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by freyir 9y ago
> My MBA has had virtually no effect on my opportunities or employability... What HBD does well, above all else, is act as a filter." And you don't think employers realize this? You don't think this pre-screening process
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by freyir 10y ago
The best disease prevention in this case is to not read the article. You can't believe in these diseases if you don't know about them.
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by freyir 10y ago
Maybe $400M/year unlocks Google customer support?
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by freyir 10y ago
With Atom, there were usually many gripes about sluggishness. Maybe that's improved with recent updates.
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by freyir 10y ago
It's great to see academics come together to create and promote a free access journal. It seems like the migration away from closed-access journals may happen on a case-by-case basis. Highly-regard open access publications are already
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by freyir 10y ago
There's a link in the bottom right hand corner of the page where it says "© 2016–2017 AOSA" "AOSA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to be the primary sponsor for the ‹Programming› Conference and the Modulari
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by freyir 10y ago
Sarcasm aside, it's an interesting point you make. Apple products often have an immediate visual and tactile impact that leads to impulse buys in the store. I haven't tried the new MacBook yet (not even in the store for a few minu
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by freyir 10y ago
> So, imho, the iphone 6s is the absolute best seller ever at Apple I know it's 2017, but "best selling" is really more a matter of fact than opinion.
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by freyir 10y ago
> But the new macbook pro's are pretty revolting to me -- I used one at the apple store for a few minutes Thank you for your in-depth review. Many people judged the new MacBook Pro based on its press release alone, but you went th
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by freyir 10y ago
> Why do so many prefer the walled garden? I'd first ask: do people actually prefer the walled garden? In my opinion, the walled garden has very little impact on the day-to-day experience of most users. Partly, this is because t
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by freyir 10y ago
> The same could happen in San Francisco. It could, but who is going to push for this change? SF has an extremely low proportion of families (fewest children of any major city). Are single millennials and DINKs going to make this a pri
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by freyir 10y ago
And when 2to3 didn't work, he didn't attempt `2to3 --help`? I guess if everything went smoothly, he wouldn't have had a blog post to write.
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by freyir 10y ago
> the violent crime rate is less than half of what it was then. And yet it's still in the bottom 2% of U.S. cities when ranked by crime.
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by freyir 10y ago
> Most of America isn't a great place for those with children but not wealth! I don't follow. As you said yourself, in most places in the U.S., a middle or upper-middle class family can afford to live in a home big enough for
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by freyir 10y ago
Yes, "Netflix Original" can be very misleading. In most cases, it just indicates that Netflix owns exclusive distribution rights to a show in your particular market. They may have had nothing to do with the production of the conte
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by freyir 10y ago
Netflix is in a growth phase and, no surprise, they're catering a much bigger audience now. Besides all the shows you listed, it's recently aired Stranger Things, Narcos, The Crown, Longmire, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt, The OA, etc
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by freyir 10y ago
> There's no force keeping people from contributing, they are just choosing not to. Are you saying that people who are underrepresented in the free software community have a natural aversion to contributing to free software? That
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by freyir 10y ago
I suspect there's a sudden push for "Python 2.8" from some of the 2.x holdouts because it's becoming increasingly obvious that the wider community is coalescing around 3.x. I feel a bit sorry for people stuck on large Py
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by freyir 10y ago
Can you give the gist? You piqued my interest, but the app looks like the rabbit hole I'd rather not go down.
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by freyir 10y ago
> the top two publicly visible leaders in the space leaving in the same timeframe could mean something Again, Amit may not have been aligned with the direction they're taking search. That doesn't mean Google doesn't care
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by freyir 10y ago
If my business is standing on the street corner handing people Saudi gold, people will love me. For a while. That doesn't make me a successful business.
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by freyir 10y ago
Yes. I disabled my mobile ad blocker, and then the Redit AMP pages started working for me.
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by freyir 10y ago
In my anecdotal experience, the dating scene is better. I'm geeky, pale, and balding, but I put up a few flattering photos of myself and I can get a couple dates a week if I put effort into it. I can't imagine pulling that off if
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by freyir 10y ago
Worst of all, many AMP pages won't load for me unless I disable Adblock. So now I have to degrade my browsing experience everywhere else to cater to AMP.
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by freyir 10y ago
You must have not wanted access to the site's full set of features, not wanted to use a mobile ad blocker, now wanted access to comments, etc. That's fine, but for many, it's an annoyance.
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by freyir 10y ago
AMP is one of the most frustrating experiences I've had with Google. the fact that it's foisted on users, with no option to disable it, makes it borderline infuriating. If you're stuck on an AMP page in your mobile browser, y
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by freyir 10y ago
Numbers are higher than I've heard anywhere else. The guy apparently spent time at Microsoft, Google, and Groupon (he joined right before it collapsed), so he should know what he's talking about. Or he's trying to make a name
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by freyir 10y ago
> This is something which really has to come from the funding agencies and foundations in order to be effective. Yes. A great deal of science and engineering funding comes from the U.S. government, which ultimately is derived from the
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by freyir 10y ago
> NASA has a culture of safety and redundancy ad nauseam because people are indoctrinated I'm not claiming Lattner is missing some innate ability -- it just appears they're putting someone in charge who has never been exposed
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by freyir 10y ago
Tesla likely has specialized software demands, and could benefit from specialized tools. In this sense, Lattner's interests coincide with Tesla's.

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