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by fergie 7y ago
> a bunch of contract clauses that basically lets the company own all IP while employed. Probably the most practical solution here is to simply disregard this clause in the contract. Breaching such a clause would be a civil, not a crimin
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by fergie 7y ago
Yes. From the article -> "given that drivers cannot set prices or market their personal services to potential customers. The driver’s entrepreneurial opportunities are almost “completely circumscribed by the company’s control of the
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by fergie 7y ago
Agreed. I'm a big fan of the cradle/clamp thing on the VW e-up- it's supposed to be a "cost saving" feature, but I think it actually works better than most centrally mounted built-in systems.
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by fergie 7y ago
On a practical level, if you are known for being a "wheel sucker", then people wont go on breakaways with you. Likewise, if you are known for breaking promises then you will struggle to make the ad-hoc pacts and deals necessary to
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by fergie 8y ago
Any idea what the top of the pay band is?
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by fergie 8y ago
> "on its website, DDC says it once found that “the president of a large U.S. asset manager was arrested twice for major art theft”" > "Another case involved a Bear Stearns executive whose murder conviction had previous
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by fergie 8y ago
"React brought a declarative wrapper around the statefulness of the DOM, and that is the killer feature"... Yes, If there was a native standard for watching and manipulating state then frontend frameworks would be largely unnecess
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by fergie 8y ago
Yup- Typescript is mostly used in large-scale enterprise software development where rigorous unit tests are not in place. I still suspect that a large part of Typescript adoption comes from developers who are used to working in an IDE (Visu
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by fergie 8y ago
"Back in 2007, there were a grand total of 14 coworking spaces worldwide" Really? I mean I don't have any hard evidence to the contrary, but that seems really hard to believe.
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WeWork- the Most Overvalued Startup in the World?(youtube.com)
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by fergie 8y ago
This is the argument for squatting in a nutshell. Allowing people or organizations to hoard unused property in urban areas is damaging and should be strongly discouraged. Legalizing squatting in these scenarios is a nice low-regulation way
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by fergie 8y ago
Every now and again you realize that US government actually does a lot of stuff right.
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by fergie 8y ago
I have tried to make the jump from Emacs to Sublime a couple of times, and more recently Emacs to VScode, but I always end up going back to Emacs. Reading the recent discussions about the need to create commercial entities around open sourc
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by fergie 8y ago
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by fergie 8y ago
I can relate to this. I sometimes wonder if creative, intelligent, conscientious people actually need some kind of mild oppression in their lives in order to be happy?
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by fergie 8y ago
I feel that his podcast, like his books, promise more than they deliver. That said I had to actually buy/read/listen to them to arrive at that conclusion, so I am sure that Gladwell will be happy enough.
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by fergie 8y ago
Is the resolution high enough to see any man made stuff?
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by fergie 8y ago
It definitely did. As a complete outsider (albeit one who has done a bit of contract work at Google a few years ago), it seems that they are going all in on ML-driven personalisation, rather than an "objective best match" approach
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by fergie 8y ago
If HN gold was a thing, I would gild you.
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by fergie 8y ago
I’ve heard that a significant proportion of kickstarter projects do exactly this
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by fergie 8y ago
I've tried these 3 things: 1) Having my own office: PROS: no disturbances CONS: (even) more expensive than you might think, especially once you factor in heating/internet/coffee. Kind of boring with absolutely
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by fergie 8y ago
For real though- this should be the top answer
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by fergie 8y ago
You seem like a novice and I think a lot of the other answers here are focussing on fairly random/advanced concepts that are probably a bit difficult to takle in a meaningful way without getting your head around the following: 1) Get a
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by fergie 8y ago
Does it actually have a terrible UI though? The UI is certainly basic and dated, but its so usable and distinctive. You could argue that Craiglist's brutalist aesthetic is its genius.
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by fergie 8y ago
"the robot cars will not be unleashed without human oversight. Regulators are requiring that a backup test driver remain in the driver’s seat to take over if necessary. Zoox is also not allowed to charge passengers, keeping the prospec
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by fergie 8y ago
Pagerank is (rightly) excluded, but surely tf-idf and graph theory should make the list? It was essentially the marriage of these two concepts with map-reduce that allowed high volume search engines to actually work and become the most impo
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by fergie 8y ago
Neural networks are actually in the list (1970)
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by fergie 8y ago
Its problematic that Waterfall/Agile stuff regularly gets upvoted to the front page, and then the majority of commenters don't seem to read the article before posting some tangentially related anecdotes on the vague topic of &quot
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by fergie 8y ago
Has Friedman has actually said that? If so it runs counter to the economic consensus. Corporate lobbyists tend to cite an academic case for deregulation that has not been made. As the article rightly points out Adam Smith is frequently trot
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by fergie 8y ago
Just out of interest- what questions are your peers are not asking?

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