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by waisbrot 7y ago
Having a tenant is some risk -- they might mess the place up and cost you some money. If you've got profitable housing above then a new tenant might make noise or smells that upset the neighbors. If it's empty you can wait for a r
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by waisbrot 7y ago
About 20 years ago there was a hacker-comedy group Neato Elito and they had a parody of this "Konshis 0f a Korrier" or something. I remember thinking it was amazingly funny at the time. I don't suppose anyone's got a poi
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by waisbrot 7y ago
I'd agree that the hacker counter-culture that saw technology as a door to Freedom has largely fizzled out and been replaced by hackers who see technology as a path to money. But I cant think of any of the people who were pushing it an
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by waisbrot 7y ago
Was that the reason? I thought the reason was that he wrote a lot of words calling a lot of his coworkers stupid, in a public forum.
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by waisbrot 7y ago
The OSI's purpose is to serve business interests. SaaS providers got their feet in the door before these database companies, so they're getting more of the benefits.
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by waisbrot 7y ago
Imagine applying F-K to code. Since it's based around syllables, we'd discover that Perl5 code I write on the command-line is some of the most readable code out there.
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by waisbrot 7y ago
> What’s so compelling about your company Paying for the interview is compelling. Almost nobody does that, so it's a differentiator. My first assumption on hearing that is "it sounds like they respect their engineers as profess
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by waisbrot 7y ago
Every year I see a post complaining about how unfriendly Stack Overflow is, how their pet question got downvoted so unfairly, and how Stack Overflow is dying. Everyone agrees: Stack Overflow is too mean and is dying. But time and again when
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by waisbrot 7y ago
The problem is that just looking through the queue of unanswered questions takes effort. If I have a list of good, honestly-asked questions, I'm willing to look for a few that I know how to answer and answer them. If I have a vast pile
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by waisbrot 7y ago
I was hoping this would be about putting an orphan path in your robots.txt and then black-listing clients who tried to fetch it -- nobody should know about it except robots who are told not to go there, so anyone who visits the link is an a
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by waisbrot 7y ago
Yes, if you hit a pedestrian and didn't brake, dash-cam footage of that would not be helpful to your court case.
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by waisbrot 7y ago
Yes, but if an entity has no interest in interacting with the EU then they don't have to respond. You only need to care about a country's laws if (1) you want to do business or visit there or (2) you're going to piss them off
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by waisbrot 8y ago
> Can you explain this some more? Are you suggesting that governments establish a target figure and adjust that year's tax policy to make sure it's met? They are just suggesting that the site that Amazon would have occupied wil
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by waisbrot 8y ago
TCO seems like an entirely reasonable figure to advertise. It's a hard number to trust, but I'm not sure how that gets fixed except by trying to regulate advertisement in general.
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by waisbrot 8y ago
Yes, it's difficult to follow exactly what they did. This: > We used 10 fake Facebook pages with no content, and changed the “paid for” disclosure after each senator was approved. Makes it sound to me like they got approval using a
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by waisbrot 8y ago
"Stuck with" is a colloquialism. It's just saying that she'd planned to make X profit and instead will end up with a loss. There's plenty of ways to make a loss: sell it at a discount (near or below what you bought
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by waisbrot 8y ago
Yeah, it's cool to see a budget. But then it's puzzling because I don't know what a marketing team does besides advertise.
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by waisbrot 8y ago
One example that I hit frequently: An "atom" is an Erlang/Elixir thing, kind of like an enum value. "true" and "false" are implemented as atoms, you might create atoms to represent connection states (&quot
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by waisbrot 8y ago
Are you talking about the Libertarian party?
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by waisbrot 8y ago
> the narrative of whites discriminating against minorities You made up that narrative. The narrative presented in the article is > Williams noted that, "diversity is critical to our success as a company" Achieving "div
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by waisbrot 8y ago
The link says > nothing is sent to–or stored on–this server but isn't it the case that the entire page is sent to bitty.site as part of the HTTP request?
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by waisbrot 8y ago
On average, child-care is so heavily tilted toward women that for many, doing a bit less would be good for their health. Also, it's not zero-sum -- parents can both be involved at the same time -- but I also enjoy the times when my wif
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by waisbrot 8y ago
> A billionaire cannot just quit a job. There must be a transition period. A billionaire can't just no call no show. It's possible, but it never happens. It's not called "quitting". It's usually "taking
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by waisbrot 8y ago
I'm not aware of Kate Spade, but I feel like the prior poster's > The only problem is that serious mental illness is one of those things that money can't magically fix. covers it pretty well, no?
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by waisbrot 8y ago
"Hand-coded" may be an exaggeration, depending on your field. ML systems need good training data (where "good" might mean "extremely voluminous") and careful tweaking of parameters. I think an ML expert would c
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by waisbrot 8y ago
I don't know Go, but I think that automated code-fixes are more difficult than gathering imports. For example, `grep -R -o 'import ".*"' | sort | uniq` gets me a centralized list of imports for the cost of one pass
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by waisbrot 8y ago
My ability to talk at length about what's wrong with a language corresponds directly with how well I know and love the language.
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by waisbrot 8y ago
Is that a great example? If you gave Mattel the choice between absorbing a regulatory framework and just having extra money would they really have chosen the former? You can pay for safety explicitly with regulation or implicitly with poiso
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by waisbrot 8y ago
I've done interviews where I was asked to come prepared to present some code I'd written (either a homework problem or some open-source work). I found it a nice approach: they got to see how I'd explain code to a colleague an
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by waisbrot 8y ago
That would be interesting! That would probably mean they'd need to ban me, since I use an ad-blocker, right? What about someone who uploads a lot of pictures but doesn't have many friends? That person might be using more resources

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