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by potatoyogurt 9y ago
Do you know that's how it works, or is it a guess? That's not really the standard way to do audience segmentation.
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by potatoyogurt 9y ago
There's always a risk when you give money that it will be used in a way you don't approve of or that is generally unsavory. Restrictions are one way to try to control that, but they're not foolproof. I think ultimately if you
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by potatoyogurt 9y ago
This is an odd redefinition of innovation. Is Snapchat more innovative than a proof of the Riemann hypothesis? Number of people who Snapchat: apparently at least 178 million. Number of people who want a proof of the Riemann hypothesis? Mayb
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by potatoyogurt 9y ago
That's an enormous misinterpretation of what the author is saying. He's just juxtaposing the extreme wealth in the city with the poverty and drawing from his personal experiences to represent the wealth. He explicitly says "
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by potatoyogurt 9y ago
It's also an enormous betrayal from a part of her life from what she probably viewed as the most significant part of her life (assuming the facts are as described). That sort of betrayal is really hard to handle.
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by potatoyogurt 9y ago
>In Medical Economics’ 2013 annual survey, 36% of family medicine/general practitioners and 35% of internists reported earning income from sources other than their primary practice/employer in 2012. That number was about the sa
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by potatoyogurt 9y ago
Yes, that's why I said it's a tooling problem. But not everyone has log aggregators set up (or set up in a sane/totally adequate way), and even with log aggregators, it takes a little more care to make sure you're exposi
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by potatoyogurt 9y ago
Just saying that you're using microservices doesn't guarantee that you'll be avoiding or capping tech debt. I've seen some hopelessly entangled "microservices" that are so full of assumptions about how other pa
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by potatoyogurt 9y ago
That's probably because "data scientist" isn't a job description, it's a trendy title for a whole constellation of jobs that involve looking at data. I would expect that the Wharton grads are probably doing work tha
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
Language lessons are good at giving you the grammatical foundation you need to become literate. I agree that they're pretty bad for fluency in spoken language. To be fair, though, language classes are usually 3-5 hours per week, and yo
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
It's necessary given that the ACA restricts insurers for rejecting people for preexisting conditions. This only really works in a country where everyone has insurance. Otherwise, why not just hang around without insurance until you get
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
Certainly true, but that's not a reason to give up on creating those abstractions, like the post I was replying to was suggesting. It's a reason to be judicious about when it's appropriate to create these abstractions, and in
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
If it's done right, though, you shouldn't have to navigate around all the smaller 5 line functions, at least not unless you're debugging. Each of the submethods should clearly describe what it does, and do that without any un
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
Maybe it is, but I don't think it's clear at this point. People certainly aren't going to wear this all the time, but I could definitely see it getting worn for many specific occasions. I see the niche it as something closer
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
It also doesn't look nearly as dorky as Google Glass did. Google Glass had the problem where it was trying to be an all-purpose life-enhancing thing that people would wear all the time, so it was trying to be both invisible and distinc
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
Brogue is also one of the most visually beautiful roguelikes despite sticking to the old roguelike convention of using individual ascii characters to represent everything in the dungeon. It is really impressive.
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
You'd miss out on the handful of really good real journalism articles per month that Buzzfeed publishes in that case, which would be kind of a shame. Maybe that's how they justify the expense of doing real journalism -- it makes i
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
This fundamentally changes the meaning of the title. "Yahoo probes possibly huge data breach" implies that there was a data breach, and it may or may not be huge. "Yahoo probes possible huge data breach" implies that the
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
Yeah, there's a lot of selection bias with this sort of thing. The average computer science graduate is probably going to go on to become a software engineer or otherwise work in tech in some way. This means that you will meet all of t
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
Not necessarily true. If you're part of a team you really like, being able to guarantee that you can work with people you like at a new job is a pretty big upside. And if you're really good and are confident in your interviewing s
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by potatoyogurt 10y ago
Starting up a consultancy is much more complicated for people with immigration issues. It might not be impossible, but I don't think anyone I know on an H1B would be eager to try to navigate U.S. immigration law without the support and
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by potatoyogurt 11y ago
When I was in school, I almost never actually consulted my notes, and they were often practically illegible, but I still found that the process of taking notes helped me retain more information. It also had the side benefit of making it har
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by potatoyogurt 11y ago
I was more bothered by the silly melodrama you got at a number of points, personally ("I know that <spoilers> taste best!"). It did have some really great scenes, though. The schoolcar scene was top notch. And it was quite i
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by potatoyogurt 11y ago
Relevant reading: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm This is a 1970s article about power structures in the women's liberation movement, which also tried to embrace structureless, "flat" leadersh
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by potatoyogurt 11y ago
Becoming president of school clubs isn't entitlement. What I mean is that the culture around leadership positions in high school incubates the attitudes that Michael was complaining about. Some students do legitimately learn a lot bein
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by potatoyogurt 11y ago
It starts even earlier than business school, with the kids who campaign to be president of ten different school clubs just for the sake of being in a leadership position and being able to put it on their resumes. American culture really enc
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by potatoyogurt 11y ago
I'm not sure if I get how this is any different from Munchery or Zesty. But hey, I'm not going to complain about another company I can harvest free meals from through referrals.
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by potatoyogurt 11y ago
The T61 was the first laptop I bought and it completely put me off of Lenovo. Complete piece of shit -- broke multiple times even after I had them repair it and I even waited like 4 months for my order to arrive because they had some sort o
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by potatoyogurt 12y ago
Doctors have a very high suicide rate, so I don't think they actually do have significantly better coping mechanisms.
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by potatoyogurt 12y ago
I think the problem goes even further. The cogito assumes an "I" that it never really establishes. "I think, therefore some thoughts exist" seems to hard to challenge, but who is to say that these thoughts are continuous

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