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by femto113 9y ago
Settlers of Catan switched to this at some point--from 2 dice to a set of numbered tiles with the same distribution that you shuffle and draw from. It definitely pared some "oh man I'm so unlucky" scenarios from the game but
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by femto113 9y ago
No, but it's not far off that: it feels like self-promotion by fabricating criticisms of an immensely popular project. IMO the core suggestion of the paper--that noise is somehow correlated across different sensors separated by thou
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by femto113 9y ago
Pure speculation but I'm guessing their strategy here has a few elements: - they need to get to meaningful scale on the buy side of the grocery business which they weren't able to do on their own - Whole Foods is already a "t
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by femto113 9y ago
For some years now I've stopped bothering with database passwords. If technically required I just make them the same as the username (or the database name, or all three the same if possible). Why? Because the security offered by suc
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by femto113 9y ago
By that point "the site delivered an average of 100 million video views per day". Otto never delivered anything.
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by femto113 9y ago
This--plus there is some evidence that suggests Uber already negotiated to acquire Otto before it even came into existence.
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by femto113 9y ago
I wouldn't underestimate the prosecution's leverage here: 14,000 counts of even a relatively minor crime like "theft of company resources" could add up to a lot of time.
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by femto113 10y ago
Am I the only one who read the headline and thought the machine was created to undo this monstrosity? http://imgur.com/kXfGutB
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by femto113 10y ago
For architecture I prefer to just ask for input on an actual issue my org is currently facing. Perhaps abstracted a bit to make answering less of a slog through details but I don't see any advantage to using some made up scenario. By
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by femto113 10y ago
I believe the primary botting "problem" is not rule breaking activity like collusion but the farming of lower-skill players at lower limits than a professional would be willing to play at. A bot will happily rake in a 1x big-blin
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by femto113 10y ago
This article and its headline are misleading. No one is being "punished" and no one's pay is being "cut". All that happened is that 2015 was a blowout year and 2016 was (by comparison) not, so the exec team got a lo
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by femto113 10y ago
Working at Amazon is an extremely intense and consuming experience, but it is also a unique opportunity to learn how to operate software at the highest scale. While there I suggest you focus on learning as much from your day job as possibl
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by femto113 10y ago
The car companies have another option for getting into the car sharing business with instant rentals. Daimler (car2go) already has about 750 cars here in Seattle and BMW (ReachNow) another 520, and they keep adding them. Or they can go the
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by femto113 10y ago
Facilities = more capital. Just the yard to park and service 9000 vehicles is a lot to buy and then there's the buildings: if each car needs service just once a year you'd need at least half a dozen service bays running full tim
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by femto113 10y ago
Uber's drivers aren't just a labor cost, they are one of the company's main sources of capital since it is the drivers who must buy or lease the cars and make the payments. Here in Seattle there are around 9,000 drivers, pre
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by femto113 10y ago
For that money they could have hired a hundred men for a week.
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by femto113 10y ago
This is intended as a thought experiment, not a concrete design for how to properly store passwords. In fact CRC24 doesn't really burn as much information as I assumed, e.g. on the top 100,000 passwords it only generates about 300 col
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by femto113 10y ago
This attitude ignores the fact that risk comes in multiple forms. While lowercasing the passwords increases the guess-ability of the password when attempting to log in to this site it actually reduces the value of the password in a breach
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by femto113 10y ago
Definitely recommend billing by the day (or even week). It can make a huge difference in your relationship with the client and helps get them past thinking about how much you work and focus more on what you accomplish. On a side note I actu
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by femto113 10y ago
In some scenarios, particularly when writing scripts, error handling boilerplate code tends to obscure the nominal flow, which can make the script overall harder to debug and thus net more likely to have errors. Coincidentally I was annoyed
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by femto113 10y ago
Zooming in with satellite view shows that all three sites seem to not only have identically sized/shaped buildings, but they're also oriented the same way (long axis running east/west). Any theories on why? Something to do
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by femto113 10y ago
This seems like a lot of work for something that seems little more than greenwashing: unless the "reinforcement inserts" are less than a third of the total weight a reinforced 60% recycled content bag would contain just as much no
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by femto113 10y ago
Might be addressable by solving two scenarios. The first is a highly-risk-averse approach to meeting your minimum needs, the second would be a risk-indifferent approach to investing anything left over. To put it into the coin analogy if y
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by femto113 10y ago
I think 9 years is at the high end. The drive train was replaced at 65K and the battery was replaced at 75K miles which probably makes "into the ground" not much longer than when the 8 year warranty runs out.
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by femto113 10y ago
"they'll all lose in the long run!" Even as stated in the article they don't all lose, which is why most of us know a few winners. But for each of those winners we probably know four losers, though they'
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by femto113 10y ago
Perhaps, but keep in mind they sold only a small portion (~12%) of the company in the IPO, so the effect on the overall value (and longterm success) was limited.
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by femto113 10y ago
Sad to see. A friend and I developed a niche Mac pro-audio software tool in 2002 and Kagi was pretty much the only turnkey payment solution available. Primitive by modern (post-Stripe) era standards but we processed a few thousand dollars
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by femto113 10y ago
I took a half-way approach to this, and now work for a small consulting firm. It's much like self-employment in that I'm still working for a variety of clients and only getting paid when I work, but we have business development st
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by femto113 10y ago
The Drive article is an eerily prescient interview with Volvo's R&D chief and is only two weeks old: Critics see a neither-nor limbo, with technology just good enough to make drivers drop their guard, but not good
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by femto113 10y ago
Unless approached very carefully this has some frightening XSS implications: innocent looking HTML entered into comments could suddenly become automatically executed JavaScript.

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