chjohasbrouck

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by chjohasbrouck 9y ago
Maybe there are people who would be happier washing their clothes by hand, but I'm sure they're the exception rather than the rule. Most people just don't like doing the shopping, cooking, and cleaning involved with daily mea
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by chjohasbrouck 9y ago
Haha, fair enough. :)
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by chjohasbrouck 9y ago
Some proof or data to back up the article's claim would be great. I'm not really buying it. If moms auto-like every post, then how is that a relevant signal? Everyone has a mom. That would mean every post is getting penalized in t
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by chjohasbrouck 9y ago
That's interesting, but in that scenario, how important is the composer really? Couldn't we just connect the variable output of the AI to some kind of Mechanical Turk-style focus group, feed those results as inputs back into the A
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by chjohasbrouck 9y ago
> While true ... This just broke my brain. I think it's time for me to go to bed...
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by chjohasbrouck 9y ago
Is this possible? It doesn't seem like the necessary information is captured in a picture. I don't think there's a person that could tell you whether food in a picture has allergens, let alone an app.
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Cracking My Own Reddit Password(haseebq.com)
72 points by chjohasbrouck 9y ago|17 comments
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Oracle signs lease, fueling downtown Oakland expansion(eastbaytimes.com)
3 points by chjohasbrouck 9y ago|0 comments
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by chjohasbrouck 9y ago
Maybe this has been said already, but one major problem with Twitter is that by default, the average person will publish and share content on it that's a complete waste of time and of no value to anybody. The average unit of content sh
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
Risk is one of the things that debt can represent, sometimes, but there can be debt that doesn't involve any risk, and there are risks that don't involve debt. What's risky about using a credit card to buy a kayak? And how do
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
One caveat to this kind of thinking is that money is fungible. One can easily pay for a vacation or years of eating at nice restaurants every day all in cash, and also go into debt for an education. Also, one individual taking out an auto l
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
I'd be surprised if this house meets state regulations for residential construction in any US state. That'll be one of the biggest obstacles to 3D printed housing in the US. Even if you somehow get efficiency gains through 3D prin
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
Completely agree. I take this one step further and say tablets are probably handicapping your kids in the home. Having no tablets or smartphones available during the PC revolution forced most of us here to default to exactly the correct set
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
I think this is an example of something machines can't quite do better than humans yet, though it's an interesting problem to solve (trying to analyze how people in general will feel about something). Personally I'd give it t
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
I use the JetBrains family of IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, RubyMine, PhpStorm, WebStorm) and I'm really happy with them. I've also been playing around a bit with Atom lately.
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
This is why no matter how much sense it makes to use something like vim or emacs as your primary development editor, I could never justify the amount of time it would take me to actually be totally comfortable and start seeing benefits (bey
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
> Urgh. It has been several years now since I last had to deal with Magento, and nothing I've seen over the years suggests it has got any better. One of their biggest vendors, WebShopApps, happened to write a pretty scathing open le
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RubyConf 2016 – Lies, Damned Lies, and Substrings(youtube.com)
12 points by chjohasbrouck 10y ago|0 comments
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
I had intimate knowledge of an Act of Congress and some DOJ seizures that resulted from it years ago, and that's the first time I really experienced what you just described. The basic inaccuracy and sensational bias in the reporting an
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
> it's a different system from the server, lots of tricks are needed to make it work invisibly (either with a VM or a lighter equivalent) I used to use Linux for this reason, but it's no longer a factor in my opinion. Ideally y
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
I think the market's expectation is that a DNS provider is prepared for a DDoS of any size, but not necessarily any level of complexity, so that's a lot of incentive to talk up the complexity of the attack. What's described i
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
Another interesting way to look at this is to look at what level of income equality people are advocating for, on a macro scale. Most people making arguments against income inequality in the US seem to want income to be more equal down to a
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
I've always thought that maybe they optimize their designs specifically for A/B testability. If everything is just kind of flat and grey, there's less noise, and it's easier to write A/B tests that produce meaningfu
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
Those are just two product categories well-known for their manipulation of the nutrition facts label, and there are definitely millions of consumers that think they confer health benefits as a result of how the nutrition facts label was man
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
One problem with products like Soylent is that the nutrition label is used for marketing, and as a result they consciously engineer the product to optimize for that. Nutrition facts labels and recommended daily intakes vary by country, and
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
A couple years ago I was watching Hulu and noticed the ads always felt like they took much longer to play than they should. I got out my iPhone and timed the seconds as they counted down during ad time on Hulu. Each second of ad time on Hul
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
I guess that's true. I'm not saying an 8-mile commute and a $30k car is where the line is either, though. That was just my situation roughly, and Uber wasn't a little less expensive, it was a LOT less expensive. Like, roughly
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
The cost of owning a car (maintenance, financing, registration, license, insurance, tickets, parking, cleaning) will totally eclipse the cost of Lyft/Ubering a self-driving car, even (especially?) for the poor. We're already to th
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
This seems awfully cynical to me. There's a big difference between slavery, and working a job because the money affords your preferred lifestyle or life goals and you've decided that the positives outweigh the negatives. A differe
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by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
There are definitely organizations where code that works but doesn’t appropriately account for those uncontrolled scenarios will earn you nothing more than a bad reputation. I’ve seen this happen, and I’ve seen their name slowly drift to th

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