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by jackowayed 13y ago
Their blog had been on Posterous. Posterous shut down. One of their partners made Posthaven to replace Posterous and to never shut down. Not a shocking choice.
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by jackowayed 13y ago
The reason that people are berated for suggesting inherent differences is that there's so much more to the story. Almost nothing derives purely from genes; it's a complex interaction of genes, epigenetics (environmental and hereditary facto
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by jackowayed 13y ago
I don't think so, especially given these sentences: "C marks virtually always denote unsatisfactory work in American graduate education. Law schools are the primary exception to this convention." So it sounds like there are some law schools
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by jackowayed 13y ago
But there's essentially a modest salary cap. Whether you just made the cut for a scholarship or you're in the Heisman race and are responsible for a huge boost in ticket sales, you get ~$70k, which must be redeemed in the form of tuition, c
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Regardless of whether everything that's said is true, it is very clearly written as a persuasive piece rather than a purely informative one. Propaganda doesn't have to contain outright lies. However, I would certainly take issue with, "The
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Why do you think this ratio is currently around 25%? Do you think it's because women are inherently much less interested in tech? Or do you think it's because our society imposes stereotypes and values on women, and gives very "macho" impre
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by jackowayed 13y ago
The demo app is not served over HTTPS, nor do the instructions tell users to use HTTPS. This is bad. Yes, in its normal (unattacked) operation, the connection to Stripe will be safe HTTPS. But if someone does a man-in-the-middle attack, t
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by jackowayed 14y ago
I think that a lot of people hold very strongly the ethic "one should never treat someone differently based on their gender" extremely strongly even at the expense of other valuable ethics like "we should strive for a society where women
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by jackowayed 14y ago
The difference is that there is systematic injustice against women in our industry (and in society more broadly). One thing that can help fix this is by creating female spaces that help support women in the industry while being fre from ove
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by jackowayed 14y ago
Seriously? In the situations where people talk about microaggressions, it's one party acting in a certain way toward someone from an oppressed class that subtly devalues them in a way that ties into the oppression of that class. Out of cont
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by jackowayed 14y ago
There are some things people in these threads are chronically getting wrong. First, lots of people are making the claim that this was a "private" joke. It was not. If it was a private joke and they shouldn't be punished for that reason, the
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by jackowayed 14y ago
There's already a lot of negativity on this thread, suggesting that they only care about this because they're facing bad PR and lawsuits. I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. They made a reasonable engineering and product tra
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by jackowayed 14y ago
This is a common argument, and while it has some merit, it also reeks of illusion of control bias. Guns make people feel safer because they feel more in control of their safety. In reality, if someone is armed and has broken into my house,
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by jackowayed 14y ago
It depends on the stage of the business. For a small business that might be running off of one or two VPS's, you're probably much better off paying a few hundred dollars a month for a machine that is up 99.99% of the time instead of 99.9% o
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by jackowayed 14y ago
No one is trying to make the overall industry more hostile to men. Some people are trying to make certain spaces that feel safe and encouraging to women, which often means minimizing the maleness of the space. Most don't fully exclude men,
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by jackowayed 14y ago
If you're actually running a business off of a VPS, where the cost of downtime far outstrips the monthly bill, it's absolutely worth paying more. I have a VPS I found on lowend box. $5/month for a 512MB OpenVZ. It's a pretty good deal, and
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by jackowayed 14y ago
Except that for a lot of businesses, it's actually that any dollars an employer does not give to his employees, it keeps as profit. Then maybe it pays that out as dividends, but those mainly go to rich people who are likely to reinvest them
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by jackowayed 14y ago
I wonder what the anonymity implications would be if that usecase became predominant, especially if one exchange wins out. Correlating purchase of n BTC and conversion of n BTC to real currency could reveal who was paying whom.
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by jackowayed 14y ago
This is why I use GitHub pages. Jekyll is good enough, and with GH pages it's super simple. If GitHub were to ever do something weird with it, I can get any static hosting and do the jekyll stuff myself and still control it. And a static si
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by jackowayed 14y ago
That seems unlikely. They already have a rough time that's not too far off and a publisher lined up. Also, DHH tweeted about writing a book a few weeks ago: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/292360292430647296
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by jackowayed 14y ago
Without further explanation this is not relevant. There is no contradiction in simultaneously believing that it is worth it to provide one's in-office workers the best office money can buy and that to find enough excellent talent, one shoul
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by jackowayed 14y ago
I strongly second the last point. I was a lot like you (I'm addressing this post at the person the whole thread is about, not Thomas) for the second half of high school. I had a lot of fun hacking on various projects, was quite sure that CS
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by jackowayed 14y ago
I've been reading more about security lately, and one thing I don't understand is how buffer overflows allow for true RCE these days. I believe all modern processors support having non-executable pages; why is any program-writeable page exe
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by jackowayed 14y ago
It's ~$5 when you add tip to the regular taxi ride.
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by jackowayed 14y ago
It doesn't mean that they think someone would buy the company for $1B now. It means that they purchased some stock for a price equivalent to buying all of the stock for $1B, and that they believe that this is a good bet to make given their
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by jackowayed 14y ago
That's just not true. Many, many engineers severely undervalue themselves for a variety of reasons. For some, underconfidence. Even for those that are confident in themselves, for many there's a fairness issue. ("Do I really need more than
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by jackowayed 14y ago
I'm not sure it's as insane as you think. First, interns at big-name tech companies are highly overpaid for the work the company gets now; it's seen more as a hiring cost than a salary. The company pays ~$50k (~20k is three month's salary;
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by jackowayed 14y ago
He's trying to eradicate polio. That would be incredible lasting good. Research does serious lasting good as well. Research funding built the Internet, for example.
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by jackowayed 14y ago
Yes. Otherwise an attacker could serve a page that looks just like your page, but has different javascript that ships them the credit card numbers. If you're not using SSL, you should just assume that an attacker can break your page in ever
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by jackowayed 14y ago
What are you actually asking for? Employment in the US is at will by default, unless the employer and employee sign a contract explicitly agreeing to change something about that relationship. What do you actually want in that contract to gi

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