drb91

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by drb91 8y ago
I don’t see how asking for one of these is unreasonable. It’s certainly preferable to a blog post or HN comment!
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by drb91 8y ago
It’s easy to see things as necessary in retrospect. Things are rarely necessary, except to a specific end. Maybe you just lack imagination!
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by drb91 8y ago
$17k is actually pretty good for a single person compared to many in this country. Try feeding four people on $20k a year. I know people who work three jobs (not all paid!) for $10k a year--they aren't homeless ONLY because they have a
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by drb91 8y ago
Do you have any findings to the contrary? Otherwise this seems fully in the realm of possibility. If you're arguing there's sufficient evidence to reject these findings you're wrong.
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by drb91 8y ago
Yea, fuck you guys for giving us a term for something useful. It really ruined our day. I would've gotten away with vague references to how the software works if it weren't for you damn kids!
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by drb91 8y ago
This seems more of an issue with where the company invests resources than to the engineer themselves.
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by drb91 8y ago
> no, the worst case is that capital was misallocated, Who is to say this isn’t happening already? I don’t see many signs it’s well allocated today. Look at healthcare costs in America. Look at our defense spending for little tangible re
548.
by drb91 8y ago
Along with many healthy bacteria, no?
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by drb91 8y ago
This is true. The performing engineers are underpaid; the underperforming ones should be trained or fired.
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by drb91 8y ago
That is very odd. Why limit that at all?
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by drb91 8y ago
Obligatory Chickenshit Club reference: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Chickenshit_Club.ht...
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by drb91 8y ago
> who are not getting rid of Facebook itself what are the security and privacy risks of using it for login for other services such as Spotify? Facebook could decide arbitrarily, or by bug or mistake, to deny you access. Why use them at a
553.
by drb91 8y ago
How does a saved item differ from a non-saved item? Is it equivalent to "downloaded"?
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by drb91 8y ago
They also won't allow you to blacklist content (artists, songs, albums, etc) from your radio... truly frustrating given they force you to use their client.
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by drb91 8y ago
> I'm surprised that doesn't have a larger performance cost, For what workload?
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by drb91 8y ago
I was more indicating the capitalists here.
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by drb91 8y ago
It would have to be an extraordinarily bad engineer to actively remove revenue consistently. You can also hedge against this with disaster recovery.
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by drb91 8y ago
> You add more money to the system and where does it go? Probably from rich person to rich person, but there's the hope tax money goes to actual services. At worst we're in the same position. > On a tangential note, there is
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by drb91 8y ago
Well better than letting the cash not get spent at all.
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by drb91 8y ago
If you're asking seriously.... I think there's serious potential for co-ops. There's no reason services like Yelp need to be designed around a hockey stick revenue curve.
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by drb91 8y ago
White lies are confusing things.
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by drb91 8y ago
Software Engineers are also hugely underpaid.
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by drb91 8y ago
That’s probably more due to the fact that the value of an education is less necessary for the wealthy to succeed. Why bother trying when you can be president with a gentleman’s c?
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by drb91 8y ago
The lie would be for the benefit of the person whose name was forgotten, not to "save face". From what, forgetting a name? Nothing is more human. I do agree that to lie at all is a terrible idea.
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by drb91 8y ago
> with certainty exceeding 90-95% (the "reasonable doubt" threshold) How do you figure? Smells like a p value taken from a science class, not anything related to a legal definition of reasonable doubt.
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by drb91 8y ago
Rich government officials were the victims this time. I feel confident.
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by drb91 8y ago
What, they refuse to answer? How rude.
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by drb91 8y ago
> Raw pointers—if they're single heap allocations—are also runtime validity-checked, in the sense that violations will (probabilistically) result in a General Protection Fault, given a large address space and ASLR. Not for off-by-co
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by drb91 8y ago
People actually bought the iPod.
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by drb91 8y ago
You’re right. If they had said something slightly different, I would be mad. It certainly isn’t behavior to condone. In a political context, it probably is racist. That said, I still do not think I would call it racism. Most of us prefer to

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