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by pwaivers 8y ago
This is such a cool story. I hope it works out for everyone involved.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
I don't know what to think here. On one hand, Google is writing code to make YouTube faster on its own browser. This is reasonable. On the other hand, Google is also using its dominance in internet video streaming to make Chrome look
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> "The upside to this is that white people no longer make up the majority at Facebook." I am all for diversity, but this sentence upsets me. Decreasing one population in the place should not be the goal.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> "Who was I, a 23-year-old university student, to be advising those guys with 25+ years of experience?" This doesn't seem woman-specific. Anyone would be intimidated in that situation!
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by pwaivers 8y ago
I cannot help but think about Star Troopers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers .
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President Donald Trump’s call this week for a separate U.S. “space force”(wsj.com)
1 points by pwaivers 8y ago|1 comments
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Very good point about the Monty Python and the Holy Grail! That is a great counter-example. I still think this title is hyperbolic, though it grabs readers' attention.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> "Future generations will laugh in horror and derision..." Is there anything in the past that we laugh at in horror and derision? Future generations will probably understand why we did it, or just tear it down. There is not
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by pwaivers 8y ago
I think it's more of a guiding principle rather than a steadfast rule. Like I would think "releasing code to production" is a one-way door. Even though it can be undone, it can have pretty bad consequences and breaks existing
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by pwaivers 8y ago
This is a great article. I did something very similar in C#, for reading in GB of data in a daily process. It is very fun to use the profiler and continually make optimizations. Two of my biggest wins were: 1) writing a custom DateTime pa
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by pwaivers 8y ago
"His stated motivation is that he wanted a promotion that he did not receive. In light of these actions, not promoting him was definitely the right move." Haha
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> "The impact of this cost hike will be felt throughout the industry, but most sharply by educators, especially those serving under-funded school districts." I am not sure what stance to take on the tariffs, but I'm pretty
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Excellent choice for the example GIF. Haha.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
I was really hoping for more examples of crowd management and station design. This article only has a few examples, and none of them really explained why Japanese trains are so efficient.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
It said that the lights led to a 84 percent decline in suicides attempts. That may not be true, but it is definitely way higher than "regression towards the mean" would cause.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
> "PostgreSQL 11 introduces SQL stored procedures that allow users to use embedded transactions (i.e. BEGIN, COMMIT/ROLLBACK) within a procedure." Did PostgreSQL not have stored procs before?
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by pwaivers 8y ago
It was not in a machine. The 'device' is the plastic instrument they use to collect blood, not a machine. "At her signal, a technician pricked a volunteer’s finger, then applied a transparent plastic implement shaped like a m
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by pwaivers 8y ago
What is DFS?
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by pwaivers 8y ago
@ksahin, have you thought about having a social media presence? For example, you could create a twitter account that post particularly good deals for that day.
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China's Challenge to Democracy(wsj.com)
1 points by pwaivers 8y ago|0 comments
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by pwaivers 8y ago
Reminds me of the playful acronym for PHP, which is "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor".
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by pwaivers 8y ago
How do you sell virtual items in, say, Overwatch? AFAIK the item is attached to your user and there is no trading.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
"In America today you would say that the clans have polarized, the villages have been decimated and the tribes have become weaponized." This is an interesting statement, but doesn't really have any facts backing it.
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by pwaivers 8y ago
This didn't really answer the question though. The only two reason's given were LOTR and Redwall, and it was not expanded on much. I was hoping for a more concrete answer.
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Allegiant shares tumble after '60 Minutes' questions airline’s safety practices(cnbc.com)
1 points by pwaivers 8y ago|0 comments
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by pwaivers 9y ago
Wow SO Documentation was, in fact, shut down: https://stackoverflow.com/documentation . I remember reading about it Hacker News not so long ago.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
So 0.004% chance this year and 0.3% in your lifetime. That also includes suicides.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
The Google timeline has surprisingly missed a log places that I have been. They are either not telling me about it, or they don't store everywhere I go. https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb
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by pwaivers 9y ago
So would it be possible to literally talk through music? What if notes (or strings of notes) stood for different words and ideas. It would be like a set of pictograms, but for music.
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by pwaivers 9y ago
They should release the LIDAR sensor data, so we can learn what the car "saw". This dashcash is basically irrelevant compared to the sensors on the car.

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