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by kolpa 8y ago
Json allows comments, but they have to be in string fields of an object so they survive reserialization.
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by kolpa 8y ago
The dead and their mourners can't tell the difference between malice and incompetence. Why does it matter?
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by kolpa 8y ago
Suntory is the only Japanese whiskey featured in a $100MM-grossing motion picture, and that was 15 years ago.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Apple has built a substantial quality lead over competitors, over the years. That gives them a lot of room to make mistakes (like removing a useful key from the keyboard) while maintaining sales. That doesn't mean every decision they m
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by kolpa 8y ago
Python's original "sales pitch" was that it was a clean and simple language. As years go by and more weird stuff is piled in, it becomes less Pythonic.
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by kolpa 8y ago
For every minute that he holds the BDLF title.
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by kolpa 8y ago
None of those devices work on busses, cars, or hallways.
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by kolpa 8y ago
I think the idea is that if you license your work for slightly less than the cost of copying, everybody wins. But if you refuse to license, it's a net loss. This model goes far but does break down as the ratio of cost of creation to co
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by kolpa 8y ago
How does the service architecture affect that? Tim could be as protective of a code file as he is of a service. At least with a service you could work around it.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Why does a dumb website need a product manager?
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by kolpa 8y ago
> Usually microservices have their own databases That's news to me, and seems insane. Unless you mean "their own database tables", not "database servers". But that's just the same as having multiple director
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by kolpa 8y ago
> decent salaries (500k+)? Oh, HN.
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by kolpa 8y ago
It's the seniors' job to seek out criticism and lead the way to criticizing their own ideas.
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by kolpa 8y ago
If you can write a prototype software in just a few person years that is enough to launch a major business, yet you can't generate more value by being the expert hosts/consultants on it, you are a rare breed. Who writes a small p
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by kolpa 8y ago
Hortonworks was invented at Yahoo, and open sourcing it got an 8-20% decrease in development costs (in the form of external contributions). AWS provides high quality hosting. Hadoop provides a vendor-agnostic environment for writing analyti
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by kolpa 8y ago
Truth isn't that different from business. Both are statistical. Making a decision that is not statistically valid is bad business, as you could be making things worth as often as better.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Long-term A/B testing has major problems in the modern world where users can communicate with each other (both onsite and out of band) and can use multiple accounts / devices / browsers
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by kolpa 8y ago
Politics and a Climate and Freedom are interesting, but not what makes Ars Technica interesting.
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by kolpa 8y ago
You'd have to explain how they do . It's not prima facie(ha!) obvious that a face mask is "speech"
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by kolpa 8y ago
> Your bank will likely not let you in if you're wearing a hat I've never heard of this. > "No shoes, no shirt" That's health code, not appearance.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Masks obscure vision and proprioception.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Narrowing the eyes looks like disdain to you, but that's a side effect. Widening eyes draws attention to the eyes. Clothing models shouldn't draw attention to their eyes.
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by kolpa 8y ago
It's interesting that makeup does a great job of fooling people (that's a big part of why it exists) yet such a poor job of fooling machines. It shows/reminds that machines do not see the world the wy people do.
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by kolpa 8y ago
That's a bizarre claim. Writing about the company is one of the big PR tasks of a CxO or SVP. As you noted yourself, blogging is a form of marketing.
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by kolpa 8y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/felony.asp "a misdemeanor is a lesser offense, punishable by imprisonment for up to a year." Is a year in prison a "joke"? A legal theory that says "I
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by kolpa 8y ago
If I hear an explosion and I intentionally walk outside to investigate, unintentionally blocking the path of an emergency vehicle, have I committed a felony?
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by kolpa 8y ago
If you don't want to read the contract, you can sign without reading.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Yes, that's why key provisions of a contract are often mandated by law to have dedicated signatures or initials.
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by kolpa 8y ago
If their customers aren't checking accuracy and complaining to Equifax (and they aren't), then the incentive has no effect.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Where's my 40 acres and a mule?

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