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by sgustard 9y ago
I refuse to feel guilty, but I'm happy to blame the large soulless corporation that created this moral dilemma for me in the first place. I didn't fire those people. I don't eat at McDonald's anymore because I want to st
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by sgustard 9y ago
To be fair, he's called out Apple before, especially on software quality. Ironically: "Maybe we expect too much from Apple’s software. But Apple’s hardware doesn’t have little problems like this." https://daringfir
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by sgustard 9y ago
I agree, the ongoing and erratic basis that my devices ask me to sign in to iCloud is a serious flaw. I already find iCloud a completely opaque mess of services that I don't understand, and this doesn't help. The only saving grace
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by sgustard 9y ago
Is it a moral failing to be slow to update a Struts vulnerability? As an IT engineer that makes be nervous because I don't know which of a hundred actions I take or don't take in a given day will explode on me. Or was the moral fa
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by sgustard 9y ago
The argument for diversity is that by not actively working for diversity, we will reflexively hire people like ourselves, which for the most part are white males. In addition, we are talking about groups which have been historically discrim
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by sgustard 9y ago
If you don't care about GPA, why do you need me to be a college graduate? I'm genuinely confused about the point of college. I can spend four years drinking and partying without going into debt if that's what I need to get a
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by sgustard 9y ago
Sure, but other coffee operations like x||=5 are also abominations. Brevity and purity are often at odds and the choices made by a language can be arbitrary.
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by sgustard 9y ago
To be clear, Amazon sells a lot of fake cameras labelled as such for like $12. These, some alarm window stickers & a Beware of the Raccoon sign are my main security system. https://www.amazon.com/Security-Realistic-Surve
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by sgustard 9y ago
Location cues like "near the lake" or "near the train station" or "near the homeless camp" are critical pieces of information for me before I pick a target.
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by sgustard 9y ago
CS breaks the ternary ?: operator which is a big headache for me.
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Your Culture is Rotting(medium.com)
1 points by sgustard 9y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 9y ago
Women in societies that require face veils will be the only ones who can move around freely, which will be ironic.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Here's a map of age of consent per country, ranging from 12 to "must be married." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent "Most jurisdictions have set a fixed age of consent" but also &quo
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by sgustard 9y ago
"No because $1000" is a valid answer in my house.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Flying United is a choice. In fact, some companies do suffer lasting harm from bad behavior (Volkswagen comes to mind). Being an Equifax product is not a choice, just a symptom of being a pawn in today's mass-surveillance world where (
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by sgustard 9y ago
My company squeezes juice out of bags. That was easy to explain, but didn't seem to help. Pretty sure we should have gone with "scalable antioxidant delivery systems."
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by sgustard 9y ago
Top things for me are: Excellent sound quality. The fact that Sonos has its own network means I can queue up internet radio or a playlist and it no longer needs to communicate with the phone to continue streaming all day. I take advantage o
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by sgustard 9y ago
Each of those cars is being resold for the first time, most likely. How many times is a car sold in its lifetime? Eventually it's sold to a scrap dealer for $500, and I'd bet that transaction is not included in the 15k average. In
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by sgustard 9y ago
So can another 100 employees publish the same letter and get fired and line up for their million dollar payouts too? I don't know about the discovery argument. If he was an HR insider and acting as a whistleblower to disclose an illega
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by sgustard 9y ago
A hiring process can be flawed by excluding a pool of qualified candidates from consideration, even if the ones you hire are capable of performing their jobs.
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by sgustard 9y ago
My son was in the hospital recently and the head surgeon was a woman. Her primary assistant was a woman. The anesthesiologist and her assistant were women. There was a male nurse or two. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have encountered
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An octopus is the closest thing to an alien here on earth(qz.com)
9 points by sgustard 9y ago|3 comments
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by sgustard 9y ago
I loved The Nix. There were chapters that left me physically stunned after reading them. It's as massive a creative achievement as anything I encountered in recent years. Leaving the worlds of business and technology to study messy hum
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by sgustard 9y ago
They also state this clearly in their terms of service. "You agree that you will not ... develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots, or any other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons, or a
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by sgustard 9y ago
That's a bit of a strawman to turn "wants to live in the suburbs" into "is trapped in an ever-escalating vortex of radical consumption."
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by sgustard 9y ago
I find articles like "how we built our startup" on HN to be hugely valuable. The fact that the founders of said startup participate in the discussion makes it doubly so. But every such post is marred by variants of "your webs
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by sgustard 9y ago
Netflix has a tiny catalog, so investing in making recommendations from that tiny catalog is mostly wasted. Half of Netflix's business now is House of Cards, so their entire algorithm consists of recommending House of Cards to people w
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by sgustard 9y ago
That's one of the attachment types referenced in the original article. "I am uncomfortable being without close relationships, but I sometimes worry that others don't value me as much as I value them." https://
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by sgustard 9y ago
This URL I've memorized and revisit regularly is a bite-sized marvel of semantic clarity: https://www.wellsfargo.com/mortgage/rates
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by sgustard 9y ago
It's not clear from the article, but if I let this loose on my lawn, will it eliminate all the grass?

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