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by casual_slacker 8y ago
While looking for more information, I found this article [1] which gives more detail into the costs of the MTA compared to other cities. Regarding operator efficiency: > The number of annual revenue car-miles per subway employee in New Y
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
I was sent that same post when I interviewed 5 years ago. I wonder if they have data indicating success of interviewees who were sent that link. If nothing else, the recommended book "Steven Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual&qu
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
But if the bots are intelligent enough to be a problem maybe they should have free speech.
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by casual_slacker 8y ago
Here's another article with a picture of the refueling: https://disciplesofflight.com/flight-endurance/
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
If you're not polite you don't deserve to have an opinion. Fact.
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
The privacy policy exerpt you included is misleading; it's the section relating to third-party businesses. The full privacy policy [1] states that Google can process your gmail internally for almost any purpose relating to Google'
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
I always wanted to take it one step further, that is a "robot" item in-game which can be programmed using logo-like instructions. Mostly I just want to automate the tedius process of mining (why do I even play this game?) but it c
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
I want to eliminate the work required to go from idea to implementation.
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
I was about to vote for Snowden, but the irony of having to "connect with facebook" put me off.
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
Developers are actually good customers if you sell to their lazy points. Keep it OSS and offer a hosted plan with your API. Your API is rest, so offering a hosted service with a client-side js library can target a lot of wordpress or static
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
When you say "running stop signs", do you mean a rolling slow-down/speed up if they're the first at the intersection? I do that all the time, not sure if it's legal but it's a pain to stop fully. With cars arou
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
Half of the work at a startup, or in programming (and many other things) is figuring out what to get done next . GSD isn't a problem in itself, the people who have both vision and GSD are usually killing it and I love working with tho
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
Cool idea. You should mention upfront that you're using Fibers under the hood, since it has important performance implications. Also, your Wait.for function only takes functions right now; but if you check for a .then function you can
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
Looks like these are built on Polymer. ( http://www.polymer-project.org/ ).
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
Google's caja is that software: https://developers.google.com/caja/
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
Why do we continue to spend time on content that doesn't seem to add value to your life? I had to block myself from Reddit, it took months before I stopped instinctively trying to open it in a new tab. More so though, I was worried abo
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
I've been thinking a lot about such issues too; particularly the pain points I have when ramping up against new systems. What information is missing that leaves me with questions? Can code deliver something thorough enough to be main
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
How does this differ than using a magnetized needle and a steady hand?
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
What about combining a machine learning algorithm with people work for images with low confidence. You could even train the network with feedback from the people workers.
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
Rather than having a grid on the front page, perhaps a structured table of contents would be more useful?
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
If you don't mind, what caused those project managers you've worked with to fail?
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
I don't disagree with you, but it took me all of 2 seconds to disable the new tabs. I haven't seen any of the ads mentioned in the original tweet, so maybe this is a solution? To do it: Hit the Plus sign at the edge of the tabs, a
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
"Droping out of highschool" usually means getting your GED. Once you have your GED you'll be perfectly fine. If you don't get it though, you will be severely crippling yourself in society. If you have two years left of H
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
Once you have PHP you don't need any other languages.
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
On a tangent, I wonder how copyright laws will handle more sophisticated AI systems. Can you train AI systems on copy written data? What parts of the formed neural network are considered derivative works? To what extent are things created b
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
Technology was supposed to make our lives easier and allow us to work less. Instead it gave us new ways to judge people.
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
I've spent two jobs rewriting software. The two main reasons for it: 1) the original was a prototype; 2) the requirements have changed so much that the original architecture doesn't make sense. If it's either of these situati
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
Great post. I think a similar issue is when an engineer feels they need a certain set of infrastructure or algorithmic features before they can start building their program. If you end up finding out that most potential users have a differe
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
http://prq.se/?intl=1 is a hosting and colocation company in Sweden with strong free-speech values. They're also against the data retention policies that are being implemented in other EU countries.
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by casual_slacker 13y ago
It should be noted that certificate pinning is only effective if you can trust the origin of the certificate at the time it is pinned. Imho google is only pushing for something like this because of the Iran incident[0] where a hacker (possi

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