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by carlmcqueen 8y ago
I hear the argument of this article and how important it was (being able to mod/participate in mods) but computers are also fading for gamers with the next generation. The Kids I interact with are on tablets/phones, not the PCs we
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by carlmcqueen 8y ago
no, just poorly written. Just can't use ad-blockers and thus have to witness the horrors of the state of ads if we look at websites.
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by carlmcqueen 8y ago
That's a pretty closed feedback loop and not yet representative of the web as a whole. A simple example of someone different are those who work around me who work in a corporation and aren't allowed ad-blockers by company policy a
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by carlmcqueen 8y ago
Knew I recognized this guy from the greenPi post he made. I'm a sucker for posts about raspberry pi task automation. If anything he is extremely good at getting some buzz around things he is working on and deriving value from having wo
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
Can we please lump the data leaks of Equifax and the like in with the need for these new laws that shift user data from something companies are mining to something they are protecting and disclosing?
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
I believe their posts will be gone, however I only have facebook memories ('on this day') as fickle proof. A friend who commented on a lot of my posts deleted his facebook two or three years ago now. All of his posts are missing w
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
Technically, so has Bill Gates for many, many years.
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
> I know this because I lived it and that's exactly what I did. Be careful of using yourself as the sample of why or why not people should do something. I was also given hard time limits of video games, hard times on television and
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
Marketing has had focus groups, and user use/studies for years. They have always had ways of knowing exactly what their content does without having to track millions of clicks. We have had sampling methods that makes the need to examin
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
Clever, however their link to this chart I think ends as a net positive outcome for me: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
Also, just like a 5 year old child, the bias of the parents is coded into the algorithm. So the 'bad smell' of the old aunt may not be bad to many people's standard of smell but the algorithm still identified it as bad.
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
The only reason I'm upset by this is speculative. If I buy a 'boost' battery case because I know the battery is going to be getting worse with time does their software solution acknowledge this and let me keep the full speed
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
STLtoday keeps a database of how much the teachers make in the Missouri school systems, while its not entirely accurate when you talk to teachers (sometimes the data is super stale, sometimes they have other 'responsibilities/comm
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
This perception of low battery life has really lasted from the first apple watch. It was the reason, along with that it wasn't water proof enough for me, that I didn't get the first one. I wear my apple watch 2 all day, sleep in
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
As someone who has worked at a large corp. for a bunch of years I can say the job you have may feel awful but you're at a company where you can network with people who do anything you are curious about. The same could be said to the pe
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
New York Times' ability to display data, information and stories visually on the internet is truly a wonderful standard to see. I really enjoyed the layout of this page, where the world sits, how the colors in the background don't
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
So if someone purchases my stolen social security number and my last name, both leaked/stolen and enters it into their site to see if it was a good ID, it would waive my rights?
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
This rigged need to prove the same work is being paid the same always rings pretty hollow for me. In my first corporate job I was the most technical employee by far, I did the work of far senior roles because my managers were wise to use a
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
When I lived in Zambia, Africa in 2005 there were refrigerators made by South African companies for countries without 24 hour power. Similar idea to this, really.
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
Hoping comments can resist the urge to turn this into an apple bashing thread. Having someone purposefully steal your data from the inside doesn't mean you don't care about privacy. They likely won't reveal anything but I&#x2
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
I was actually hoping this was more a hardware sale only where they give us something like Automatic* that we can tweak ourselves. [*] https://www.automatic.com/
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
Soon to be a TV series.
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
while an important step, the last line of the article makes it clear it is still pretty early in this process.
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
on topic: https://xkcd.com/1831/
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by carlmcqueen 9y ago
I work for a technical statistical team in the financial world, we've been hiring PHDs lately to my team which has just meant exactly what this comment points out. I do a lot of the grunt work of getting the data sourced, cleaned and r
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
I do analytics for a huge corporation and have been quite happy however some of my peers who are unhappy with the pay here participate in Kaggle for the opportunity to do well and get a better (higher paying) job. Some of the inherent value
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
This article seems to have a single recruiter, who used to work for Uber, as their source. It says an uptick of 10% but doesn't give any idea on what kind of volume that is or was before the 10% uptick. Did he get 10 people? did he g
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
How things like this remain secrets for so long is astounding to me. By definition of what the day to day of driving strangers around Uber has hundreds of drivers who hate their job yet it took this long for these stories to start finding
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
When I was returning to the United States from Croatia, but in Heathrow Airport, my wife and I got picked for a secondary interview at the gate with a British Gentleman who asked me and my wife very detailed questions. My wife had just chan
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by carlmcqueen 10y ago
My father's job included a lot of travel, so I've traveled through airports and out of the country for more than 30 years. The humanity from travel has been stripped from all of us, in spite of this I have the deepest sympathy for

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