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by maehwasu 11y ago
Challenge accepted. I am going to regulate this problem away. New proposed regulation: 1. Banks must make rejection of a charge, rather than overdrafting, the default. 2. When overdrafting is enabled, cap the fees at some amount (say, $5),
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Could happen from anything. I've also been poor, and one thing that sent me over the edge was a check that someone waited months to cash. Thought I had $200 in my account, and made a payment with debit card, only to go under $0. What&#
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Airbnb is a short-term rental company, not a f *ing nation state. It amuses/disgusts me when the default position of companies like this is to treat their security policies as some sort of state secret, leading to these Kafka-esque sc
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by maehwasu 11y ago
related: http://www.theonion.com/article/scientists-teach-sign-langua...
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by maehwasu 11y ago
It's not about whether someone else would build this. It's about whether Apple will take draconian steps to stop any of the hotloaders from working.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Clojure won.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
You can make way more than $1/user if the users are in good geos and each user can install lots of apps. In general, it's best to assume the market knows something you don't, rather than the other way around.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Email sent. Let's get the ball rolling and see what you've got.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
If your goal is to create larger societal change, however, you NEED to publicize the move. He may or may not be right, but if shaking things up even outside his company was the intended effect, mission accomplished.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
I did this late last year for a traffic analytics backend. As you said, I had to wrap a lot of Node.js libraries, and then wire them up with core.async. It was a fun project, and I learned a lot, but I ended up reimplementing the whole thin
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Two years ago, I was in the US for a month and volunteered to chauffeur two Chinese students to a Celtics game as an outing (I was working for a homestay/education consulting company at the time). On the way back at night, driving thro
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by maehwasu 11y ago
This is factually incorrect for the Chinese readings of kanji/hanja/hanzi.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
I sort of ran this experiment on myself this year. The answer is that I have actually probably learned more about coding than I had in the 3-4 previous years when I was working a lot, since I had more time to delve in to topics in depth, ra
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by maehwasu 11y ago
> So, maybe people who have awesome jobs will just keep doing what they're doing, but for people with shitty jobs, why not say, "F* it, I can get by with the guaranteed minimum, so why bother?" As more of their jobs get au
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by maehwasu 11y ago
> But after a few times you understand that being defined and being executed are different things and then you wrap the execution. In this example, you've had to internalize a bit of extra knowledge, and have an extra "gotcha&q
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by maehwasu 11y ago
The example of the exception being thrown late (essentially, an exception being a type of side-effect) is quite good. Would it be fair to say that this is an advantage of the Haskell approach of (for example) encapsulating an operation that
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Your example is quite good, although there are far more bulletproof ways than exhaustive test cases to make sure this doesn't happen.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
I write fairly large backend systems that are continuously growing and facing evolving requirements. I follow those principles, and have yet to write a single test. It's just so much more robust to separate I/O code from other cod
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Of course if you can land in the Ivy League, or at least in the top half of it, you won't have any tradeoffs to make: the financial aid for families making less than $100K has gotten really good at Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Stanford
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Full need-based aid (not merit scholarships), is extremely rare outside the very top universities. At other schools, including those ranked in the top 30 or so, "need-based aid" is a euphemism for loans, often in extremely high am
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by maehwasu 11y ago
1. List (very real) benefits of going to college. 2. Repeatedly refuse to engage in any sort of analysis of whether those benefits were justified by their cost by using phrases like "I can't even put a price on those experiences.&