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by pixelperfect 7y ago
I think anyone who's an expert in any general-purpose programming language can find a way to parlay that into a job, since it's much easier for them to learn another language, but knowing Clojure doesn't help much for learnin
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
I think the Clojure job market is pretty good for senior developers but bad for junior developers. Anecdotal evidence, but I saw someone a few months ago who had an active Clojure blog, gave talks on Clojure, contributed to multiple interes
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
A large fraction of the population lives in growing areas, so the rising cost of real estate in growing areas is an extremely important factor, and on average it's been rising faster than wages for decades.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Also, taking but not completing MOOC shouldn't count as a failure. I've enrolled in ~8 courses on Coursera and never completed any of them, but I still gained a lot of value from what I learned in those courses.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
This is an interesting/generous giveaway... I'm not sure what to think about XLM. On the one hand, I am very pessimistic about all altcoins, but on the other, I am impressed with Stripe, Keybase, and the teams behind those product
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Yes, but he was already on suicide watch. I would be interested in seeing statistics on how often prisoners succeed in committing suicide while on suicide watch.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
That's actually the reason why I use Gmail instead of switching to a smaller email service - it's "too big to fail," I don't think Gmail will be discontinued for as long as Google exists, even if it became somewhat
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
This isn't a problem that will be solved by technology anytime soon. There are more guns in the U.S. than people. Even if you had a perfect tracking system for legally sold weapons, there are plenty of people willing to sell guns illeg
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
I recently read David Deutsch's book Beginning of Infinity , and it drastically increased my level of optimism. Summarizing it wouldn't do it justice, but I highly recommend reading it.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
If/when old.reddit.com stops working, I will overcome my Reddit addiction once and for all.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
> Unlike Audible, however, it's easy to game the system by subscribing and quickly unsubscribing. You can do this on Audible without problems. I have an Audible library of 15 books that I accumulated over a few years through various
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
But for XHR only POST requests that meet a lot of constraints (defined here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS#Simpl... ) will work, right? Nothing with a Cookie header for example...
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
I see what you mean, evil.com could still make a request that includes cookies, which is why we need CSRF tokens. But from my understanding, it wouldn't be able to do that in a XMLHttpRequest hidden on the page. It would have to be a r
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
I thought the browser at evil.com would first send a pre-fetch request without the cookies, but not send the full request when it doesn't get the correct value from Access-Control-Allow-Origin in the response from banking.com. I'l
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
I'm pretty sure you're incorrect - requests to sites different from the one you are currently on will not include auth data by default because of the same-origin policy. The auth data would only be included if the server that the
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Getting Clojure by Russ Olsen. It's the most recently published of the introductory Clojure books and imo the best written.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Thanks for sharing. I hope at age 83 I can be as mentally sharp as Gilbert Strang is.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Doesn't Google keep track of web history through IP/browser fingerprinting even if you don't use an account? And when asked about it they give vague answers about what information is being kept and for how long. That's w
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
If I take the perspective of someone who isn't informed about the technology, I can see how they could think that the technology is safe and Tesla is putting excessive warnings because their lawyers want them to. I think superfluous wa
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Long Now Foundation is thinking about the distant future, but as far as I understand the building phase of their current projects will be completed within a single generation.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
I'm surprised Microsoft-owned GitHub hasn't started censoring yet. I suspect it's only a matter of time.
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by pixelperfect 8y ago
They actually have sponsored 3b1b in the past.
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by pixelperfect 8y ago
Quantum Country is another great introduction to spaced repetition (and quantum computing!) [1]. One of its authors also wrote a great essay about spaced repetition [2]. [1] https://quantum.country/qcvc [2] http:/&#x2
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by pixelperfect 8y ago
With PredictIt there's a max bet size, so the manipulation would have to be spread over many accounts. Seems like a very high risk/reward ratio considering how many people would have to be involved, and considering most people don
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by pixelperfect 8y ago
I've heard this before but I created a WeChat account last week and didn't have to provide anything other than a phone number for a SMS verification code.
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by pixelperfect 8y ago
Interestingly enough Donald Trump tweeted about this the other day: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/10677911017828311... https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/106779261018
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by pixelperfect 8y ago
Are you sure it's because you are getting older, and not because of another factor like technology? There is growing evidence that the constant consumption of information e.g. on social media and mobile devices is negatively affecting
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by pixelperfect 8y ago
It seems to have widespread utility in countries with severe currency problems like Venezuela. But I agree, for countries with healthy economies, I don't see why crypto would attain mainstream adoption for much more than black market t
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by pixelperfect 8y ago
Morale must be even worse when you consider that Facebook tries to only hire people who are enthusiastic about the product. I've heard people who don't use or don't show enthusiasm about the Facebook platform are screened out
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by pixelperfect 8y ago
After a while the parens became something I enjoy having. I like being able to structurally edit code, and comment out paren expressions by prepending them with '#_', I feel like I can edit Clojure code much faster than JavaScript

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