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by jbob2000 8y ago
Wait, so you’re telling me the laziest form of scientific analysis, the A/B test, doesn’t produce accurate results? Colour me shocked. A/B tests routinely leave out important observations, have way too small a scope, uncontrolled
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Apple has the luxury of not needing to shove ads in their mapping application. Google needs to show you a list so they can put ads there or shuffle the priority for a high value advertiser.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
If you manage to develop a drone swarm system that drops things, the last thing it will be used for is fighting fires. I'm waiting for someone to develop drones that swarm like starlings ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by jbob2000 8y ago
The Apple Watch is tacky, it’s not a statement of wealth or style by any means. It’s a big ugly square that looks like it belongs on someone’s ankle while on house arrest. It’s made by the millions by a bunch of robots and underpaid Asians
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Free marketing? Apple takes a 30% cut from purchases and charges $99 a year. Google charges a $25 flat fee and also takes a 30% cut. This is not free! That being said, I see your point that app developers are beholden to the platform. I kin
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by jbob2000 8y ago
The greater risk is mass starvation due to inhibited food production. Cancer can take a few years to kill you; starvation takes a few weeks. We have been genetically modifying things to feed ourselves for thousands of years. We bred feature
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Or the flip side; have you ever deleted a line of code that did nothing but cause problems, and the result of the deletion was that the product improved?
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I find your activity for this article highly suspect. You are picking apart some lay comments as if this is a doctoral dissertation. This is not the place for nuanced debate, especially around trite personal problems someone on the other si
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> I got a strong sense of irritation and annoyance that people still, after many years, have not understood the organizational structure. He's using repetition to make it clear, in no uncertain terms, that his boss really is his bos
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by jbob2000 8y ago
It’s also worth pointing out that role changes take time for people to realize. This guy used to be the executive director and people knew him as that guy. All of a sudden Karen replaces him and everybody is instantly supposed to treat he
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Some frameworks have started to move away from the separation. Bootstrap has these ‘style’ classes like “text-center” and “pull-right”, which is essentially no different than doing “text-align: center” or “float: right” in the style attribu
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by jbob2000 8y ago
There was a post on Reddit a while ago about how someone couldn't watch the livestream of their brother's graduation because the organist played a section from the Star Wars theme. Youtube's automated filter caught that it wa
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by jbob2000 8y ago
As an addendum, this leads to much less toxic work culture around pregenancies in Canada; it never feels like a “burden”, it’s just part of life. Combined with the fact that our tech salaries tend to be half that of the US, most companies a
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by jbob2000 8y ago
What is your job? What kind of things do you install? Kind of curious, because no matter what machine I use, every time I start fresh, it takes about a day to get up and running. Linux is even worse because of drivers.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Ehh, that was kind of a thin article that didn’t quite scratch the itch on why D3 is troublesome. First, I think if you want to use d3, you probably just want a charting library. Convince yourself that HighCharts is not flexible enough and
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I’d argue that an “anxious billionaire” is an oxymoron. The qualities that push someone to billionaire status are in direct opposition to someone who has anxiety.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
You missed the point of the article. By giving victims power, people who are attracted to power make themselves victims. The two people who purportedly started this movement (bed girl and the girl who posted her own hate message) did so pur
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Yeah, that's the best thing to do. Really stupid to develop two of the same products at the same time. I dropped Atom for VS code a few months ago, it pales in comparison to VS code. If someone is stuck on Atom, it's because they
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by jbob2000 8y ago
It's not about the number of the accounts that move, but the importance of the accounts. A couple of personal projects move? Whoop-di-doo. A huge, popular open source app moves? Or a GitHub rockstar leaves? That's big news. So I d
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Over time, you could compile a book of technical drawings that could be reused and modified for future products. I'm having a hard time believing that every person who needs glass blown needs something totally unique that has never bee
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by jbob2000 8y ago
See, I have a different take on this. I think that the job should be split up, it's a huge problem and a risk to try to wrap up all of these qualifications into one person. >"How do you get from a couple scratches on a piece of
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by jbob2000 8y ago
15 days is not an egregious amount of time to wait to verify that $58,000 is being moved honestly.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Why would you risk carrying around that kind of money? What’s wrong with doing a wire transfer? Or just writing yourself a cheque? Failing to see an honest use case for moving that much cash by hand.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Read the whole thing. As is typical with committees, they harp on about crap that doesn’t matter to 99% of users, and thus any viable solution gets delayed indefinitely. So I guess we get shitty image loading across the whole web, oh well.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This is amazing, but I feel like there is something fundamentally lacking from <img> if you have to do all this bullshit just to get an image to display . Why can’t the image and DOM spec be upgraded to include lazy loading and touch
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This already happens. Russia sent notices to GitHub about certain documents that were hosted there. China and Saudi Arabia just straight up block things they don’t like.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Can we link to the study instead of the tabloid? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04375-6 The title of the study is "Cultural hitchhiking and competition between patrilineal kin groups explain the post-N
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Wait what? 25% cut is massive! Especially since it's a relatively small ask. You can still eat red meat, just don't have steak every day. Considering reducing red meat intake has whole bunch of other benefits (reduces pollution,
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by jbob2000 8y ago
"Stop eating so much red meat" - What the American Cancer Society should be urging. https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/red-meat-a...
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Flagged because there's nothing interesting or hacker related here, just general politics and Trump.

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