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by teyc 15y ago
I've been mulling over the idea of writing a small buggy program, one that doesn't compile, and providing some test cases, then post it on GitHub as a first pass filter. It achieves several aims: 1. This approach scales. Send a prospective
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by teyc 15y ago
Is your application highly complex? Are your users highly technically skilled and constantly using this application? Highly complex UIs arise from highly complex situations - think plant-processing control rooms - lots of dials, switches an
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by teyc 15y ago
A lot of students freelance. You might want to start out advertising on CL for local businesses. It will be slow initially, but you will pick up speed. How much do you need to make a week? How many sites do you think you can do a week? Halv
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by teyc 15y ago
While what he says may be true, without employees, his business can't scale. What he is describing is the difficulty of startups competing against established competitors who have a reliable source of revenue. In many countries, smaller bus
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by teyc 15y ago
Learning to believe half a dozen impossible things before breakfast I'd say is the most illuminating. It informs us how easy it is for our views to be shaped and cautions us to act with more humility and more tolerance for people who believ
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by teyc 15y ago
What's going to happen to all those retirees? There aren't any 401ks to fall back on are there?
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by teyc 15y ago
Writing good python has been more of a challenge for me lately. The more C#/Java I write, the harder it is for me forget dependency injection, factories, etc and just feel the freedom Python provides.
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by teyc 15y ago
Also keep the following in mind. You don't need to use Singletons in Python. The following code smells in Python. log.getLogger() use a module instead.
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I bet Uber will pivot rather than be involved with peak time travel the way they did on NYE. It is bad for the brand to charge ultra high rates when people are feeling festive.
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There are not enough roads in the city on NYE for everyone who'd want a private car. More medallions are not going to solve this class of "spiky demand" problems. In Brisbane city on NYE, the public bus service was free after 9pm. There wer
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by teyc 15y ago
I've struggled through a few Cocoa tutorials. I think the programmer creates a delegate object which handles events. These delegates are assigned to UI elements, similar to how one would addMouseListener to a Java UI element. I may be ent
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by teyc 15y ago
The problem with Java is because there aren't any strongly typed functions, only strongly typed classes. Therefore to handle a mouseClick event requires a class. However, it doesn't make sense to have a IMouseClick interface that has only o
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by teyc 15y ago
Phones are always about the carrier. Apple understood that when they started off with AT&T. Then, they showed people what a well executed smartphone can look like. Android also looked after the carriers, as the author had pointed out, b
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by teyc 15y ago
The acid test is to see if you can avoid terms like "Writer", "Printer", and whether someone is able to explore your API using the REPL. >>> import log >>> log.log(log.CRITICAL, 'PrintModule', 'Printer fail
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by teyc 15y ago
I blame GOF for making Python Standard Libs hard. The patterns described were for an OO system where functions were not first class. Python didn't need to be complicated. If you have a look at the older libraries, most of them were written
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by teyc 15y ago
Oh dear. And I thought the internet is a safe place for credit cards. Why would hackers want to execute MOTM when servers are sitting ducks?
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by teyc 15y ago
I saw an Australian company offering tokenising solutions for credit card transactions. Glancing briefly, they talked about replacing credit card number with "tokens" that can be stored on the customer's premises, while the actual card numb
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by teyc 15y ago
Thanks. Odd that VISA would let the third party auditors get away with it, until they don't... which I'd hope so in this case. Related: http://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-auditor...
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by teyc 15y ago
Next, see if we can ban people from using ALL CAPS in emails and forum posts. :)
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Don't VISA et al require some kind of PCI compliance for storing credit card details?
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Delivering water under extremely hazardous condition is an act of heroism. One doing it should not cheapen it by trying to extract maximum rent, especially from people who might have just lost everything.
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Hardly. A rich person could buy more water than he needs. Then what?
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No, this is incorrect. People taking risks shipping water over structurally unsound bridges not only put their lives in danger, but also puts rescuers life in danger when they run into difficulties. Recently in Australia, a cave canyoner wa
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by teyc 15y ago
I couldn't find the article any more, but it was talking about shopkeepers' reluctance to hike the price of bottled water in times of emergency because it harms their long term relationship with a customer. There's nothing wrong with what y
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by teyc 15y ago
The general public's problem with dynamic pricing for highly scarce goods and captive market (stuck in the city) is that it makes for extremely bad feelings. The phrase "Price gouging" comes to mind. Even when dynamic pricing is available,
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by teyc 15y ago
The lack of upgrades is not necessarily a problem for most people. This is why there has been little commercial interest in providing a constant stream of upgrades. Take Windows XP for example. People are still installing this even though t
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by teyc 15y ago
It is a process. One doesn't become radically honest with oneself until one notices how the body physically responds to criticisms. Toastmasters is a good example where I keep noticing the better toastmasters actively solicit criticisms. Ev
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Reading between the lines, Radical Honesty is a type of practice where one is constantly working to engage with every moment and every interaction, and not to always default to being "nice". Most people aren't aware of what they are thinkin
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I believe you are handwaving the problem away here. Have you ever tried to go to a mattress shop and ask them about spring density, the gauge of steel used, and the spring layout on a mattress? These information is totally proprietary and t
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This has been predicted before. However, human ingenuity will prevent it from propagating to its logical conclusion. Have you tried to compare prices of mattresses? One way mattress sellers prevent price comparison is by identifying mattres

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