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by quxbar 9y ago
Maybe i'm offended because, as a white man, it leaves me open to all kinds of statistics about how white men are overwhelmingly likely to be serial killers, compared to other groups. And it would follow that we could do a better of cat
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by quxbar 9y ago
> To me, the Google memo is an outlier—I cannot remember the last time so many outlets and observers mischaracterized so many aspects of a text everyone possessed. How about every article or video about cryptocurrency, PRISM, AI, 'D
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by quxbar 9y ago
I find it funny that the content creator you linked to still uses Patreon, despite them not providing any value over other payment services ;)
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by quxbar 9y ago
"People have indeed falsely shouted "Fire!" in crowded public venues and caused panics on numerous occasions, such as at the Royal Surrey Gardens Music Hall of London in 1856, a theater in New York's Harlem neighborhood
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by quxbar 9y ago
What's the other side here, that the guests are to blame for the cancellation? I would say Tami Barker's behavior makes it seem that the only thing her guests did wrong was show let their ethnicity show before they got the keys.
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by quxbar 9y ago
Ambiguous use of 'cannot' versus 'are not' all over this article.
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by quxbar 10y ago
For the record, both myself and my partner 'used' stories this month, only to say 'yuck, can I turn this off?' But hey, you gotta show off those metrics.
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by quxbar 10y ago
Austin's housing market exploded over a series of years prior to its new tech hub status, tech workers only make up a fraction of the influx of monied Californians flooding the poor little town.
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by quxbar 10y ago
I couldn't agree more, this kind of stance is embarrassing from a professional standpoint. It's ridiculous to act like this one special arrangement of plastic on a computer is so crucial to development. All 'real' devel
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by quxbar 10y ago
I have to point out that this last point is totally ridiculous. Twitter is functionally just like like Xanga or Livejournal or any other dead blogging platform you care to name. Just because you have a community of dedicated users and a bet
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by quxbar 10y ago
Yeah this is a misleading title - no part of the data was targeting people based on their demographics, unlike the hordes of ad trackers that are invading our private lives. They were selling a tool. Was the plan to target PoC with that too
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by quxbar 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
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by quxbar 10y ago
Ditto to this!
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by quxbar 10y ago
I'd like to barge in and call false dichotomy on this. Despite the excellent citation, I don't think it's correct. I believe technology should let people enjoy more of their lives, not replace it. Understanding is essential t
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by quxbar 10y ago
My roommate and I really had a great time watching this over a couple of beers. We're not even especially gifted in the realm of solder and circuits, but it was fun speculating and marveling at the thorough breakdown.
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by quxbar 10y ago
Wow, in 20 years Japan will be producing some amazing technology. I think people underestimate how transformative an understanding of programmatic problem solving can be. I'd put it only slightly under literacy.
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by quxbar 10y ago
As a liberal arts major who is now a developer, this article makes me cringe incredibly hard. It's gut wrenching to see such vapid simplifications of both art and science. The author seems to have never really pierced the vale of WHY a
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by quxbar 10y ago
I believe it's also the case that ALL Television advertising (and most ads in general) are incredibly overvalued. Most Marketers already know they're blowing 50% of the budget, they just don't know where the waste is (hint: e
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by quxbar 10y ago
Six degrees of kevin bacon is also just a great demonstration of how even a moderately dense network has very few edges between almost any two nodes. It's one of my favorite beginner programming challenges.
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by quxbar 11y ago
I feel like some people will find a way to be shallow and performative about how they live their lives no matter what technology exists.
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by quxbar 11y ago
And furthermore, sharing frameworks has been responsible for the incredibly fertilization. When you consider the recent pace of Javascript development - with jQuery, and now React, we've had years of huge, newly-developing libraries, p
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by quxbar 11y ago
Started using it with Enzyme, fell in love with unit tests again. Upgrade your tired old Mocha/Chai tests today! Keep Sinon though, Sinon is chill.
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by quxbar 11y ago
There just isn't a market for mediocre websites as a craft anymore - clients need social media profiles plus a squarespace, and then they're done.
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by quxbar 11y ago
Luckily, you can skip right ahead to React+Redux. It's really a logical extension of your stack than you think. jQuery and Backbone you can pretty much ignore except know that it's a less elegant and less declarative way to do mod
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by quxbar 11y ago
> How can you be promoting the life of the poor in the 19th century when so many of them didn’t eat every day? Well yeah, it’s bad, but is it really any worse than the situation today when everybody’s fed but you have an incredible perce
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by quxbar 11y ago
Yeah, really okay with that. Assuming I'm still paid a Software Engineer salary, I'd have enough disposable income for a then-new sports car (Corvette Stingray, thank you).
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by quxbar 11y ago
I'd take options 1 in a heartbeat, my student debt would vanish and my rent in NYC would be almost nothing.
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by quxbar 11y ago
Living in NYC, I can vouch Muji is my best reasonably-priced readily-available option for most of those things, and thus all of them but the silverware (we inherited a full set) are in my current living space. Fascinating that one Japanese
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by quxbar 11y ago
Reading this as an openly insufferable Muji fanatic (did anyone else see Kazuko Koike at the pre-opening event at the 5th avenue store? it was great!) this was written by a closeted Muji fanatic. I approve. Hopefully they won't dilute
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by quxbar 11y ago
As you turn the dial of driver response time, you're basically changing the congestion function of the road. Tim Roughgarden has a fantastic book that's very satisfyingly deep, but succinct. https://mitpress.mit.edu&#x2

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