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by shubb 13y ago
It would be nice if UK.gov could make the public financial data of firms available in an open way. You can buy a firms financials from the government for £1 a company, or buy a full dataset for several thousand pounds. For little people wan
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by shubb 13y ago
That is partly true, but planning and zoning restrictions prevent building up as well. If you think about it, increasing the amount of dwellings on a plot of land has a cost, that can be amortized over a number of years. If the market was f
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by shubb 13y ago
I've read speculation that people peak later in quantitive fields, because a discovery requires a lot of work over many years - gathering and verifying data. In math, I guess, advances are made by bright ideas - logical jumps, sudden r
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by shubb 13y ago
So, you take employees with a hard, physical job... and you offer them $5000 to leave and waive all claims against you... I wonder if they target the ones that are starting to limp...
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by shubb 13y ago
The more I learn, the clearer it becomes that I know very little. Things that I used to know fade away - a few years out of college, I can't do matrix maths anymore. Software engineering is a big job. Software engineers might know abou
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by shubb 13y ago
Wow, this is really complex. You needed so much text to explain your fee structure. I'm not saying that is unusual, for a lender. Financial products always come with a lot of smallprint, with actual important things hidden amongst it.
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by shubb 13y ago
Wow... this sounds kind of irrational. I mean, these are close to senior salaries annualized - Sales force is around 70K, while a senior gets about 100K across most of the US. Are 4 interns really more useful than 3 seniors? Really?
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by shubb 13y ago
That is true, but at a very large multinational, I used to recieve over 100 send to all emails a day, and three real ones. Some of the 'send to all' emails were pretty important, so I had to read them, but a lot of them added noth
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by shubb 13y ago
Looks very useful. Some things you can do with it: Dump system activity to file, so that sysdig can be used to process it later. * sysdig -w trace.scap Print process name and connection details for each incoming connection not served by apa
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by shubb 13y ago
Yeah, that is a problem. Could you train up one of the cofounders slowly on the basics? I mean, someone needs to fix the database if you are ill... Mistakes are kind of human nature though. I think a lot of 'best practice' is abou
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by shubb 13y ago
This isn't neccesarily as bad as it looks - Although some of the software is no longer supported, a lot of people stay on an old version for as long as possible, recieving security updates for years. Really shocking to see so much PHP
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by shubb 13y ago
People screw up. I think it is better to make sure that you are always working over a safety net. Safety nets for developers include automated tests, rolling out upgrades to a 'pre-production' clone of your real server before doin
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Interesting Google stock market manoeuvre(blogs.marketwatch.com)
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by shubb 13y ago
An opensource bot - https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser/
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by shubb 13y ago
Have you tried a slowcooker? It makes making thick stews out of cheaper cuts of meat or beans really quick and easy. My cooking got a lot healthier after I got one. Beef stew: Onion 2 leeks Carrots 6 smallish potatos >Slice them all
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by shubb 13y ago
You are reading my post as very emotionally driven. As a non-gamer, and non-VR headset buyer, I am reading about this the same way you might read about defense companies. You, and the parent post, believe that gamers as a market, unlike sel
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by shubb 13y ago
Gamers do care about that kind of thing - they have a personal relationship with brands like Sony, Microsoft, and the major game studios. They have a history, as a group, of getting cartoonishly upset with those brands. Rift is going into c
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by shubb 13y ago
Things got a lot stricter due to: * Fairly active insurgency in Ireland for much of the 20th century. But particularly: * A school shooting, after which pistols were pretty much banned.
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by shubb 13y ago
Looking at your graph, which tells us what we all already really know (we will probably die somewhere between 60 and 80) makes me profoundly uncomfortable. I think of my grandfather, who is about 80 now. He seems pretty healthy, but I know
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by shubb 13y ago
Well, you could post a linkbait article that pulled in some javascript with an exploit in it. Everything here is public except the IP addresses behind the usernames.
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by shubb 13y ago
I'm interested in any howto for setting up a VPN server - the ones I found online usually assume you want to VPN into a buisness network, not channel access to the internet. For most things though, you can just use ssh, no setup on the
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by shubb 13y ago
This is cool but... given the moden economy is built on automated statistical models, couldn't we look at advanced capitalism as a sort of highly supervised, decentralized version of this? The problem for me with the way we do things c
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by shubb 13y ago
Wow, I have that chair, and it gives me back ache after about 5 minutes! There is no lower back support at all, at least for someone my height... Nice to know it works for you though.
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by shubb 13y ago
This is cool, I'll be sharing it with a bunch of people. But you might want to share the demo link https://www.useslate.com/use so that people instantly try it out. Not so much explanation on that page to make them bit
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Live interactive map of world shipping(marinetraffic.com)
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by shubb 13y ago
I guess it's for selling followers. However, you could also use it to poison the kind of metrics companies like DataSift use. A lot of people use metrics like that to make decisions. E.g. a news network might bend it's editorial s
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by shubb 13y ago
I can see how it would be true of normal programmers though - Computer science courses usually teach something very different from every day programming. You learn linear algebra, AI, dynamic programming. Then you go to work and spend 10 ye
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by shubb 13y ago
I thought that was why google hosted a lot of stuff in Ireland? So that companies could host EU data there without running afoul of the privacy laws? I don't think the duty on a company is all that strong - the data has to stay in Euro
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by shubb 13y ago
This looks like a very readable take on linear algebra - the kind of book that you could leave with a really firm understanding of how all the bits fit together. It looks theoretical and very deep - not what you need for passing an undergra
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by shubb 13y ago
Very interesting video - a law professor and a police officer explain how to deal with law enforcement in the US, mostly by not saying very much. I learned a lot watching it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

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