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by rabidrat 9y ago
I for one will be using 'wallet garden' (which includes the 'monied tree') from here on out.
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by rabidrat 9y ago
> For example, Facebook had an offer from Yahoo for a billion dollars, which everyone told Zuck to take. Fortunately, he said no. Had he said yes, it would have been another failed Yahoo acquisition and Facebook would not have nearly as
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by rabidrat 9y ago
I just launched "tad 311_Service_Requests_from_2010_to_Present.csv" (a 10GB dataset from data.cityofnewyork.us) and it ate up all my memory without ever showing any data. "vd 311_Service_Requests_from_2010_to_Present.csv&quo
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by rabidrat 9y ago
If you prefer working from the terminal, you should check out VisiData ( https://github.com/saulpw/visidata ). It's a curses tabular data tool that can start browsing terabyte .csv files immediately, with few depen
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by rabidrat 10y ago
https://tapastic.com/episode/427055
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Hiring a more experienced person to help you sounds like a great idea, actually. Your pay is not be based entirely on actual merit, but must also take risk into account. Once you've demonstrated the value, then you have the power to
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by rabidrat 10y ago
You just provided a subtle clue about your gender.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I tried to add myself to the mailing list at https://lbry.io/signup and got a 500 error.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Yeah, I find that kind of intimidating too. But don't forget that this is an entire company's worth of infrastructure that they're calling out. Also some of those in the middle of your quote are like saying "and we use
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I frequently find myself frustrated by a bug for days and nights and too often eventually have to just work around it. Only the most common bugs are searchable. The rest are clouded by layer after layer of unnecessary dependencies.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
There are so many options these days, and evaluation often requires all the work of using the package only to find out that it's incompatible or broken or unusable for some other reason. So it's often more efficient to write your
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by rabidrat 10y ago
If your uncle is well-regarded within the tech community as having a good eye for startups that would become successful, and can introduce you to VCs and executive leadership candidates, you should definitely go with your uncle.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
You know several sales people making $500k/year? I knew the best ones made bank but I didn't know that most of them did so well.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I agree with you on this, but let's not forget that companies are still hiring from this diluted larger pool, and most companies (apparently) don't know why they would benefit from more senior people. So in effect, senior people
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Enlightenment is basically just being woke on a much larger scale.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
To claim that there is only one way almost always belies a profound lack of imagination.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
The flexing of one's self-consciousness? Like meditation, submission, or shadow work.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
css :hover with hrefs to fast-loading pages can give the illusion of interactivity without any javascript (or even server processing, if the whole site is statically-generated).
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by rabidrat 10y ago
About tulpas...it's basically ego manipulation. When combined with immature ego development (most practitioners are 14-24 it seems), this is how Otherkin happen.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Actually I think The Onion is a perfect candidate to be labeled, if not 'disputed' then another tag like 'satire'. That would hopefully help stop their Abortionplex articles from enraging certain people who may be gulli
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Every state has weather that can be devastating; also weather does not usually confine itself to state boundaries.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Nature now requires public data for articles, maybe The Washington Post should do the same with its sources. http://www.nature.com/news/announcement-where-are-the-data-1...
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by rabidrat 10y ago
That'd be fine with me as long as I'm overcompensated.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Health "insurance" in general is a ridiculous concept. Insurance is supposed to flatten the cost of undertaking risky endeavors. Maybe there should be injury insurance for athletes, and STD insurance for sex workers. But the av
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Ask HN: What's the most expensive physical item that can be bought online?
3 points by rabidrat 10y ago|5 comments
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by rabidrat 10y ago
The level of help he needs is beyond what he can get while serving as the CEO of Uber, and won't happen fast enough to matter to Uber's practices and culture. I support his desire to get help, after he's stepped down as CEO.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Who is hiring for the long-term? Most devs are gone in 2-3 years.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
And then along comes a 10x programmer who realizes that you can avoid the lookup entirely if you partition your data along this other axis. Latency goes negative and your company makes a few more brazillions off time travel. But the 10x p
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Amazon has free shipping with Prime.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Not in my browser: "ActiveGS only works on Windows or Mac!"

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