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by sbov 11y ago
Is it bad? Should we have "real" engineers working on software that a bootcamper could do? It seems like a waste of resources. Some problems only need a solution that your nephew can hack together in a week. That said, the prob
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by sbov 11y ago
Yet all of those jobs have one thing in common: you have to know how to code. Being able to code is the baseline for all of them. If you can't code on some level, you can't do any of those jobs. The article is about coding, n
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by sbov 11y ago
Telecoms oftentimes make deals with the government - in exchange for some sort of advantage, they agree to provide a certain level of service. Linked from the article: Verizon predecessor New Jersey Bell agreed to the statewide broadband
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by sbov 11y ago
In other words, Uber has the connections to unduly influence the government in a way to make sure they survive. Which is kinda the reason why people want things like taxi companies to fail. So is this a good or bad thing?
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by sbov 11y ago
My #1 recommendation is to play along with a youtube "let's play". Otherwise you get lost pretty fast.
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by sbov 11y ago
This is way too much for the layman and full of mathematical language. What is null hypothesis? What is "at least as extreme as"? What is probability? Nevermind that the null hypothesis forces us to think in double negatives,
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by sbov 11y ago
Or that the exact same drug may be 1,000 times cheaper in another country but it is illegal for you to buy it there and bring it here.
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by sbov 11y ago
We are who we are, in part, because of the journey we took. Today I can say that I would love to have had such an upbringing. At the same time, I can also say that my 5 year old self would have hated it.
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by sbov 11y ago
There was a study linked here before that showed that while older children of the same grade do better up to high school, younger children do better in college and life beyond. A theory being that the difficulties younger children face in
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by sbov 11y ago
"As far as I know, there’s no evidence the French lacked some kind of surveillance authority that would have made a difference" This is really all that should need to be said. Opportunists will jump on any event to push their own
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by sbov 11y ago
In an iterative environment, I prefer to err on the side of more restrictive. If there's friction you can loosen the restriction. But if you start loose and need to tighten it you may be in for real pain, because you may be collecting
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by sbov 11y ago
How is this a problem? It's like saying that there's a shortage of X because I have a business idea that won't work unless I can pay all my workers minimum wage.
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by sbov 11y ago
The difference is that they back that statement up with A-level compensation. Most startups don't. Also, is Netflix still a startup?
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by sbov 11y ago
For myself, there are a couple things that make Clojure difficult. I believe they all stem in part from the language being simple. First, there seems to be at least two ways to do things: the verbose way and the succinct way. This creates
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by sbov 11y ago
For some reason people are much more willing to execute other people than companies.
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by sbov 11y ago
Do they have a key? I thought the point of the recent iPhone encryption is that they don't have a key?
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by sbov 11y ago
This over simplifies the problem. Water rights are treated a lot like property rights. How is taking water from these people any different than taking someone's land because they obtained it 100 years ago when the region had fewer pe
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by sbov 11y ago
Yeah, from my friend's experience, if you want a terribly Xeriscaped lawn you can get it from just the rebate. And the ones who provide a good Xeriscaped lawn bumped their price up by the same amount of the California rebate. So you c
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by sbov 11y ago
It's not that simple though. If e.g. the state spends $10 million on the poor with the lottery illegal, then the lottery is made legal and $5 million from it is earmarked for the poor, what's to stop the state from lowering the pr
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by sbov 11y ago
Not that I know of. As a regular employee you probably don't even have access to enough information to do the calculation yourself.
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by sbov 11y ago
Note that the major risk for an employee isn't that the startup fails in 2, 3, or even 6 months. The risk is that 5 years down the line their stock ends up being worth 0-249k, but they gave up 250k in salary in the same time period. W
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by sbov 11y ago
I found that CS theory was great, once I had the practical experience to recognize how to use it. In a sense I feel like we do things backwards. You should work in industry for a couple years, then learn the theory you learn when getting a
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by sbov 11y ago
As a small company, stuff like this scares the shit out of me. It would be expensive, but companies like Microsoft can survive things like this. But how can a small company do anything but ignore it?
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by sbov 11y ago
Is this a thing? Having Google index your REST api?
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by sbov 11y ago
I agree with pretty much all of this. We developed an API because we had desktop/mobile/website. They all use the same API. I call it REST-ish. I can't see how people think returning 404 for a "this product doesn'
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by sbov 11y ago
I used to think this way, then I looked at the numbers, and don't see how it can work this way. First, I'm going to limit this to people < 18. Because once you're 18 you could legally be thrown out on your ass by your par
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by sbov 11y ago
Was able to find it. Actually it's using etags. They work even if you disable cookies. Perfect identification, similar to cookies. Sites were using it before it came to light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP
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by sbov 11y ago
I like to always use incognito browsing sessions when logging into Facebook. At some point I cleared all my cookies too. I remember a while back an article was posted about how to uniquely identify users without cookies though. I don&#x27
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by sbov 11y ago
My grandparents take pictures of their monitor and sends them to me. Right click save as is about as foreign as screenshots to them.
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by sbov 11y ago
I disagree. The company which operates in the UK benefits, so the shareholder - who actually owns a part of the company - does too.

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