bmm6o

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by bmm6o 10y ago
Not sure where this "darling of the left" thing is coming from. Disliking both Gawker and Thiel is one thing that can unite us all.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
And there's Office Communicator - was that another name for Lync?
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by bmm6o 10y ago
It's true. Kayak prompted me to review some recent flights I booked through their site. "Time is almost up to review you British Airways flight to Boston" is spectacularly ineffective call-to-action and I didn't even o
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by bmm6o 10y ago
It's true, but what this really demonstrates is that insurance is not the best model for delivering healthcare. Unfortunately it's our starting point in the US and a more fundamental change is not politically tenable now (or in t
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by bmm6o 10y ago
> If your code cant be understood by someone else with minimal efforts it is not good enough. The article doesn't use "clever" as an antonym for "readable", though. The point is that clever code can be excessi
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by bmm6o 10y ago
It seems like it really varies between channels, especially between talk and music but also within categories. I assume they allocate more bandwidth to the more popular/lucrative channels. I find the quality to be fine on the ones I
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Way to miss the point. The prose makes it sound like the goal is to maximize the time spent at exactly 70, or to minimize the variation away from 70, neither of which is the case.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
I'm not sure the writer understands the project. The route is constructed so that the daily high temperature is 70, so most of the time is spent in sub-70 degree weather. If "69 degrees and below makes you shiver like a soaked k
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by bmm6o 10y ago
It's pointing out that the equivalence of "simpler" with "more falsifiable" is not perfect. Nobody is suggesting that we just add silly details for the sake of increasing falsifiability, but suppose two research gr
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by bmm6o 10y ago
It also depends on your environment. On a platform like .Net it's not impossible to get your JS serializer to serialize 64-bit ints and floats as strings while keeping 32-bit and smaller numeric. So no matter how you represent it ser
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by bmm6o 10y ago
Ah yes, the "more dangerous = safer" argument. Shrapnel is messy and hidden, there should be a steel spike mounted on the steering wheel pointed at the driver's chest. Imagine how careful he would be then! Road deaths woul
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by bmm6o 10y ago
> Taxi drivers aren't from here. So I get this is racist, but at least with Uber / Lyft we knew it was our neighbors. They spoke like we did. There were no communication issues around where you wanted to go. Is this particula
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by bmm6o 10y ago
English with a lot of ë's and ö's means you're reading The New Yorker.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
It's a metaphor, though it's not entirely clear to me what the author has in mind. It also depends on your political bent, there are a lot of people voting for Trump and they would view this differently.
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by bmm6o 10y ago
> It takes longer to define the requirements than it does to code, and once coded they change mid-sprint It sounds like your product owner isn't doing his job. What specifically does it mean for requirements to change? If the sp
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by bmm6o 10y ago
I'm sure your little neighborhood is great and positive and welcoming, but you have to admit that's the exception and not the rule. As another poster phrases it, "Reddit is a thimbleful of awesome floating in a bucket of shi
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by bmm6o 10y ago
> “I’m not going to keep jumping through hoops.” If what's being demonstrated is the ability to jump through hoops, he has to jump through at least one. This is just him standing next to a hoop, telling everyone that he just jump
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by bmm6o 10y ago
The comparison in question is between 10^170 and 10^160 (= 10^80 * 10^80). So "just" a factor of 10^10.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
"setting a bad precedent" implies it's different from "what is". If it's doing what everyone else does, it's not a precedent.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
I think the point is that random lines in space (dimension > 2) intersect with probability 0, and so that shortcut almost never applies.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
The Quora experience is very polarizing. Some people have the exact opposite reaction from yours. My take is that a lot of people in SV view it positively and that's why it's always been such a VC media darling, but that the you
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by bmm6o 11y ago
It's kind of discouraging that this is where they ended up. I'm not a huge fan of the site itself, but 2 years ago they joined YC and raised $80 million, and this is the grand vision that finally emerges?
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by bmm6o 11y ago
> I just found a bit a data that states that Pandora accounts for ~10% of new music discovery which is a lot better than I would have guessed To me this says more about the weakness of the alternatives than about the strength of Pandor
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Fair enough. It's hard to remember the actual definition of "socialism" when in the US it's used to slander whatever vaguely progressive policy someone don't like, even when you know they're not using the word
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Do you consider Sweden to be socialist?
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by bmm6o 11y ago
The government nationalizing everything and trying to run the entire economy while the price of their only export craters is not related to socialism.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
> Not to mention what about the harm that comes to the citizens who would have held those jobs This is a strange argument to make. By even deciding to open the facility in NC in the first place, PayPal decided against 49 other states
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Exactly. TFA makes it sound like SpaceX is a shitty partner, but it's not clear what laws they are alleged to have broken.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Great, another anti-Scrum rant! As I've said before, defense of agile and Scrum can easily get into "no true Scotsman" territory, with tedious back-and-forths about whether you are really following the philosophy and if your
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by bmm6o 11y ago
> We very much respect Pinboard's time and are willing to give them just about as much of it as they need Demanding someone make changes and then offering them as much time as they need is missing the point. It's not the dea

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