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by genidoi 7y ago
Go on forums where people who use a platform/API/SaaS post implicit feature requests Off the top of my mind: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/c/selling-on-amazon/... https://commun
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by genidoi 7y ago
Imo, whatever annoying tradeoffs a commercialized web brought with it, it was wholly worth it for giving literally anybody the ability to learn anything they are curious about. 1080p Harvard compsci lectures[0] available for free would have
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Execute as you write Python [VSCode Extension](github.com)
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by genidoi 7y ago
Do you mean crawling without cookies or the legal case?
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An analysis of the Blizzard letter and the #FreeHongKong incident(mobile.twitter.com)
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by genidoi 7y ago
Linkedin tried to argue that if they put data behind a login wall, then it no longer falls under the wide umbrella of "public data" and so it's "theirs". Previous cases already established that if a crawler can see
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by genidoi 7y ago
No language war intended, just curious how something I see as a wheel could be improved.
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by genidoi 7y ago
What special-case syntax? The only brazenly pythonic thing in there was the (iterative) tuple unpacking, as in (for) k, v in dic.items() which is just k, v = (<key>, <value>) for every key value pair in the dictionary
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by genidoi 7y ago
Each to their own, but both the snippets you posted crossed my threshold for headache inducing parentheses tracking
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by genidoi 7y ago
dic = {k: v for k, v in dic.items() if k in other_dic and v == "bar"} How could that be improved? That's 3-4 LOC minimum in any other language My main grip is python's ternary operators, since the True value is evaluated
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by genidoi 7y ago
I would argue the inverse - at any time there are a tiny set of startup ideas that are so primed for implementation, that they are nearly bulletproof against the inevitable mountain of mistakes that even great teams will make.
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by genidoi 7y ago
I don't care how many years you've been programming, nobody git pulls a 10,000 class java codebase without nervously gulping.
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by genidoi 8y ago
Climate scientists, in an effort to avoid panic, are downplaying the calamity and timescale of this crisis. It's common knowledge in the climate science academic community that the 2018 IPCC report was overly conservative in its modell
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by genidoi 8y ago
SF maximizes technological intelligence, Wall Street maximizes financial intelligence. Plenty of overlap, but the top talent stays where the rest of the top talent is.
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by genidoi 8y ago
I'm assuming that the value of these papers are self evident from the title if you understand the topic/context of the paper, much like HN with many of the white papers published here.
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by genidoi 8y ago
From that information, I would actively want to check SciHub out if I had never heard of it. Academia + notoriety sounds novel and useful. Part of why SciHub has succeeded is just how easy it is. Copy/pasting an arbitrary DOI from any
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by genidoi 8y ago
This comment is enraging. "Have faith that totalitarianism will work this time" - as if the 20th century didn't happen.
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by genidoi 8y ago
Brilliant - combine this with Russia economically benefiting from climate change - emerging artic shipping routes / oil drilling opportunities from ice melting[0] - and people wonder why climate change cynicism is on the rise. [0] htt
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by genidoi 8y ago
The estimates here were wrong because there was nothing to estimate at all - gig economy is a marketing buzzword for an unusually isolated yet reasonably substantial unemployment bracket. The upper bound of the bracket being the sub-minimum
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by genidoi 8y ago
They are competitors - for your eyeballs. Just because they don't provide precisely the same service doesn't make them non-competitors. Youtube competes with Netflix the same way your shower length preference competes with Netflix
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by genidoi 8y ago
After Equifax why would they not? Seems like when it comes to actual tech scandals, nobody cares. Frightening stuff.
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by genidoi 8y ago
Who are you? In the absence of knowing literally anything about you it's challenging to "humanize" your comment. It's just another in a sea of anonymous comments written by arbitrary commentators. Sure I can trawl throug
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by genidoi 8y ago
Most products sold on eBay / amazon are too simple for detailed seller ratings to matter. The usefulness of a 5 star review system is far higher when there is a wide and fairly continuous spectrum of expected performance (food, airbnb)
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by genidoi 8y ago
On the contrary they seem like perfectly rational responses to an introductory video that is redundant at best and patronising at worst. I was dissuaded from installing it because I assume the products quality would reflect how little the f
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by genidoi 8y ago
> I don't have a subjective first person experience. Everything you mentioned after this were mechanisms, however inefficient or poorly documented, that support your functioning day-to-day and are practically irrelevant for supporti
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by genidoi 8y ago
The problem with arguing against the existence of consciousness is that even if you manage to somehow win the argument then you are by necessity a nihilist. Of course, all nihilistic arguments are self defeating because if nothing matters,
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by genidoi 8y ago
Why do you need a subjective first person experience when humanity could operate just as well as a society of philosophical zombies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
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by genidoi 8y ago
Everything in moderation. Such as stopping your 11 y/o kid from playing runescape at 2am when they should be sleeping. Source: Me.
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by genidoi 8y ago
If you are risk averse, the answer is almost definitely no, because it's just way too unpredictable, even with the right setting / mood / people around you. The experience is so personal that anyone's anecdote bares virt
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by genidoi 8y ago
A counter-intuitive feature is not worth using even if 9/10 python devs know about it. Which they don't seem to. https://twitpic.com/4a52sh Seems like bad usability.

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