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by scribu 9y ago
Neat idea! Sadly, it doesn't seem to handle non-ASCII characters. I entered my name, Cristi Burcă , and it got saved as Cristi Burc? .
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by scribu 9y ago
> It’s an expectations issue, not a technology issue. Nobody said it was a technology issue.
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I don’t think there’s any kind of software job that’s prestigious by itself. There are a handful of individuals that are famous within their circle, but that’s about it. Regarding salary, a job pays more to the extent that: a) it needs to g
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by scribu 9y ago
I'll just comment on the "good pay" aspect: The vast majority of European companies pay programmers significantly less than US companies (even when controlling for cost of living). So, your best bet, financially, would be to
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Unsafe Working Conditions at Tesla’s Factory(buzzfeed.com)
32 points by scribu 9y ago|18 comments
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I think the point of these sorts of posts isn’t to give you new insights or practical advice, but just to reafirm that these are the right things to focus on. It’s very easy to get sidetracked or confused, so there’s utility in being remind
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by scribu 9y ago
The fact that a majority of people use Python for data crunching today doesn't prove that there wasn't hype in the past. I'm not trying to say it's wrong, just that it's become a very visible niche for the languag
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by scribu 9y ago
I think the article makes a lot more sense if you consider it in the context of "Python for data science". In the last few years, there's been a lot of hype about replacing other number crunching solutions (R, SPSS, even Matl
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by scribu 9y ago
> When you already have a solid background in PHP, it will be much easier for you just to dig in some libraries and tools for your use-case, instead of learning a new language and a new ecosystem. The main challenge when going async isn’
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Documentary About Tractor Hacking(twitter.com)
2 points by scribu 9y ago|1 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
It seems to me that the author’s main criticism isn’t that the people practicing cognitive science are unaware of the limitations, but that they pretend the limitations don’t exist when making policy recommendations: > Science genuinely
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by scribu 9y ago
I used to run Ubuntu on a Macbook Air. The battery lasted significantly longer when I switched back to OSX.
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I hope we will have healthcare services that don’t require advanced knowledge or infrastructure to operate, but we’ll still need advanced tech to produce them. I don’t see a way around this, since you always have to start from the same ra
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by scribu 9y ago
The problem is that a small community can’t develop or even maintain advanced technology, including that required for sanitation and healthcare. So, you either choose total independence and low technology or interdependence with other gro
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by scribu 9y ago
You’re of course right about passive keyless entry and perhaps the GP has that confused with other features that do require an internet connection. Anyway, even if it isn’t autonomous, suppose a car has a smartphone app that allows you to t
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by scribu 9y ago
The difference is in how easy it is to scale an attack. Once an attacker can remotely hack a single car, they can hack all cars that have an identical configuration, with little additional cost. What happens then? Even if insurance compan
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Coders Against Nazis(twitter.com)
7 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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For me, the most surprising thing is that Maersk was able to carry on during those 10 days without any IT: > "We only had a 20% drop in volume, so we managed 80% of that volume manually. [...] Customers were great contributors to ov
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by scribu 9y ago
One source: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/turkey-new-dst-2018.ht...
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by scribu 9y ago
The difficulty comes when you ask the next question: What causes inertia? Why do particles “want” to move in a straight line? As the article points out, the highest rise happens when the water is in sync with the bucket, so you can’t attrib
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by scribu 9y ago
I prefer the chronicle.com article that appeared on the HN frontpage yesterday (and was swiftly burried, I suspect). It offered a broader context. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16188789
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by scribu 9y ago
I’ve never encountered this interpretation before either. The only way I can make some sense of it is by drawing a correspondence between postmodernism’s “there is no absolute truth, only convenient fictions” and marxism’s class warfare.
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Hipster Food Trends Are Literally Ruining the World(highsnobiety.com)
1 points by scribu 9y ago|1 comments
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Could you elaborate? Any technology can create severe downsides if not properly regulated.
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I liked how this piece tied all the trendy emerging tech into one short narrative. You could play Techcrunch bingo: driverless cars, drones, voice commands, blockchain etc. But I couldn’t buy the part about a drone delivering food in 6 minu
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First-Ever Drone Swarm Attack Has Struck Russian Military Bases, Sources Claim(sciencealert.com)
1 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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A Life Worth Ending(nymag.com)
1 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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Fake News Is Consumed By Just 10% of Americans(qz.com)
2 points by scribu 9y ago|1 comments
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I wonder if this is related to the recently discovered design flaw in Intel CPUs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16055395
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Critique of Radical Leftist Groups from an Insider(mcgilldaily.com)
1 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments

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