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by shaftway 6y ago
> There is really no danger of Cargill impacting your life like one of the big tech companies. Cargill is the second largest producer of beef in the US and among their numerous issues are deaths due to E Coli. Not to mention their rampan
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by shaftway 6y ago
Microsoft developed a 3d barcode that they used for a while. Haven't seen it in years though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Capacity_Color_Barcode
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by shaftway 6y ago
It's not complaints about how their business relationships should be structured. It's complaints about how the business relationships are structured and then changed out from underneath the consumer. And at the end of the da
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by shaftway 6y ago
When the business model changes after you buy the printer, how are you supposed to know about it? Instead of calling it "hand wringing" think of it as "educating potential buyers of HP's past abuses so they don't ma
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by shaftway 6y ago
Shhhhhhhhhhh, don't give them any ideas. It'd be way too easy to claim that the ink is past it's best-by date, and that they want you to have a trouble free experience with their ink, so they are disabling that bad expired in
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by shaftway 6y ago
And frankly the technologies that were built to support Google+ have evolved into the underlying technologies for almost every new project at Google. Even with the failure of Google+ as a product the value of what was developed probably sti
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by shaftway 6y ago
I feel like there's a difference between... > Right now the nation's top entomologists are watching the situation and beekeepers like myself are not worried. ... and ... > It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracl
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by shaftway 6y ago
> So you had one bad experience with one person who didn't do a whiteboard? It was a bad experience with someone who utterly failed a whiteboard. > How many bad experiences have you had with someone who did? I've had enough
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by shaftway 6y ago
> How did they suggest using an XML document to act as a priority queue? I actually would have found that highly amusing! I tried. It got tiring. Sometimes people would loop through all possible priorities plugging them into an XPath que
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by shaftway 6y ago
It was me. I can't remember how I built it. If I was doing it today I'd use some sort of balanced tree using the priority to navigate the nodes. Each node would have pointers to the head and tail of a singly linked list. Insert wh
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Ask HN: What do you use your vanity domain for?
4 points by shaftway 6y ago|8 comments
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by shaftway 6y ago
At 1:10 you can see someone attaching the backing to the earring
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by shaftway 6y ago
Don't forget - Unions often ignore individuals because "the majority aren't affected by that scenario"
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by shaftway 6y ago
The real WTF was probably the hiring agency that the hiring manager insisted we go through. I'm pretty sure they were coaching their candidates, but we couldn't break away from that agency for some reason ( cough kickbacks cough
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by shaftway 6y ago
Literally came out of our work queue. Couldn't find a satisfactory off-the-shelf component for it, needed one built. Afterwards we liked it as a technical interview question.
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by shaftway 6y ago
Thrilled. Probably a strong hire. I don't expect anyone to know what one is off the top of their head, but if I explain the goal to you I expect you to figure out roughly how to accomplish it without using XPath.
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by shaftway 6y ago
Actually, yeah, we did. The hiring manager got tired of waiting for us to find a good candidate, so he just picked one that he had screened and seemed best on paper. It was an unmitigated disaster. Constantly had to double check his work an
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by shaftway 6y ago
I can't tell you how many people I've interviewed that were "experienced" developers that were just terrible terrible engineers. My favorite interviews were when we were trying to hire a senior level engineer, and we wer
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by shaftway 6y ago
Can I keep my lazy prejudices about problems with Catholic school after having attended several, and then seeing a variety of non-parochial schools first hand (through my work in schools) and second hand through my spouse (who is an educato
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by shaftway 6y ago
For Java I used https://www.thoughtco.com/reserved-words-in-java-2034200 but Wikipedia lists 51. I'm too lazy to actually diff it. For Javascript I used https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs&#x2
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by shaftway 6y ago
I think it's because of the combinatorics of it and it's compounded by the specificity system, the size of the vocabulary, and no built-in compiler. The combinatorics are tough for our lizard brains to reason out. If you don'
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by shaftway 6y ago
> keep in mind the total addressable market is mostly people who don't want to deal with these problems. > This is a pain, but solvable by punching holes in all the NAT pair combinations. https://www.youtube.com/w
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by shaftway 6y ago
For the first video I don't understand how this could have worked to begin with. There's no way my Tesla would have allowed triggering autopilot in a parking lot with so many lines.
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by shaftway 6y ago
So that turns the question into "When is used electric going to be affordable for the average person?" My gut says the answer to that is going to be ~5 years after new electric vehicles are more prevalent. But if electrics continu
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by shaftway 6y ago
> When is electric going to be affordable for the average person? The average price of a car bought in May of 2019 was $36,718. A Model 3 is $37,990. Given the offsets in maintenance and gas, I'd say the answer to that question is &
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by shaftway 6y ago
It's not uncommon. This was the approach Blogspot used back in the day. It's painful at scale. The pagination, TOC and other concerns are real issues, but a couple small scripts to pre-process the posts could handle that. Generate
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by shaftway 6y ago
Beardy people end up looking..... scary.
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by shaftway 6y ago
I completely agree. When rules aren't codified it invites biased interpretation of them. However.... I've worked on an internal communications platform. For some reason people would forget that they were on a corporate site with t
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by shaftway 6y ago
There have been cases in the US where police seized families homes after underage dependents were caught selling trivial amounts of pot to friends without the parents being aware. Please explain to me how I can legally protect my house in t
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by shaftway 6y ago
Oh yeah, totally. I'm just objecting to using the term "meltdown" to describe the typical power-down procedure because of the negative connotations of the term. I'm good with "criticality incident", "core

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