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by nolemurs 9y ago
Consider just switching to ripgrep instead. It's faster, and the default flags and interface are more thoughtful. This chart may make it seem less feature rich, but most of the 'features' it's missing are thing you'
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by nolemurs 9y ago
If your publicly held view is "a big chunk of people don't deserve the same rights as others", and your job requires working with lots of different people, then I'd argue you're probably not a good choice for the jo
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by nolemurs 9y ago
Not paying taxes on AirBnB income is also considered tax evasion in the US. I doubt there's any meaningful enforcement, but it's no more legal in the US than in Europe.
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> nobody seems to have developed a Shamir's secret sharing approach to cold wallets I mean, what is there to develop? Take the wallet's private key, and run it through your favorite implementation. I'm not really sure what
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by nolemurs 9y ago
Weird choices all around for how to solve this problem. The author of the post could have saved himself a lot of trouble by just focusing on the key backup files and moving the keys to a bitcoin client like electrum that doesn't requir
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> but it's out of the reach of most programmers It's actually really not all that difficult. There are lots of details, and understanding it all end to end is definitely a task most people will never do, but the issue is simp
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> If blocking Amazon from search results falls under anti-trust laws, why doesn't the first one fall under same laws? Market share. Amazon has less than 20% of the consumer electronics market share. Google has more than 80% of the s
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by nolemurs 9y ago
Using incognito mode and not logging in to sites should be enough to remove most of that information you list. Incognito mode shares information across tabs, and until you restart it. I think there are extensions that will make the identity
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by nolemurs 9y ago
I would wager that Amazon is pretty safe on this one. Some quick googling suggests that Amazon has less than 20% market share in consumer electronics. They're the biggest player, but there are lots of other big players (Walmart, Target
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> Not in my experience. It's possible to get the equivalent of a bachelors and masters in math within two year Seriously. In fact, most people who learn this math learn it in a period of 2-3 years. Far from being impossible, learn
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by nolemurs 9y ago
My best guess? Because he thought it would be cool. I'm not saying the decision makes sense. It obviously doesn't. But small organizations like a local church just don't have the expertise or resources to make good decisions
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by nolemurs 9y ago
To be fair, most likely someone's teenage son added a scroll listener when he built the small church's website before going off to college. In the category of "poor decisions made by teenagers" this is pretty tame.
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> The idea that sacrificing actual functionality in exchange for smoother scrolling makes the web "better" is a claim that makes sense only in a terrifically isolated bubble. It's a simple question of cost benefit analysis
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by nolemurs 9y ago
This is entirely the right way to see things. I'd like to emphasize that a copyright notice' purpose is to serve as evidence, should a copyright claim be made. As you said, it is neither necessary nor sufficient to establish a cop
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by nolemurs 9y ago
I did actually end up reading the first section (after seeing other comments in this thread). All I can say is that it was pretty much exactly what I expected from the title. They describe income inequality, yes. But they fail to explain ho
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> If you want to write a book that starts with motivations before delving into the nuts and bolts, and you ask customers what they think is most important and they all say the same thing, it seems reasonable enough to put that first. Sta
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by nolemurs 9y ago
I looked at the table of contents, and concluded I didn't really need to look further. This isn't an economics textbook - it's a propaganda piece. Section 1.1 of an economics textbook should not be about "Income Inequali
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by nolemurs 9y ago
Firing is never fast or easy. It usually takes months to realize your mistake since it takes that long to get up to speed on a new job, And then you have to hire someone else, and get them up to speed. As a result, you're delayed by
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> I imagine young employees would be happy (I did a bunch of short-term contracts myself), but once you have a mortgage and kids, it's nice to be a little more certain about your new job, before quitting your old one. And just to ma
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> The desire for a 'good candidate' and the paranoia about making a mistake is sounding increasingly utopian. I don't know where you're getting your 'perfect hire narrative' idea from; this is simple cost&#x
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by nolemurs 9y ago
Well, sure. We're not talking sophisticated things here though. The exercises that I've formed this opinion from were closer to fizz-buzz than to data structures or algorithms questions. If it takes you 20 minutes to code somethin
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> The filter limits the applicant pool to that set of people uninterested in solving problems outside the scope of a CS textbook. The only way this would be true is if being good at textbook CS makes you bad at solving other problems. I&
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by nolemurs 9y ago
All that's required to get 10 years of experience is the ability to get your foot in the door and not do so badly that they actually fire you. It is absolutely not a guarantee of any real competence. At my last job I did a bunch of int
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by nolemurs 9y ago
It seems unlikely to me that as a full time Facebook engineer Koum would have still had time to create a multi-billion dollar startup. It also seems unlikely to me that he would have been motivated to put in that work for an employer, or th
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> I completely understand the need for these technical interviews and weed out obvious bad programmers and get experts on board but sometimes from a business point of view it just doesn't make sense. The thing is that the main goal
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by nolemurs 9y ago
This is old news (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323265 ). It also wasn't newsworthy when it happened. There's nothing specific to the GPL really implicated here. All the court ruled was, essentially, t
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by nolemurs 9y ago
> I'd hypothesise that a machine that kills everyone in those 1% edge cases (which are actually less frequent than 1%) but drives perfectly 99% of the time would still outperform humans. Well, no. Some quick googling suggests that t
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by nolemurs 9y ago
The article is a serious waste of time. It can be summarized as "Non cryptographic PRNGs can be predicted! Look, I cracked this one! I'm not going to tell you how I did it though." There's no exposition describing non cr
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by nolemurs 9y ago
Same here. I like the idea of Firefox. Every few months I reinstall it and try it for a day or two, and it's always just painfully slow compared to Chrome. In most other respects I actually prefer Firefox, but the other differences are
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by nolemurs 9y ago
Ironically, in this case, the Hacker News link could really have benefited from a title change to communicate the missing context.

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