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by dylangs1030 13y ago
You could combine the advantages of git versioning with wiki style collaboration and make a git-wiki like the parent said, but for writers. Wikipedia is largely prose, but of a nonfiction variety. This would be a good intersection for git,
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I'm late to this, but if I understand your problem correctly, you could tweak your firewall to auto-reject outbound packets being sent to Yahoo or Yahoo subdomains. You could also do this with a proxy intercepting all the requests your
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
The ridiculous logic that statement employs aside, he has no obligation to treat it fairly. But if that's the case then whatever he says will just be disregarded. I won't treat his unfair dismissal as fair either. Okay, so we&#x27
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I suppose I could have said "coherent and articulate" instead of "heavily accented" so you're right. But I think my point stands.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I don't think you're being antagonistic towards PG, but I respect your not wanting to get into a heated debate. Nor do I. I can see a reasonable case for you to say PG should add more clarification to his words when he's in a
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I think you just disregarded my entire argument using a cultural taboo. Nice work. See? I can play at that game too. The problem is, doing that doesn't get anywhere, because I'm still convinced of my point, and you're still c
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Bad example. There is nothing intrinsically different between a black QB and a white one, all other things being equal. All other things being equal, there is a lot of difference between what an eloquent speaker can achieve and what a heavi
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
If being male, being white, and attending Harvard are all positively correlated with being successful in a startup, then there's actually nothing wrong with selectively looking for those qualifiers. Does it make it more difficult to ge
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I think people are blowing this out of proportion. > I do not doubt that there may be correlation between people who have performed poorly in YC and "very strong accents", it does not mean causation. It doesn't matter wha
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
So, he's not criticizing Paul Graham for making the statement (and admits he understands Graham isn't anti-immigrant or anti-foreigner), but is instead criticizing him for not taking responsibility for how his words might be tak
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
It looks like you're a throwaway, but I'll bite. If you follow the conversation, you see that 'tptacek isn't using appeal to authority to defend an argument. Rather, he was responding to an abrupt dismissal of two people
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Those are the obvious ones. I've taken the MMPI. There's a lot more than just those. None of these are the seemingly innocuous ones I was talking about. Again, I'll reiterate: can they be gamed? Yes. Is it likely? Emphatic
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
No, it can certainly be gamed. It's just so hard without prior knowledge and preparation as to be statistically negligent. This is also why I said you should avoid giving the same test twice. But a single, cold test administration shou
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I used to work in a supermarket and in a department store. Those people you see shooting the shit and slacking off are necessary. The reason why they're there is because if the store suddenly gets packed, they will be split up and gi
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
They should...but if everyone did that we'd have much less population growth. Most people , particularly lower classes, don't particularly care. I don't have a citation, but it's kind of self-evident. At the very least
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Wow, I have to defer to you then :) Is there anything you've got offhand that I can read further about this? I didn't know you could actually game them.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Yes, but in that context gaming is known and accounted for. My definition of gaming was manipulation without the proctor or evaluation showing any statistically significant deviation, which is virtually impossible on modern personality test
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I love rsync. It's also really useful for backing up local files incrementally. It's an easy CLI utility, but there's a GUI as well, called grsync. You can use cron to automate them, which is how I backup my linux system nigh
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
It's not particularly difficult to devise a personality exam that way - in the best case scenario, the candidate cannot game the test, and in the worst case scenario, they game it but the proctor is fully aware of the gaming, so you si
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
>The problem with psychometric tests is that they're easy to game by answering them with the values the company is almost certainly looking for. You'd think that, but a quality psychometric test can't be gamed if it was de
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
That's all nice and well, but my point is, no matter what change you make, you're going to alienate users. Youtube can't make everyone happy. It isn't feasible. This change, that affects the view-flow of 0.0004% of users
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Listen, I agree with you on this with things like Google Reader. But 4 in a million people clicked on the video responses. On a mathematical level, it just wasn't worth it. This isn't a big deal, I don't know why everyone i
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Not surprising. There's really not much justification for getting worked up over this. They're not sunsetting a critical component of Youtube. This isn't a Google Reader...come on. 4 people in a million? You'd get rid
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I've run both linux and OS X as my default setups (currently linux), and I have to say, OS X does a lot of things better. I like linux better overall, but that's just too strong a statement. Here's a few that OS X does better
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Linux has come a long way.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
The AI in games like Gran Turismo is a terrible example. That AI is not designed to avoid accidents. Accidents are an acceptable part of the game play, and you're racing at high speeds above the norm. It would be at least as difficult,
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I have pretty solid counters to your objections: 1. Autonomous cars shouldn't really be impacted by density. You can only make a highway so dense...there's one-four lanes, and it's like minesweeper. You can be surrounded by s
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
The problem with your thinking is that you assume the engineer's behind this can't program a response to every conceivable condition. I'd argue they can. If you have a 3-dimensional model, with a finite number of axes to move
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
If the NSA wants to know your real-time location on the roads, it really doesn't need Google to do that. Or Facebook...or any other $BIG_COMPANY for that matter.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Making cars autonomous would virtually eliminate traffic. Traffic only exists because of the inefficiency generated by cars driving at different speeds in a "pack" on the highway. Aside from traffic caused by accidents or unavoida

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