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by russelluresti 10y ago
I see a lot of people blaming the technologies, and I think that's a problem. The technology is just a tool. Tools that we choose how and when to use. If an echo chamber exists, it's only because we, as individuals, create it. We
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by russelluresti 10y ago
Yeah, I think the ability to share a trip with friends is required. I'm going on a trip later this year with a couple of friends and it would be nice if everyone had access to the information.
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by russelluresti 10y ago
There are a couple of studies out there that show that reading from a physical book (as opposed to an e-book) actually leads to learning the material better. So, when it comes to books like these, I wouldn't be surprised if people want
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by russelluresti 10y ago
A couple of years ago, I would have answered the same way. Now, at least in the SF Valley area, these types of things are largely ignored and instead we're asking a lot more CS questions (algorithms, data structures, design patterns, e
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by russelluresti 10y ago
Nothing is impossible in the digital realm. And the bad guys are ALWAYS better than the good guys.
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by russelluresti 10y ago
Not quite true. If you're talking physical cash, a person would have to get to the physical location to take it (as opposed to being available to everyone in the world with an internet connection). If you're talking digital cash i
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by russelluresti 10y ago
If the end result is exposing criminal behavior, it doesn't actually matter who does the exposing. I mean, that's why we have whistleblower laws - because we supposedly care about exposing corruption more than leaking secrets. If
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by russelluresti 10y ago
It's funny to me that government officials are now all up in arms about their personal data being made available to the people when they've implemented program after program to make our personal data available to them. Doesn'
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by russelluresti 10y ago
Yeah, this was my first thought. Things that aren't addressed in the article: why did this database exist and was it even legal for the government to collect and store this information?
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by russelluresti 10y ago
Did the UK fall below France? So third largest?
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by russelluresti 10y ago
Scrolling through the participants list, I'm so glad they asked black people and other minorities their opinion on the matter (if you're not familiar with sarcasm, let me rephrase - this is a long list of nearly 100% white people)
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by russelluresti 10y ago
Ehhh. There's only about 360k welders in the U.S. and 3.6 million software engineers. That's an order of magnitude in difference in impact. Additionally, a software engineer probably makes more than a roofer, welder, and kindergar
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by russelluresti 10y ago
I agree that the preference (or demand in this case) should have been communicated upfront. The interviewee should have known well in advance how the interview would be conducted. Waiting until the actual interview just ended up wasting eve
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by russelluresti 10y ago
Okay, so a whiteboard interview is definitely flawed, and we all know it. However, I would like to point out 2 things: 1. You should have known it was going to be a whiteboard WELL in advance of the actual interview. You could have asked th
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by russelluresti 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/1314/ Here's the thing - you don't get to choose how others best experience an event. While filming it through your phone may not be the best experience to you, you're not everyone. Peop
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by russelluresti 10y ago
Because when you're browsing the web on your phone and you come to a page and you get a giant banner that says "HEY INSTALL OUR APP" what do you do? If you're 90% of the world, you hit the close button on that banner.
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by russelluresti 10y ago
I agree. Even with an act of congress, it would never be guaranteed with certainty. Even with an amendment to the constitution, another amendment could come along to nullify it (like how the 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment). The
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by russelluresti 10y ago
In every debate, there are people on the wrong side of history. Mr. Porter, welcome to that list. Granted, the point that it won't happen today is true enough, but it is an inevitability (assuming we don't blow ourselves up before
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by russelluresti 10y ago
The best use of "!important" is for utility classes. For example, if you want to just have a single class that determines when something is hidden, it's a lot easier to have a ".hidden" class that has "display:
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by russelluresti 10y ago
I'm also skeptical. This is a problem where it's fairly easy to get 80% there but nearly impossible to get 100% there. Most speech recognition apps have trouble with thick accents. From there, imagine stumbling speech or people wh
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by russelluresti 10y ago
slow clap.
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by russelluresti 10y ago
> When it comes to making pay decisions, we anchor too much on someone’s current salary instead of what the job is worth. Imagine hiring two accountants. One (call her Eliza) currently makes $50,000 and the other (Alexander) makes $58,00
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by russelluresti 11y ago
The funny thing about the wait time that everyone keeps talking about is that, apparently, no one actually cares about waiting. Tesla piloted their battery swap program over a year ago, where you could swap out your battery for a fully char
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by russelluresti 11y ago
It is fairly ugly, but it also allows you to drop in your own css file. It's not a 100% solution, but you can go a fairly long way towards making it more usable.
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by russelluresti 11y ago
No one is calling out Yelp's CEO because we live in a culture that idolizes young, entrepreneurial CEOs like gods. Steve Jobs can make billions off the backs of underpaid and abused overseas employees and intentionally avoiding paying
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by russelluresti 11y ago
My suggestion would be to move away from the idea that there's only "code for you" and "code for me" - try to "code for us." If you're passionate about something, there's bound to be a couple of
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by russelluresti 11y ago
> "Where do you see yourself in five years?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Okay, I'm done... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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by russelluresti 11y ago
I haven't come across anyone from Hack Reactor yet, but if the numbers they put on their website are true, then that's pretty impressive. I did a bit of research and found a Quora answer regarding GA's success with its Web De
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by russelluresti 11y ago
I don't think you need a computer science degree to be a programmer, but I share your concern about Developer Boot Camps. I interview developers pretty often for my company and I've come across about a handful of people whose only
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by russelluresti 11y ago
I love how the start of this article reads like something out of Character Assassination 101. Step 1: start by bringing up something negative about a person that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the issue at hand. Okay, so the guy resigned

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