good code in a repository that consists of various levels of code.
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by beager 9y ago
Not sure if sarcasm, but salaried employees are indeed penalized for working more hours with a lower hourly wage.
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by beager 9y ago
As analogs to the examples you give, advertisers could buy placement on Facebook during certain times of day, or on certain Pages. In those cases, demographic targeting is indirect but still effective. I have no insight or opinion on the et
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by beager 9y ago
I think between a horrible application of a pattern that has a good chance of being implemented properly and a horribly named class that leaves no potential to intuit its behavior, you might fare better with the former, as a new dev. But at
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by beager 9y ago
I can't, but if you're the FNG on a project and see SprocketFactoryFactoryFactory, you may have a quick and easy path to a better solution. Just make sure that that better solution names its patterns well so the next FNG can make
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by beager 9y ago
Well, a factory pattern is a well-defined pattern in OO software design, and one that a developer of any experience level can look up and understand. Your particular implementation may give rise to a more plain and contextually-accurate nam
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by beager 9y ago
Google has built ad products on data about what you want, and Facebook has built ad products on data about who you are, which are both natural extensions of the data they receive in order to deliver you their core service. Which constitutes
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by beager 9y ago
I agree on all your points about web apps vs native apps. I should clarify, native apps are fine, but the requirement for native apps due to poor performance of web apps is horrible. At least give me PWAs.
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by beager 9y ago
I don't, as I'm removed from RN development, and I do agree that there is still a delta between platforms. But my point was that a tool like RN could allow a shift to a different platform on a whim, because it is, at its core, an
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by beager 9y ago
This sort of thing really makes me feel like the field of "authentication" is about to become much broader and extremely important.
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by beager 9y ago
Two viewpoints: 1. I wonder if this could be used to target things like React Native. Is there an incentive for Apple to push devs to use Swift/ObjC/Xcode to keep them on platform? Is RN’s platform agnosticism a threat? 2. Native
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by beager 9y ago
The narrative has shifted as the dynamics and value have shifted. It’s more like gold now. You wouldn’t pay for coffee with gold.
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by beager 9y ago
I don't normally advocate for this position, but to be fair to the discussion, the legality of the business may orthogonal to whether it's a good business idea (cf. Uber, Airbnb). But most importantly, it is incumbent upon the per
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by beager 9y ago
All the calculations seem to happen here: https://github.com/nick264/gop-tax-plan-calculator/blob/mast... Cannot speak to the soundness of the calculations, but there looks to be a ton of guesswork involved,
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by beager 9y ago
I would say, beyond technical understanding of blockchain as a technology, is the ability to discern what it is that founders/principals of the company and its customers believe your product and its capabilities to be. One of the issue
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by beager 9y ago
So it’s apparent that many governments around the world are unwilling to take a similar approach to drug use. But could Google, Apple, Facebook et al provide services there? Create functionality to aid in harm reduction and addiction outrea
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by beager 9y ago
Is there anything that states can do to promote municipal broadband or maximize competition for ISPs? If Ajit Pai is ultimately successful in rolling back net neutrality in spite of evidence of foul play and the pleadings of agencies such a
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by beager 9y ago
Both/and
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by beager 9y ago
Plenty of CA and plenty of NY is not "coastal". IMO VC is leaving a ton on the table by not leveraging the excellent state universities and low cost of living relative to SF/NY
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by beager 9y ago
YC is unique in the list that you give insofar as they're likely to not benefit from a repeal of NN, whereas the consolidation of money and influence in the big four has made the repeal of NN very attractive to them, and they're n
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by beager 9y ago
Just because something is a good idea doesn't mean that it wasn't conceived or promoted specifically to scam people out of their money. Not speaking to Filecoin or Tezos specifically, but if something is a really good idea, why no
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by beager 9y ago
My sense is that Apple is in less of a position to use child data for exploitative purposes, because their aim is to sell hardware. It bestows the sense that Apple isn’t trying to exploit children for data, at least beyond selling them more
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by beager 9y ago
> There are no ads in Messenger Kids and your child’s information isn’t used for ads. I do wonder what quantity of data Facebook will collect on child users of this service though, and how that could be used. I’m not too well versed in C
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by beager 9y ago
> Garcia also tweeted, "My first act as an elected official is to call for the impeachment of Donald Trump and also now every Tuesday in Manayunk is officially Taco Tuesday." I think your concern may be a little overblown.
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by beager 9y ago
"that makes him smart"

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