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by tomgp 9y ago
Oops! If you put the headline in google you should then be able to read it if you arrive via search https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Silicon+Valley%E2%80%99s+F...
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Silicon Valley’s Founder Factory(ft.com)
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Yes, it would seem especially relevant to things like shadow profiles which are collections of data gathered and processed without consent. Further, it specifies ‘right to data portability’ and a ‘right to access’.
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Surprised that the article didn’t mention the EUs incoming data protection laws (GDPR) compliance with which is bound to be costly for Facebook as well as shifting power towards individuals more broadly.
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Enlightenment ideals first proposed a century earlier by an Ethiopian in a cave(aeon.co)
1 points by tomgp 9y ago|0 comments
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oh, also, in my experience the best optimization tends to be reducing the number of decimal places in complex path commands to one or two.
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I'd add a couple of things. 1. as sizes grow you'll be better off using CSS to style rather than attributes -- this will often be a much bigger win than fiddling around with #00f vs blue. 2. I think replacing rect's etc. with
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The technique discussed is a kind of inversion of control, a concept which has a pretty long history (~30 years according to the wikipedia article). I've been writing React for a couple of months now and had settled on this method with
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The most hacker-news comment ever
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Fun fact: The original intent of the word `meritocracy` was satirical so it's connotations were intended to be closer to those of the OP than those which current defenders of the terms ascribe to it. https://www.theguardian.
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I suggest the same of people who are rabidly against drugs; set aside a day of your weekend to take some LSD. If you have no experience, then taking a day to learn more might help you understand how the other side thinks.
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The sticking power of false narrative(gavinkellyblog.com)
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It depends, if you're delivering stand alone SVGs (as opposed to inlined in some html) then browsers may not render the graphic properly without it.
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Yes, the scale at which you notice problems with older code changes as you gain experience. i.e. you may have it down at a function or class level but then, at a system design level, or perhaps in the way that the code addresses business ne
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I regularly ask interviewees at all levels, after they've talked me through some code they've written, how they would do it differently (emphasising that I always wish I'd done things differently). It's one of the questi
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7 had it's moments, an improvement on 6.
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I think the thing with "Buffy..." is that over the 7 seasons it moves from more-or-less a series of self contained episodes to full season length arcs. This was a broader trend in TV as we moved towards box set binging and then on
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A digital clock in Conway's game of life(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
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Mate, you're reading a website called Hacker News, I don't think it's unreasonable for others to think you might have an idea who Bruce Schneider is. All blog posts are 'out of context' the context for them is the b
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If you're interested in the subject this episode of In Our Time on 'The History of the Peloponnesian War' is good: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050bcf1 (full disclosure/ source of glowing pride
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yeah, this is the bit I liked. Personal taste: I'd prefer to see this implemented without extending a base class i.e. by composition rather than inheritance, seems more d3-ish to me.
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I'm in the UK, former Cub and later a Scout. My daughter has just joined the Brownies, her promise doesn't have anything about God in it but does include something about the Queen. I'd be much happier if it were the other way
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Brexit: The campaign, physics and data science. Leave’s software now on GitHub(dominiccummings.wordpress.com)
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I think this is a strange way of looking at it. This is the British legal system making an example of Uber; asserting that existing laws apply even if you manage your workforce via an app.
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By donating millions of $ you cross the line from speech to action.
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Wrong. This exactly the kind of sophistry that Marco refutes. Political positions are moral positions, to believe otherwise is hopelessly naive >in a democracy everyone have the right to say and mean what they want without having to fear
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A good place to start is a collection of his essays -- short enough to read in a sitting but will help you get into his style. "A supposedly fun thing..." was my gateway
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We have Minecraft on our Raspbery Pi connected to our TV, you can write Python code to add/ remove blocks etc. My 5-year-old is happy to open and run these scripts, my 7-year-old will customise simple functions I've written or wri
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whether abortion involves killing a human being is a matter of some debate
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Get a teacher. Hands down the quickest way to improve and to find out where you need improvement. Even a single hour long lesson with a decent teacher will help you set off in the right direction. Good luck!

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