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by skizm 9y ago
Software engineers optimize for human scale time.
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by skizm 9y ago
I sort of agree, but I believe Netflix is legally obligated to do this due to licenses/copyright laws that they have. So they probably have to put in some legally defined amount of effort into combating people "cheating" or w
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by skizm 9y ago
I assume they were selling this under cost in order to sell more games (software) which is where they make most of their money. Selling it as a standalone piece of tech would probably require a price hike ultimately making it less appealing
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by skizm 9y ago
I always thought bookies just kept moving the lines until they were making money at the snap of the ball. Their initial line isn't as important as adjusting the line so that there is equal money on both sides of the line and therefore
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by skizm 9y ago
Would that work if you were using the Google Authenticator app?
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by skizm 9y ago
I mean Steve Jobs tried to treat his completely curable pancreatic cancer, which was caught early, with alternative medicine and diet changes. The guy was a genius at some things, but not everything.
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by skizm 9y ago
Ha! I had no idea this article was so hotly contested. I'll definitely be reading through the links. Thanks.
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by skizm 9y ago
Sort of random/oddly specific usecase, but this article helped me understand a bit more of what happens under the hood with both PostgeSQL and MySQL: https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/ It is a fairly easy read,
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by skizm 9y ago
Thought you meant you were Neal Stephenson for a second! Quick question: If I haven't read the book, but want to, are there any spoilers in the article?
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by skizm 9y ago
The reason sites like Google and YouTube are good is not because you can search the larger sites well, but because they can search the long tail of the web well. Any search engine can index the top 5-10k sites and build something workable f
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by skizm 9y ago
Can you please just make the mobile app work correctly now?
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by skizm 9y ago
When a runner is on second the catcher will give several signs in a row and it is up to the pitcher to decode it. Sometimes the first sign indicates the "real" sign in the series, most of time time the pitcher just knows "sig
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by skizm 9y ago
There was a specific exception made for this exact scenario (which does not apply to digital signals). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act#Exemp...
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by skizm 9y ago
Once your income passes a certain point, America has some of the cheapest health care in the world.
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by skizm 9y ago
I'd argue people know (even expect) they are searching Google when they type in a browser address bar. No one wants Bing search results when they type in the start menu.
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by skizm 9y ago
I'm not an expert on BTC or anything. In fact I'm not even long on BTC. I don't think it will work in the long term. That said I'm just answering questions as I understand them: > BTC is worth thousands of dollars, so
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by skizm 9y ago
Bitcoin purists will say that, eventually, there is no "cash out" phase. 1 BTC = 1 BTC and who cares about what the dollar equivalent happens to be. Once everything is in BTC you will never exchange it for dollars. Do you spend do
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by skizm 9y ago
I'm curious what device the author prefers, for software development: iPad Pro or the surface. Also, the conclusion is that "it’s quite possible" to use the iPad Pro, but that isn't necessarily an endorsement. I only ask
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by skizm 9y ago
What's crazy is the person could have gotten away with it if they had just not specified why they were cancelling. Not only are they racist, but they want people to know it, aaaand they're stupid enough to message the reason via
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by skizm 9y ago
Not if they had no money to spend on marketing in the first place. Saying no money was spent on marketing is advertising strategies that might work if someone with low capital who is trying to boostrap a company.
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by skizm 9y ago
This is probably a dumb question: but how does someone look at the source code for a commercial product like Avast? Some sort of DLL decompiler or something? If that is the case are things like function and variable names conserved? This is
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by skizm 9y ago
> If there's enough money to cover all American's healthcare needs it is pure political gold to do so and no need for debate. I think you are completely missing the debate. The arguments against universal healthcare are 1) If I
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by skizm 9y ago
I mean the sole reason I don't quit my job right now and try and either 1) start a company or 2) take contracting jobs is because health care would cost me around $4000-$6000 per year and I am a healthy, young, single, male with no pre
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by skizm 9y ago
I mean my texts are set to annoy me till I acknowledge them, but if I'm watching TV, in the gym, outside doing some sort of non-tech shenanigans, and I just don't have my phone with me, no amount of alerts will help at that point.
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by skizm 9y ago
When I realize my phone has been out of reach for more than a few minutes my stomach drops because of the chance I've missed some catastrophic work alert that means our company's servers are all down... I probably need a new job.
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by skizm 9y ago
Optimizing for their audience maybe? Similar to sites putting "United States" at the top of a countries dropdown even though everything else is in alphabetical order? Just a guess.
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by skizm 9y ago
To anyone who did not bother to read the article, the comment was something along the lines of "adding more women to the board will ensure more talking." The remark wasn't directed at an individual, wasn't harassing, was
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by skizm 9y ago
Random question (which I am sure has been asked before): is there any way to harness the power of the block-chain to, say, fold proteins? Or something "useful" like that. I'm not saying that securing the block-chain isn'
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by skizm 9y ago
I realize the guy is getting downvoted for being so callous, but I agree with the sentiment. You earn what people are willing to pay you, and generally people only pay for things if they get something in return. In theory the bank literally
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by skizm 9y ago
Which is why the bots have a random "obedience" stat meaning sometimes their likelihood of listening is extremely low. Also, it is why their buys are randomish (mostly don't get armor/kit and buy weird guns). Top fragger

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