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by screature2 9y ago
I'm guessing because of 1) lack of built in logging, 2) lack of change control and 2) difficult to automate testing and verification (because of it's relatively unstructured nature). Excel as the source of truth for a financial
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by screature2 9y ago
Those are two separate statements. 1. It's an ID number in the Social Security System. 2. It's also now used as an authentication mechanism by many businesses (because it's relatively ubiquitous and banks, gov, etc. assumed t
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by screature2 9y ago
Don't think parent poster was trying to mislead. Sounds more like poster is complaining that SSNs got overloaded beyond their original purpose (as guids for the SSA) to being used for business authentication more generally and that bec
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by screature2 9y ago
absolutely agree. SSN started life as a unique identifier, that's how it should have remained. It's a pretty terrible super secret password.
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by screature2 9y ago
I believe that patent trolls do this for IP. I think there's always a danger of having this type of litigation be abused (in this case I'm also thinking of drive-by litigation around the Disabilities Act etc.) edit aww spitfire
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by screature2 9y ago
What about the reverse? Genius programmer that's remote and can't speak the same language as you or your team? I think either way, a completely non-technical "good communicator" or a "genius programmer" non-com
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by screature2 9y ago
my understanding is that a big part of determining the stage of a cancer is based on tumor size and spread. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/diagnosis-staging/stagin... I think most treatment is focused on kill
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by screature2 9y ago
In case anyone missed the Steam Summer Sale, these (as well as Shenzhen I/O) are also on sale at Humble Bundle for the next 4 days. https://www.humblebundle.com/store/human-resource-machine?hm... https:/&#x2
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by screature2 9y ago
https://bothsidesofthetable.com/most-startups-should-be-deer... 2009 post, but still one of my favorite distillations of the issues around b2b customer types. Particular impactful if you read it when you end up going above
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by screature2 10y ago
One of the big issues I see with accounting/reconciliation systems (automated or even if managed by an external bookkeeper)is that if there isn't good oversight there's a significant cleanup cost usually at a pretty inconveni
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by screature2 10y ago
Here's another similar Jenkins/USB/NerfDart gitblame launcher project... https://github.com/codedance/Retaliation
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by screature2 10y ago
Seems that Facebook makes extensive use of Quip internally even though it's doing the whole Office 360 subscription doohickey. "An interesting side-note, though: While this deal means Microsoft will use Office 365 for e-mail and c
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by screature2 10y ago
I thought the restaurants example demonstrating that PE firms could have a positive impact on a business was actually a good counterpoint to specific points where the article was stating or implying that PE was bad (e.g. that 911 results co
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by screature2 10y ago
See also these references: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip 2. http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/compan... 3. http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu&#x2
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by screature2 10y ago
Books tend to fill my lengthy public transportation commutes. also I'm not opposed to borrowing some sleep time to get in a few more pages.
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by screature2 10y ago
I think you can search for column names by querying the information_schema to the table schema (at least in postgres) select table_name from information_schema.columns where column_name ilike '%foo%'; s
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by screature2 10y ago
I think the reliably messing up isn't so much the lack of attention to detail, but the second point: not knowing what the standard is, why it's the standard, and why something should be done in particular way. Definitely a you don
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by screature2 10y ago
My understanding is that Credit Card ABS are kept at very good ratings via careful division and securitization of the credit card receivables into different tranches of risk and corresponding priority for repayments (specifically so that pe
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Hey startups You don't live in Silicon Valley(medium.com)
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by screature2 11y ago
Props to succeeding on growth. However, pretty sure your success doesn't mean that one-time purchase models are unreservedly better than subscription or that subscription products are subpar. Pricing and monetization models are often s
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by screature2 11y ago
I like the call out to ("Special License"). However, I think that in defining how npm can use posted code, the existing language is substantially more lenient than the suggested language in your final paragraph. Current text &q
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by screature2 11y ago
Is it just me or does this seems to be very analogous to technical debt generally? The incentive structure definitely seems to lean more towards individuals or small teams working in the short-term (e.g. (publishable results) > (maintain
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by screature2 11y ago
Hmm... I've only ever heard about the reward checks for finding errors in the books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
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by screature2 11y ago
Same here, would love to hear about your tools and current workflow.
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by screature2 11y ago
Hmm... your "Farmer's Dilemma" description makes me want to call this a Free-Rider Problem, but that doesn't quite seem to be equivalent Maybe it's that you're about contemplating incentive structures underlyin
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by screature2 12y ago
Can't speak for other people, but the fascination for me is a combination of decisions that are difficult and universal and then watching to see how subject matter experts (who view this stuff on a day to day basis) choose for themselv
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by screature2 12y ago
that's a good point, but Apple's bet on this ecosystem continues to pay off with each of their new consumer product reaping pretty sizeable dividends from that ecosystem.
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by screature2 12y ago
I guess this is a 2013 article, but I'm surprised that what hasn't been mentioned in the comments yet are the platform/network effects of iOS apps and the App store. I think it's interesting to identify a consumer focus
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by screature2 12y ago
I think this is it? Sustainable multilingual communication: Managing multilingual content using free and open source content management systems by Kelsey, Todd, Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, http://pqdtopen.proquest.co
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by screature2 13y ago
I remember a recent Forbes article highlighting the importance of the relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley. Hmm... ah yes, here it is: http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2014/01/24/

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