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by ep103 10y ago
The article specifically specifies that they gave her a giant severance package, and were honest about what and why it was happening, and only _after_ trying to figure out a new role for her where she'd still be useful. Sounds like the
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by ep103 10y ago
alternatively, the grandparent post's mindset becomes the parent post's when the application needs to be extended, and the grandparent's simply hasn't had that need yet : )
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by ep103 10y ago
I worked, once, at a large, national (US) company that will not be named. They had an old database from the early 70s that stored _all_ of their data, everything, contacts, billing, etc. That was accessible through a special proprietary pro
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by ep103 10y ago
Hey, a couple of days ago, you offered me an invite to lobste.rs, but I couldn't respond to you, because your comment was not ranked highly enough. I would love an invite! Been wanting to join there for a while : )
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by ep103 10y ago
Did you read the jacobs link in my post? Economically efficient, sure. Which is fine if the economy is healthy enough that the displaced can continue to find and invent new jobs
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by ep103 10y ago
It does confuse anyone who has pulled before the squash, but if you're working on feature branches, then there shouldn't be anyone else who's working on the branch. If the feature is too large for one person, let's say
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by ep103 10y ago
That's in keeping with my post
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by ep103 10y ago
Most important piece of the following post? http://www.zompist.com/jacobs.html I'm not an economist, but I've gotten the impression from reading lots of articles like this, that it is net negative overall, as in,
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by ep103 10y ago
The same company that fired all their IT people, after forcing them to train their offshore replacements, has a hard time turning a profit on quality software? Color me flabbergasted.
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by ep103 10y ago
And this is why I use firefox
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by ep103 10y ago
eh, the valuation on facebook I understand though. Yes, it is extremely high, but the premise is that with that much social data, that much user stickiness, and that level of talent, and you are one of very few players that look like they
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by ep103 10y ago
I get the distinct feeling we're getting more and more of reddit's overflow. If anyone knows any other websites like, HN, I'd love to hear about them.
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by ep103 10y ago
I think you're taking a wrong look at this paper. This paper isn't actually about whether or not type 3 societies exist. This paper is about the fact that there appear to be no galactic clusters that show a particularly abnormal
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by ep103 11y ago
I challenge you to interview more entry-level programmers : )
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by ep103 11y ago
I saw another post elsewhere saying that that's planned for the future, this was just the first round initial release
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by ep103 11y ago
Its happened a times IIRC. The government always drops the NSL, then throws the book at the person.
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by ep103 11y ago
Not sure he actually did though, he gave huge sums of money to the upper class. We'd need to see a report that actually said more went to the middle / lower than the upper, and somehow I very much doubt that occurred. Though, of
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by ep103 11y ago
This is the answer, 100%. All it takes to publish an npm package, is the command npm publish, and you're done. So of course it is no surprise that there are tons upon tons of seemingly useless or tiny projects (gotta pad out that git
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by ep103 11y ago
Does anyone have any suggested ways to learn the algorithmic techniques alphago uses? I've heard monte carlo tree search, and neural nets both mentioned
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by ep103 11y ago
anyone got a sample?
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by ep103 11y ago
Only if this was the entire picture of how your body handled food : )
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by ep103 11y ago
During sleep is also when your body prepares fat / food to convert into blood sugar. You literally get tired at the end of the day, when you run out of energy that's easily convertible to blood sugar, so your blood sugar levels st
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by ep103 11y ago
Tell that to Hugh Heffner?
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by ep103 11y ago
Aw, I got all excited that someone had actually made a Chromium fork with basic things, like JS's script security context completely ripped out. No HTTPs validity checking, etc.
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by ep103 11y ago
Alright, I'll be the one to say it: Skynet
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by ep103 11y ago
Would love a non-optimizely, guide to building proper A/B tests, if anyone knows one
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by ep103 11y ago
If your comment isn't a good (microcosm-ish) description of IBM and all their internal incompetency issues in general right now, I don't know what is.
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by ep103 11y ago
150 to make, 90 to ship, total costs < $300. Sells for $850. Main marketing advantage is portability, but apparently only on delivery (compressed into a large box). I thought by hipster, they were implying that for once someone was sel
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by ep103 11y ago
I read this as Crayon multiple times. Was so excited for a moment.
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by ep103 11y ago
So where did she stand on IP and copyright?

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