madelinecameron

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by madelinecameron 10y ago
Nooooooooo. I dislike Stripe's API. There are parts of it that just make no sense. Say, you want to set a billing date for that fancy subscription. Yeah, just set a trial date until the billing date you want. Oh, and don't forget
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
Or you could change the algorithm and make it unique to you. A bit more technical but the point isn't to be ultimately secure, just more secure than your 'neighbors'.
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
The issue isn't that he was at Princeton. The issue is that he is discounting what he did, chalking his mom's perseverance (and foresight), his intelligence and work ethic, up to "luck" and "chance". Stop being
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
It doesn't matter what Tesla does or says. Stupid always finds a way.
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
I don't understand why AWS' free-tier requires putting things into a VPC. It is a complete turn-off. It took me days to figure how to configure it correctly to access it through SSH without following a guide that builds out some
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
Ah okay, yeah. I knew they were active and passive RFID tags but I think the last time I played with some was almost a decade ago, haha.
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
"Alexa, find me a job"
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
Not really a whole lot. When I told my family about how much I wanted to get an RFID chip implanted in my hand my grandma flipped. She called me Satan, totally unjokingly. I learned quickly to just not speak about technology. The top commen
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
They are just radio-frequency chips. Unless people start changing the bands NFC and RFID use, it really shouldn't need to be replaced. Maybe if the battery somehow ran out but then I don't have a CompE degree so I can't reall
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
> fingerprints I don't know how many times people need to repeat this: Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords. I am really not a fan of biometrics as identification at all.
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
It doesn't even have to do with making a lot of money. Everyone breaks laws every single day. It isn't a question of 'if', it is a question of 'when'. Did Bill Gates 'break the law' by essentially cre
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
Also the fact that credit cards aren't your money you are spending. If someone steals your credit card, you can say "Not my money! That's your problem" while a debit card is the opposite. Plus banks employ people to fix
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
Can confirm. $300 monitor spiraled into $2,500 of debt by the end of college (The downfall was precipitated by that month-long gov't shutdown which I was told not to worry about, "it might be a day or two, if that"... and the
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
Which is still kind of deceptive considering if you can't pay back that balance immediately, you likely won't be able to go 7.5 years without putting more on. The issue isn't predatory lending by credit cards (necessarily any
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
I never really understood Coin. It is basically all the negatives of having one electronic payment method (If you lose it, you have no money unless you have cash on hand or can somehow get money out of the bank... if your bank even has a ph
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
At a certain point we have to stop beating around the bush and admit that being successful isn't something people are entitled to and it is something you actually have to work at.
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
I was rather surprised that the founder who came from Stripe failed at this. You would think coming from a bank startup would make you acutely aware of these problems. Apparently not.
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
I think anyone with a CS education can design something like that given enough time. It isn't a question of whether you can do it, it is whether you can find a 'good enough' solution in an optimal amount of time. It is testin
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
>But one thing i never see interviewees do is outright ask, "Wait, what does this question actually tell you about me?" That seems like a pretty quick way to end an interview. Although if they are asking dumb questions, they pr
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
Sounds like something a plumber should fix.
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
I think the point they are making is that the 'high-end' / cutting-edge is the same price as it has been. You couldn't get $2,300 for a 33MHz machine now, just like you can't sell a Galaxy S1 for a $700.
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by madelinecameron 10y ago
I got yelled at and downvoted on Reddit because I said their "What is Code" article was a horrific disaster of design http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod... CW: REALLY BRIGHT COLORS,
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by madelinecameron 11y ago
C is the top language by a lot... Seems about right.
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by madelinecameron 11y ago
This is kind of "no duh". Not really an article that adds much value or understanding, especially for a blog seemingly being targeted to a technical audience.
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by madelinecameron 11y ago
>So the difficulty at the top end never gets any easier just because the bottom end does. Personally, I think the end of construction came after the lever and fulcrum were invented. After humans didn't have to exert effort to build