codyb

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by codyb 8y ago
No stupid questions time, but given all languages, would an array based language like J be a decent choice for building a database from scratch? I mean, tables seem like doubly indexed arrays. In my mind it wouldn't be readable but it&
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by codyb 8y ago
Design has always been painfully slow for me as well, despite the ease with which I can implement a design handed to me. If you actually do want to get good at design I recommend just building five or ten nonfunctional web designs based on
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by codyb 8y ago
Yes. I know newspapers sell ads. And I'm familiar with the fact that journalists may have biases and special interests. I never said anyone should put their full faith in newspapers. But they're certainly better edited than the Fa
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by codyb 8y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure they're just a scapegoat. I think there's very serious concerns to a society which seems to consume most of it's media as curated by AI and their online friends as opposed to say, a newspaper editor. Es
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by codyb 8y ago
I think messages aren't mined for advertising at this point. Doesn't mean that won't change, but their current policy states it isn't happening now. Secret messages can't be harvested, but aren't portable betwe
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by codyb 8y ago
FB messenger is probably more secure than SMS, especially if you use secret conversations (although you lose portability of conversations this way). Signal and iMessage are my favorites personally.
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by codyb 8y ago
I hate to godwin this thread, but wasn't half the issue people claimed to have with ex nazis was that they never stood up and stopped following orders? Obviously Googlers are not Nazis. I guess the subjective part ends up being where y
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by codyb 8y ago
I suppose one relatively easy scenario for me to imagine would be these massive databases of information on billions of individuals being either hacked, leaked, or taken by groups with idealogies which could use such data to discriminate or
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by codyb 8y ago
I don't believe that's true in the most recent versions. I just set up a headless pi with wpa_supplicant in the boot partition of a raspbian lite image that worked well a week or so ago.
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by codyb 8y ago
This seems like it would be super useful prior to Raspbian Stretch for developers using Apple products. Prior to stretch the wpa_supplicant.conf file needed to be modified in the main Raspbian partition which is inaccessible on the unix mac
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by codyb 8y ago
I think the idea is that by writing less buggy code with two people you save in refactoring, bug squashing, and fire management down the road. Similar to testing I suppose. No idea how the math works out in the end, I assume it'd be hi
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by codyb 8y ago
To add just one thing to this (which covers most bases I think), it really depends who you're pairing with. I've had really great times with a buddy at work, paired up, complementing eachother's skillsets, getting things done
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by codyb 8y ago
Hackernews and freenode are the best tech communities I've come across. Don't know where I'd be without the tremendous generosity of the persons in these communities. Currently interviewing with multiple companies from the wh
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by codyb 8y ago
Hey pcl, So I discovered tmuxp relatively recently and am between jobs at the moment but I'll tell you that for my personal projects I can look at my yaml file and immediately see that there's a gulp dev command which is run in th
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by codyb 8y ago
Huh, I haven't found Docker to be a pain at all now that I sort of vaguely have an idea of what I do. A docker file takes maybe ten minutes, and is really documentation more than anything. That with a tmuxp yml file to set up a tmux se
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by codyb 8y ago
The fraud of the subway on society? Lol. Okay. The trains also run the other direction, you know that right? It's the same cost to commute to Far Rockaway as it is to commute to Manhattan, and there's plenty of workers out there t
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by codyb 8y ago
That really hurts most a lot of poor people who work odd hours. Then suddenly they have to find a way home or two work that will be much more expensive and eat into their earnings. I'm not sure what the solution is, but "that&#x27
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by codyb 8y ago
Jesus dude, what?? NYC's fantastic. It's one of the safest major metropolitan areas in the world filled with a tremendous variety of culture. It's the most diverse place on the planet with only London even being at a comparab
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by codyb 8y ago
Yea I was checking it out and mainly focused on voting members for my post. Who knew? It's something I'd never even thought of until now. Seems like something that might be worth looking into as a New Yorker considering these fift
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by codyb 8y ago
I don't think there's anything in particular which is wrong with that at a micro scale, but at a macro scale when literally billions of people are being subtly influenced without realizing it by powers that may have no interest in
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by codyb 8y ago
I certainly wouldn't. And I assume many others wouldn't either. There's plenty of jobs that offer just fine livings in relatively neutral ground areas. I guess they certainly have their workforce, so there's plenty of pe
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by codyb 8y ago
There's a ton of things which impacted the 2016 election (disproporionate representation, 24 hour news cycle's obsession with Trump, foreign interference, people seeming to get most of their media from social media, disinformation
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by codyb 8y ago
Probably because it seems doubtful that ten million people (the estimated number of illegal aliens in the US), tanked wages for everyone in a country of 330 million. It's curious you immediately point to illegal immigration as the big
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by codyb 8y ago
Isn't NAFTA pretty much very favorable to the US? I agree with your sentiment that corporate welfare sucks and would have been much happier with the tax breaks being distributed to startups somehow, however, you're talking about L
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by codyb 8y ago
Huh, I just looked it up, I guess the Mayor represents the five burroughs but you'd think Kings, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island would have representatives that represent them alone if Nassau, Rockland, Putnam, and Oran
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by codyb 8y ago
I mean... good luck finding a system of self organization for seven billion people which doesn't involve people trying to better their situation in some way? I mean I appreciate the sentiment, but 'the economy' might also be
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by codyb 8y ago
Ha, I watched that with my Mom. Seems like a nice fellow, I wish him the best of luck. I know the old system's antiquated but until we focus serious cash on the security of our infrastructure as a nation, I'm not looking forward t
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by codyb 8y ago
Isn't it possible by supporting their own devices for so long they've slowed sales for themselves? If Androids get three years of updates and Apple's get six, and there are fewer and fewer emerging markets you're obvious
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by codyb 8y ago
That is 21 million units though. Unless there were other models in production that brought it up to 40 million seems like it could still be the best selling models and about 20 million units total, no? Ope, clicked your link before posting
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by codyb 8y ago
Not only that but they're incredibly janky with the constant stop start, stop start and the hard turns. Getting on a crowded bus can be a miserable experience, trains are a lot more consistent with their accelerations and don't ha

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