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by ksenzee 11y ago
If you're in the (to me, enviable) position of never building a user-facing feature in a piece of software -- if you purely get to think algorithms all day, and you never draw on any knowledge or experience you've gained outside a
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by ksenzee 11y ago
In point of fact, an African-American guy and a white guy from the same neighborhood and school will have had different experiences growing up. For example, the white guy probably never had the cops called on him for wandering down a dark s
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Does Twitter hire only from the local area? If they have a relocation program, the local demographics are a lot less relevant.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I imagine it was upsetting because it showed the depth and breadth of the VP's ignorance. How many times have you wanted to leave a job because you just couldn't deal with the stupidity any longer? It's no fun to be a domain
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The weight of one cubic centimeter of water is in fact one gram. By definition.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
If you can't see the difference between ponies displayed publicly and penises displayed publicly, I'm not hiring you either.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Six of one, half a dozen of the other is also widely used in the US, to mean it doesn't really matter which one you pick because they're pretty much the same.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
"You're still free to have children if you want, but you're only supported by the state if you got a license." The traditional "license" to have children used to be marriage, and children born without such a li
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by ksenzee 11y ago
First thought: "Why is Microsoft building an Android app to launch arrows?" Ah, English. I headdesk in your general direction.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Schneier really isn't using "doxing" the way you and I would. He's using it to refer to what happened to Mat Honan[0], when someone managed to social engineer Amazon customer service and Apple tech support to take over H
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by ksenzee 11y ago
In spite of the headline, this article is not so much about doxing. It's about the fact that doxing is way too easy, because companies are ridiculously lax about keeping people's private information safe. Schneier is arguing for g
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by ksenzee 11y ago
This comment is a good description: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10441816
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by ksenzee 11y ago
A social anxiety group therapy setting can be really useful for practicing social skills. For example, you might have a semi-scripted conversation with another person in the group, and then the rest of the group gives you both feedback. You
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The treatment that article describes is called exposure therapy. It's pretty much the standard of care for treating anxiety disorders. If you're afraid of flying, you fly. If you're afraid of people thinking you look weird, y
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by ksenzee 11y ago
It's apparently an "opening pitch," which you should write according to a checklist you will find at the very bottom of the post. Whether the checklist itself is useful or not, I leave as an exercise for the reader.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Throwing things at the wall to see what sticks is precisely how drugs were developed before the 1970s. It's called phenotypic screening, and it worked quite well. There's an argument to be made (Derek Lowe makes it here [0]) that
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I strongly support fixing the backlog of rape kit testing, and if I thought that's what he meant I wouldn't object. Perhaps he was quoted out of context. What I heard was a very old, very tired, very patriarchal attitude of "
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The article quotes Denver's district attorney as saying that this familial DNA searching is especially good for "cold cases where the victims are women or children". Women or children. We're searching through databases
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The change applies only to unscalable viewports. That's a shame, because it means some developers will disable pinch-to-zoom to get a faster click response. That makes this yet another unfortunate conflict between usability and accessi
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by ksenzee 11y ago
AWS didn't start out as Amazon.com's spare capacity. It was an entirely separate business idea. http://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing/...
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is already unusable for malaria, except in combination with other drugs, because of high levels of resistance. This has been the case for years.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I didn't realize the Glass was quite so underpowered. Somehow I feel better knowing the hardware hasn't yet caught up to the need.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I have relatively mild prosopagnosia; I can recognize people I know well. My understanding is that the brain's object recognition system takes over from the facial recognition system. It's less efficient but it works well enough.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Right, I could definitely train existing facial recognition software on a database of people I've met. The problem is delivery; when I need this information, I'm not sitting at a computer. I need some kind of device, with a camera
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Google Glass bans facial recognition apps[0]. I've tweeted them about getting an exception for assistive tech but I've never pursued it any further[1]. [0] https://developers.google.com/glass/policies?hl=en [
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by ksenzee 11y ago
As someone with prosopagnosia (neurological inability to recognize faces) I find this incredibly frustrating. My everyday life would be immensely easier with assistive tech that told me the names of everyone I see. And now that the technolo
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by ksenzee 11y ago
My 167+405 commute is ~75 minutes. I have to admit I'm glad the toll route doesn't extend down my way or I'd be tempted to use it.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
"The real SLJ has seen this post, and we publish only with their approval." Seems okay to me.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
These are great questions. I'm imagining my answers, and the answers of people on my team, and I think they'd reveal quite a bit about us: personality, priorities, outlook, whether we'd rather fix people problems or software
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by ksenzee 11y ago
But that's just the point. Traffic density should never be high in Idaho Falls. If you can break the grid to the point where people are in gridlock in Idaho Falls, you've done something wrong.

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