thankthunk

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by thankthunk 8y ago
Retirement? The guy visited china and met with the leader of china to calm relations after trump got elected. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/205... A german born professor with
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> I'm not sure how this is relevant. It's relevant because you want to limit the number of people who have access to your proprietary software. It's pretty straightforward. > the more likely they will be able to make ne
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> Do not write scripts with bash. It's a bit too late for that. Bash is pretty much the de facto default shell for linux. Telling people not to use bash scripts is like telling web devs not to use javascript or OS devs not to use C.
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by thankthunk 8y ago
Of course. Especially when proprietary software/intellectual property is involved. I don't know of any tech shop that makes the source code available to the QA. QA is normally a "black box" operation. It exists to test&#
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> I feel like the decline of traditional television is behind a lot of the push to destroy net neutrality. It's the decline of TV, news and traditional media in general. Look at what the news industry has been able to do against so
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> the paper has been in circulation for close to a 175 years The NY Post has been in circulation for over 200 years. Not sure what your point is. > is ranked as the most trusted journalistic publication That isn't a good thing. T
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> I am inherently suspicious of these types of nanny-tech initiatives. As you should be. It just gives google more excuse to monitor you. They have justification for monitoring you more closely. To "help" you. It's so funn
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> the economist publishes articles of extraordinary quality No they don't. They offer fluff. This article is just fluff and years old news. Maybe because I work in the tech industry, but this article didn't offer anything of va
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> Frankly that's luck. No doubt he is smart and has smart people working for him but that's pure luck. All investment is "luck" if you put it that way. > All but one gone and that tiny $20 mil investment saves it
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by thankthunk 8y ago
Because the guy was justifying taking and keeping the DNA material for perpetuity with his anecdote. It's the quintessential example of authoritarianism defense. One instance of good justifies authoritarianism and violation of individu
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> I was told that I could not opt out and that the sample becomes the property of the State and there is nothing I could do about it. That is so disgusting. For all the talk about individuality and liberalism, it's amazing how liber
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> Both nationalism nor patriotism barely make sense any more. Time are changing. People said the same thing in the late and early 20th century before ww1 and ww2. They were wrong. > If you read it, you will realize that all of civiliz
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by thankthunk 8y ago
Leverage the type system? Type systems exists to allow you catch errors at compile time. That is what it's there to do. It's like saying leveraging the compiler to compile or leveraging the cup to drink water.
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by thankthunk 8y ago
Absolutely. Don't know anyone who had anything good to say about klout, don't know any value klout provided.
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by thankthunk 8y ago
It feels natural to anyone who understands binary numbers. Every odd number in binary will have the last bit as 1. Just like in the decimal system, every number that is a multiple of 10 will has the last digit as 0. If you want to see if a
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by thankthunk 8y ago
How are these hack? This is standard bit masking/manipulation? Every CS student learns it and the C Programming Language has examples of it.
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by thankthunk 8y ago
Sisper's Introduction to the Theory of Computation. Bible. Wheelock's Latin. Why don't we teach the bible and latin from kindegarten through college to our kids? I'm an atheist but I would have benefited from reading the
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> I recently did a social media purge Then why are you on hacker news? > It's this one network that still seems to be a marker of influence in the tech community and yet seems like a complete torrent of information and not very
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> YT and FB could fix these social issues overnight What social issues? I remember old conservatives railing about gansta rap and south park causing social issues back i the day. Now it's old people whining about YT and FB. They are
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by thankthunk 8y ago
I thought the story would be about an actual billion dollar bank job, not a potential billion dollar bank job. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_bank_fraud_scandal
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by thankthunk 8y ago
I wish HN would ban all betteridge's style headlines. How much did newton or einstein's father exercise? Were they body builders?
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> Even over 40? I am genuinely curious. It'll be tougher, especially if you are a white or asian male, but there are plenty of software jobs out there. You are less likely to be getting choice projects, raises, promotions, etc. And
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> does the US really try to enforce its export controls not just on our own country, but on foreign countries? Yes. We run the international world order. Our sanctions are pretty much an international edict that all nations/companie
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> Fake news is what got Hitler into power. No. It was called an election. Hitler and the nazis were banned in germany for a while. So banning "fake news" didn't keep hitler from power. > The fake news Hitler banned was
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> Is it practical to bill myself out at $500/hr at some point being a front-end dev? I doubt it. Maybe if you are a rockstar dev in a highly specialized field with highly specialized domain knowledge and the employer is time constra
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> What? This is certainly not my experience. Your comment describes the experience to the tee. > The top source is indeed Washington post but the same card also contains coverage from Mehr News Agency (which it highlights as "Fro
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by thankthunk 8y ago
>I can't tell you how excited I am about this announcement. You are excited that google is going to continue to monitor and spy on their users? > Edit: I should add that while my hope is that ultimately Google's 'wellbe
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by thankthunk 8y ago
I love the cognitive dissonance here. The same people attacking google for monitoring/storing private information and manipulating users are celebrating google for monitoring/storing private information and manipulating users. The
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> that they've been indoctrinated to accept without questioning. Which is made easier when governments define and outlaw "fake" news. What separated us from totalitarian governments in the 20th century was we protected spe
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by thankthunk 8y ago
> I don't want personalized news, I use Google News for the exact opposite reason. That's what I used to use google news for too. Then a few years ago, google "personalized" and "localize"d news to your area

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