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by wdewind 12y ago
> looks like it got artificially promoted to 25 How does that happen?
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by wdewind 12y ago
As far as tests are a descriptor of the business logic, another really difficult part that is also omitted from this article actually figuring out who the person in the organization that can authoritatively tell you what the business logic
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by wdewind 12y ago
I know a simple upvote should suffice but that's a really informative answer, thanks a lot for typing it up, I appreciate it.
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by wdewind 12y ago
One of the best things I learned from a very senior engineer was "There are far worse things in life than duplicating code." Dependencies are frequently one of those things.
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by wdewind 12y ago
Thank you, I asked your sibling comment this followup would be interested in your response as well: So I'm still confused here. What new kind of contracts could I build using the blockchain? What existing contracts are made easier beca
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by wdewind 12y ago
Thank you. From your sibling comment below: > Bitcoin doesn't actually solve the problem of needing trust it does solve the problem of needing to trust your escrow agent with your money but then again if you don't trust your e
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by wdewind 12y ago
Can someone who has a better understanding of BTC than me explain something? How do the escrow-like instruments and other contractual instruments built on top of the block chain work? How are they better than existing contractual instrume
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by wdewind 12y ago
A stronger Bill Gates would be more resistant to disease, death, injury etc., and thus be more useful (which is what this study is saying). If he hurts his back because he wasn't trained and is thus unable to travel and work as much
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by wdewind 12y ago
I feel like PG's submarine piece has really made HN's view of PR very black and white. There are a lot more gradations, and likely this is a piece that was pitched by Facebook and actually was moderately investigated by Wired. T
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by wdewind 12y ago
New York City, NYC NY Justworks - http://www.justworks.com We are building a platform for people to administer every part of their business, starting with payroll, benefits, compliance and tax filing. We've also built out
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by wdewind 12y ago
My impression as a pedestrian in NYC is also that blocking the box is far more impactful on traffic and safety than over all speed limit. I agree 100% that police need to more aggressively ticket blocking the box over almost all other traf
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by wdewind 12y ago
How does accountability work at Spotify? It looks like your squads have a specific goal (and maybe a leader?) but when you get up to the tribe level it wasn't clear if one person is in charge of a tribe, or if a product, design and te
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by wdewind 12y ago
> opting out of complying with any legal system by forcing an arbitration clause on its customers. I don't fully understand the context. Can you explain the arbitration clause they are forcing? Edit: Found this, also on the front p
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by wdewind 12y ago
>Yes, changed the world by making it legal to build a business off someone else's content that you got for free through a legal hack. Tragic it didn't work out. I think I mostly agree with you, but just to play devil's adv
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by wdewind 12y ago
> "We think this is a fairly sizable market we are addressing," Smith said,estimating it is in the billions of dollars. That's not a very big market.
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by wdewind 12y ago
The thing that would make me, as someone who is recruiting heavily right now, not want to use this is that I fear it will be a massive turn off to really great engineers. If I was interviewing with a company and they made me do this before
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by wdewind 12y ago
I feel like you're arguing against a strawman that I don't think secure applications can be written in PHP. I don't think that. Edit: put another way: if you are starting from scratch and your main focus is security, why wo
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by wdewind 12y ago
I literally have no idea what you mean by this. Are you trying to imply there are people who write bug free code? If so please point me in their direction. People make mistakes. Systems should be designed for this expectation. If mistak
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by wdewind 12y ago
I don't understand your reply. No one is good enough to write code without bugs.
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by wdewind 12y ago
Writing your code in PHP, no matter how good of a programmer you are, makes it more likely that your natural level of mistakes will insert security issues into the code, especially when compared to a language with even basic features like s
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by wdewind 12y ago
WordPress (and PHP) are not bad things. They are things that have been designed for very specific purposes, and they actually excel at those things. Both are extremely easy to get up and running. They can run practically anywhere etc
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by wdewind 12y ago
So why do they care so much? Are they literally paying more because the idea of HFT burns their cookies?
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by wdewind 12y ago
So I don't fully understand what IEX does then. Let's say A puts 500 shares of AAPL onto IEX at $100/share, and B puts a buy order in for 500 shares at $100/share, but in between posting the BUY and the order executing
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by wdewind 12y ago
I agree with you, and I think the author, like most people who are writing against the "flash boys," fundamentally misunderstands what's going on. I think the "black and white" rule that the large firms who feel the
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by wdewind 12y ago
I don't want to seem pedantic, but it's explicitly not front running, despite this articles misuse of the term. Front running is when you trade in front of your clients' trades based on the information they provide you, no
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by wdewind 12y ago
> rates of depression are dramatically higher when you introduce these sorts of jobs vs. letting people scrape by working land in a 3rd world setting First of all, I don't think there's anyway you can assert that. We have no r
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by wdewind 12y ago
> You actually see increased risk of suicide at the beginning of therapy for some patients, where they come up enough to get just enough mental energy to successfully kill themselves. This is something that happens (mostly with bipolar p
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by wdewind 12y ago
You're making it this big societal argument. I agree that what you are talking about makes sense. It's why we don't allow child labor, for instance. I'm questioning whether Uber is one of those situations. I don'
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Think student/teacher or adult/minor sexual relations You are literally comparing working for Walmart to being raped? That's a bit condescending not only to people working for Walmart but also to rape victims.
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by wdewind 12y ago
I don't understand. Why do you have to wonder? No offense but there is a lot of hand waving going on in your post, like this: > Uber, being big and diversified could easily take on that risk and insure against it (or really just s

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