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by gertef 10y ago
regulations are obviously costly, benefits are obviously great. the important hard question is the net .
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by gertef 10y ago
end-to-end tests are only brittle if your end-to-end-system is brittle. That's not a problem with the tests.
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by gertef 10y ago
It's also used by all the major financial-management apps like Mint.com and Bank of America Portfolio Manager https://www.mint.com/how-mint-works/security
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by gertef 10y ago
Eh, some how the "purchase service" page is far more reliable than the "downgrade or cancel my service" page.
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by gertef 10y ago
Even if the impression data is 100% accurate -- how does an impression in the FB sidebar compare to an impression in a commercial during a TV show, or a product placement in a TV show? How would you even begin to measure?
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by gertef 10y ago
AirBnB mediates the whole transaction. Their business proposition is entirely that they are the middle-layer between host and guest. In advertising, the advertising medium has no involvement in the services being offered or fulfilled.
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by gertef 10y ago
And your private home is a very personal place that has no _business_ involving in regulatable commerce. Is your house a "private" house or a public hotel? AirBnBers want it both ways. I spend more time at my office than at home,
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by gertef 10y ago
Remember when they were new and the TV announcers were paid to say "check out those Microsoft Surface tablets" and the coaches were just using them as iPad holders?
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by gertef 10y ago
What's this about horses? Google isn't finding relevant links (except that mosquitos and horses are correlated)
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by gertef 10y ago
> maybe in 50 years do we reach the stage where an individual life is not this gospel thing but a pragmatic one This was most of human history until recently. Disease, famine, war, and general lack of control over our environment and e
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by gertef 10y ago
And if you have more children, the prospect of losing one is less daunting, so we don't need to spent ever-increasing sums to eliminate risk. RAID is not just for computers...
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by gertef 10y ago
we're using made-up numbers here, but, 10% ought to be enough of a premium to recruit the best devs, all else being equal about the jobs.
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by gertef 10y ago
Flexible partions for walls.
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by gertef 10y ago
SageMath is an open-source alternative to Mathematica. If it goes closed source, what's the point?
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by gertef 10y ago
Joel Test, #5: Do you fix bugs before writing new code? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html 0 hits for "shit early, shit often" development.: https://www.google.com/?#q=s
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by gertef 10y ago
women's role in the economy (not seeking employment -> seeking employment) has shifted drastically over the decades, making it harder to draw silly linear trend lines like OP.
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by gertef 10y ago
OTOH, a world full of people with autism might never be able to come together and build large group projects. Autism might work well for creating in the computer+Internet age (but I have doubts that non-autism traits are totally unnecessary
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by gertef 10y ago
If autism is caused by an individual mutation (not alredy present in the parent genome) it would be amazing that the mutation is so common, but not currently of a known form (like trisomy).
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by gertef 10y ago
you mean "identical". both identical twins and fraternal twins are biological twins.
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by gertef 10y ago
There's a lot of rampant speculation in the comment here.
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by gertef 10y ago
In a child with autism, pain becomes debilitating because they can't communicate or cope with pain well. That doesn't mean an allergy or intolerance causes autism, however. An allergy or intolerance is much worse when it make yo
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by gertef 10y ago
"Inherited" can mean "genetic" or some other method of parent-child transmission (like learning) "Environmental" can include "parenting", but in this case the distinction is between "got it someh
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by gertef 10y ago
Essentially, author believes it's more important to help the scammer recover than to help the other victims get their stolen money back.
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by gertef 10y ago
The word Devops means that the Dev team is the Ops team. If you have both teams, you are defeating the purpose of DevOps
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by gertef 10y ago
The Earth rotates and has people all over. We shouldn't have "after hours"
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by gertef 10y ago
That's for leaving your old job, not for negotiating with your new job.
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by gertef 10y ago
"Department officials say they are acting out of concerns raised by the for-profit chain’s accreditor, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, that ITT is not living up to the demands of its accreditation. ITT is
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by gertef 10y ago
I don't see what's "chilling" about it. The neural net looks for correlations among the data, and it noticed that cat faces have a correlation to each other.
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by gertef 10y ago
postmortem culture -- when something goes wrong, it isn't your fault, and it isn't anyone else's fault, but it's an opportunity to build a better system.
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by gertef 10y ago
"You are a hard-working person, and it will take you far in life" -- personal, general, permanent feedback that promotes a growth mindset.

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