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by glesica 13y ago
Because taking control of a 60 meter long hunk of aluminum hurtling through the air at 400 mph wasn't already good news? From what I can see it means absolutely nothing to would-be hijackers.
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by glesica 13y ago
Unless you just robbed a union hall or a non-GMO organic food coop, then Uber has your back... ;)
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by glesica 13y ago
Now if only Google Drive had a viable (first-class) sync app for Linux...
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by glesica 13y ago
I've never understood the management attitude that seeks to create such an environment, because workers just end up rebelling against it in hidden ways. I worked in retail in college for a truly terrible company. The work environment w
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by glesica 13y ago
I don't have time to go link-hunting at the moment, but I know I have read they had big problems with the infrastructure and community aspect of the plan. This is almost always the case in technology applied to education. Handing out l
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by glesica 13y ago
Then enlighten us, what were the goals? Because based on my reading over the years (I've followed the project with some interest, having worked in the academic technology field) the goal, from a very high level, was to provide kids wit
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by glesica 13y ago
Good riddance. This project was a failure before it ever got off the ground. Not because they couldn't build the hardware or software (they did) or because they lacked smart, talented people (the didn't), but because handing lapto
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by glesica 13y ago
I don't have my copy with me right now, but Barabasi has some examples of interesting social network data that were collected by sociologists in his book "Linked" [1]. You might be able to get hold of some of those. IIRC ther
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by glesica 13y ago
I'm not sure comparing this to a "real" social network is meaningful. More appropriate might be to compare the Potterverse to another relatively small, socially isolated, insular community like a group of Amish. I wonder how
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by glesica 13y ago
Replying to leobelle here since the thread got too deep. I agree that learning to program is individual, but you don't learn to program in grad school. If a school gave you an MS and you can't do Fizzbuzz, that school isn't s
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by glesica 13y ago
Who said anything about taking time off? If the goal is to become a talented software developer, what does a hiring manager care if that was done for-pay or in school, provided the candidate got the experience and did something challenging?
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by glesica 13y ago
> The thing is, more education will enable a good developer to be even better. It's doesn't seem to help a struggling developer in any shape or form. In my (limited) experience, the people who struggled in undergrad run
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by glesica 13y ago
> A newly minted Phd, is one type of person that I've found myself having trouble hiring. Same with an newly minted Masters. The PhD issue makes some sense, a person who just spent two to four years becoming an expert in a n
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by glesica 13y ago
Having seen this talk, I highly recommend it, even if you don't know Erlang (just skip the Erlang slides). It's a great overview of Haskell for anyone looking to quickly become productive(-ish) with the language!
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by glesica 13y ago
Can someone explain how these guys managed to write their software in such a way that there was zero automatic verification that what their database said matched what was in the wallets, even just a cron job that ran once a week or somethin
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by glesica 13y ago
So he should have out-of-the-blue applied to talk about Haskell at PyCon or whatever conference PHP developers have?
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by glesica 13y ago
That's fine, as long as the final product ends up linear. What I can't stand is presentations with multiple "directions", like you can move "right", or "up" or "down". I find that to be just
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by glesica 13y ago
Anything that occurs in the real world occurs linearly. Time is linear. If you are going to talk about point A.1 before point A.2, and B.1 before point B.2, but you will speak about point B.1 before point A.2, then just put them in that ord
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by glesica 13y ago
Which is why government insuring bank deposits isn't such a crazy idea. If the government collapses and can't stand behind the policies, then you have some really big problems on your hands and it is likely that private insurers w
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by glesica 13y ago
Depending on whether people viewed the seizure as permanent or not, it would reduce the number of available bitcoins and, theoretically, cause a price increase. However, that assumes the volume of bitcoins demanded didn't also go down,
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by glesica 13y ago
> There's nothing wrong with taxing stupid. If you're the type of person who doesn't mind people dying in the gutters, then sure, that's true. If you do mind, then taxing stupid is, well, stupid, because you
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by glesica 13y ago
I didn't say the methods used by the new cartels had to be identical to those used by the old. I also never said anything about criminals. You can have a perfectly law-abiding, non-violent cartel that is, nonetheless, bad for society.
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by glesica 13y ago
Hehe, well we agree on that...
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by glesica 13y ago
Well then you really can't talk about a "meritocracy" with a straight face. Unless you define "merit" to mean "your parents have lots of money", which is a big part of how many people would argue "mer
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by glesica 13y ago
I think the concern was that we're just replacing illegal cartels with legal cartels. The tax revenue thing is also kind of misleading. First, that number is apparently fixed (based on your wording, I'm not familiar personally), b
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by glesica 13y ago
That's true, but I contend that the differences between Unix and Windows tools (because that's really what we're talking about here) just isn't that large. For instance, in most terminals you can paste into Vim with Ctrl
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by glesica 13y ago
Unix was here before all those conventions you listed. So go back in time and tell Windows and Mac software vendors to stop making everyone change their muscle memory in order to use some new software... But seriously, this is a complaint I
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by glesica 13y ago
> ...should be ashamed people are still using Vim to write LaTeX in Bash running on terminal emulators. First, why? It works just fine. Second, is there anything better? I don't know of anything I would prefer to use. So unt
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by glesica 13y ago
To me, the problem with this argument is that there is, in fact, no connection between what is best for society and what is profitable. In theory, there should be, but it isn't an intrinsic thing, it's created deliberately and mus
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by glesica 13y ago
> Simply (no pun intended) building a layer on top of the existing banking infrastructure... This was what turned me off. I signed up for an invite right after they announced the service (something like 2-3 years ago at this poin

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