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by jere 13y ago
It's a hypothetical argument involving a fictional corporation. The numbers are made up. I think Patrick is saying that, assuming most people are satisfied, it's acceptable and not at all evil if a small minority who signed up for the ema
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by jere 13y ago
I think Patrick picked the numbers quite intentionally and in light of that the comparison to spam doesn't hold water. Bob is said to be the 1 annoyed user out of 100. In other words, 99% of people are finding the emails useful. That's the
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by jere 13y ago
You might think that trucks ignoring multiple, obvious flashing warning signs wouldn't be that common. This hilarious video proves otherwise: http://gizmodo.com/5955244/watch-this-bridge-destroying-doze...
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by jere 13y ago
I'm reading this as: Asian students perform better than other groups even with ineffective parenting. Am I missing something? >“Whenever scholars compare European-American and Asian-American families,” she said, parents among the latter
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by jere 13y ago
I think the implication is that those are incompatible.
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by jere 13y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but there seems to be an element of that already in LinkedIn. http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/42 >You'll see profile stats about who's viewed your profile if: >You have a premium accoun
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by jere 13y ago
Here are some things I find more creepy about LinkedIn: -It tells people when I view their profile. So now I never view people's profiles because I don't want to look like a stalker. Imagine if Facebook worked this way. -An andecdote, but
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by jere 13y ago
Interesting concept. Probably worthwhile as a teaching tool, but don't get your hopes up about it being good. The trailer doesn't impress, the 4.8 rating on IMDB is nothing to ignore, and I think wikipedia is being dishonest when it says "e
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by jere 13y ago
Anecdote here: I'm a CF dev ( shudder , I know) and everyone on my team hates Dreamweaver. In fact, Adobe has an IDE called ColdFusion Builder (we don't use it though), so I have no idea who still uses Dreamweaver: http://www.adobe.com/pro
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by jere 13y ago
I can't believe no one commented on this gem: >If you were to judge me just by my reading list you'd think I was university-trained but I'm not. Would going to university make you a better developer as opposed to a 4 year version of t
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by jere 13y ago
I skipped ahead to the "10 most risky and likely to be shutdown products", read it, then did a double take "wasn't I supposed to be reading about Google?" Never heard of any of those. Interesting poems. I was certain Ozymandias would show u
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by jere 13y ago
Sorry for the back of forth here, but I'll try to make this the last comment: Some people are using all repeating characters if they can get away with it. ESPECIALLY because articles like this keep hinting that they are decent. It doesn't
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by jere 13y ago
>Having said that, does any cracker even try for something like jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj? If I were trying to brute force password, I would think that such a password would be relatively safe simply because it's such an irregular pat
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by jere 13y ago
>Simply put, adding length increases entropy more efficiently than replacing letters with symbols. I don't like this meme. Because it's not necessarily "more efficient." Like most things, it depends. If I have a password made of 10 lowe
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by jere 14y ago
Agreed. I've heard good things for a while, but I was very impressed when I played it last week for the first time. Also (this is why I was tempted to post about it on HN), it's very heavy on number crunching and has a nice CS feel to it. P
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by jere 14y ago
This scenario plays out in the board game "Power Grid." It's a game about running power plants and one of the 4 resources is garbage. It's a great late game fuel, but it can get scarce. http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid
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by jere 14y ago
>I want to make an app for browsing catalogs. It's like a fashion catalog, but you can organize and share outfits Is this really a fair description of Pinterest today though? Maybe as originally described it is a dumb idea. Vine, on t
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by jere 14y ago
I made a library application for Epic Games. Looking back, I think I severely undersold myself (closer to $1k than $10k). Then sold it to another studio. I'm thinking about converting it to a SaaS app, but I don't know how I'd gauge further
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by jere 14y ago
The two highest frequencies (not including visible) are amazingly beautiful. Almost like a painting of a storm at sea. I would really like a poster of that.
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by jere 14y ago
My first thought was "hope you're good at baking cookies." >I haven't made a sale yet and I am not sure why. Is "14 OFFERS SOLD!" BS then? One small thing: the "what's hot" products on the right looked like third party ads. Maybe it's j
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by jere 14y ago
Oh, you'll love this one. I was sent a notice that my car was ready to pick up, but it was for a guy that lives in Canada and has a similar name/email. I respond saying the shop has the wrong email address. The shop owner (let's call him Bo
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by jere 14y ago
Oh, that is brilliant.
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by jere 14y ago
This is saying I should learn EmptyString, which is a pretty neat language since all programs are quines. Ah, the joys of living in the boonies...
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http://whitevinyldesign.com/about/
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by jere 14y ago
>In 2003, Pawan Sinha, a professor at MIT in Boston, set up a program in India as a part of which he treated 5 patients that almost instantly took them from total congenital blindness to fully seeing.[8][9] This provided a unique opport
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by jere 14y ago
Most of the articles you have linked, as far as I can tell, say the case for breastfeeding has been overstated (fine, more controlled studies need to be done) but a benefit still exists. You are overstating your case. >(the technical
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by jere 14y ago
From the litecoin front page: >The Litecoin network is therefore scheduled to produce 84 million litecoins, which is 4 times as many currency units as Bitcoin. This seems like a completely useless and arbitrary statistic for highlightin
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by jere 14y ago
I imagine you won't get much support with that comment, but you're absolutely right. Everyone responding to you is going to say mothers can't breastfeed. Bullshit. Only perhaps 5% of mothers can't breastfeed because of medical conditions.
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I'm not going to try to minimize what you're experiencing. They could be serious issues that need to be dealt with. Lack of desire to eat and not wanting to spend time with friends seem concerning at the very least. But I will say the follo
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by jere 14y ago
>Barring severe budget issues or personal lawlessness, I could not be fired or demoted. But, I'm also at the top of my scale, which means I can't be promoted either. It doesn't matter much what I do (or don't), I can't go up, I can't go

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