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by tikiman163 6y ago
The point of this article was to address the fact that open source project rarely get good user feedback. Developers wouldn't necessarily be the person offering time to talk with users, it would be the project owner. I know open-source
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Antifa isn't a real organization, it's just a bunch of disconnected groups that have recently been getting labeled as Antifa. Most don't even claim to be part of Antifa. Antifa is basically the boogeyman that Republicans made
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by tikiman163 6y ago
Finding the bug that allowed this exploit took this researcher weeks. QA can't find all defects without somehow testing every conceivable scenario without knowing every conceivable scenario, and code review can only catch defects if at
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by tikiman163 6y ago
You're right about most of it, but companies by AdWords on their own brand name so that competitors won't get that spot. Basically, the first 2 results listed by Google are paid ads. So if they don't buy AdWords for their own
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by tikiman163 6y ago
Anti-trust laws (and the concepts that are based upon) do not apply to free services, and portions of YouTube that do collect subscription fees do have a full support structure. Your assertion that Google has a monopoly in this market is wr
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It would be hilarious if we've been wondering why we're alone in the universe all this time just to find out we're not even the only planet in our solar system to support life.
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There is something of an unpopular ideology in Computer Science that suggests that you shouldn't build architure to use cool tools, you should build the cheapest easiest architecture that meets the user's needs. This ideology is u
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by tikiman163 6y ago
Non-full time employees often do not receive significant benefits. However, being classified as a contractor means paying the employer side of income taxes (yes, "self-employed" contractors essentially pay double the tax rate of e
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The number of people who don't understand when to use a list/array VS dictionary/hash table vs lookup object is too damn high. A huge amount of basic optimization is constantly at their fingertips and they nearly always choos
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You should consider LastPass. They've had considerably fewer security breaches than KeePass and is accessible either using a local app or from any modern browser regardless of OS. It even has a smart phone app, although the phone app r
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by tikiman163 6y ago
Part of dns actually prevents that. So long as you are using a browser that has implemented its use, dnd entries specifify the public signing key of the destination server, so if the browser receives a packet signed using a different certif
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by tikiman163 6y ago
The major problem with any solution we have to contend with is the fact that the ratio of appropriate to inappropriate police interactions is unlikely to change regardless of the system or official procedure, so any system that increases th
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by tikiman163 6y ago
I think you have good points, but I would also add to it that the high barrier to entry also prevented people from being copy cats. A simple messenger was a major accomplishment, so when something worked there weren't 10,000 copies of
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In the case of homelessness there have been pilot programs that actually show the cost of just giving chronicly homeless people permanent housing and psychological counseling to be dramatically less expensive to society than our current sol
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by tikiman163 6y ago
Microsoft has been doing a lot of this lately. Skype needed a massive overhaul to keep up so they made a Slack clone (Teams) that will slowly take over as people decide to switch. AWS and Atlassian products are polular? They create Azure an
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by tikiman163 6y ago
This isn't going to be a popular response, but I read your entire article and I have the following advice. First, what toy wrote tells me you started your business because you consider yourself to be highly intelligent and capable and
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by tikiman163 6y ago
To be completely frank, I'm seeing less and less reason to use traditional sql databases. MongoDB offers the ability to make sql queries and even has Acid transactions. Everything SQL can do, it does without slowing down when dealing w
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by tikiman163 6y ago
There are some good theories regarding delayed gratification and behavioral modifications you might find useful. First, how good you are a choosing to wait to receive a reward later has a strong bearing on how difficult of a problem you can
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by tikiman163 7y ago
That entirely depends on the company. The US is nearly the size of Europe, each state is roughly equivalent to a different country. How people think and behave vary vastly.
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by tikiman163 7y ago
All they did was put the analogue A/C controls back. I don't see this as a big deal and I kind of like that some of the basic controls don't require digging through menus. One of the drawbacks of touchscreen controls is you h
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by tikiman163 7y ago
Preponderance of the evidence is only used in arbitration, if he's suing then this is litigation. In reality, if he has a contract requiring arbitration or mediation instead of litigation then he has absolutely no power and no chance o
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by tikiman163 7y ago
Here is an article from Wired with quotes from the Google Product Manager that did the due diligence when they considered buying Skype: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2011/05/why-googl...
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by tikiman163 7y ago
Skype is crap, it was doomed to die around that time frame anyway. If anything, Microsoft Business kept Skype going longer than it would have otherwise. Seriously, go use products like Google Hangouts, Slack or Microsoft Teams (Microsofts&#
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by tikiman163 7y ago
This is basically drivel. My personal motto is "we chose to go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard!" The trend of startup failures has nothing to do with the difficulty of the problem they were trying to so
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by tikiman163 7y ago
The suggestion is the customer pays $20 so they don't try and go straight to the ombudsman with ever little issue. The company doesn't and shouldn't pay the customer under any circumstance. In technical support, one of the la
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by tikiman163 7y ago
That's called the eskrow process. It's highly complicated, expensive and it requires the 3rd party is verifiable trustworthy because they effectively have all the power.
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Did you even read those 1 0n 1 questions? They couldn't be used to identify under performers, they're "geared" towards ensuring your manager is being helpful and that you have what you need. I habitually complain in my 1
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by tikiman163 7y ago
I think you've no idea what commuting costs anymore. 100 a week would be absolutely ridiculous. If the company provides parking you're looking at around 70 per month. If you have to pay for parking that might be as much as 250 per
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by tikiman163 7y ago
Your math is wrong. The probabilities you listed for the 2 events is correct, but you multiplied 0.72 by 0.03,but probabilities aren't stated that way. 0.72% is a probability of 0.0072 and 0.03% is 0.0003. So the correct probability of
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by tikiman163 7y ago
I have a few pieces of advice. The general theme, always focus on making other people successful, and make sure things are meaningfully organized with both current and future team members in mind. 1. Checklists make everything easier. What

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