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841.
by pg_bot 9y ago
Unless your principal is in the seven figures your best bet is likely an index fund. More and more people are waking up to high fees and lackluster results of these advisors. If I were to offer advice, go with vanguard. They have the lowest
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by pg_bot 9y ago
I unsubscribed from Netflix due to their backtracking on Net Neutrality. If you are an engineer at any company I would suggest organizing a walk out if your company is abandoning a free and open internet.
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by pg_bot 9y ago
Adapt or die, if you can't figure out what your customers want then you deserve to go out of business. I've never seen a company become successful by blaming their customers for their problems. Take a deep breath figure out what y
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by pg_bot 9y ago
Has anyone done a write up of implementing FIDO-U2F into their own web applications?
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by pg_bot 9y ago
I disagree with the dishonorable mention as you've only considered the naive case which you can build upon to avoid the issues mentioned. Consider a design where everything is AES-256 encrypted in the application and the database just
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by pg_bot 9y ago
This article nails the point on why people should embrace automation instead of fear it. To give a HN themed example, how many people made a living telling you what was in a picture 20 years ago? If you told someone that you make a living b
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by pg_bot 9y ago
Cartels are unstable by their nature, OPEC is the exception not the rule. Cartels can only thrive when there is a lack of competition and strong enforcement between member nations. There is a reason why we don't hear of coal or natural
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by pg_bot 9y ago
The premise on which the Universal Basic Income is being sold is that in the future there will be fewer jobs due to automation and therefore we will need to increase the welfare state to compensate. In my opinion that premise is incredibly
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by pg_bot 9y ago
Evaluation of technologies is an important skill for any developer to learn. Lock-in on a proprietary technology that powers your company should be a giant red flag. In some cases, you are obligated to use a third party (Payment Processing)
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by pg_bot 9y ago
The amount of money this company has raised without putting a product to market is unprecedented. The track record for startups raising tons of money pre-launch is spotty to say the least. At what point does potential have to face reality?
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by pg_bot 9y ago
There's something poetic about watching the play unfold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-pxMm_UdY4 You can learn a few things from this play that I think would help you in life. First is planning for the unexpected a
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by pg_bot 9y ago
YikYak baffled me for its entire existence, their product was incredibly simple from an engineering standpoint, they had no clear route to monetization and followed in the footsteps of several apps that shut down due to bad press. (Juicy Ca
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by pg_bot 9y ago
I think the point the professor was trying to make was that the increased supply of used books incentivizes the publishing company to print a new edition, which all of the students will be forced to pay for. This is analogous to how car com
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by pg_bot 10y ago
This is the second or third article regarding breaking up the google/facebook ad monopoly that I've read in the past few days. I'm guessing someone has hired a PR firm to push this idea as it feels like I'm being submari
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by pg_bot 10y ago
I can elaborate since I own a business that requires HIPAA compliance. The main issue is not transmission, it is storage. According to their documentation "We store a list of your sent and received faxes, along with the media, for 180
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by pg_bot 10y ago
If Twilio will sign a business associates agreement, this could be huge in the healthcare field. EMRs have terrible interoperability so doctors and health systems typically fax health records to one another. However, this service does not l
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by pg_bot 10y ago
This seems like it will be an extremely difficult business to turn around. Food delivery is an extremely competitive and low margin business with highly price sensitive customers. I've seen coworkers rotate to whichever new service was
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by pg_bot 10y ago
The appliance division of Westinghouse was sold off in the 70's and is now managed by Electrolux. This division of Westinghouse was spun off in the late 90's and is now owned by Toshiba. The history and scope of Westinghouse is s
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by pg_bot 10y ago
Kyle Simpson has a good writeup of the class keyword from his series of books "You don't know Javascript". https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%... You can read thro
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by pg_bot 10y ago
While I'm a huge fan of what ES2015 has brought to JavaScript, the "class" keyword was a huge mistake. There are no classes in Javascript, there are only objects. By embracing prototypal inheritance you will write cleaner cod
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Ask HN: Any good book recommendations?
3 points by pg_bot 10y ago|1 comments
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by pg_bot 10y ago
I would add "reading the manual" to the list of things that people don't do enough of. I'm often shocked by people just diving into coding instead of doing the research to see if something has already been provided for y
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by pg_bot 10y ago
Actually this has already happened with the Pithovirus which was discovered in 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithovirus This virus is also interesting because it is orders of magnitude larger than previously know
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by pg_bot 10y ago
I know this isn't really practical, but as a rule you shouldn't mix comments and code. Comments should be above any function definitions for this and many other obvious reasons. Removing inline comments seems like a reasonable def
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by pg_bot 10y ago
I disagree, the tooling around most ecosystems is fine you just need someone who knows what they are doing to help guide people in the right direction. Technical leadership is sorely lacking in our industry, and when you are solving busines
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Destroy All Software relaunches(destroyallsoftware.com)
70 points by pg_bot 10y ago|18 comments
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by pg_bot 10y ago
I would be interested to see how Ruby's Set class performs in the Zesty example. If that is actually a bottleneck in the application, I would rather reach for something that is in the Standard Library instead of going fully native.
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by pg_bot 11y ago
The only cases where I've seen rewrites work are when the software fails to consistently complete the task it was written to do. A lot of software is garbage but gets the job done. When you encounter hot spots its best to slowly refact
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by pg_bot 11y ago
...so what that doesn't matter? Imagine you are an evil genius who has built a rocket to extend earth's orbit by an hour each day. How would you now represent time for a day once we live in that new orbit? Most people would just a
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by pg_bot 11y ago
It's about consistency. 23:59:60 is introducing a special case to the seconds field which you have to account for. 24:00:00 only adds a second to the day where it naturally should go. I don't redefine what a minute is, a minute is

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