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by paxunix 9y ago
It could get even more people to ride the bus if they extended the idea of dedicated lanes for buses farther into the suburbs and along major corridors (like I-5, but they'd get crucified by all the car drivers if that were to happen).
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by paxunix 9y ago
"Mass murder weapon" versus "justified homicide weapon" is just a situational distinction that does nothing to address the fact that the physical thing is identical and inextricably tied to horrible, irrevocable actions.
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by paxunix 9y ago
If you are going to argue about terminology, argue first about how can there be a "design space for the socially acceptable uses of weapons". The phrase is laughable. Weapons are for killing--that's why they're called
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by paxunix 9y ago
> What more money buys you, now and in 1916, is social status. It goes well beyond that. With more money, I can pay someone to keep my house clean and maintain my yard, own a more reliable car, buy and eat better quality/healthier
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by paxunix 9y ago
> Your response is like saying "human rights violations are such a big problem that we shouldn't do anything about it". No, it's not like saying that at all. I'm saying that companies are large, impersonal thing
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by paxunix 9y ago
You must work for one of those other companies with 340,000 employees that always makes the right decisions, always puts people before policy, always maximizes shareholder value, always engages positively with the community, and always make
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by paxunix 10y ago
That is terrible. It's extremely team-dependent at Amazon, whether you get the "you have to work long hours forever" team or the "I don't care if you put in your timeoff, just live your life outside of work while s
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by paxunix 10y ago
How often are you restarting your browser that this would matter?
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by paxunix 10y ago
A number of people have commented about the quality (or its lack) of Amazon's "this fits/doesn't fit your car" data. Let me explain a little about how that works: In North America, this fitment data conforms to a p
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by paxunix 10y ago
/bin/true Without fail, it has always done exactly what I wanted it to do. Simple. Solid. Reliable.
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by paxunix 10y ago
That is not a good argument at all. It's a side-effect of collecting metrics. Uber has no reason to know the battery status of my phone--them knowing it will not help them improve service to me in any way.
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by paxunix 10y ago
If a site can email you your password, they are basically storing it in clear text. Otherwise they could not send you your password (because they would only have the hash of it). This is clearly a huge security risk.
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by paxunix 11y ago
I didn't even read the article because I know there is no secret. We don't hire the best people. We hire average people, some good people, some great people, some mediocre people, and some people who aren't very good at thei
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by paxunix 12y ago
You must pay attention to the details if you will ever become a good programmer (not necessarily the same as being detail-oriented). This may mean different things depending on context: designing a system? The implementation details aren&
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by paxunix 12y ago
I had a similar experience back when I'd interviewed with Bloomberg. I was scheduled for a set of interviews with one team in the morning and another set with a different team in the afternoon. 1pm rolls around and the Bloomberg recr
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by paxunix 13y ago
A reddit user has started a tumblr to catalog ad-less, up-front-purchase, single in-app-purchase Android games: http://honestandroidgames.com/
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by paxunix 14y ago
No white on black?!