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by rubberband 4y ago
Let me know if you find such a betting venue... I'll take the same side. I'm aware of both Microsoft and Google publishing papers claiming astounding quantum feats, then later retracting them (I have to assume there were similar i
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by rubberband 4y ago
They absolutely do. Without fail.
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by rubberband 4y ago
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression when I mentioned the OSS angle... My (hindsight: almost meaningless) point was that the whole "open / vs closed source ideology" doesn't matter. You could contribute to the Donald T
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by rubberband 4y ago
Aw crud... I completely forgot about Stack Overflow @.@. I think because I'm off today, and don't have it opened in 17 background tabs... A Stack Overflow profile is another wonderful thing on a resume. It demonstrates you&#x
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by rubberband 4y ago
Oh thank goodness. Another human not cool enough to "get" the Monty Hall problem at first. I thought I was the only one... Took me years...
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by rubberband 4y ago
Pfft. I believe that anyone who read about git, and responded "yeah, duh, it's so obvious" is a dirty, dirty liar. An explanation of "interactive rebasing" to me might as well been an explanation of quantum entangl
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by rubberband 4y ago
Ah crap, I messed up here, and I'm quite sorry. I was wrong when I said that bootcamps were red flags. When I stated "Don't do bootcamps. It's a red flag for me"... I should have said "Don't have bootcamps
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by rubberband 4y ago
Late to the party, but maybe I can help. I've helped in the hiring of many developers. (grain of salt, just my opinion, etc...) * Don't do bootcamps. It's a red flag for me. This can be said for any 100% online college. (
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by rubberband 4y ago
I'm not that good at predicting the present, so mise well. 1. Doubts creep in as to practical usefulness of AI, and it ebbs a little in late November. Admittedly this is hard to quantify and perhaps poorly worded. 2. US housing intere
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by rubberband 4y ago
Reminds me of a classic: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics: http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
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by rubberband 13y ago
Haha Wired was crazy. There were a handful of other ones which were just as bad (Fast Company is another one that comes to mind). It's also not just tech bubbles. The recent US housing bubble (when housing prices would never go down,
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by rubberband 13y ago
I have to guess the jump is just coincidental, but who knows... Maybe because all us tech folk are basement dwelling, D&D playing, bearded outcasts, it fit some sort of subconscious stereotype. It'd be interesting to try blue hai
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by rubberband 13y ago
I suppose it is potentially, but I have to assume that the people in the pharmaceutical industry understand which drugs they should market (and how, and when) to make the most money. To me it seems that "diet drugs" would basical
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by rubberband 13y ago
A lot of businesses I talk to have a lot of legacy applications which work well under XP, but break for whatever esoteric reason (for example, an old Access database, or VB6 app) under Windows 7/8. An equally large pain the ass is a
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by rubberband 13y ago
Your boss has also read about this hot new way to hike up mountains, and it is now mandated that you hike in this fashion.
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by rubberband 13y ago
Aah you're correct; I had forgotten about that. I suppose syncing all someone's Amazon-related files makes sense in a way. Kindle, MP3 purchases, etc. I may be wrong, but I don't think Dropbox has a technology which is Ear
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by rubberband 13y ago
I've had decent results with the PHP Tools extension: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-... . There is also the VS.Php extension, but it's not free, and seems a little less polished.
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by rubberband 13y ago
Google or Microsoft won't buy them. They're hedging their bet that this technology will be a commodity soon (Google Drive and SkyDrive). It doesn't really fit in Amazon's universe. They already told Apple to screw (al
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by rubberband 13y ago
I suppose they could, in theory, negotiate a better deal with the nic.io folks, with the pitch that making it easier to register domains will increase overall registration. Like you've said, nic.io isn't the most user friendly ex
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by rubberband 13y ago
You mean the 5-star reviews which state that Product X is amazing, and the reviewer would buy it again, recommend it to their friends and purchase all future products made by that company... Are fake? Kidding aside, it's horrible. I f
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by rubberband 13y ago
I think that's a great point that they can get away with it because they've been doing it for so long. It's built into the core of the company. In the boom days, while Pets.com was betting on sock puppets and others were ma
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by rubberband 13y ago
For what it's worth, I got a 50% discount from them from buying R#7 so close to the R#8 release date (uninstalled 7, and mentioned in the "please tell us why" comments that it was just too expensive). May be worth a shot.
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by rubberband 13y ago
I sit in front of Visual Studio more hours in a day than I sleep, and by and large, I love it. But I can't for the life of me understand why the mapping diagram would help. I suppose in some unfamiliar code it may help me get up to s
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by rubberband 13y ago
Is there a label for this kind of derailing, angry comment? Moral superiority, I suppose.
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by rubberband 13y ago
I would love to see someone compete with Amazon, but who on Earth can? I think most of their strength comes from their ridiculously good infrastructure; both technological and the $14bn they just spent on new warehouses. Who the heck can c
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by rubberband 13y ago
That makes sense. It's funny because their Prime VOD selection still isn't comparable to Netflix, so I never use it. Their likely too busy making money hand over fist on EC2.
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by rubberband 13y ago
I signed up for Prime the day it was introduced, and a sizable portion of my income gets dumped onto Amazon. I would think that there are a sizable number of people like us who pay a small premium for the convenience, quality and selection
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by rubberband 13y ago
Compared to the rest of the HN crowd, my knowledge of crypto is very light, so I could be incorrect... But aren't most widely adopted algorithms decently future proof? To where you would sort of have to break math in order for them t
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by rubberband 13y ago
I don't necessarily agree with the premise of your patent argument, but I think it's a valid concern, and definitely fair game. But, again, my quarrel is with people who choose to continue pouring salt on old wounds when there are
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by rubberband 13y ago
Sure it's in vogue to say Microsoft is "finally" getting their comeuppance whenever something like this comes along, but I wonder how long they can be held responsible for past sins. Are we really going harp on Lotus Notes, o

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