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by kirkbackus 12y ago
That's more of an ideal, not really an achievable goal. How does Google measure the diversity of its users? How does Google measure the quality of their service to each people group? Does this mean Google's ideal workforce would
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by kirkbackus 12y ago
They don't have the software engineers specifically, but they have the breakdown of the "Tech" people http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=tech
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by kirkbackus 12y ago
Agreed, it is like comparing apples and oranges.
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by kirkbackus 12y ago
You are confusing "accepting" with "respecting". These are not the same thing. For example: I can accept a view I don't respect. To avoid a straw man, you should state your phrases unequivocally.
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
This really should be, 10 reasons illustrating the need for a more robust infinite scroll. Most of these issues seem to be solvable. Except maybe the footer thing, that's just dumb.
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Scientists create molecular superlattice machines(statecolumn.com)
1 points by kirkbackus 13y ago|0 comments
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
This is a red herring for I was not talking specifically. My main point was "a person and lifestyle are NOT the same thing" regarding the negative attitudes in the wikipedia definition of "homophobia".
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
The problem with the word "homophobia" is that it tells us almost nothing about a person. Not only does it include people who have negative attitudes toward the people, it also includes people who have a negative attitude towards
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
While this algorithm could suffer from a large false positive problem, that issue could also work to his advantage when implemented as a "find similar images to this", which was addressed later in the article.
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
Well now, if you really want to stick it to him, you should just disable JavaScript altogether! Brendan Eich created it after all.
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
The non-minified source is pretty self-explanatory. It modifies a lot of the standard javascript functions. My favorite is the document.write(element) is modified to surround the element with <marquee> and <blink> tags and the
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
It may seem like that, but the major difference is the layout is left to the CSS. When combined with css media queries, the grid can provide a complete restructuring of the layout completely independent of the markup which would not would
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
All that reminds me of is this: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
This is awesome, love to see a well thought out image processing algorithm used for such a useful application.
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
This is pretty unnecessary. If you need all these things, just use XML.
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
The second graph seems to truncate the first 15 years. I wonder if the data exists, or if it didn't actually support the author's point. Also, I think the author oversimplifies this issue. I just don't see the connection wh
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
It's about time! Go doesn't really have a good community or really practical examples. Glad to see someone took the time to put this together.
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
It is a gigabit internet service, but there are also people on the free internet plan which is slower.
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by kirkbackus 13y ago
https://bing.com/ works fine, but https://www.bing.com/ doesn't work.