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by ebbv 8y ago
Serious conflict of interest with this story given that the Post is owned by Bezos and Amazon is highly reliant on the trucking industry and trying to grow their own logistics.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Working on a project in Angular right now I’m really questioning if the layers of abstraction on front end code are worth the cost. The compile times and performance costs over writing standard JS are real.
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by ebbv 8y ago
The thing is it's kind of a false narrative. Because the shows aren't entirely ad free. They're mostly ad free, but Lost in Space for example featured an extremely jarring product placement for Oreos which came up repeatedly
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by ebbv 8y ago
It's very sad that you believe that. It doesn't have to be, and shouldn't be in my opinion. That's a tactic immoral people resort to and make excuses like "Everybody does it." for their behavior.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Yes, absolutely. If anything I err on the side of playing things down. I never want to promise something I can't deliver or tell someone I'm more than I am. Besides, that's not even the issue. This guy just flat out lied. Not
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by ebbv 8y ago
Tip #3 is pretty silly. Lots of people don't use LinkedIn, it's a horrible site, and a LinkedIn profile isn't proof of anything. Spend more time talking to your candidates and ask for real references. Don't trust phone n
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by ebbv 8y ago
Dude, no. Someone who would lie this much to get what he wants will lie when you're working with him. If he makes a big mistake he will lie about it to avoid getting fired just as surely as he lied to get the job. Citing Neil Gaiman --
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by ebbv 8y ago
This is THE statistic that nuclear proponents love to cite. There have been articles blasting about nuclear’s low fatality number as long as I’ve been on HN. And just as long I’ve been pointing out it’s a bogus, stupid metric. Solar gets a
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by ebbv 8y ago
Skype is dying because the client has been bloated and slow for ages along with poor call quality and reliability. Those two things together made it far less appealing than the many alternatives.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Great article. Appreciate the point of view and I think all the advice is sound.
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by ebbv 8y ago
100%. And it’s like they have forgotten anybody ever shares computers in a family. Google has lost the plot lately.
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by ebbv 8y ago
I’m not forgetting anything. The actual shuttle missions were not a statistical experiment or a consistent action where you can say “well this is what happened so that was the chance of death on an individual shuttle flight.” It only means
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by ebbv 8y ago
Yes if you actually run an experiment with real sample sizes you can begin to form hypothesis around and unknown probability. But my point was you cannot look at a historical event and say "Well this happened, so that was the chance.&q
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by ebbv 8y ago
Oh my lord you guys that is not how probabilities work. You can’t look at what actually happened and then say “Well that was the chance.” If I flip a coin 20 times and happen to end up with a 15:5 split that doesn’t mean the chance of heads
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by ebbv 8y ago
Yeah, it is. Give people better interfaces for controlling the sources. Set a higher bar for quality before even letting a site put their articles up. It wasn’t a problem on Google News for years and it’s because it didn’t pull articles fro
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by ebbv 8y ago
Exactly why I stopped using google news. Garbage sites started getting thier garbage articles into my feed constantly and it was an annoying battle to keep them out. Seems obvious and easy to fix, but in true google fashion they will probab
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by ebbv 8y ago
100%. This is what people fail to realize about programming. Sometimes our job is just writing stuff where we already know what we need to do. That stuff tends to go pretty fast. The hard part of our job, and what takes the majority of my t
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by ebbv 8y ago
A bunch of truly awful people nobody wants to be around blaming women for their lives instead of taking some personal responsibility.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Those details don't really matter, because the point it's not realistic to expect a company with so many projects and users like GitHub to be making those kind of individual calls. You don't really own part or any of the proj
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by ebbv 8y ago
Good policy. Then I can just watch for people to go on vacation via their Instagram, and while they're out I'll contact GitHub and say "Hey this person is unreachable! Give me control of their projects!" Brilliant.
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by ebbv 8y ago
It’s not censoring of ideas. It’s removing video ads for quackery that is probably illegal under strict reading of US law. YouTube is on borrowed time (as is all social media) in skirting regulations that normally were enforced on TV and ra
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by ebbv 8y ago
The placebo effect is a real effect
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by ebbv 8y ago
UM Dearborn is largely a separate entity. They're related but when people talk about UM it's not what they're referring to. It has its own much smaller student body and faculty, etc.
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by ebbv 8y ago
Different sections of Detroit have different costs, Royal Oak isn't very cheap. But some sections are way, way cheaper than Ann Arbor. The part of Ferndale my good friends live in is still much cheaper than Ann Arbor even though it&#x2
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by ebbv 8y ago
I’m giving you the experience of someone who grew up in Ann Arbor and has lived and worked in this area for 40 years. Outsiders like to conflate the two but they are not really that tied together. There’s influence but Ann Arbor is largely
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by ebbv 8y ago
Not necessarily from, but are choosing it instead of. But yes young people who grew up in Ann Arbor are moving out to Detroit for sheer cost of rent/house reasons.
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by ebbv 8y ago
I'm sorry I have to do it; Detroit does not have U of Mich. U of Mich is 45 minutes west in Ann Arbor. Some U of M grads go over to Detroit, but it's not like U of M students live in Detroit. They are very separate. Detroit is mos
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by ebbv 8y ago
You don’t have to wonder. The data is out there. While there are “more millionaires” than before, that’s a bogus metric due to inflation. You have to look at concentration of wealth as a percentage and a ratio between. Wealthy and poor and
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by ebbv 8y ago
How can it possibly have any value whatsoever if it's not real? If it's real you can wonder ok what motivated actual people to behave in this way, what actually happened? If it is made up (which it almost certainly is because it&#
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by ebbv 8y ago
This is the lamest argument I've seen in a while. It's clearly being presented as a true story by the original source. If it's not true it's not food for any kind of thought it's just a really badly written and stup

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