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by spott 11y ago
This reminds me of "Better Off Ted"[0], where the protagonist worked for veridian dynamics[1], a faceless multinational conglomerate. [0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235547/ [1] https://www.y
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by spott 11y ago
>because the depth of field is much smaller, Why? It isn't immediately obvious to me why the FILM would have an effect on the depth of field.
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by spott 11y ago
eh, REALLY HAPPY customers frequently make social media like reddit and here. There are all sorts of stories of " company I love screwed up and really came through!" Hell, apple gets all sorts of these comments when they do some
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by spott 11y ago
This is a valuable point. I no longer just ask questions of people: I try to be respectful of their time by trying hard myself to figure out the answer first. The upside is that I learn a bunch of things. The downside is that I rarely ha
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by spott 11y ago
I think the problem is that there are relationships that are very difficult to show cleanly using other chart types. Relationships between quantities with different units are hard to show otherwise, without significant cognitive overhead (a
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by spott 11y ago
So... they reject too many jobs and Uber stops asking them?
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by spott 11y ago
Information not in the market. Stock traders trade on rumor, fact and everything in between. They (can) look at who the company is run by, and how much they trust him, and look at the people in upper management. They can look at and under
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by spott 11y ago
Another thing that can happen is D) you find something disturbing in the contract that you would like changed, and the business just cancels the transaction. Another guy will come in and lease the car and won't ask questions. I'm
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by spott 11y ago
Legally, I think arbitration clauses probably will hold up. As you said, both parties have agreed to them. The problem is that, currently, I can't get wireless from Sprint, ATT or Verizon without signing away my right to sue. If this
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by spott 11y ago
I imagine, as part of your receipt, where you agree to the warranty and agree to pay for it, that you also agree to arbitration of disputes.
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by spott 11y ago
The problem is that "it is illegal, but there is no recourse or consequence" is essentially the same thing as "it is legal". Are the defendants of this case being charged? Anyone know how to figure that out?
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by spott 11y ago
Yea, but embedded Fortran, and assembly of whatever architecture that voyager runs on is a different beast.
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by spott 11y ago
rr works for C++/C code too?
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by spott 11y ago
>Laws can and have been written that require companies to use weaker or broken encryption. Source? Example? I don't know an example of this. (At least in the US)
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by spott 11y ago
>lot more air in order to maintain the thrust necessary to stay at altitude. Not really... you need to move the same MASS of air, just more air VOLUME. Bigger props solve that problem, at the expense of moving a large prop (greater mome
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by spott 11y ago
>There is no fundamental principle that suggests most kinds of programming are any less susceptible to automation than any other kind of work. There are two ways to "automate" programming. Make the language/framework easi
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by spott 11y ago
>which feels like the range that a good email client could easily be worth. The problem is that I don't want to drop $40 sight unseen. I still haven't come across an email reader that doesn't suck, and $40, hell $10, is a
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by spott 11y ago
So, I'm kind of curious: It seems that the whole ROP thing depends on X86's CISC architecture in order to allow turing complete programming. Am I wrong in this understanding?
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by spott 11y ago
>general compute (CPU cores and system RAM) than graphical compute. Why? As a gamer I would expect you would want the opposite. Is there a particular reason you have this rule of thumb?
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by spott 11y ago
This depends on your definition of "advances in physics". "New physics", physics that we don't already have an explanation for, is becoming increasingly rare. Our definition of "new physics" is also expan
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by spott 11y ago
I think you can only associate desirability with units if you hold other things equal: price, availability, etc.
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by spott 11y ago
Because the data is really hard to come by?
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by spott 11y ago
Most (all?) cryogenic systems can be closed circuit. The only reason they don't is because He is cheap.
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by spott 11y ago
The problem with this is that different passwords have different requirements, which must now be remembered and entered every time you need that particular password. I suppose "immutable state" would be a nice compromise, but the
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by spott 11y ago
>until you have paying work developing iOS/OSX applications. Isn't it a little disingenuous to advertise that you are able to develop iOS/OSX when you can't at the moment? YAGNI doesn't really apply to building n
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by spott 11y ago
>some neural nets and others not. Source for the brain having computational units that aren't neural nets? I'd love to read more on this.
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by spott 11y ago
Great, now I've gotten recommendations for all three of the big backends. :) Node.js, does make sense: I would like to screw around with D3 eventually, so knowing js sounds useful. Do you know any tutorials for Node?
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by spott 11y ago
So it sounds like I should learn Django or Rails. Anyone know a good tutorial for Django? I figure I'll look at both until one becomes an obvious choice. Thanks!
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Ask HN: What web technology stack should I learn
9 points by spott 11y ago|14 comments
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by spott 11y ago
You should write up and share what you did. I'm sure others would be interested.

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