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by bostik 9y ago
More importantly, with GDPR you are not allowed to deny customers service even if they choose not to share their data.
1202.
by bostik 9y ago
0%, no exceptions. Any website that asks for them gets immediately flagged as an entitled piece of s--t.
1203.
by bostik 9y ago
> you have a code of law Q.E.D.
1204.
by bostik 9y ago
Since we're on the topic of questioning dogmas: is that the rule of law or the rules set by the biggest mob?
1205.
by bostik 9y ago
About as correct as using "anal" for shortening "analysis". (Apologies for the snark.)
1206.
by bostik 9y ago
> From their perspective it should be setup like cable subscriptions You are standing in the maze of twisty little options, all of which suck.
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by bostik 9y ago
A betting exchange is a financial escrow service. A user bets on a result of an event, with 20% probability of the event happening. This means that someone (often a market maker) is willing to bet with 80% probability of that same event no
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by bostik 9y ago
Sure, let's get a really simple one. You have N groups of something (persons, sales units, cars, tools, whatever). Find the values that are present in all of them. This problem comes up, all the time , in some form. With sets it&#x2
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by bostik 9y ago
Yes, the boolean group operations make many otherwise non-trivial problems remarkably easy. That's why I consider sets such a crucial feature.
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by bostik 9y ago
As much as a I like Go in general, there are two pythonic things that, IMO, really should go into the next major revision. 1: sets; in this day and age, not having sets as native, stdlib-provided data types is simply unacceptable.[ß] 2: The
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by bostik 9y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK; now also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small, agile, and fast-growin
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by bostik 9y ago
Dumb packet flood is easy. L7 DoS requires more sophistication, because the attack code needs to stateful (iow. establish sessions) and craft requests that are better targeted. These in turn require either real effort or tools that reduce t
1213.
by bostik 9y ago
Fact checking. You know - that tedious, slow, boring, and often costly activity which proper journalists are supposed to undertake before publication.
1214.
by bostik 9y ago
> The new standard would also let broadcasters activate a TV set that is turned off to send emergency alerts. Just what the world needs: the resurrection of Max Headroom.
1215.
by bostik 9y ago
Of course. 1: Imperative - C, Fortran, Pascal, ... 2: Object-oriented - C++, Java, Python, Ruby, (maybe Delphi's Object-Pascal), ... 3: Functional - OCaml, Erlang, Haskell, F#, ... 4: Declarative - Makefiles, QML, SQL, .... To be perfe
1216.
by bostik 9y ago
I didn't know that, but for some reason it kind of makes sense. (I'm a European.) Neuter one male, prevent N+1 potentially expensive spawns from ever happening.
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by bostik 9y ago
I can guarantee that it's far too much when you have a family. You want to be able to spend at least some time with your kid(s) and see them in a state other than overly tired and/or hyper before going to bed. If tech companies wa
1218.
by bostik 9y ago
Oh the memories... ?SYNTAX ERROR
1219.
by bostik 9y ago
> Go deep on security Bingo. Security is one of the few cross-discipline, cross-domain specialities where it is possible to be a reasonably good domain expert and still have a good coverage across other domains. The fundamentals don&
1220.
by bostik 9y ago
You're talking about Nielsen thresholds, and the limit for "instantaneous" is actually ~100ms.[0] Anything slower is considered to have taken some time. Now, if that wasn't depressing enough - the Nielsen research is fro
1221.
by bostik 9y ago
First of all, advance apologies for meta. But this is rather interesting. I am not sure this article deserved to be flagged. It's an opinion piece, so one can't expect too rigorous source vetting. That said, the reference links we
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by bostik 9y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK; now also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small, agile, and fast-growin
1223.
by bostik 9y ago
Go north enough (or south enough) and you get this as part of your winter time weather forecast: Sunrise: January 29th
1224.
by bostik 9y ago
> not playing is not an option What a strange game. The only move to win is to cheat.
1225.
by bostik 9y ago
But you can forbid any government body to do business with them. And you can extend that by forbidding government bodies from doing business with any companies that in turn do business with the particular bad egg. In case of Equifax, that w
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by bostik 9y ago
This sounds quite a lot like the setup at Bank of Finland. It's been nearly 20 years since I visited, but they had access pass only doors everywhere, and all visitors needed an escort at all time. (Helps that they can't get anywhe
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by bostik 9y ago
Few years back when I was working with Wayland on a particular automotive project I came up with an explanation we could use with those outside the project. Wayland is a protocol, which isn't really instructive. But the reference imple
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by bostik 9y ago
This isn't that different from Einstein's take: "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Keeping one's eyes open to contradictory/heretic/... evidence seems to be a common t
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by bostik 9y ago
I hope that was an attempt at sarcasm. I really do. Because if not, let me rewrite your last sentence: "Really, as a member of the inoculated group, I have no reason to fear the plague, so why would anyone else?"
1230.
by bostik 9y ago
Sounds like any $BIGCORP that outsources their application flow to Taleo.

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