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by pbh101 10y ago
>Catholics can always go the the nearest priest, confess their sins and be immediately absolved from them. They don't have to deal with their conscience. While the first sentence is true, the second captures neither the spirit nor t
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Not trying to be too snarky here, but blue-collaredness and excelling at one's job are quite orthogonal in my head.
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Slightly redundant, but I also enjoyed the (apparently contemporary) Planet Money podcast episode on the same topic: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/08/473581490/episo...
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by pbh101 11y ago
1) Two of those companies (FB/Goog) could easily have been bought by the megaliths of their time, but their founders' vision and control prevented it. I don't see what is so much different about these times that would prevent
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Going to echo this sentiment: I think the only way FizzBuzz is a trick question is if you aren't familiar with the modulus operator, in which case I think it fair to say you haven't spent much time programming. That being said, I&
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I haven't used Datomic but I thought its entire premise is that the data is immutable and thus history/versioning was baked in. Am I missing something?
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I remember the earlier Google attempt at the same thing. I was in undergrad and an engineer came to my Uni to give a presentation on the topic. A big area of concern was "Why won't Google just shut this down when the going gets r
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While I agree with you, I want to note that long-term value is often not what these businesses want or need: the work required to get LTV is often perceived as delaying time to market, and sometimes the right choice is to optimize time to m
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Expanding on this, typing '?' will bring up the help, like gmail.
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Splain it to me(status451.com)
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Splain it to me(status451.com)
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I wouldn't say anything to the municipality if it was shown to be a cost-effective measure to improve the situation. It sounds like you presuppose there is also a lack of emergency response capacity, but that is a separate issue.
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Harvey Mudd, CalTech, Rose Hulman, Carnegie Mellon, from what I've heard and experienced. But I expect you have heard of these institutions, and they are all on the technical side.
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Similarly, I don't think the primary purpose/raison d'etre of the Apple Watch is to tell time. It certainly isn't what you're paying $300+ for.
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Mechanical watches can be much more expensive and keep less accurate time. In rare cases I've seen my MacBook Pro display stale time in the taskbar. Haven't pinned it down yet. In both cases the balance of usefulness paid for is
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Especially in the multi-core era, this becomes more and more important. Thanks to the Java Memory Model specification, if you are using constructors (and yes, pretty much every DI framework by now has this feature), with just a bit of care
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By its nature, the functionality of their app breaks the app sandbox, currently via unsupported APIs. It is unclear whether Apple wants to ever support the functionality required to make f.lux run. My guess would be no, because it would be
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by pbh101 11y ago
Experience-wise, I have used both Venmo and QuickPay (and Apple Pay). I would much much rather use a P2P version of Apple Pay than either of the other two. Agreed that it would be yet-another service I'd have to use, but I already ha
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The right to sell it when the price rises. You own a part of the company which you acquired at a price that you presumably considered below fair value. Even though there is no premium for voting rights nor expected dividends, but you still
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Did you end up using an external promisese library or roll your own?
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Yes, he certainly is vocal :) http://blog.expensify.com/2011/03/25/ceo-friday-why-we-dont-...
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But if LPs are targeting a certain return, then their capital allocation could swing towards including more Treasuries when their interest rate goes up. Of course that's in a vacuum. In reality I expect many of the asset classes in the
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Maybe if it were Oracle, but in this case it is another startup which runs in the same circles and benefits from credibility from a similar audience, even if only for developer recruiting.
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Yes, though Google's own performance is a big 'noise' factor which would make Google stock a poor proxy for Uber's performance. Yahoo and Alibaba were in a similar but more exacerbated situation last year.
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The fear is that it would introduce noise into the signal of those who are using the tool, rather than the creator of the tool.
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Funny, it struck me the opposite way: individually prone and helpless for 8 hours a day, vs being in a community where one is theoretically protected.
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Pay in the field has indeed risen dramatically in the last decade. Maybe not uniformly or to the level we would like (or in a way we think will last, such as being accompanied by increases in status in contrast to doctors, to expand on your
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Regardless of whether they are ads or not, they a) do not track you b) do not take up disproportionate amount of network bandwidth and CPU/battery c) do not interrupt your viewing after the initial scroll down which is why I
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Having been around a lot of people who care about this issue growing up, I can tell you there is a lot of loud trumpeting of every advance in adult stem cell research, specifically for this reason. I'm sure there are still some out the
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I've been to Brazil many times and I've never even seen a Pepsi bottle, whereas Coca-Cola seems to be part of the culture there even moreso than in the States.

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