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by scardine 10y ago
I've helped organizing the last two editions of the FIESP Hackathon in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is a big event for Latin America standards: 3 days, 40 teams of 5 hackers (200 contestants total). My pet peeve was always make the event more
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I can confirm this. I used to work for a major ATM supplier and this was the answer I got every time I asked bank personal about the lack of physical security. They would compute the average loss from burglarized ATMs against the cost to in
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My first job was being a field technician for a bank automation supplier. We had a "test" card that could be insert on the eprom socket. This small card was almost the same size of the original chip but had a few buttons that allo
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The [Black Mirror][1] (British science fiction television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker) has a few episodes dealing with AI and brain-machine interfaces. It is very interesting to watch some of the emotional and social implica
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I know a lot of you may like case insensitive languages, but it just feels weird for me. And there is the "nim" language which makes no distinction between CamelCase and snake_case.
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I believe you made a fair portrait of the current situation.
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Yes, it was not banned for malaria fighting in a few countries, but it was banned for all applications in most of the world including my country, Brazil. Now with the recent Zika virus outbreak many kids were born with microcephaly (cripple
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I'm not saying DDT is harmless. But please, look at the baby from my country on the end of the article: I would ratter have a few hundred less raptors than a few thousand humans crippled for life or dead.
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The linked article is very unbiased, but it links to positions from both camps. > Studies published in Poultry Science found chicken eggs almost completely unaffected by high dosages of DDT. > In 1998, Royal Society for the Protection
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Seems like it worked for the [USA and Europe][1]: > Prior to 1950, malaria was common in the southern US, infecting 15,000 people a year and killing about the same number as scarlet fever. > Beginning in 1947, 4.6 million houses were
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These are claims from "Silent Spring" but many sources argue that most of it was entirely made up by Carlson[1], with no scientific basis. Personally I think those are overly broad claims and demand strong studies and proofs.
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I'm not a biologist, but DDT is very effective against larvae (including fish seed), with I think is a good reason to place strong controls on its use (because the DDT sprayed over crops will end up in the rivers). According to [an art
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The 1962 book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson was instrumental at affecting public opinion against [DDT][1] and other pesticides culminating on [banning DDT all over the world][2]. While Carlson has many detractors, ecology milit
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Of course it is. If you know the problem space very well and are able to conceive and sell a good solution, the code behind it matters very little.
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A Django template for using Flask for the front end, Django for the back end(github.com)
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I guess it is syntax sugar for: c = 2 b = c a = b
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The comparison operators are also interesting: if not 10 < x < 20: raise ValueError("Out of range.") Not every language allow this.
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You can also take the socratic approach and just ask good questions instead of making statements. Sometimes you don't even have to ask, just mirror your counterpart (repeat his last statement as a question) and make good use of silence
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Most beginners think the power is in the hands of the client because he has the money. This is a framework with 12 simple principles to reclaim the high ground in the client relationship, beat back the pitch and win new business without fir
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Mandatory reading: win without pitching manifesto I was skeptical for too long about this kind of advice and I've paid my fair share in lost opportunities. It really, really works. http://www.winwithoutpitching.com/the-
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PITR restores your last full backup (or snapshot) and plays the transaction log until the point in time you set so it can be very precise. Volume snapshot restoration is atomic and probably faster, but it gets you only the specific point in
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From their homepage, the features not available for Beta (because Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is in Beta, some PostgreSQL features are not yet available): 1) Replication 2) High-availability configuration 3) Point-in-time recovery (PITR) 4) Im
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Postgres uses MVCC (Multiversion concurrency control), it solves concurrency without locking everything you touch.
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The killer for me is PITR (point in time recover). A few years ago a colleague triggered and UPDATE without WHERE and PITR saved our sorry asses (on MS SQLServer, a fair product despite my antipathy MS). Postgres has it, but it is kind of a
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I got it for $79 in July, 2015. Not cheap also.
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I love his book "Authority" (not affiliated with the author, just got a lot of value from it). It states that one of the best moves to make a claim of expertise is writing a book, and contains a framework to write a book about som
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I guess I don't know enough philosophy to understand some of the jokes. Anthropomorphism: the apple moves like the snake, man was made to the image of god and so on. Apocalypticism: the game just ends after a few moves without notice.
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Businesses.
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The secret is specialization. One beginner mistake I did was positioning myself as a generalist. I reluctantly started to accept the advice of positioning myself as a specialist a couple years ago and now I want to go back in time and punch
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We were discussing dark vs light themes at the office and the general conclusion is that dark is in fashion, no logical reason. I use a light theme because I get a lot of light in the afternoon (even with curtains closed) and the glossy mac

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