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by rubyfan 9y ago
Bummer, I wonder what sales look like for the original. I bought it on iTunes with the intent of seeing the sequel. It’s probably been 20 years since I’ve seen it.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
The designs remind me on 1950-1960s US advertising styles.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
It seemed like the law enabling them to capture the data is expiring and they are adding in some controls about how an agency can access the collected data. Doesn’t seem like mass surveillance is curbed in any way really. If anything it see
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by rubyfan 9y ago
I understand this has a certain cool factor but I have to wonder why we need all of this over simpler approaches like server side rendering and templates.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
I am really not a fan of the delay in loading the comments for a story.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
my outlook on those sorts of filtering activities is that if it doesn’t fit and that’s what’s most important to the company then it might be in your favor anyway. When your work contribution is secondary to other things, I question a compan
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Looks like Fortune found its inner the Onion? /awful
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Yes, many companies do it from the 10 person to the 10,000. It’s more important at 10-50 person range to ensure you don’t have disrupters. It’s entirely unneeded at larger scale but you still see it.
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Cells Use Nanotubes to Share Everything(nature.com)
1 points by rubyfan 9y ago|0 comments
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by rubyfan 9y ago
A tool for figuring out what products people want to buy.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Very much depends on the company but here’s what I think helps, perhaps in this order... 1. Be really good at Powerpoint 2. Be really good at explaining technology to non-technical people 3. Conversely be really good at understanding the bu
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Mind blown, this is quite amazing.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Ironic isn’t it?
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by rubyfan 9y ago
I can’t imagine that the human mind works even remotely how these NPL systems work. Grammars, tokenizing, matrices... there must be a better approach
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Fly to a nice destination with beaches and low cost of living. Chill a bit. Get another couple short contract jobs. Enjoy life.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Aren’t the iOS betas being distributed fairly frequently to public beta testers? Why’s this a big deal?
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by rubyfan 9y ago
I agree with the sentiment. Don’t refactor unless it’s failing you. Just be mindful you might refactor someday and backup your data.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
I used to have XHTMLized cut up PSD OR AI files into HTML/CSS. Always did a great job but seems they aren’t around anymore.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Insurance companies are actually interested in taking care of their customers after a catastrophic event. It’s core to their business. Faster payment means people can get back on their feet faster and are likely to stay with the company l
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Excel along with Hive and Hadoop Map/Reduce.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Very interested in this work. What imagery source is even available this quick?
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by rubyfan 9y ago
The Chrome extension is a nonstarter for me.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
For the reasons above I’m not a fan. What I’ve seen first hand, you can build powerful solutions but you can also build powerful solutions with Perl, python, Hadoop and Spark and I can at least read documentation with those.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
That might be the most I’ve ever seen written about Ab Initio in public. The company is notoriously private with documentation and even discussion boards.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Yes you are underpaid in most other markets too.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
If I even saw that it would be explainable. I see stuff that’s not even close. I’ve held fairly senior roles and I’ll get recommendations to be a junior business analyst in an industry not remotely connected.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Stuff’s not even remotely related to my current or past experience or industry
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Ask HN: Why are LinkedIn’s job recommendations terrible?
2 points by rubyfan 9y ago|6 comments
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by rubyfan 9y ago
Ah good catch. The google link and google stuff all over the page defeated my ability to read the full patent application.
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by rubyfan 9y ago
What happened to don’t be evil ?

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