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by sbov 9y ago
Which would be unsurprising. The overall aim seems to be to reduce the legal considerations US companies need to make when responding to foreign government data requests.
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by sbov 9y ago
I think at least part of the death of the Nexus 7 is because Google seemed to have no interest in refreshing it. I was looking to upgrade mine a while back and the only thing available was the same old tablet. Google has a weird relationsh
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by sbov 9y ago
True, unfortunately many mothers have latched on to breastfeeding and "natural birth" as a way to feel superior to other mothers. We had to go through a lot of that during our first, including people working in the hospital. One
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by sbov 9y ago
I feel like most of this comes from the childless. Most parents seem to understand, but people without kids expect you to transform into superwoman/man.
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by sbov 9y ago
You're assuming there aren't any other problem labs that haven't or won't be discovered. How expensive are these tests? How much of the police's budget is it? Surely you know these things if you are talking return
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by sbov 9y ago
> If you control for age and whether women have children the gap shrinks a lot (in some areas it reverses). I generally agree with this line of thought, but you're also missing the higher level question: why, in our society, do we h
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by sbov 9y ago
The comparison is disingenuous. The internet makes anything you build automatically global. You're blasting software engineers for not knowing worldwide regulations. How many New York lawyers know the regulations of France? How man
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by sbov 9y ago
Well then I guess I'm heartless and brainless.
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by sbov 9y ago
I never claimed Amazon has a monopoly. I just hear what the GP posted a lot, but when reading the actual law it seems to be incorrect. So I'm trying to figure out why what the GP stated seems to have become the case: because lawmaker
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by sbov 9y ago
Which is odd, considering the plain language of the Sherman Anti Trust act not only makes monopolies illegal, but makes pursing a monopoly illegal. Has there been any laws passed that override this, or have the courts been unwilling to enf
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by sbov 9y ago
As someone who uses Clojure for only side projects, macros seem to get a lot of attention, both good and bad, for something I very rarely write. Maybe I'm missing something though, and programmers using these languages professionally
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by sbov 9y ago
Can't you play this definition game with any company though? I kind of think that if an organization views tech as a competitive advantage and core competency, they are a tech company. E.g. Netflix may be in the business of entertainm
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by sbov 9y ago
+1 on the soft deletes. It potentially adds a corner case to everything you do with that record. It's a permanent tax on your productivity. If you can get away with it, its much better to just delete it out, perhaps moving it into so
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by sbov 9y ago
The full Knuth quote: "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%" Keywords: small efficien
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by sbov 9y ago
In my experience, more expensive is usually just more expensive. I naively though the opposite, and at first just ended up paying more money for crap that lasted just as long as the cheap stuff. If you want quality, you have to do the rese
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by sbov 9y ago
From some searching, Windows 95 was about 15 million lines of code, and Windows 3.1 had about 3 million. Compared to Firefox: https://www.openhub.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_...
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by sbov 9y ago
It actually seems easy to argue against: the company might trust me, but surely not all the customers trust every employee. You're simply putting the customers first.
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by sbov 9y ago
The one with the most money usually wins. Until that is fixed the popularity of views seems meaningless.
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by sbov 9y ago
Just stash crap in bins or drawers rather than on top of your desk.
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by sbov 9y ago
The scope of a microservice is commonly a bounded context in DDD. So depending upon the problem you might be talking about a lot of code.
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by sbov 9y ago
When I last looked at this, most online offerings failed at least one of our test addresses. Most online stores seemed to fail it too. And this was only for California, ignoring the other 49 states.
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by sbov 9y ago
It's not only that. Our local hospitals can't give us prices for procedures that other places can. We tried price shopping an hsg test because we had to out of pocket it. Hospitals took hours on the phone and multiple call backs.
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by sbov 9y ago
We tend to speak of abstractions in only positive terms. Some negative ones could include opaque, obtuse, disjointed, etc.
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by sbov 9y ago
Prop 13 was a pretty good temporary measure. But after passing a permanent solution should have been put in place. Housing prices in California increased a crapload in the years before prop 13 was enacted. Real people with good jobs in ne
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by sbov 9y ago
> Just a thought: Why did alcohol prohibition require a constitutional amendment but drug prohibition didn't? Prohibitionists wanted an amendment because at that point in time, no amendment had ever been overturned.
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by sbov 9y ago
In at least Java, and probably more languages, you can also use braces to limit variable scope. E.g.: List<String> lines; { int whatever; lines = new ArrayList<>(); // modify lines } List<Obje
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by sbov 9y ago
IIRC companies with offshore profits in Bermuda invest it in stocks/bonds/etc, rather than having it sit there and do nothing.
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by sbov 9y ago
> the books and movies could still make money on name recognition alone. Books, maybe. But without copyright, what keeps movie studios from just turning J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books into movies without paying her anything?
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by sbov 9y ago
Some people are starters. Some are finishers. Some are maintainers. Few are good at all 3. Most people seem to label fast starters as "top performers". But you can be a "top performer" in any category. However, I wo
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by sbov 9y ago
Our CS program had a "basic communication" class, where you learned to write basic reports, memos, emails, your resume, etc. The final project was investigating some piece of tech, writing a 30 page paper on it, and presenting yo

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