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by slackstation 9y ago
Why have everyone know all of 2M lines of code? Programming is about abstraction, knowing what a subsystem does, what it's responsible for should be adequate most of the time until you need to fix something inside it. We aren't do
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by slackstation 9y ago
It looks good but, doesn't work on my work network and didn't work when I tried it through Tunnelbear VPN.
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by slackstation 9y ago
Stop expecting algorithmic search result order to be "true". It would be far more worrying if Google were that good and filtered the news in such a fine grain. You would need millions of people to filter all of the video that Goog
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by slackstation 9y ago
Every time I'm on FB. It's pleasant, really pleasant. But, every single time I'll go on the site and to do a thing like, check on the plans for my friend's birthday party. I end up spending like 30min or so more time tha
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by slackstation 9y ago
It's still hypocritical and insulting to the reader's intelligence. You could make Obama say anything. He could say something humourous, something that he's never said before. You would have just as impressive of a demo if yo
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by slackstation 9y ago
Their ethics don't seem to be something they take seriously as the video they use to promote their own site is an impersonation itself. Seems from right out of the gate, they are breaking their own ethical guidelines as a cheap promoti
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by slackstation 9y ago
The pointless admin is from services given to the students. Universities (that aren't household brand names like the Ivys) compete on services and facilities. And because most students are young and using other people's money (the
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by slackstation 9y ago
Two Words: Drunk. Flying. I don't want someone intoxicated going 300/mph above my house.
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by slackstation 9y ago
That is such a strange article. It shackles Joss Wheadon with this additional moral failing for cheating on his wife as if his feminist ideal should stop him from falling for the trappings that all rich powerful people go through. Somehow b
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by slackstation 9y ago
This has to be a mistake. Whenever you outright ban someone with the minimalist interaction the way Google does it, you open yourself up to accusations of all kinds of suppression. You allow the person who being banned to define why they we
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by slackstation 9y ago
This is just people complaining loudly and vebosely about something they don't like and trying to make it into a vague moral failing. Electric bikes exist. Bike advocates for years have railed against cars and said the world would be s
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by slackstation 9y ago
Everyone thinks that in the case of Galileo vs the Church, they would have had the reason to see that Galileo was right and the Church was wrong because they objectively looked at the facts. The reality is that most people go with the major
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by slackstation 9y ago
22 hours and Hacker News is silent on this issue...
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by slackstation 9y ago
It has a nice looking Github page mostly is my guess.
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by slackstation 9y ago
This should usher in a new era of cheap phones that upgrade immediately to the newest version of the Android OS. It lowers the price floor for a shiny new phone. All of these additional features are expensive to create but, they are differe
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by slackstation 9y ago
The reason why Amazon and more people don't do these things is because they are hard and success breeds expectations that can only hurt you. It's much cheaper and safer to build a politically neutral brand without expectations of
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by slackstation 9y ago
I laughed for a solid minute on that one.
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by slackstation 9y ago
This exact sentiment is exactly how research was born. In large complex systems, a few ideas pop up that take the system in non-intuitive directions; non-linearity of influence of small factors, hidden factors, etc. Also, I would counter th
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by slackstation 9y ago
eSports as olympic games is nothing but, problem filled. Games are the intellectual property of private companies. What's a popular game doesn't stay the same in olympic time frames. Games change over time for commercial reasons s
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by slackstation 9y ago
It seems that much of this article is about how little the author knew about this person and then extrapolates an odd intimacy in the mysteriousness of it because this eccentric guy remembered him and sent him gifts. Further more, even thou
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by slackstation 9y ago
I tried that with Uber. It was great, everywhere I wanted to go for a month for $1.99 per ride $40. I saved a FANTASTIC amount of money that month on Uber and I used the hell out of it. As soon as it was over, I went back to checking Lyft a
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by slackstation 9y ago
Google has superior search results. FB/Twitter are where all my friends are. Amazon has network effects with Prime that are more than just free next day shipping. Uber takes me from point A to point B in a virtually indistinguishable w
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by slackstation 9y ago
Sales growth in commodity product that is loosing money on ever sale? I'll never understand this. Uber won't own the market. There is zero lock-in. If Lyft is cheaper this week, I'm riding Lyft. I sold my car over a year ago
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by slackstation 9y ago
Since we think of biases of a large human corpora as wrong, I'm curious how one would find one or make one that is "right". Given how accurate human corpora is at predicting things like gender distribution in jobs for instanc
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by slackstation 9y ago
How is offering a similar application with similar modes of communication, similar formatting unethical but, copying an API like the Java API for Android not considered unethical in the same vein? I'd have to think there isn't a l
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by slackstation 10y ago
What's strange is that this is something where people haven't even complained about this person's interaction with them, merely their private sexual preferences. Both things get treated the same way, "if anything about y
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by slackstation 10y ago
Making anything related to music and naming it Tidal (a multi-million dollar music company) is a recipe for a bad time.
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by slackstation 10y ago
You have a Master's Degree. That means you have something that you specialized in beyond just general computer science. Take some of the cutting edge research in the field that you are familiar with, find companies that need that skill
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by slackstation 10y ago
I hate the moral outrage against gentrification. It's natural to desire something that good but, somehow immoral to express that desire. Venice and the south side of Santa Monica used to be kinda a sketchy place to live and had alot of
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by slackstation 10y ago
Because news agencies make money from attention not accurate and usable information. Also, financial market movement has so many factors that govern their movement, that in the short term it looks random but, peoples' daily need for ne

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