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by sah2ed 8y ago
> ... spend half a day answering the initial questions Half a day??? Talk about dedication :)! Anyway, Zapier's process appears to have improved from 2 years ago -- they commit to and usually succeed in responding to your applicatio
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Katerra? They recently raised $865m lead by SoftBank's vision fund [0]. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/business/dealbook/katerra...
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Any direct links to learn more about Mobile Eye's roadmap for the curious?
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by sah2ed 8y ago
I think what the parent said essentially was that: "there is not much variety in the opinions held by SCOTUS justices so don't count on the appointment of a new justice to inject (much needed?) variety into the range of existing o
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Honestly, your rebuttal is equally very well written that it could have been posted as a top level comment by itself. I now fully understand why there was a need for an originalist basis. The majority thinks that intangible property (IP) ri
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by sah2ed 9y ago
And I thought I was the only one that gets that vibe from the site's writing. Anyway, several of the posts tend to do quite well on HN, so it looks like commenters look past that when they engage with the stories.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I think you and I mostly agree but I will try to address the possible source of your disagreement with his phrasing. @jbk's original phrasing was: I'm waiting for your patch. I'm very happy for your volunteering. You probab
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by sah2ed 9y ago
It's actually a reasonable stance IMHO. They are likely trying to discourage app vendors from using batch-and-switch as a growth tactic.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
No actually, jbk is being honest and realistic. The cost to fix the bug is currently too great for them to devote resources to fixing it correctly, so s/he is merely trying to economize scarce resources here. This is an open source pro
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by sah2ed 9y ago
In terms of communities where you can get the most qualified person on a topic to reply, I think Quora would also qualify, and to a limited extent, Twitter.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Agreed, but note that for a lot of people on Facebook, their primary audience are friends, family & acquaintances; people who will mostly tolerate your (contrarian) views, whether you display tact or otherwise. People are the center of
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Agreed, but how do you know for certain they don't surreptitiously upload your contacts after you have granted permission? Sounds like you are on iOS?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> I do so in a building that has a working lightning rod. On a serious note, all buildings are different so you can't really do this reliably as it is unlikely you will locate the lightning rod before it is too late to course correc
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by sah2ed 9y ago
The statement you quoted regarding the JavaScript trademark infringement reads like something a lawyer commissioned to represent Oracle would write, rather than Apple being proactive in enforcing Oracle's trademark. I base this on the
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by sah2ed 9y ago
"You Can't Do Data Science Effectively in a GUI" would have been a more honest title, as that is the crux of the speaker's talk.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
TIL featherbedding ~= sinecure
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by sah2ed 9y ago
You make an excellent point about nationalization being an inaccurate metaphor. China sees it tech industry as a strategic asset the way the US and Russia see their defence industries as strategic towards advancing their goals as super&#x2F
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Someone with an Ivy league education I'm guessing.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> flag problem areas geographically for autopilot, develop specific strategies that address the problem, and verify it has been fixed by examining how other Teslas on the road in "ghost" mode This is what I have been thinking a
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Moscow metro has 250 stations on 3 times as much area (why did NY get to 750 stations?) and annual ridership of 2.4 billion. Perhaps area is not a representative metric since you have to factor in population density when deciding wher
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> I think that's currently the case for Tesla, selling the only commercially available semi-autonomously driving car ATM. "I think that's currently the case for Tesla, selling the only commercially available semi-autonomou
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Would Dave Cutler make your list ;)? https://news.microsoft.com/features/the-engineers-engineer-c...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Holy crap, wow! The difference between dry and wet trees is incredibly stark.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
What's your current stack?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Granted, but this wasn't some grand discovery by Waymo. The human side of automation [0] is an issue that has been known and written about since at least 1983 by Lisanne Bainbridge and Don Norman in 1990. [0] https://www.jnd
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by sah2ed 9y ago
1. You should probably add that link to your read me: The implementation uses `Symbol` and [`Proxy`]( https://github.com/GoogleChrome/proxy-polyfill ) behind the hood so you might need to use apropriate polyfills in cas
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Tank lid: > "I was fixing the mechanism inside the tank of the toilet. The only thing left to do was to put the ceramic lid back on the tank. Unfortunately it slipped out of my hands and banged on the ceramic of the toilet rim.&quo
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Precisely. Hopefully the NTSB's investigation will be thorough enough to explore the possibility of undetected manufacturing defects in the deceased's Model X when compared to other Model Xs that rolled off the line at the same ti
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Simulations are only useful up to a point. Trying to use them to model real world scenarios would be useless in practice, due to the Ludic fallacy [0]. Real life is too complex to be modeled in any simulation. [0] https://en.wiki
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Would love to hear why you have such regrets?

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