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by jbob2000 8y ago
> Finally, he landed on the solution: “Just try not to be an asshole.” That’s pretty much the bottom line, said Ron Biscardi, chief executive officer of Context Capital Partners. “It’s really not that hard.” Tell that to Neil Degrass Tys
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I have developed javascript applications for a while now and I have never had to use prototype. If I was asked about it in an interview, I would explain that it's a leaky abstraction, that using it in code means you are over-complicati
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I really appreciate your reply, thank you. I agree that the posts are valuable when framed with the context of discussion, but when you collect them as "the thoughts of jbob2000", the context changes and they become dangerous to m
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Well that was disappointing. Here I thought I would get a wonderful explanation about ego and how western culture is all about work and we have no personality outside of our jobs. But no, just a stalker. Something you can solve with a restr
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Would you share the same thought if you had read my comment history? People post dumb, uninteresting things all the time. I don't want a collection of my dumb thoughts to follow me around.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This is basically Wikipedia and their talk pages. It’s just that most people don’t have the attention span for discourse longer than 250 characters.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This is fairly easy to independently verify. Take your Geiger counters around the affected areas and tell me if they spike. There is also plenty of commercial equipment that detects other chemicals. It is simply a matter of time before some
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Here's a life hack: put every keyword possible in white text on the last page of your resume. A human will think it's a blank page, a computer will think you've hit every keyword possible.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
That's not the real reason, though I'm sure it's a factor. The real reason is that Android is lower in the market and thus their customer base tend to purchase one and only one device. Apple is more expensive and their custom
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Oh yes, because I definitely openly call people misfit toys, especially when I have just met them and am interviewing them for a professional job. Come on, it’s just a metaphor I use in my head. Have you even seen the movie?
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This is hilarious, no non-technical person gives a shit where their data lives. We can’t even get people to understand the cloud. The QA department at my work doesn’t even understand where my app ends and our vendor’s app begins, and that’s
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I flagged this because it’s more politics focused. And it’s a tabloid, so I don’t really trust anything they write.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
That’s the story of the island of misfit toys though; They were still fun toys to play with, but they didn’t fit the mould, and so didn’t get sold. I don’t find it denigrating, but I also was a bit of a punk in high school, so it’s a label
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I call this method of team building the "island of mistfit toys", it is something I practice on my team since I was a misfit toy myself. I disagree that training juniors keeps them loyal. When you bring someone the island of misfi
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Houston is also in Texas, which has habitable land area greater than most countries. Toronto is kind of stuck at the moment because if we want to build more housing, we have to bulldoze the Oak Ridges Moraine, which we can’t do because it’s
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by jbob2000 8y ago
The thing is... if you forbid unethical lending, then organized crime fills in the gap. And when you can't pay the mob, they don't take you to court, they take your knee caps. Just like making drugs illegal doesn't make them
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Your metaphor is wrong. Say you're a car dealer. Hundreds of poor people show up who need a car just to get by. You offer them nothing but the sticker price. Sorry, we gotta make money too . A rich guy shows up, who could probably pur
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I was just going to say - if you get some viral exposure as a business, you get customers who only want to be associated with something popular. It's probably an odd feeling; sure you're successful, but it's not because of yo
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Oh no doubt! They are good, and fun to watch. But in Gretzky’s best season, he scored 212 points. The closest anyone has gotten recently has been Ovechkin at 112. The game has changed, you couldn’t get a Gretzky again.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
No doubt Gretzky was great, but part of his greatness was the way hockey was played at the time - his greatness was as much a product of the rules as it was his passion for hockey. He was a hockey “hacker”, he exploited (intentionally or no
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by jbob2000 8y ago
No. Manage the forests better. Don’t build in fire prone areas. A forest fire burning down your house is a warning from Mother Nature, not an attack. Your system will just let debris build up even longer, leading to even bigger fires.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Sources? Have you been to China? It's only in some major cities that places have toilets, otherwise you use a hole in the ground!
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I highly doubt your conclusion. You know what happens to smart Chinese people? They leave China. The comforts of capitalism and the cultural gravity of the West is too strong to overcome. They still don't even use toilets in much of th
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Doesn't matter. You think the people who buy Ferraris race them around the track? Most of them sit in garages and get driven to the golf club. But with Tesla, you can now own a car that's "faster than a Ferrari" for less
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I've been converting our eCommerce site to using it. It's OK. Way too complicated for the average developer, it's full of jargon that is not usually present in JS/web development. The use cases they have on their site do
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Arguably, the dropping of the atomic bombs saved more lives in the long run by forcing the Japanese to surrender and end the war, full-stop. And arguably, nuclear weapons are keeping the world at peace. Sure, everyone has them pointed at ea
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I'm always so surprised by this community. In discussions about self driving cars and AI, everyone says "the tech isn't there yet", "it's weak because of X scenario", etc. But talk about cameras and survei
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I don't see the point of an A-X chip in a laptop. You aren't taking photos on your laptop, why does it need the image signal processor? There's no FaceID (yet, maybe it's coming) on laptops, so we don't need the ML
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Even if it gets built, I can count on thousands of my countrymen to install it improperly, lose the documents, mail the cheques late, accidentally lose equipment, and fail to plug it in. Don’t worry, systems like this are incredibly fragile
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by jbob2000 8y ago
To highlight just how cognitively dissonant society is with ads - we ban smartphones while driving because it's distracting, but the giant TV screen billboard flashing things at me on the highway is totally OK. Not only are "we&qu

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