shady-lady

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by shady-lady 8y ago
You can divide whatever enthusiasm you have by three for me. The content in Europe is woeful compared to the US.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Are starting bonuses a solely US/SF construct? Have never seen them in Europe.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> This article has decided to count the ~100,000 Irish devs in American companies as American Where are you seeing that?
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> The vandalism echoes a rash of pellet-gun attacks on so-called Google buses in the Bay Area and appears to be motivated in part by resentment over the increasing presence of tech corporations along the Southern California coast — what
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> can dive into a React project and fix an issue because I don't carry the baggage of doing things "the react way". Would they not want your solution to conform to existing solutions; which (regardless of being idiomatic t
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by shady-lady 8y ago
On "Chasing the Scream", I would just include the disclaimer that Seth Mnookin(a professor of science writing at M.I.T) in his NYT review stated: > Unfortunately, his misunderstanding of some of the basic principles of scientif
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> Blaiming peoples behaviour on entertainment products is a very weak claim. Advertising on television was a resounding success. Some "social media influencers" can hit $1M per ad post. Going out and buying something would defi
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by shady-lady 8y ago
I'm not sure if you're being downvoted for your viewpoint or your usage of "This is the bourgeois line on drugs".
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> It is very hypocritical for some politician to tell me what I can and what I can`t put into my body. I don't quite get the hypocrisy angle. He's not making rules that apply to everybody but him. I would guess legislation arou
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> It's clearly reasonable for the person paying the rent How so? They may not have an option to not pay it(as we're seeing happen in cities all over the world) Definition of reasonable[ https://www.merriam-webster.com
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> according to the highway code in most of the world. Was there some article written on this? Can I get a link?
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> redundant for the browser (XML DOM!) I don't quite get this part. Both HTML & XML cater for DOM models. I think this is & was appropriate. Browsers had support for executing XSL stylesheets because it made sense for a lot
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by shady-lady 8y ago
that instagram a/c is a fake. the real one is https://www.instagram.com/canuck_and_i/
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by shady-lady 8y ago
We generally don't shoot people in the head when they've been diagnosed with lung cancer so society doesn't save any money there. So the extensive treatment required to treat lung cancer is greater than somebody not getting t
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> the libertarian in me thinks that people should be free to do what they want to their bodies provided it is not at the expense of society as a whole society is burdened in the 50% chance scenario that they develop lung cancer, alongsi
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by shady-lady 8y ago
I don't think it's a genuine comparison to compare 8 * small item to 1 * big item. Even in the same bigger supermarket, there's always going to be a substantial saving when buying a gallon of milk vs 8 individual cartons. For
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Words fail me as to how anybody could put something live without understanding how the application functioned as a whole. Unbelievable.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Has the pricing come down on these robotic hands? Anybody have ballpark cost for the Shadow Dexterous Hand - 100k, 300k?
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by shady-lady 9y ago
My opinions are influenced by (if memory serves) some Microsoft researcher who years back said something along the lines of how having all the data points is how computers can truly benefit an individual. You can see the early fruition of t
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by shady-lady 9y ago
> multiple "non-identifying" queries can actually identify individuals. Zero challenges from me on this. I 100% agree. However, it is doable. It just takes effort.
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by shady-lady 9y ago
I personally don't really care about what information they collect. I do hugely care who they give that information to & what they do with it. Haven't heard anything about Google wholesale handing all my data over to anybody w
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by shady-lady 9y ago
I kept with firefox through it all but started use Chrome for dev exclusively. The only reason I stuck with firefox was Tree Style Tabs. While I'm delighted at their recent improvements, I still can't help but wonder if they are p
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by shady-lady 9y ago
for me to dev solely on windows, it needs: 1) coreutils + some other nix commands 2) iTerm2 equivalent(ConEmu/Cmder do not compare)
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by shady-lady 9y ago
it's 18% percent. current market cap is 465 billion [yahoo data] market cap 10 days ago was 565 billion (465 + 100) drop is 100B/565B = ~18% over the last ten days. share price now back to july '17 price, wiping out 9 months
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by shady-lady 9y ago
Why don't you get the companies who are hiring to have their engineers setup & write some code? Code reviews worth both ways.
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by shady-lady 9y ago
The reason I mentioned US specifically was because VC funding to support hyper growth was historically & (still is) way more common there than elsewhere in the world(Western Europe specifically). A condition which seems to almost mandat
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by shady-lady 9y ago
Exactly this. Part of the reason is pre-emptive cost cutting by these companies to remove human review from these apps. Google also played a massive part in this with their strategy for growing the Android app store. (as did Facebook) Favou
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by shady-lady 9y ago
Hopefully it will also change the "move fast & proper security is an afterthought" model of startups. Years ago(in CS degree before professional work), I used to wonder & be amazed by how fast new companies(mainly U.S.) mo
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by shady-lady 9y ago
not surprising that there are even more of these fake look-a-like a/cs: brianlacton (l) brianmacton (m) brianzacton (z) Is it really that hard for Twitter to detect a fake look-a-like a/c given that: a) the display name is the sam
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by shady-lady 9y ago
An unbelievable amount of bots on that twitter thread responding to a fake Ethereum giveaway by not 1, but 2 * fake Brian Action a/c's: https://imgur.com/a/yv1Hm very nearly believed it was legit too.. *fake

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