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by freyir 9y ago
> any car going 35 mph will need a few feet to brake if something jumps directly in front of it. It seems like you're working pretty hard to justify this woman's death. She was apparently walking her bicycle through an inters
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by freyir 9y ago
> Suddenly, the public gives a shit and I don't understand what changed. The story was linked to Trump? Also, security nerds are attuned to how personal data might be misused. The public needs a concrete example.
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by freyir 9y ago
What's the point of exporting the Foo interface if other packages cannot create or use Foo values?
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by freyir 9y ago
Some people learn the value of simplicity through experience. They start out building over-complex things, and they’re not “not smart,” just inexperienced and misguided.
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by freyir 9y ago
Time for Python 4.
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by freyir 9y ago
Pop music short, classical music long. Got it.
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by freyir 9y ago
The term is absorbing barrier. Synonymous words, but nobody says absorbent barrier.
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by freyir 9y ago
I still shop there, I just wouldn’t consider buying food, electronics, toys, medical or cosmetic supplies, etc. from them at this point. Perhaps it’s still a net positive for them, especially if most customers are oblivious to their counter
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by freyir 9y ago
It is. Good customer service should start with not selling customers counterfeit crap in the first place. Instead, the phrase " customer service " means something extremely specific, i.e., a good return policy for customers who
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by freyir 9y ago
It's strange that a company sells its customers counterfeit goods, and we still praise them for "good customer service."
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by freyir 9y ago
> San Francisco is more willing to leave this demographic on the streets Maybe because the possibility of having thousands of homeless people freeze to death overnight in the streets isn't a perennial threat.
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by freyir 9y ago
It’s not muddled, it’s used according to the definition of the word. And in truth, SF’s housing policy does fall in line with typical conservative values. It protects the interests of the establishment, in this case those who are either l
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by freyir 9y ago
> I'm 37 and, God, people treat me like I'm a dinosaur. I've been programming C for 25 years Exit out of vim, fire up Visual Studio Code, and start writing some Javascript. At this point, the 20-somethings will hoist you
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by freyir 9y ago
Cities in Kansas and Alabama may be struggling, but San Francisco has a strong local economy due to the tech industry and it spends a lot more money than most cities. Here's San Francisco's budget expenditures per resident, as c
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by freyir 9y ago
> Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Houston all have tons of homeless people as well I'm sure, but the situation in California is objectively worse. 34 in 10,000 Californias are homeless, compared to 8 in 10,000 Texans. The Californ
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by freyir 9y ago
Poor choice of words on my part. I meant "conservative" in terms of NIMBYs' aversion to change and development.
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by freyir 9y ago
San Francisco’s “progressivism” is undermined by how terribly the city operates. Dirty streets, aging infrastructure, crime, homelessness, laissez faire law enforcement, conservative housing policies, and extreme wealth inequality everywher
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by freyir 9y ago
It’s a good thing they have Instagram and WhatsApp, because their flagship property seems like it’s going down the tubes. Those acquisitions were in 2012 and 2014 though. Wondering what’s next.
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by freyir 9y ago
Yeah, but they only lost $1.1B last quarter. Things are looking brighter.
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by freyir 9y ago
It does make sense. Generally, I agree that some people clearly have a lot of raw talent. But also I think we’re very attracted to this idea of the “natural,” who becomes a virtuoso almost effortlessly. In my experience, most people who rea
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by freyir 9y ago
If you’re a company with a lousy reputation, you’ll still lose out on good people to a well-funded company with a good reputation. I mean, you could try to outbid your competitors on every hire, but that’s not a sustainable strategy.
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by freyir 9y ago
You have no idea how many hours these people practice, when they began playing, their practice methods, and so on. And you’re comparing them to other random people on Twitch, who might be casual players just noodling around. So what are we
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by freyir 9y ago
> " We made changes to show fewer viral videos to make sure people's time is well spent. In total, we made changes that reduced time spent on Facebook by roughly 50 million hours every day. " Weren't the changes to th
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by freyir 9y ago
No, read it again: Most bullshit artists deliver nothing. Others deliver something , but not what they promised.
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by freyir 9y ago
> the only thing worse than overprescribing necessary medications is underprescribing them. There are only three categories: overprescribing, underpresribing, and prescribing the correct amount. In the case of opioid-based painkillers,
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by freyir 9y ago
I usually prefer hotels, especially when traveling alone. But I’ve found that Airbnb is great when traveling in a small group — hanging out in a home with communal rooms is awesome.
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by freyir 9y ago
>> you have never worked at Google > this is where you are wrong So, have you ever worked at Google?
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by freyir 9y ago
I jump head-first into every bubble because this time it's going to be different.
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by freyir 9y ago
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by freyir 9y ago
Skills matter. Personal opinions matter, too, when you broadcast them to an entire company. Stop with the false dilemma; it's not an either/or choice between acceptable skills and acceptable behavior.

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