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by jkaptur 10y ago
Not to pile on, but you might be interested to know that Zuckerberg also spent the time to learn Mandarin.
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by jkaptur 10y ago
Wait, if they're requiring you to pick 1-5 stars to get the dialog to go away, it must be a custom dialog built by them, right? I bet they take your one star and just hide the dialog, but take people who rate it as 5 stars to the &quot
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by jkaptur 10y ago
There is a company-stocked closet full of "construction materials" for this purpose. Of course, it's still an open office...
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by jkaptur 10y ago
A crisis hotline that I worked for simply banned trainees from saying "why" or "I" during training calls. Omitting those two words makes it surprisingly hard to be judgmental or confrontational.
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by jkaptur 10y ago
It might be possible to use multiple screens to form a sort-of synthetic lens. Also, there is such a thing as a single-pixel camera ( http://dsp.rice.edu/cscamera ).
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by jkaptur 10y ago
> For example, the first one is completely open to being performed in parallel So what do you actually have to do to make this actually run in parallel? Or do you truly get it automatically?
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by jkaptur 10y ago
I'm not an expert, but it seems like there's at least some separation between AppleScript (the programming language), Automator (the visual IDE), and the Open Scripting Architecture (the language-agnostic framework that actually i
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by jkaptur 10y ago
http://diff.so It's a simple diff-as-you-type tool. I realized that I often had two strings (test output, code samples, etc.) and wanted to compare them in as few keystrokes as possible, from any computer.
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by jkaptur 10y ago
Oops, added to my profile.
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by jkaptur 10y ago
http://www.diff.so An online diff-as-you-type tool with the ability to generate static HTML diffs. Built it to scratch my own itch. Has basically 0 users and no revenue whatsoever :).
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by jkaptur 10y ago
Have you ever been to prison? I think you may have a romantic view. For example: > “Plaintiff is being tortured on a daily basis in Attica Correctional Facility Special Housing Unit,” he wrote. “Plaintiff is subjected to having to listen
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by jkaptur 10y ago
> Hack provides an option that no other popular member of the MPDPL family has: the ability to introduce a type system after initial development, and only in the parts of the system where the value exceeds the cost. JavaScript and Python
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by jkaptur 10y ago
In some of these cases, I suspect that the "password recovery" process is doing double duty as the primary login flow for many users.
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by jkaptur 10y ago
Given the absence of such a perfect algorithm, allowing or favoring certain types of errors over others is absolutely a decision with ethical consequences.
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by jkaptur 10y ago
Google's "Bachelor of Science" interview screening process? I'd assume that they would have an interview that would be appropriate to the degree they obtained. I'd also be surprised if Fermat's last theorem wou
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The Aerospike Nozzle Frequently Asked Questions List(hq.nasa.gov)
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by jkaptur 10y ago
That's fair. I mentioned Uber because I remembered the criticism from the National Federation of the Blind [1]. However, it's tangential to my point, so I've edited my post to remove it. [1] https://nfb.org/gr
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by jkaptur 10y ago
> The online MOOCs aren't going to introduce braille. In general, putting content online makes learning more accessible. As a specific example, Khan Academy has done important work developing tools in this area: http://en
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by jkaptur 10y ago
Here's a great technical explanation of the problem: https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-1...
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by jkaptur 10y ago
Linking to a subpage of Google's "about" site enabled the jab about the "real mission" being advertising, but the true mission statement is clearly laid out at [1], and certainly passes the 3AM-in-the-rain test: Goo
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by jkaptur 10y ago
It's odd not to examine the "contacted a friend at GitHub" part. On the one hand, it's all too common to see this as the only escalation path at a modern tech company. On the other hand, at companies without strong inter
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by jkaptur 10y ago
Five minutes seems awfully short. What made you so sure so fast?
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by jkaptur 10y ago
My understanding is that the strip essentially encodes the credit card number, and that when you swipe it, you pass the number. Therefore, "stealing" the card is as easy as MITM-ing that (with a skimmer). The chip, on the other ha
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by jkaptur 10y ago
Are you implying that the answer will be different in 2017? ;)
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by jkaptur 10y ago
It's just an IEEE 754 double.
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by jkaptur 10y ago
Google tried precisely that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial .
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by jkaptur 10y ago
It looks like the Apache POI library gets the data out of the formats. The tool itself seems to compare the data cell-wise (i.e. A1 against A1 - no alignment seems to be attempted) and there doesn't seem to be any handling for merged c
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by jkaptur 10y ago
I'm not an expert in this area, but at a glance, an MP cell looks a lot like a GFS cluster, right? It seems like the big differences are that MP is designed for a) a huge number of smallish files, accessed by a large number of clients
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by jkaptur 11y ago
I'm no expert, but I just searched "income distribution in san francisco" and found [1]. The chart labelled "Distribution of median household income in 2013 (number of people)" indicates a multimodal distribution of
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by jkaptur 11y ago
You would? Can you demonstrate how that would work for, say, a sort algorithm with a tunable "fuzziness" parameter? Informally, after the algorithm is complete, each element is within k indices of where it would be after a traditi

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