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by btmorex 16y ago
Overall, pretty interesting. A lot of those are definitely usability bugs. I wish someone would do a comparison between mac os x, windows, ubuntu with the same tasks to see how they stacked up against each other. However: 5/11 participants
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by btmorex 16y ago
Works for me on the same (64 bit though). That said, there's horrible tearing and it's also really slow when you are near another box and looking at it.
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by btmorex 16y ago
The first two points are describing fork(), which python already has on unix-like systems. If he means something different, then he needs to explain more how exactly it would work (especially regarding hardware/os support).
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by btmorex 16y ago
In the world of payments, that doesn't really matter at all. Payment processors can't afford to have high fraud % customers, so if fraud becomes a problem they'll just drop him.
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by btmorex 16y ago
What do you plan on doing about fraud? Seems like it would be way too easy to move money around with stolen credit cards.
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by btmorex 16y ago
Email followed distantly by twitter and openid. The only reason twitter is there is that I have an account, but don't use it or care about it. More importantly I will never use facebook to signup somewhere else. I don't want random services
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by btmorex 16y ago
My point is they were either wrong or lying. Both possibilities are pretty worrying.
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by btmorex 16y ago
Seems sort of revisionist to say "of course Mark I BWR's aren't safe". You know what nuclear experts were saying 3 weeks ago? They were talking about all the safety features, and the multiple levels of basically impervious containment, and
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by btmorex 16y ago
They're being fixed. It'll probably take a while. Best bet right now is to develop against http://socket.io/ . I'm pretty sure that will be updated when a secure websockets protocol is implemented. Also, for now, you can use a fallback of
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by btmorex 16y ago
The best way to handle keepalives is to proxy everything through nginx, which can handle a huge number of connections with very little memory. Turn keepalives on in nginx, turn them off on your app server.
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by btmorex 16y ago
I'd rather occasionally have comma bugs than make all my code horrendously ugly. Also, most people don't set their tabstop to 2 characters, which means you have to use space key twice in every variable declaration. That's got to be annoying
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by btmorex 16y ago
There's nothing preventing them from quitting after 3 months with a normal offer.
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by btmorex 16y ago
Seems to me you just shouldn't ask typical "CS problems". The problem with those is that a positive result doesn't necessarily mean that the candidate knows anything. It could be that they've just interviewed so many times that they know a
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by btmorex 16y ago
Sue them for what? As far as I can tell, there's no copyright violation here. edit: worth pointing out, I think what they did was unethical, but not illegal.
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by btmorex 16y ago
Can anyone explain to me why Canada has such poor internet service? I kind of understand why countries like Australia and New Zealand don't have great internet plans, but Canada is right next to the US and yet has far worse service.
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by btmorex 16y ago
If you're running on a microcontroller, with no OS underneath you don't even need to use main(). You of course need some entry point for your loader to start executing, but you can pick whatever convention you want.
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by btmorex 16y ago
I'm sure you meant consumer facing applications, but I might as well point out that there exceptions in the general case. Linux has nearly completely taken over from UNIX and it did this (at least originally) by simply being more open.
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by btmorex 16y ago
You have to do this if you want your codebase to get better over time rather than worse over time.
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by btmorex 16y ago
He's blaming poor coders for digg's failure, but he's the one who ultimately hired them (or at least started the ball rolling by initially hiring bad people) so really it's his failure. Every company is inundated by poor applicants. One of
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by btmorex 16y ago
That particular lesson was actually learned decades ago (see my comment 3 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316593 )
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by btmorex 16y ago
If you plan on being alive at 65, then yes you should. Both are fantastic investments because of the tax free growth. Basically everyone should follow this pattern with extra money they have: 1.) Max out employer matching in 401k 2.) Max ou
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by btmorex 16y ago
I'm not trying to convince anyone that the containment vessel will fail or that they will have to do more steam releases. I'm simply saying that the arguments presented in the article are illogical.
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by btmorex 16y ago
This is a bad article. 1.) He argues that the three mile island accident means that the containment vessel will hold now. Even if they were the exact same reactor design, that doesn't logically follow, but they aren't the same design which
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by btmorex 16y ago
It's interesting. I've been reading the science subreddit and a lot of people are holding this up and some kind of engineering triumph, but to me it's an absolute engineering failure. Even if nothing bad happens from this point forward, two
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by btmorex 16y ago
Well, judging from past nuclear accidents (Chernobyl, 3 mile island), I would: 1.) Not trust the government, the plant operator, the plant designer, hell anyone remotely involved. They always downplay whatever is really going on to prevent
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by btmorex 16y ago
It's not clear what he means by apply. I assume he means that they only ever applied for one or two jobs without having been recruited/having a connection to the company already. Of course in another sense, everyone applies for every job th
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by btmorex 16y ago
He says in the listing that he was buying social media traffic @ $5 a day so maybe you could try that. In all honesty though, you're probably just going to have to take the loss. Better due diligence would be asking for 3+ months of revenue
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by btmorex 16y ago
No, but I'm a few steps removed from candidates initial contact. Honestly, I usually don't read resumes either because I don't think they're very valuable in assessing technical skill. That said, if you're doing initial screens, it's probab
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by btmorex 16y ago
If you're 26 years old, investing in t-bills is a horrible idea. Show me a 40 year period where t-bills have outperformed the stock market. OP, she definitely put in as much as money as her employer will match. If there's more leftover, put
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by btmorex 16y ago
You're one of those people who spends all their time deleting articles on wikipedia, aren't you?

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