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by thedufer 12y ago
> There's tons of evidence that women are excluded from our industry, at every level -- high school, university, and even the ones that graduate and go on to work in the industry drop out at a very high rate. Can you point these out
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by thedufer 12y ago
> The percentage of people who save money by itemizing deductions is extremely small I don't know where you're getting that. The only number I can find on it is an unsourced assertion that more than 60% take the standard deduc
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by thedufer 12y ago
For comparison: Manhattan issued permits for 4,856 new housing units in 2013 [1], despite having half the land area of SF and already supporting 4 times the population density. [1] http://www.nycrgb.org/downloads/resea
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by thedufer 12y ago
You're describing the worst possible use-case for node, and one that it explicitly is not intended to handle well. If you're doing computationally-intensive tasks on large data sets, use a language that supports that. Node.js is
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by thedufer 12y ago
The reason for the downvotes, I suspect, is because this looks like an attempt to derail a thread to get tech support on a barely-related topic. Worse, the initial comment was worded as "this thing sucks because..." instead of a
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by thedufer 12y ago
Sounds like a big pain to have to pay individually for each person on a team if your company wants to use private modules. We're generally willing to throw money at problems like those private modules solve, but if we have to do it a
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by thedufer 12y ago
> Also, magically trying to decode strings if they look like JSON sounds rather scary. That's not what's going on. Each message is tagged with a "type", and one of the tags means "JSON.parse this into an object&
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by thedufer 12y ago
In the last line, A notes that B knowing means that A now knows. This is only possible if it is July, since knowing the month isn't enough to distinguish between the two possible dates in August.
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by thedufer 12y ago
It appears to be a honeypot server, which is why it is so heavily monitored. It wouldn't do much good if it was really hard to get into.
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by thedufer 12y ago
Huh, I thought exactly the opposite. I graduated in classes of 17 and 7 from my CS and physics departments, respectively. The divide between sizes of schools is amazing.
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by thedufer 12y ago
It is a special search engine for Haskell libraries. For example, if I want the `map` function but don't know what it's called (or what library it's in) I can search for its type signature, which must be something like `[a]
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by thedufer 12y ago
> "dozens" of emails a month In his Ars Technica article he claims to have been sending 5 takedowns per day (that's more like hundreds a month). The dozens per month are just the minority he's deemed commercial. He&
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by thedufer 12y ago
I'm sorry to be skeptical, but when a random person on the internet claims to have implemented SSL more securely than open source tools that are completely built around security, I tend to not believe it. Implementing SSL is easy. Imp
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by thedufer 12y ago
It's hard to imagine every service in your infrastructure implementing SSL would be more secure than a single VPN tool. You are very optimistic about the difficulties of getting security right.
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by thedufer 12y ago
That would depend pretty strongly on what about redis isn't working for you.
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by thedufer 12y ago
Additionally, Slack has had SQLi attacks found against it in the past, which is proof that they aren't defending against it systematically.
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by thedufer 12y ago
I'm no security expert, but there are some obvious problems with concatting salt + pepper. For example, most hash libraries include the salt in the output so that you only have to store a single string (also encoded in the output woul
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by thedufer 12y ago
> The latter interpretation of the results comes from Harvard Medical School professors, the former from some random anonymous dick on the internet. To be fair, said anonymous dick isn't the only person interpreting the results tha
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by thedufer 12y ago
> 99% of artists would make more money in this model. You just shifted which number you pulled out of thin air, not the fact that you did so. Do you secretly have Spotify's streams database?
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by thedufer 12y ago
> I also forgot to account for daylight savings time in which a day can have 25 hours. Fortunately, the 25-hour day is in November, which is only a 30-day month. So you're okay on that front.
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by thedufer 12y ago
> Multisignature transactions solve the "annnd it's gone" due to hacked merchants/exchanges. Theories are great for people who can afford to lose tens of thousands of dollars. Until the actual rate goes down, recomme
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by thedufer 12y ago
Excellent. Yes, let's go there. Over the course of a year, $18 billion were lost to CC fraud. Meanwhile, CC transactions totaled about $6 trillion [0] (that was 2010, the most recent I could come up with, but it's been increasin
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by thedufer 12y ago
A better analogy is that it's like dismissing the alternatives to email that popped up in the later 90s and dismissing them because even though they were obviously better than email (but not as much so as email over snail mail), no one
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by thedufer 12y ago
Banks are the ones taking those losses, and it comes out of the CC fees paid by merchants. Yes, this probably results in price increases, which is like buying insurance - I will pay 2% more for pretty much every good I buy, and in return I
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by thedufer 12y ago
Is anyone else horrified by that demographics chart? The "income" pie chart has a line that splits it almost perfectly in half, yet one side contains 61% and the other 39%. The 24% piece is clearly way over 1/4, and the 25%
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by thedufer 12y ago
> expounding a vision, documenting, running a team, navigating politics and fund raising It sounds like you're mistaking "developer" for "tech startup founder". Someone looking for a developer needs at most 2 of
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by thedufer 12y ago
The USB 3.1 spec has separate pinouts for power out and power in, so this should be possible. Anyone who wants to use the USB for peripherals regularly will just need a hub.
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by thedufer 12y ago
It costs the company as much time as the person interviewing. At least for remote interviews, which are becoming the norm from what Ive seen.
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by thedufer 12y ago
I think the way the terms are used is that laid off means the company no longer needs anyone in your position, while fired means they still need someone to do your job, but it's no longer you. The implications of this are clear, I thi
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by thedufer 12y ago
I'm not sure how you got from "less than half of engineers time spent on communication overhead" to "no communication whatsoever". Something is terribly broken if the people primarily responsible for execution take

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