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by curun1r 9y ago
Since the top claimant was someone from Massachusetts, I wonder if this [1] has anything to do with it. Perhaps he's the person who cashes in tickets for one of the syndicates mentioned in the story. As an aside, the guy mentioned at t
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by curun1r 9y ago
It might have something to do with taxi drivers specifically since they're not known for being the most honest and decent service providers. Whether it's scams like letting air out of their tires, not starting the meter or taking
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by curun1r 9y ago
I said this in a previous thread [1], but I'll restate here: Your face or fingerprint is neither your username nor your password. It's a form of identity. The combination of username and password is another form of identity. A cer
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Believe it or not it's actually nineteen times, not nine. Though the last ten introduce a fair amount of inconvenience and eww-factor when unlocking your phone.
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Being overburdened with customizations can be an indication of failure in the product management team/processes. Customer problems are rarely as unique as they believe them to be. Great product managers will hear the request but find t
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by curun1r 9y ago
Add athletes to the list. The unions in the various professional sports leagues also provide an interesting model that still allows individual negotiation within the scope of the collective bargaining agreements. I could imagine a tech work
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by curun1r 9y ago
My guess would be no. Unions work when labor is fungible. And while a business might view many tech employees that way, we've largely resisted seeing ourselves that way. We mythologize the 10x programmer and openly acknowledge that the
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by curun1r 9y ago
Not the poster you're replying to, but I'd say mindfulness and meditation. Learning to look inward can be an incredibly powerful tool for dealing with issues like substance abuse.
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You focus on the actual problem rather than the previous false causes of addiction. In the past, we've blamed the addict's moral character and will power and, more recently, we've tried to look at addiction through a purely p
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by curun1r 9y ago
I think the other criticism of MBAs is that they're taught to take a very narrow view to running a business that is overly focused on growth and efficiency. As much as startups are lionized around here, I like to hope that a lot of us
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by curun1r 9y ago
Perhaps, but what if they ensured that FaceID only worked when you had both eyes open? It would then, be much easier to be non-compliant than it would with TouchID since it's harder to hold someone's eyes open without obscuring th
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by curun1r 9y ago
Your both right and both wrong. Biometric authentication is an identity scheme. The combination of username and password is also an identity scheme. A certificate chain is another identity scheme. Identities both identify who you are and ar
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by curun1r 9y ago
Belief should always be optional. Behavior based on that belief shouldn't. I'm fine with anyone who wants to question climate change, evolution or even something as accepted as gravity. Questioning is how we refine our thinking. W
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by curun1r 9y ago
> It's the easiest solution (as a developer) I've come across where I just commit to Github and my blog is updated I'm not sure how that's easier than GH Pages or Netlify and both of those have the bonus of being free
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> By displaying false information, they are point-blank lying. That's misinformation. As a devil's advocate, despite the presentation being scummy, there's definite consumer value to seeing tickets that sold. It helps corr
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by curun1r 9y ago
> optimisation for javascript is just a short term fad WebAssembly should offer the best of both worlds...optimized for performance and with at least an answer to the view source complaint. And, perhaps the best benefit, the ability to w
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by curun1r 9y ago
I remember the first publicly available being Dojo's minifier which used Mozilla's Rhino to determine which symbols could be safely obfuscated. It's primitive by today's standards, but it was a huge step forward at the t
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by curun1r 9y ago
Umm...becoming more athletic? I can't speak for others, but I'm more fit because I live near mountains and other outdoor activities. I don't choose to live near those things because I'm fit. The causation is mostly the o
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by curun1r 9y ago
There are two massive problems and neither of them have anything to do with executing attacker's code. First, for Equifax, their databases should be sufficiently isolated from front-end web servers. SQL gives you the ability to, in ess
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by curun1r 9y ago
I think we mostly agree, which is why I upped your original comment calling for an otherwise block, despite the unnecessary (or imprecise) call for a third boolean value. As a slightly more verbose option that didn't involve adding a n
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by curun1r 9y ago
Hey...context matters. When you're talking about your own tendencies (whether you're likely to be serious or joking), who you are matters. When you're supporting your argument it doesn't. If you call that exacting standa
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by curun1r 9y ago
Quoting directly: > Oh, and BTW, before you completely dismiss the idea that my suggestion might have merit, you might want to look me up. He wasn't saying "I'm right because I'm me." He was saying, "I'
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by curun1r 9y ago
> brilliant off-beat thinking Those words must have new meaning since he was citing as an example a language that's existed since the 70s. Ternary booleans are far from a unique or novel concept. The main difference is that for most
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by curun1r 9y ago
He was making an argument and its disingenuous for you to suggest otherwise. Go back and look at what he wrote. He basically said, "before you dismiss my idea as not having merit, go look me up." Ideas have merit independent of wh
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by curun1r 9y ago
The down votes are likely for trying to invoke an ad hominem argument. No matter someone's credentials, it's still a logical fallacy and something to be avoided. If he is an authority on the subject, it should show through in his
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's way past time that we start dealing with homelessness as the national problem it is rather than leaving it to cities who are ill-equipped to deal with it. Cities like San Diego only have homelessness problems because they have wea
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Environmental issues and class economics Nope, at least not in my experience. I attended a small protest at the SF EPA offices in support of the agency and against the funding cuts from the Trump administration. It's fair to say t
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by curun1r 9y ago
See my reply ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15104346 ) to another comment for a fuller answer, but briefly... I'm not impugning bootcamps or claiming you should be teaching those concepts. I'm claiming that
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I think you misunderstood my meaning. Of course CS classes don't teach you that stuff. The point isn't that CS classes prepare you for the workplace any better than a bootcamp. The point is that the intellectual curiosity necessar
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> The best developers I worked with are the self-taught guys/girls who learn on their own before they even hit the college I think this is the crux of the issues I had with bootcamp candidates. They were reasonably strong in the are

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