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Amazon's checkout-free physical shop 'can't cope with more than 20 people'(theguardian.com)
4 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
...and yet those cubes are possibly sumptuous compared to some I've been asked to work in.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
There's nothing about Uber's business model that says they have to be cheapest or have a monopoly. The only reason they choose not to do that is ambition (or greed if you're being less generous to them). Except that greed i
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Is there something wrong with not wanting someone to write an n^2 function that should only take O(n)? But that's not what the typical whiteboard session actually assesses -- that is, whether you'd never catch yourself, in th
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
I'm not saying he has no reason to find fault in either the DOB's initial decision about his new crane, or in Crain's coverage of the issue. Just that it's kind of weird (in my view) that so many people seem to be happy
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
"Points"? That kind of oversight is simply unacceptable in a modern, agile engineering environment. Especially not in the august company of hand-picked, top-shelf developers such as you've been able to compose your build you
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Not sure that's the case here, but) when it all boils down to a he-said, she-said argument, You might want to question the validity of that assumption. Most likely the truth (was) basically knowable in this case, with a modicum of e
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Most likely there are already processes in place to get down to the truth on matters like these. Slow-moving processes - but processes, nonetheless. You know - formal appeals, FOIA requests, lawsuits, expert testimony - that sort of thing
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
That's the thing about "motives", that you can't never prove or disprove one unless confessed by the "motivator" right? So... ya might as well just believe whichever side of the coin you like better, right? W
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
They're openly protesting. City agencies don't just cave in to protests at the drop of the hat. Especially not NYC agencies. So again, what I request is simply: evidence , not speculation.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
How do its beneficiaries justify it? Because they can get away with it. Or more precisely: because we let them get away with it. Granted, the remedy (in so many words: rigorous supply-chain screening + a homeopathic dose of consciousne
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
"How to cut-and-paste your way into a VPN setup for free without having any idea WTF you're doing, let alone how to adapt these instructions when the underlying technologies inevitably roll over in the next 24-48 months" woul
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
I don't use FB, but the overwhelming "temperature check" from friends who do jibs with your assessment. In general people are saying they get far fewer genuine "friend-to-friend" updates, and more "news in my
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Except that there's no direct evidence of union shenanigans, in this case. Yes, conceivably the DOB could be in backroom cahoots with Local 14-14B, and nixing the crane on stated grounds of structural design concerns -- whilst in reali
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The title (which seems to imply that the destruction currently underway in the Amazon is no big deal, basically) is at odds with the text of the article itself, which takes pains to say: The impact of the indigenous populations in Amazonia
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Lots of things own themselves. Can you name a single instance of a complex, industrially produced item (let alone one interacts with our day-to-day world in a significant way; and is quite inherently possessed of the ability to kill h
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
This way the sum of all ownership sums to 1. QED, I guess. Meanwhile, down on Planet Earth, we have the perfectly obvious and natural question: when one of those vehicles (inevitably) plunges into a school bus full o' kids, and is
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Rubbish. It is exactly through their ability to "soldier on" in spite of intense and sometimes challenging surroundings that high-performing employees distinguish themselves as such. And on top of this, remember that the other wa
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Pretty weird, as far as rants go. Of course he doesn't begin to define what he means by "self-owning", exactly - nor does the article he links to define the term (or, recursively, the article that it links to). Nor should
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Oh, I can totally believe it was a typo. People who work on campaigns are constantly overworked and sleep-deprived like you wouldn't believe. So they make screw-ups like this all the time.
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Meet the Artist Using Ritual Magic to Trap Self-Driving Cars(creators.vice.com)
3 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Housing prices have soared in fashionable Berlin neighborhoods like Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Ah, the New York Times. Yes, there is a borough (or district) called Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, but no one would think of calling it a "nei
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Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion(theguardian.com)
3 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|1 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Nothing special - just the whole "Yeah, saw your email† ... look, I'm so busy, did you get the site up and running again? I'll get back to you on this after my vacation" management style which seems to drive a great man
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
There isn't data available on the general case, of course. But data from personal experience indicates: (1) many companies -- I'd say at least half of 'em-- still never look at portfolio code† (which -- even it's just
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Is this really that different from police asking for security camera footage from a convenience store after a robbery? Yes. Because it's much more like asking for the footage from every camera in (large) area for "guys wear
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
A blanket "never use AWS" isn't going to address it constructively. But that's not what the commenter was saying, of course. More like (paraphrasing) "before you go full-hog on AWS, do some simple math first.&quot
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
And yet, the schools are still really, really good! This is a particularly weird statement to make in regard to NYC school performance, across the board.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
If you use the dropdown to go to New York and checkout NYC, your conclusion would be that all NYC students are unjustly funded and have much less than everyone else. But.... that makes no sense. New York City has some of the best public sc
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
... and some truly stunning photographs of Moscow at the time, courtesy of the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4164558/A-spy-s-eye-...

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