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by newfoundglory 8y ago
> now a chunk of the API that references that method is broken, but you only happened to run a test for the method you changed
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
Why doesn't your best practices document include a requirement to run the whole test suite?
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
Oh, and just to address this concern: > future children would be stateless. If you had children who were stateless by birth, they would become eligible for British citizenship. Also, if you live in the UK for three consecutive years, the
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
He's not stateless, he's British.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
You're a British citizen, you can move to any country in the EU. If you marry your girlfriend, she can move with you, and other countries in the EU will not require her to show income to move with you. You could be there in a few month
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
This doesn't seem like an evidence-based opinion.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
If they enjoy it, they will probably keep working. The point is having saved enough that they can make that decision based on enjoyment, not based on needing to pay their mortgage and buy food.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
My entire point is that isn't true at all - you have a medical record with some objective characteristics, but it is not possible to calculate the risk of a procedure based on that information. Just like in software, we have a project
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
That's not true at all. Would you want to have surgery done if it had a guaranteed 3 month recovery period of incredible pain, a 5% chance of curing you, and a 95% chance of doing nothing, when your alternative is "nothing will hu
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
This is like asking why software project estimation can't just be done by looking at the size of the project to be built.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
Aside from the likely ability to connect it to other sources of data so they can show better ads on those platforms, there's regular market analysis - it's worth knowing that teenagers are increasingly interested in X even if you
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
Natural selection in this case means another Cambridge Analytica. Most people want to avoid that.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
Have any of your friends installed a Facebook app? Because it doesn’t matter if you decide they're not worth using, you have to make sure nobody in your network uses them either.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
If “open office” makes you think “another human nearby”, you may not be informed enough to contribute on this topic. That would be a shared office - an open office generally means many people nearby.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
How are those quotes insulting? Maybe if you came up with the term "Hadoop Heroes" and thought it was amazingly clever?
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
> A basic principle of private property is that you don't have to secure it. That’s not even true. Trespassing requires that you be told not to be on the property, that’s why people post signs. You can’t be charged with trespassing
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
Whether it is common knowledge or not has no bearing on whether it’s criminal, so I wasn’t using ordinary to mean “of normal computer literacy”. If you want to use some specific definitions that turn your claim into something trivially obvi
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
> Ordinary law-abiding people don't go fiddling with URLs I’m an ordinary law-abiding person, and I fiddle with URLs. I know lots of people in that group.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
Not everyone is a sociopath.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
There have been massive improvements in average nutrition over the last few decades though.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
In December 2007 in Australia I saw a presentation on the coming collapse of the US subprime housing market - in a lunchtime seminar given by a (tech) colleague for interests sake.
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by newfoundglory 8y ago
I had to double check, but you mean Bellingham, not Bellevue.
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by newfoundglory 9y ago
I suspect that a parent on hacker news with a t1d kid actually knows something about diet and diabetes already.
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by newfoundglory 9y ago
> Seattle does that and potholes get filled fairly quickly, We must have different definitions of quickly! Or perhaps different standards for “pothole”.
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by newfoundglory 9y ago
A graduate certificate? Not sure what you’d want it in, something like this Applied Statistics option? https://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/degrees-and-certificates/app...
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by newfoundglory 9y ago
I’d say most software isn’t global because it works with the real world - uber, Amazon, Facebook, all of them started local.
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by newfoundglory 9y ago
I've never been a morning person. Always been awake late and struggled to wake up in the morning. Imagine how it feels to have people dismiss this as a problem with screen time when I grew up without any screens! (Literally - not even
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by newfoundglory 9y ago
Unfortunately for your argument, companies in the UK also compete by offering paid maternity leave longer than the legal minimum - like PWC which offers an entire paid YEAR.
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by newfoundglory 9y ago
They gave a citation 5 hours ago, perhaps you could read the whole comment thread.
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by newfoundglory 9y ago
In my case, taking the bus is a good 15-20 minutes slower than biking, so by the time I'm looking at rain and having second thoughts, I'm usually too late to catch a bus and be at work on time. Very effective!

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