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by ljw1001 8y ago
No. That's not what it means. Facebook is a private enterprise. It's not the Internet. You want to spout hate on the internet, fine. Get a server and host your pages. Does Facebook have to let you do it on their site? No. You may
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by ljw1001 8y ago
The extremists are what keep Reddit and Twitter in business. People find all the fighting entertaining. This has much more to do with money than with human rights.
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What makes you think that freedom of expression means more than you can say what you want without going to jail? It doesn't mean people have to give you a platform to spread propaganda, and it never has. Want to start a social network
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What about the cases outside the US where politically-motivated fake stories have led to innocent people being murdered by mobs? That must seem like "a bad thing" to the victims. I hear what you're saying, but Facebook (and g
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Absolutely. And no sex unless it's really, truly love.
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>making a GUI requires front end/backend development, UX, visual, research, Doing a CLI also requires, at least, back-end development and research. Doing a decent one requires a tremendous focus on UX.
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There are many advances in diagnostic medicine that aren't pursued because the cost of testing many people outweighs (economically) the benefits of treating the few positive cases who would be found. Finding a way to change that calcul
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I saw the best minds of my generation wasted making hyper-toys for the hyper-rich.
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> I do not agree it is reasonable to declare that regular expressions are a bad DSL simply because it is possible (however common) for people to write difficult to read, or difficult to understand regular expressions. I would not call RE
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I should have winked. It's a problem I'd love to have much more often.
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Trump is Facebook's largest advertiser(nytimes.com)
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Yup. No horror quite so horrid as dining in French restaurants.
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You seem to be conflating the workings of a flawed democracy with meddling by a foreign power. Those are nothing like the same thing.
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If the CEO doesn't deliver something either (a) very much like an engine that can scale the business without hiring data scientists for every job, or (b) some other very exciting thing, he's going to have a tough time. Maintaining
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> the CEO is going to investors pitching the fact that we've built/are building some deep learning engine that can be applied to all problems. > there is no 'engine'; we're a consulting company. This is pretty
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> It does not matter that the average grandma has no idea what that means. My 23 year old son and 18 year old daughter didn't know what open-source meant. If you could build a social network around tech people we'd all be using
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by ljw1001 8y ago
You can isolate your server code behind an interface that lets you test it in your IDE, using the same requests that would normally originate in the browser. You just translate each browser request into an API call, and test that API call.
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It's clickbait because it only reduces the risk 10x for people with HSV? You really need to evaluate whether your dismissal of this article is helpful in any way. According to the CDC "54% of persons aged 14 to 49 had HSV-1 infect
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Raising a child in a doomed world(nytimes.com)
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> As an example, any kind of analytics could generate terabytes of data a day... per customer. Wait, what? I've never worked anywhere where one customer generated terabytes of data per day, and I've worked on very large commerc
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I think it likely that people with large-scale experience who aren't at Google would have lower tenures than average, simply because they're becoming more valuable and most companies don't pay people their replacement wage if
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by ljw1001 8y ago
It's odd because there seem to be two conflicting trends. On the one hand, you have people embracing (say) javascript as a server platform because it's easy to get something done, and simultaneously have people designing for outla
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Great question. I've found sometimes in hindsight that when I was unhappy I changed a thing that was easy to change, rather than the thing most responsible for my unhappiness.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
It's a good quote but a rather simplistic description of black music which is much more than just a soulful cry. It can be joyous, funny, bawdy, sexy, devout - every emotion under the sun. And its roots pre-date slavery. I can't i
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Documentation won't save you if the shit truly hits the fan. What will save you, if anything, it's that the leadership considers you one of them.
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You could be right, but in my experience it is extremely unlikely that the lead is the only person who realizes that the project is going to be late. One sign this isn't healthy environment, frankly, is that no one has (apparently) ask
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Often, if you 'stay positive' and don't make too many waves no-one will get blamed. Like all cultures groups of managers like to see problems as being with external groups or things outside their control, and become more tigh
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by ljw1001 8y ago
you're assuming that deadlines are set based on the amount of time the work requires. Not often true. Generally deadlines are set before anyone knows how much work is required.
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Either you're working in an unusually healthy environment, or you haven't done this often enough to see it backfire. If it's the first. You're very fortunate.
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This is not going to be like the other advice you get, but I've managed many projects in different organizations and I think it is sound. First and foremost, don't sound any alarms. Many organizations have common characteristics i

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