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by kevinpet 14y ago
There's a valid point in this, but the article seems to miss it when he says "In fact, if I hear the caller telling me personal details about myself, I hang up even faster." On the contrary, that's perfectly valid. They've already partially
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by kevinpet 14y ago
robots.txt is not about indexing. It's about crawling.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
This comment is pretty irrelevant to the question of DNT defaults.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Lots of people here are right to question the security given the track record of ... well, pretty much everyone involved in BitCoin trading, but I work at a company that has looked into using this type of instant bank account verification a
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'm not sure what the internal thinking at Facebook is, but I suspect the hierarchy is something like: 1. Advertisers 2. Real users 3. Social media marketing scum If they think most users would prefer not to see 10 posts per day after accid
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by kevinpet 14y ago
No, it clearly isn't. A Future, from Java 5's concurrency libs is close, but it doesn't offer the chaining construction -- it only offers get. The most similar-looking code commonly used in Java is probably people who use Option (or Maybe f
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Fine, but don't call it a gratuity. Call it a service fee. "Mandatory gratuities" make me look for another service provider.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I think there's a reason most humor websites have some sort of curation process.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
...and therefore it's natural that the industry would develop other institutions that fill the same role.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Look at the relevant part of the exchange: > > I meant can I send you a compressor and several compressed files whose total file size is less than the original uncompressed file and from which I can regenerate the original uncompres
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I have to agree. The question hinges on how the interviewee interprets the game being played in the interview. The interviewer seems to be offering the original instructions (explain something to me in five minutes) "out of character" and t
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by kevinpet 14y ago
If you can't waive your rights, you can't even settle out of court. That's what a settlement is -- an agreement to waive right to due for some payment.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
"I don’t think there is a pivot happening now at all, but if I were there we would pivot." Hey man, if you're the CEO and they aren't pursuing the right strategy, then get your ass back there and do your job. If you don't feel like doing yo
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The distinction of malware is about who is being deceived. If a user willing installs on their own computer A some software to attack someone else's computer B, that's not malware. If a user installs something on their computer that allows
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Downvoted for most blatant use of "malware" to mean "stuff someone doesn't like" as opposed to software that runs without the computer owner's permission or does things other than it claims.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I notice that they have multiple stations along the 5 between SF and LA, but nothing between Gilroy and Los Angeles, which is around 350 miles. Why not a stop in Santa Maria or similar? I suspect the problem is no where isolated enough that
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The motivation is that the question of whether list.forEach (or maybe better, iterable.forEach) is serial or parallel is to be left up to the implementation of the collection. Everything related to multi-threaded code since about Java 5 has
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I'd really like to be able to model the effects of rebalancing to a static or tactical asset allocation, but it seems that the only strategies that matter to the technical camp is thresholds based on trailing n days moving average.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Upvoted for importance, but I note that you are actually only granting them a perpetual worldwide fully paid-up irrevocable license to them.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I doubt you or I are actually qualified to comment on whether the net externalities of HFT are positive or negative. You are incorrect that there are no positive externalities. You might not care about your trades happening quickly, but tha
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I suspect that the real target is photo realistic renderings. I mean, one of the meanings of "rendering" is a drawing. I doubt they will have a problem with a patent-style sketch showing what the product is intended to be.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Can someone explain if there is a technical reason the network can't collude to cancel these bitcoins? This seems a reasonable reaction to known theft.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
"it's retarded" appears to take on the place in a paragraph where an actual argument or reason would go, but it isn't. It's just a childish phrase used to indicate dislike for something. If you don't like the "it's offensive to use a phrase
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by kevinpet 14y ago
It's intuitive if you assume that people are homogeneous and it is only circumstance that affects their behavior. I suspect that people who found companies that ever actually hire a significant number of employees are unlikely to have a har
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by kevinpet 14y ago
It never occurred to me that profitability was a goal for google fiber. From the start I took it to be a pilot program to understand how people would be using the internet a few years in the future.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I have no idea what is the author of the articles opinion, and what is from the book being reviewed. I'm not even sure what the title of the book being reviewed is.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Very good article, but I was initially turned off by the anachronism of the commands it starts with. Referring to NTFS in a scenario purporting to be before 1984 throws me off and makes me assume the article is poorly researched.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Rams' 10 principles of good design are properties of the design. This proposed 11th is a property of the process to produce that design. The giveaway is that his question is "how can we do iterative design?" rather than "how can achieve a d
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Single family homes may be a declining fraction of housing, and the lower end may be getting replaced by townhomes or condos.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Just because OSX only runs on Mac hardware doesn't mean that's the only reason to use it as you assume. The non-Apple competition is pretty much crap if you are looking for a high end laptop. I'm pretty sure Linux support for a MacBook Air

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