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by kevinpet 16y ago
There's a tacit assumption that the discrepancy in emphasis and word choice is based on gender stereotypes, completely ignoring the possibility that men actually tend to be more aggressive and women actually tend to be more communal. The st
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by kevinpet 16y ago
As opposed to all those students who leave their VP Sales jobs to go get an education? What Thiel and many others (this seems to be something of a theme in libertarian circles) are saying is that a college education is not relevant to certa
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by kevinpet 16y ago
If delaying college for a few years is the biggest mistake you make in your life, you have been far too cautious. This position is discussed and Thiel addresses why it is not a reasonable position in the article. If you want to advance this
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I've been doing some work on my eee 1000he lately. Eclipse is runnable but noticeably slow. When I'm at home, I tend to use it as an x terminal for the desktop upstairs. I love the battery life, the keyboard is good enough for several hours
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I'm reminded of statistics showing X website doesn't support mobile because only Y% of their traffic comes from mobile. Guess what? If the site doesn't work on a given browser, you're biasing you sample size. I think it was in Coupland's Mi
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Trading on non-public information is generally illegal in the US. Some of this may squeek by, but the majority of these suggestions (like Visa/Mastercard knowing actual sales numbers) would certainly be illegal.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Overseas design is great for production stuff like "make me more pages that fit this style". It's horrible for logo design where the key is to reflect your brand's identity.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I had an internship working on measuring accuracy of fractal image compression algorithms many years ago. I remember the same thing -- measured accuracy was poor, but perceived quality was high.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
This looks interesting and I'm always happy to see good documentation appear, even if for a language I rarely use. My one suggestion would be a PDF typeset for on-screen reference. The font size is very hard to read at "best fit" on a 1152p
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Reading the article, it sounds like Marc set out to change people's behavior. I don't think Mint did that. There's a lot more money in giving people what they want rather than what you think they need.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I have been aware of domains like yimg.com (yahoo static content) forever, but it never occurred to me why you'd bother doing this until I saw this article. Thanks.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
This is the reason why the anti-vaxxers are such a big problem. If everyone who is healthy gets vaccinated, then the diseases can't spread, and even the kids who can't get a vaccine for legitimate medical reasons will be safe. I'd like to s
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by kevinpet 16y ago
People can quibble about the definition of "unit" tests, but essentially, automated testing is an executable specification of your code's behavior. Let's say I write a piece of code to calculate a dollar value for an investment portfolio. T
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Seems for most purposes, a simplistic benchmark that represents some realistic scenarios is preferable to benchmarks designed to maximize performance numbers.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
You can buy before the IPO, but you won't have anywhere to sell them. Buying before IPO is risky because you may face taxes on the difference between the strike price and fair market value, but not be able to turn any of the paper profit in
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Point 2 is more or less what the courts use to decide whether the government can ban some certain speech. I read that as saying that you cannot encourage someone to commit an act of violence. The fact that If someone else gets their panties
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by kevinpet 16y ago
There's one small piece of history that I consider very relevant in any discussion of CL and prostitution. CL did not always have an erotic services or adult services section. They initially had normal personal ads (m4w, m4m, w4m, w4w, casu
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by kevinpet 16y ago
It depends who you ask. People who are opposed to prostitution like to argue against forced sex slavery, get everyone to agree, then redefine sex trafficking to include all sex for pay.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Preaching to the choir is a great way to solicit contributions.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I stopped reading as soon as he trotted out the "JVM is slow" line. If you still believe this, you are ignoring reality or arguing from something some guy told you ten years ago. Yes, you can argue that in some cases, you can get about a 2x
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by kevinpet 16y ago
This solution seems a good compromise between the security provided and the inconvenience. The inconvenience is simply entering a license key when you install or reinstall. This is key -- more restrictive DRM solutions with phoning home and
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by kevinpet 16y ago
I wonder if it would be acceptable in the US for a jury to use this software. For a judge to require a jury to use this software?
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Don't talk generalities, talk particulars. Don't say "monetization", say "I've surveyed customers and they will pay $40/month for this".
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Palo Alto, CA https://www.kaching.com/company/jobs We're building a platform to connect individual investors to professional money managers (like a personalized mutual fund, without the massive fees). We're very focused on high quality co
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Printing is hundreds to over one thousand for normal sane number of invitations. This is for 150x invitation, reply card, envelope, reply envelope. My wife did a barter deal with a printer (did their holiday card and calendar) to get ours p
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by kevinpet 16y ago
He lost me when he mentioned dislike of big government in close proximity to wishing to simplify society without even hinting how they are connected. Or am I supposed to assume that it's impossible for complicated systems to exist without b
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by kevinpet 16y ago
The inclusion of gendered pronouns is stupid, especially given that this is a language for talking to robots. Is a robot he, she or it? A virtual assistant modeled on the master? A female game avatar of a male human? What if the software de
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by kevinpet 16y ago
There a many services like that. Most of them are targeting a very different market though...
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by kevinpet 16y ago
The ultimate narcissist is the fool who thinks that twitter "should" be used how he wants to use it, rather than how the user wants to use it.
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