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by biot 11y ago
What was the context for this? I assume someone at Facebook previously committed to having it available by Fall 2015 or similar?
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by biot 11y ago
Every week I adjust my (icon bar?) settings to change the "Get Windows 10" application back to "Show only notifications". Windows keeps resetting it to "Show icons and notifications". Perhaps I should file that
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by biot 11y ago
You're making many false assumptions about my motivations, then proceeding to tear them down. As I'm not really interested in debating strawwomen, I wish you the best.
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by biot 11y ago
I'm not saying it's appropriate; just offering a possible explanation for the use of the word. Personally, I'd just go with "female" or simply saying "she's a software engineer" gets the point across
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by biot 11y ago
In modern speech, the opposite of "girls" is "guys". Think "girls night out" vs. "guys night out". I have female friends approaching their fifties who refer to themselves and their female friends as &
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by biot 11y ago
See also Brett Victor's "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable": https://vimeo.com/67076984
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by biot 11y ago
How about getting certificates from multiple, geopolitically diverse providers up front? It'll be an extra expense but lets you monitor your certs' revocation status and, should cert #1 get revoked, update your configs to use cert
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by biot 11y ago
WhatsApp is a good contender: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi...
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by biot 11y ago
Unlike the author of that article, don't publish screenshots of your exact results online. With the percentage risk and the ethnic background, it's likely trivial for 23andme to identify exactly which fake profile Sarah A. Downey
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by biot 11y ago
Yeah I like it too. And thanks for the "double story g"... I always referred to it as "those scissor handles g": http://www.ekal.pk/barber-scissors/fancy-scissors-070s.jpg
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by biot 11y ago
It's also compared in the same paragraph to a Louis Vuitton bag and a holiday in the Maldives. If you read these comparisons as "the properties of these products are very similar", perhaps you missed the point?
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by biot 11y ago
Swifter, yes. Better? I think that depends on the particular circumstance. For example: you look in your rear view mirror and notice an out of control cement truck half a block away heading directly towards you, plowing through vehicles in
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by biot 11y ago
I got an email from Microsoft today with this kind of "letter". See https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNSgnyfWEAAvd9J.jpg:large I hope this doesn't become a trend, like using a picture of laminate flooring as
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by biot 11y ago
The inclusion of a salt only protects against precomputed hashes. It makes almost no difference to how many millions of hashes one can perform per second.
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by biot 11y ago
Relevant: http://acme.com/mail_filtering/
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by biot 11y ago
With a title of "The people who care in the NHS" I was expecting to read some amazing stories written about individuals who went out of their way to demonstrate passion for their profession and caring for patients. A "Chicken
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by biot 11y ago
Agreed... sorry for being snarky; I should have explained what I meant originally instead. I think the difference is that people give authors advice prior to writing an article which amounts to "be mindful that your readers will have t
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by biot 11y ago
Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but "not respectful of my time" is semantically equivalent to "you are disrespecting my time". Disrespect (verb): to show a lack of respect for; insult. It makes it sound like some
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by biot 11y ago
Put simply, future value. Otherwise a sidewalk lemonade stand profiting 1 cent per glass would be far more valuable than a lemonade manufacturing business which sells millions of bottles a day and pumps all the profits plus additional inves
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by biot 11y ago
Your comment was too long and was not respectful of my time. Couldn't you have found a way to convey your sense of entitlement to the content that other people freely provide you in a more succinct way?
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by biot 11y ago
From the article: The closest I got to an on-the-record comment confirming that press access was based on favor, not fire code, was when a YC registration official rejected my request for a badge, for the final time: “It’s an invi
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by biot 11y ago
Digital Ocean, Linode, etc. are do-it-yourself platforms. If you have the time and knowledge to install, configure, secure, monitor, etc. etc. all the services that go into a typical application, then spending the time yourself will save yo
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by biot 11y ago
I suspect we're mostly in agreement. Going through and defining every single feature is micromanagement. However, product direction, feature set, and covering user acquisition plans and retention strategy are places where the CEO (a pr
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by biot 11y ago
> So why do you feel the need to over-ride your product managers on > product direction, feature set, user acquisition plans, retention > strategy, etc? As long as the CEO isn't micro-managing, why wouldn't th
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by biot 11y ago
Was there a problem inherent to building large applications that you found intractible, or is the shift solely due to focusing on entry-level accessibility?
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by biot 11y ago
Can anyone explain what makes an encryption algorithm quantum-resistant?
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by biot 11y ago
I just did the same calculation. Put another way: if you're currently at a job and looking to leave for your own startup, then stay at that job another three days. With the after-tax money you earn, pay a professional to do a massively
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by biot 11y ago
Why not just eliminate the paper to begin with? It's obviously a bit tougher as you need to tackle both sides of the market at once, but not having to mail invoices means the benefit of faster payments for suppliers (maybe not a benefi
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by biot 11y ago
The hype was back when few knew what it actually was other than "IT" or "Ginger". Example: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288...
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by biot 11y ago
If the original image were created in a vector-based program -- in other words, something where the x,y,width,height parameters are known and stored -- you can load the generated HTML+CSS in a known reference browser and enumerate the x,y,w

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