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by msellout 11y ago
LevelUp helps small businesses aggregate credit card transactions to decrease the fees ( https://www.thelevelup.com/ ). I'm not affiliated with them. It's a nice service that seems to be most prevalent in Boston.
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As common in studies of personality, the researchers perform a bait-and-switch in defining key terms. To ensure mass appeal, like a skillful astrologist crafting this week's horoscope, they introduce the term "toxic worker" a
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by msellout 11y ago
> "how can the company legitimize its political machinations in a totalitarian labor system" That's an excellent TL;DR.
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by msellout 11y ago
You're saying that the balance of supply and demand leads to optimal pricing -- maximizing both producer and consumer surplus?
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by msellout 11y ago
Unlikely, as it leads with negativity and a comment on how prevalent illegal rentals are.
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by msellout 11y ago
Why are you incrementing inside a Python for-loop? Are you familiar with ``enumerate``? In most situations, Python provides an iterator that tracks state for you and it's not necessary to increment state explicitly in the loop.
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There's a joke/aphorism, "that's like asking your barber if you should get a haircut." Apparently it's not as well-known as I thought.
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Perhaps a for-loop is more similar to your memory of other code, but a list comprehension is more similar to an English sentence. "All names longer than 4 characters in the list of cities?" all(len(name) > 4 for name
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by msellout 11y ago
Well, your barber is an expert on hair.
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by msellout 11y ago
Too bad. They're probably chasing local optima that are quite different from the global maximum.
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> But you can have both. It seems you misread the article as saying Python created a trade-off. Perhaps the author shouldn't have tried to create a surprise ending. Regardless, the conclusion was that the Python implementation was
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by msellout 11y ago
On the contrary, I pick Python to make the "testing, debugging, optimization, and design" faster.
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Counter-example: the US. Besides, what better "culture" do you want than people who are leaving family and friends to seek work? Sounds like valuable work ethic to me.
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That would need to hold for substantially all of the "top" outperforming our expectation of a naive person with the same deal-flow .
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collections.Counter was designed with multiset in mind.
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Summary in the conclusion: "The end result is an implementation several orders of magnitude faster than the current reference implementation in Java. ... [Python] makes the first version easy to implement and provides plenty of powerfu
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by msellout 11y ago
Thus the song, "Yes, we have no bananas".
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That's the principle of the free market -- central planning is inefficient.
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Ted Turner bought a bunch of land.
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> It doesn't take much computing power to do a decent predictor Collaborative filtering, a standard recommendation method, requires a great deal of computing power. Depending on the feature engineering, this could result in "bi
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by msellout 11y ago
The quality of life of travelers and hosts seems to line up quite nicely with startup revenue.
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It's a debate over the definition of "owning property", which is something that changes frequently over the years. We're always trying to find some sensible middle ground.
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If "everything" is simply interpreted as many things, I believe one can be great at something and good at many things. If you interpret "everything" as a vast number of things, then being good at a vast number of things
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by msellout 11y ago
For a moment I thought you were suggesting they produce something like N+1 Magazine ( https://nplusonemag.com/ ), which is a pretty awesome publication.
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I think we're going to see the switch occur quickly now. This year I've seen several large enterprise projects using Python 3. Also, the release of v3.5 brings useful features that will not be backported as 2.8.
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by msellout 11y ago
Not if you're using that style of bracing already. I'm guessing you have a different style convention?
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I expect the "low paying" offers are a signal of a bad project. It's likely that your customer will never be satisfied with what you deliver. Even if they are, it likely won't achieve their expectations.
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Perhaps so, if the company was short-sighted. A company thinking for a longer time-frame would likely weight customer happiness as a very important factor for long-term profits.
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by msellout 11y ago
Not sure why you think economists treat technology as externality. I've seen many macroeconomic models that specifically are attempting to model change in technology.
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by msellout 11y ago
I can't remember the limit, but it's a legal one not technological. The military has a legal monopoly on precise GPS.

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