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by loeber 9y ago
Coalition | Front-End Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small, well-funded team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community
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by loeber 9y ago
"Keeping older devices available for cheaper" does not quite solve the issue, because Apple is also currently selling the iPhone SE. Both the SE and the 6s are down-market, legacy devices. In my view, there shouldn't be more
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Apple and Consumer Choice(johnloeber.com)
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by loeber 9y ago
You mentioned regularly deleting old tweets, so I'll share a useful tool I built: For deleting and archiving both posted and liked tweets: https://github.com/Datamine/Archive-Tweets The archive feature downloads t
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by loeber 9y ago
Sounds like you spent your time exploring creative pursuits. That's worthwhile. Seems like a fun childhood. I believe that it is important to stave off boredom with creative, rather than consumptive activities.
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by loeber 9y ago
Aristotle said: "what does not add, detracts." I firmly believe this; remove cruft wherever possible. Bloat is bad, and stands in the way of clean & elegant abstractions that can be built upon. Consequently, I think that remov
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by loeber 9y ago
Agreed. This also breaks PEP8 everywhere. This is unfortunate, because it's obviously well-intended and the algorithms are mostly decently implemented, but not well . This package teaches bad design patterns, both in terms of algorith
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by loeber 9y ago
Having debt is structurally completely different from having (equity) investors. The entire financial incentive, risk, and payout structure behind taking on debt is unlike that of selling off equity. In this case, Netflix is much worse off
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by loeber 9y ago
German-Americans were, for a long time, the largest national-ethnic group in the US. After the World Wars, calling oneself a German-American went out of fashion. There are some interesting articles on the matter: [1] https://www.
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by loeber 9y ago
> evidently many people drink 'this much' without terrible consequences This assumption reflects an underlying statistical bias: if most people you know exhibit this behavior, then that's what you see as normal. It may ver
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by loeber 9y ago
You may appreciate this relevant cartoon: http://pbfcomics.com/134/
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by loeber 10y ago
Your math is off -- if it reached $5, he'd have made $250. I think you were counting in cents. To convince yourself: >>> total = 0 >>> for i in range(5, 500, 5): ... total += i >>> total 24750
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by loeber 10y ago
This isn't reverse-engineering at all. Frankly, I think this is a reasonably cool project, but it's brazenly dishonest of the author to claim he "reverse-engineered a company" when all he did was conduct elementary stati
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by loeber 10y ago
I think this assertion is accurate.
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by loeber 10y ago
I think that focusing on undergraduate credentials as a measure of engineering ability is largely unproductive, and phrases like "they don't get hung up on new Javascript framework" are stereotypes, and you will meet many cou
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by loeber 10y ago
I'd like to add that cargo ships, while being very efficient in terms of how much they can transport over a unit distance given unit energy, require enormous amounts of energy. See some resources: - https://en.wikipedia.or
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by loeber 10y ago
Let me know what you come up with!
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by loeber 10y ago
> China has done better than any other country on Earth at poverty reduction This is only true if you're applying a ludicrous double standard. China has done better than most other countries at this because China was extremely poor
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by loeber 10y ago
This is a clickbait site that perpetuates thoughtless slander against modern art.
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by loeber 10y ago
If you find this interesting, you may also enjoy my introduction to k-means clustering, in which I implement Lloyd's algorithm and use it to classify handwritten digits: http://johnloeber.com/docs/kmeans.html
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by loeber 10y ago
From Google: "A sanctuary city is a city in the United States or Canada that adopts local policies designed to not prosecute people solely for being an undocumented individual in the country in which they are currently living. These pr
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by loeber 10y ago
> I thought about selling off some of the anniversary gift jewelry I bought for my wife through the years so I could preorder Slightly off-topic, but that moment is when you know you have a problem.
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by loeber 10y ago
I like the look of this project, and it's in many ways inspiring, but here's my cynical take: I think that Eve won't be conducive to creating applications beyond a few hundred lines of code -- after that, the "human-frie
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by loeber 10y ago
Shoot, I supplied an HTTPS link when I should have given HTTP.
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by loeber 10y ago
Shameless plug for my own: http://www.johnloeber.com . I designed it for maximal clarity and readability.
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by loeber 10y ago
Nitpick: I would strongly expect that the number of snaps sent/received per day is exponentially distributed over the space of users, not normally.
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by loeber 10y ago
Reminds me of Piero Scaruffi's project at scaruffi.com.
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by loeber 10y ago
The best is Footnote 2: "For readers unfamiliar with memes, we suggest a review of the documentary available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ."
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by loeber 10y ago
I love the individual soundtracks for all the applications. They're so well-done.
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by loeber 10y ago
Good point on white and black gadgets. I think you're right.

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