darpa_escapee

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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
From what I've seen, Instagram is nearly 60% marketing/bot activity and ads are ruining the experience.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
It's weird seeing people put giant bureaucracies on a pedestal.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Erlang has Elixir which is used throughout industry. Clojure is out there, too. I've also seen OCaml and Haskell here and there. F# is gaining ground.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Sounds like we need regulations to prevent the outsourcing of manufacturing to China.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> I skipped undergrad CS and went directly to a masters. Did you have any undergrad credits or degree?
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Setup a TiddlyWiki instance with Docker several months ago and I'm very happy with it.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
It's very rare that you get to confront the bane of your online existence, but here we both are.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
The study in the article tested this hypothesis and refuted it.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
I've seen payroll, scheduling and appointments and a Blackboard-esque system built on top of Wordpress. Barrier to entry is low and there's a glut of cheap Wordpress developers out there, too, so companies that don't have a b
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> Hmmm hard decipher your comment. I'm being facetious and agree with your sentiment.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
What, you couldn't derive a solution in a vacuum from first principles? I bet you think referring to API documentation isn't cheating, too!
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> Isn't that just something WordPress developers say? I don't know, I don't ask for their take on the market. However, I've consulted with businesses where "We use Wordpress for X" is incredibly common to he
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Charge them with inciting an entirely preventable epidemic.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> As a software engineer, I can't afford to not be on the cutting edge. I have the feeling that if I stopped working for just 6 months, my career would be over. Stop following hype and focus on practical business solutions. You&#x27
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
A Chromecast isn't an agent with free will and intentions, the user is. When I set my DNS settings to a different DNS server than Google's, my preference is just that: different from Google's.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
This is an incredibly generous reading of the situation that, as far as I can tell, has no basis in reality. Google is circumventing how the internet works at pretty basic level by not respecting users' DNS preferences in favor of thei
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Yep. In many places in the world, the internet is Facebook/WhatsApp/YouTube and whatever portal each of your apps allows you to peer into.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Real estate is a finite resource. NYC isn't some dying rust belt town, someone will setup shop where Amazon planned to, and they will pay taxes that Amazon thought they shouldn't have to pay.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> If you are rich and can afford it the american system is great but it is awful for everyone else. I know plenty of incredibly wealthy people who fly to places like France and Israel to see specialists, so take from that what you will.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
I can sort by price on eBay. On Amazon, I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to finally be able to sort by price, and the results I get are far from exhaustive.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
For an app developed with Postgres, you need a Postgres instance running as a prerequisite. Whereas with SQLite, you just need to use a small library, there is no server or daemon involved.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Yes, while the "moar serotonin = moar happy" explanation of why antidepressants work is oversimplified and wrong in many cases, there is empirical evidence that some antidepressants are effective at treating the symptoms of depres
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
How does x2go compare with xpra?
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> I can have a vote, but government will still force me to pay tributes at gunpoint No, at most you'll get a letter in a mail and a lien if you aren't actively trying to evade taxes. No reason to engage in hyperbole.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
With the government, you get a vote. With other institutions, you have to hope their stakeholders' interests align with yours.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
I wonder how compliant HN is with Article 17 of the GDPR[1]. It's the "right to erasure". [1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Yes. From The function of zebra stripes [1]: > Despite over a century of interest, the function of zebra stripes has never been examined systematically. Here we match variation in striping of equid species and subspecies to geographic r
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
You don't have examples of projects that live on an intranet, belong to a client, or make a thing "go" in an industry you'll never interact with? You've never worked on a project where you contributed a handful of p
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> Privacy is literally life and death for people. This is what loses most people, because they don't think it's a big deal if someone reads their Facebook messages. Privacy is what prevents gay people from getting purged in Che
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> Modern farming is a mess from head to toe, been in the making for 40 years. Longer than that. The Grapes of Wrath springs to mind.

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