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by tspike 10y ago
This looks interesting, I wasn't aware Amazon had entered this space. I'm not sure I trust Amazon either, but at least they're explicit in their desire to take my money in exchange for products and services. Edit: it doesn&#x
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by tspike 10y ago
What are your recommendations for a fast, intuitive, portable third-party solution that uses Dropbox as a data store for my use case? Edit: While separating these concerns (storage and presentation) is a solid software engineering approach,
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by tspike 10y ago
I was initially ecstatic about Dropbox, but they seem to be at best stagnant in terms of functionality. It was my solution for having access to all my photos on all devices, but then they canceled Carousel with the promise that its function
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by tspike 10y ago
I wonder if part of the reason we have a doctor shortage is because people see the inhumane working conditions and decide not to pursue it as a career.
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Wrote a grammar checker that used both ML models and rules (which in turn used e.g. part-of-speech taggers based on ML). Wrote a system for automatically grading kids' essays (think the lame "summarize this passage"-type pass
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by tspike 10y ago
This is naïve. In reality, the larger companies will be the ones that can afford the technological advancement, and they will eventually drive the bodegas, convenience stores, and small groceries out of business. The benefits that would oth
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by tspike 10y ago
> In 2013, professor Nick Bloom of Stanford University stated there had recently been a major change of heart concerning technological unemployment among his fellow economists.[61] In 2014 the Financial Times reported that the impact of
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by tspike 10y ago
The cynicism also comes from the fact that all these "improvements" are just well known existing techniques coming into and falling out of fashion. I do agree that finding a new chapter is a productive approach. It would be nice t
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by tspike 10y ago
See my e-mail address in my profile
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Rails 4 + Postgres on Linode
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by tspike 10y ago
http://www.secretsantagenerator.net Lets people organize secret santa gift exchanges via e-mail, including rules about who can buy for who. At its peak in the holiday season, gets about 10k uniques per day. Close to a million pe
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Because, in the case of the first two, they are offering some of the only real journalism that remains. The latter is just fantastically adept at churning out gobs of clickbait.
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How well does that work in practice? I've heard so-so things.
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Great question, I'm interested in the responses as well. I'm using XVim with Xcode, but it's horrendously unstable and much slower than it needs to be.
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Some anecdata: I'm working on a 100k+ LOC Swift project and I can confirm, compilation is a dog and much of my day is spent getting myself back on track after waiting for compiles to finish. That said, I'm in love with the languag
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I get shooting, crippling finger pain when there's too little travel after too much typing. Definitely not just a preference.
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Support it at the $200 level and you can have them add whatever icon you like.
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My experience has been that TDD is worthwhile when working with notoriously slippery whack-a-mole functions like handling time or money. The time saved by catching regressions vastly outweighs the time taken to implement the tests. In contr
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This tech, of course, has utility for many professions beyond journalism. Given the expansive nature of our laws, it is impossible for anyone not to break a law at some point. When it's possible to simply search a massive database for
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by tspike 10y ago
You are overstating your case. Hackerrank is useful as a pre-screen. Give a fizz-buzz type problem on Hackerrank, then proceed with the normal interview process. The kinds of people you are describing would be filtered out in the subsequent
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by tspike 10y ago
What is your preferred interviewing method?
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by tspike 10y ago
WalmartLabs | Portland, Oregon | iOS Engineer | Onsite - Relocation Expenses Provided | $100k-160k + bonus + stock I'm an engineer at WalmartLabs and am looking for a few good iOS engineers to help us build our iPhone app. If working a
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by tspike 10y ago
If you missed the original article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3612748/Why-decided-... He makes for a nice clickbaity punchline of a headline, which is obviously part of the intent as he wrote a book
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by tspike 10y ago
If we're going with the alcoholic analogy, alcoholism very clearly has a genetic component, so some people are predisposed to it. I don't think it's far fetched to hypothesize that technology addiction might be genetic as wel
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by tspike 10y ago
I find it very curious that expense is the first thing that comes to mind for a lot of people when they hear about trips like this. I understand it is expensive, but so are a lot of things that don't trigger this question. Is it just b
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by tspike 10y ago
That's been my pet idea, as well. Would love to support it however I can. boardreader.com is OK but could be a lot better.
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Ah yes, the double dongle. The kind of elegant, problem-solving design I expect from Apple.
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The general counterargument to the "we're in a bubble" observation has been that it's all private equity, that people aren't risking their houses or 401(k)s on startups this time around. This would appear to be a mo
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Wrong article.
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Sorry you had a bad experience. I work in the Portland office and that hasn't been my experience at all. We have maybe 20-30 people and wide latitude over the projects we work on. Prior to this I had only worked in startups of 15 peopl

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