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by jonesb6 11y ago
I absolutely agree that comparing Google and apple is silly. But calling Google an "artificial intelligence" company is just feeding another buzzword into the fire.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. If NSA contractors were brazen enough to look up the private information of spouses and "ex-lovers" [1] I don't see why the IT departments of education systems won't evolve to be susce
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by jonesb6 11y ago
It would be an interesting thought experiment to estimate the number of developer hours spent on chat applications in the past twenty years. It would be a very large number, and I don't know how i feel about that.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
For many people "serious due diligence" is a Google search. Relationships between people, even business ones, are based on trust. You'll rarely know if someone deserves your trust by the time you have to give it to them, so i
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Great piece by John Oliver. I wonder what it feels like to work for those companies.. Lives were surely ruined by this.. how do you sleep with that.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
My dream is to have enough free time to rewrite a large open source project from es5/6 to typescript. One day.. Edit: I meant refactoring as a way to improve the project, learn typescript, and learn the project itself inside and out.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I came across a guy a few months ago who generates a six figure income for himself via click fraud, though apparently via Google's platform. I think their is a certain amount of Black Market SEO Google/Facebook/Whoever will w
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Anyone feel like these type of visualizations will be much more common in the future as we try to better understand software processes? It's really such a great way to demystify or reveal certain patterns in various algorithms.. Great
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by jonesb6 11y ago
People down-voted this because they hate outsourcing due to code quality etc, yet they didn't down-vote a managed wordpress hosting solution.. seems like a double standard.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
My reply was a little rough. I just get frustrated because I remember when I was 'new' and would've taken articles such as this as sacrosanct. I just think we have to be careful whenever we say "this is bad, do this inst
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Most of OP's complaints come from the misuse of JQuery, including compounded performance issues when paired with a SPA framework (in this case Ember, which IIRC has a dependency on JQuery either way). Slow + Slow = More slow. Honestly
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by jonesb6 11y ago
A bad instructor can have a fantastic syllabus.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
The article is actually about drinking Soylent, if anything it strikes me as one of those thinly disguised "fitness" blogs that slides in an affiliate link, or tries to make money off ads. Furthermore it has nothing to do with sho
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Their a corporation of course they don't care about the issues. My guess is that it cost Amazon more money (opportunity cost had they hired a more fit individual) and that they were actually looking for cheap PR not cheap labor. Howeve
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I think there is a difference between "just good enough" and "has reached maximum efficiency". I think a lot of people want to settle at the first one, yet I see the second one nowhere in sight.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Yup, it sucks. And it's become par for the course. My biggest fear is that a downturn in VC will only cause more of it.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I'd counter that free tip with a dose of the real world. That less then $50,000 is rent and payroll. If I'm a software start-up with a < 10 person team and I'm six months into a six month development cycle, and oh shit we
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by jonesb6 11y ago
J. Cole said it, "Don't save her She don't wanna be saved Don't save her She don't wanna be saved". REST is a convention. Like all conventions it excels in some cases and confuses in others
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I'd strongly disagree with the idea that we need or even want one ring to rule them all. Remember different frameworks are designed to solve different problems in different ways [1][2]. Anyone who has dug deep enough into a framework o
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by jonesb6 11y ago
When I dropped out of college to start working in tech I spoke with one of my professors who urged me to do a bootcamp instead (he had some kind of loose affiliation with it) and was able to spew off some impressive statistics, 90%+ employm
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Equally however people who attempt large projects will accomplish at least a number of small successes along the way, each carrying value as a learning / growth opportunity. Many times those small accomplishments could never have been
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Two things I thought of 1) This isn't entirely a case of migrants not having access to safe transportation. In many cases migrants will intentionally puncture or disable their vehicle if they see the coast guard coming their way. They
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I remember one of my first hobby projects was trying to simulate the universe with python (thousands of 3d celestial bodies gravitating around each other). About a month later I tried to simulate a economic system with Ruby. Let's not
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Pretty sure one of the Drupal guys worked in the same co-working place I did. He was very cool, anecdotally promising the future of Drupal to be really cool.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Mind fleshing that anecdotal evidence out a bit more? My understanding is that the risk tolerance is much, much, lower which is very prohibitive of early stage start-ups. I know a 'new silicon valley' sounds sexy, especially in pl
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by jonesb6 11y ago
"this course was meant to be on interactive data visualization" So the best way to do this was to teach journalism students how to program, how to program for the web, how to program with javascript, how to program with third part
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Tomorrow a new person will still pour his/her heart out to me on the virtues of bitcoin and how the world is blind and should adopt it, in its current state, as soon as possible.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I've moved around a lot, I would say your experience is in the minority.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Agreed I've never used Foursquare and I can't even remember hearing about them for years, but when I saw the title I immediately thought "check-ins".
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by jonesb6 11y ago
1) Begin registration to a community college. 2) Get .edu email address 3) Profit

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