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by earl 15y ago
Supercookies, at least inside flash, are unlikely to be used following the lawsuit against quantcast and clearspring [1]. Full disclosure: I work for quantcast. This is nothing more than my personal opinion, and should not be taken as comp
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by earl 15y ago
"not visiting the sites that record this information" is, in fact, perfectly sufficient I have to run, so: @falconas: of course this is a sacrifice. But if sufficient people feel similarly, over time, one would expect companies to act acco
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by earl 15y ago
Never forget the US government's horrid track record at civil liberties, and always remember the corporations have better lobbyists than you.
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by earl 15y ago
I don't think even what you said is sufficient -- as long as they are within the jurisdiction of the US court system, I think a judge can order them to start saving copies of incoming mail before encrypting, etc. I think fundamentally you c
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by earl 15y ago
From the article: "My father has had prospective buyers of multi-million dollar apartments threaten to walk away from a deal because of an additional $10,000 in closing or alteration costs at the 11th hour." And you have a problem with tha
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by earl 15y ago
No. Words have well accepted definitions. While obviously effectiveness is important, it's not productivity [1]. [1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/productivity
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by earl 15y ago
re: monopsony -- You didn't read my comment carefully. Teachers obviously aren't chained to a city, but not all of us are 20 years old and eager to hop around the country. Once you do things like buy a house / apartment, or have an SO wit
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by earl 15y ago
I thought it through just fine, unless you have a large supply of smart well educated people who'd like to be making the same amount of money, and maybe less in real terms, ten years from now, and 20 years from now, and so on. No? Well the
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by earl 15y ago
Fine. Amend kenjackson's statement to say that, in the real world, voters have demonstrated in practice they are unwilling to pay sufficient taxes to attract a high quality group of people to teaching as a profession.
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by earl 15y ago
But they essentially have to be. First, teachers outside of pretty narrow bounds will never be more productive. It takes one teacher to teach 20 students. In 10 years it will take one teacher to teach 20 students. Thus there is no produc
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by earl 15y ago
Wow. I really hope the blogger isn't proud of neglecting his brother, sister, father, and wife for some company. He has skewed priorities.
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by earl 15y ago
Well, we could have not tortured him. Failing that, we could live up to our so-called standards and laws and live with the consequences of torturing him, ie that all evidence tainted by torture is now inadmissible.
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by earl 15y ago
Congrats America. We officially torture randoms (some Afghans were given up to the equivalent of a year's salary to turn folks in; quite a nice way of getting rid of some SOB and getting paid). We also violate our laws and constitution, t
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by earl 16y ago
Yeah, but you know what? I more than DOUBLED my salary by leaving breast cancer research and spending my time thinking about ads. So fuck anybody who has a problem with that. Blah blah blah make a difference and work on a deadly diseas
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by earl 16y ago
Well, java is retarded, so the standard trick is to declare an array of size one and declare the array itself as final. So you can't change the array object but you're certainly free to change the object it contains. Stupid? As all hell.
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by earl 16y ago
In practice, as someone who has spent the last 18 months writing MR code at Quantcast, the difficult parts of writing map reduce programs all are how does one take communicative/global knowledge algorithms and either (1) change the algorith
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by earl 16y ago
Yeah, hadoop is a bear to get working. One of the benefits of working at a more established company like quantcast, google, or presumably facebook is there are internal infrastructure teams to smooth all that over. I pretty much get to ty
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by earl 16y ago
No. Given eg the police in Michigan using devices to dump phone contents on a regular basis [1], there is an enormous difference between unencrypted data on a device just sitting there and anything requiring a subpoena. [1] http://www.m
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by earl 16y ago
There's also cost of living issues -- $250K in sf is not the same as $250k in rural Wisconsin. My family all lives there, so based on my personal experiences, I'd wager that $250k in sf is about the same as $90k in rural-ish WI. My sister
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by earl 16y ago
I've previously worked for a pair of bosses who telecommuted. Never again. At least for the types of algorithmic / machine learning software I work on, frequent in person collaboration is really helpful and none of the remote collaboratio
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by earl 16y ago
truecrypt ftw If you're uncomfortable with dropbox, put a truecrypt partition right inside your dropbox folder.
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by earl 16y ago
Sorry, my comment wasn't clear -- I thought it was interesting that you were closing the circle to bring it solely online. The outsourced clothes isn't interesting, but solely online is. Your website is cool and I like how you see the clo
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by earl 16y ago
People already do this, just without a website. My tailor was based out of Hong Kong. He flew to NYC every 3 months and rented a nice hotel room for 4 days. You went there and were fitted, picked out fabric, etc. Somewhere between a wee
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by earl 16y ago
Maybe stop complaining 'cause you aren't getting something for nothing and ask about consulting rates? It's a fast and easy way to jump to the front of the priority queue.
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by earl 16y ago
Well, obviously not everybody knows everything and if you're a great candidate but you've never had gc issues with the jvm, any good interviewer will shrug and move on. Also, and I hope this was obvious, but my comments were directed at ex
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by earl 16y ago
craigslist and newspapers amazon and local booksellers or borders netflix and blockbuster google and {altavista, yahoo (on their way), excite, ask, infoseek, inktomi} oracle and a long list of competitors
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by earl 16y ago
Let me echo what tytso said. I work / have worked / have gotten job offers for a bunch of companies you've heard of and I would never consider < $100K+ unless for a pre round A. At places I've interviewed and at places I've hired I th
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by earl 16y ago
I'd imagine they won't be getting any deals with those angels though. Part of the point of the fee, maybe.
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by earl 16y ago
I was in the grad program at a top 5 stats program. Cheating was rampant. I discovered this in a 2nd semester grad level math stats course. There were 4 problems on the test, and one of them could only be solved either by being much smar
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by earl 16y ago
ugh. thank you.

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