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by thedufer 11y ago
Does opera bring in 18 billion dollars a year from advertising? Anti competitive is a much easier sell against Google, since advertising is their core business. I don't see how this has much to do with influence.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Somehow you've managed to miscount the numbers, misrepresent your wrong numbers, and miss the point all at once. The point is that you still have contributed no idea of what portion of startups are starting in SF. If 95% of startups c
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by thedufer 11y ago
SF has 1/4 of the population density of Manhattan, the city it is often compared to, and about 1/6 of the densest city in the world (Manila in the Philippines). I wonder where all those extra people are being put if SF has capped
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by thedufer 11y ago
Surely the fact that a huge portion of startups start in SF could account for the fact that a huge portion of winners came from SF? You're also biased because you're paying more attention to startups in SF - the Bay area doesn&#x
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by thedufer 11y ago
Please keep your beliefs in your world, where your decisions apparently don't have consequences for others. Around here, I like to think that society benefits every time a building that's up to code fails to fall on a passersby,
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by thedufer 11y ago
You definitely don't care when you're dead. In that split second before the disaster, maybe the point of silly regulations like not collapsing at the first hint of an earthquake or not going up in flames in seconds will become cl
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by thedufer 11y ago
This kind of stuff is great - make suggestions, but allow it to go through even if you think it's wrong. For the last email validation I worked on, there were only 2 absolute blockers - there must be an @ sign, and the domain must hav
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by thedufer 11y ago
> Over the decades I've been living on my own, I've never had a situation where any RI policy would kick in That's fairly expected. Given my current RI cost and how much it covers, they're losing money if I make a si
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by thedufer 11y ago
Under the current module system, there is no single polymorphic `to_string` function. You end up with a separate function per type, typically residing in different modules. In haskell you can just say `show a` as long as `a` is of a type t
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by thedufer 11y ago
FWIW, the current preferred web server at JS seems to be https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-cohttp (which supports both Async and Lwt). I wouldn't go so far as to call it a framework, though.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Well, no, since we're talking about the SAT it is pretty US-centric. Unfortunately, Duke has broken broken the link to the paper (the entire subdomain it's on appears to have gotten the redirection treatment), but [here]( http:&#
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by thedufer 11y ago
On my phone so I don't have the paper handy, but all available research shows no more than 50 point gains on SAT from test prep.
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by thedufer 11y ago
It only happens on Android Chrome. SSLLabs reports a bunch of stuff, but it seems like the issue matches http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27892873/ssl-cert-err-cer... . Hopefully a quick fix.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Much of the point of "first principles" is that there aren't very many of them. If you have any trouble at all remembering them, you can be fairly certain that you have not trimmed enough.
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by thedufer 11y ago
The 5% statement credit on the Amazon card is only for Prime members, so if you're not already one that could be a big reason to stick with the 3%.
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by thedufer 11y ago
> Even if you're super-high-skilled and work in Silicon Valley as a programmer At Google or equivalent, programmers can hit the household 5% bar ($220,000) within 2-3 years.
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by thedufer 11y ago
You're significantly devaluing the streamer's contribution. The streamers who make money have spent years cultivating a following. That network effect is hard to value, but I'm pretty sure 0 isn't quite right.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Original credit goes to the hovertext of https://xkcd.com/1185/ , I believe.
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by thedufer 11y ago
As you can see here[1], changing the argument order does not prevent `elem` from showing up in the first position. If there are multiple close matches, ordering of arguments can change which is first, but the one you're looking for is
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by thedufer 11y ago
Receiving emails isn't that hard. But that's not all you're getting into. Sending them such that they don't get spam-canned is way more difficult than you're admitting. It can take months or years to get decent ac
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by thedufer 11y ago
I would second Mailgun for inbound email. Granted, my use-case is very low-volume, but it works great and the email parsing seems to be pretty good. I've previously used Mandrill for inbound, which has a lot of problems that I'd
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by thedufer 11y ago
The Model S costs $75k. The kind of people who think that's a reasonable price for a car absolutely can and will buy on a whim. They can also tide themselves over with a BMW or the like, not a beater. Normal car-buying doesn't r
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by thedufer 11y ago
What does "in the end" mean? I've been working in Vim and then Emacs+Evil for four years or so and it is pretty clear that I'm still far from proficient. That said, it is an enormous step above a text editor (and somew
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by thedufer 11y ago
The problem with take-home assignments isn't how long they take - it's how many you end up doing. Resume-to-offer attrition rates are often as high as 99.9%. In-person interview-to-offer attrition rates are rarely worse than 90%
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by thedufer 11y ago
I think 6 hours/day is pretty normal these days, based on my younger sibling and teacher relatives. Definitely less than a "normal" 40 hour workday.
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by thedufer 11y ago
That's great unless people want to shop in multiple browser tabs or anything like that. The real solution here is to use the fact that we have POST which is specced as non-idempotent and not depend on the very small set of technologie
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by thedufer 11y ago
You're probably thinking of PATCH. In many, if not most, RESTful services, PUT is given PATCH semantics. PUT is supposed to be insert-or-update.
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by thedufer 11y ago
> all you're looking for is someone's ability to conjure from memory an appropriate approach So, it's worth mentioning that there are two types of algorithm questions. You seem to be complaining about the "show me mer
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by thedufer 11y ago
I think Patrick's blog post about salary negotiation opens with an illuminating metaphor. In a nutshell, are there any strange but ultimately trivial tasks you wouldn't do for 20 minutes for $100,000? Because that's the tra
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by thedufer 11y ago
> That freedom is something I havent been able to put a price tag on yet Keep your eyes open! I thought the same thing about six months ago, but it turns out my price tag just sat in the area between what I thought people were willing t

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