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511.
by wdr1 10y ago
I just finished Death's End (the third book). The whole series is a fun ride.
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by wdr1 10y ago
> I think nobody's done more damage to the developer hiring market than Joel Spolsky. You're not giving enough credit to the whoever came up with the infamous Microsoft why-are-manhole-covers-round style of interviewing.
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by wdr1 10y ago
Any bond fund is unlikely to include an IPO. The S&P500 by definition is not going to include any IPOs. Likewise any sector specific fund, such as the REITs and what not.
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by wdr1 10y ago
"Give a manager a numerical target & he will hit it, even if it means destroying the company to do so."
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by wdr1 10y ago
> In the real world, you use a well-tested premade off the shelf library to traverse a DAG or implement a red/black tree. I reject your real world assertion, unless you do not count Google as the real world. The reason these questi
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by wdr1 10y ago
> Sources with a serious political bone to pick around an election can too easily plant or modify data in these "dumps" to craft an artificial narrative. I disagree. That would disqualify too many things, including Trump'
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by wdr1 10y ago
Reminds me of the guy who set up an automated voice script on his landline to thwart telemarketers: http://jollyrogertelephone.com/about/
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by wdr1 10y ago
Swaying is not necessarily indicative of a problem. The Sears Tower has a fair bit of sway as well. The general idea is "bend, don't break" and allow some give in high winds.
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by wdr1 10y ago
Popularity is an odd way to rank online courses. It really only speaks to what is the most universal interest, so it's not terribly surprising that's a course such as this (as opposed to an area of speciality).
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by wdr1 10y ago
Southwest doesn't share their data.
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Do Consumers Have a Right to Opt Out of Advertising?(adexchanger.com)
3 points by wdr1 10y ago|1 comments
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Home Is Where the Parking Lot Is [video](nytimes.com)
75 points by wdr1 10y ago|28 comments
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by wdr1 10y ago
> (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when I remember the lack of Flash support on iOS being fairly controversial at the time. IMHO, it wa
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by wdr1 10y ago
> What would it break that isn't user-hostile? The Facebook "Like" button for starters. Is that user-hostile? Is that important? It's in the eye of the beholder, but if Firefox "doesn't work" for a lar
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by wdr1 10y ago
> That's because young people don't have families. I fit that profile. I've lived in LA for >15 years & didn't use my car much. I now have two small children. Still don't use my car much. Groceries? Goog
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Airbnb is taking Santa Monica and its short-term rental restrictions to court(la.curbed.com)
1 points by wdr1 10y ago|0 comments
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by wdr1 10y ago
> It boggles my mind that there are people supporting Apple in this. There are so many of us that like to cheerfully screw themselves over to protect rich corporations. Are you staying there isn't a principled stand to take here? Or
528.
by wdr1 10y ago
If I'm binding to an IP why do I have to worry about DNS TTL?
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by wdr1 10y ago
> With electronic voting systems it is physically impossible to prevent manipulation and provide control. Seems like a double standard. With paper it is impossible to prevent manipulation & provide control as well. To wit, the coun
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Facebook says humans won’t write its trending topic descriptions anymore(recode.net)
1 points by wdr1 10y ago|0 comments
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by wdr1 10y ago
It's poorly done retargeting, but a common mistake. Advertisers create a cookie list based on people who visited a particular product page. They fail to subtract from that the users who visited the checkout page. If you're paying
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by wdr1 10y ago
The Princess Bride . I've given it away seven times & purchased it eight. Like every book, it's different from the movie. I'm not going to say it's better than the movie, but I'm also not going say the movie i
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by wdr1 10y ago
> It turns out one good thing about the IRS is that it doesn't care much for politics or who is running the show I beg to differ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_allegations_of_misuse_... http:/&#
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Pinterest acquires the team behind mobile apps Highlight and Shorts(venturebeat.com)
2 points by wdr1 10y ago|0 comments
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by wdr1 10y ago
You'd need to force everyone to do & then the city would still have to consolidate all the data. Otherwise I could rent my home half the year on AirBnB & the other half on VRBO. Santa Monica is also a big travel destination.
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by wdr1 10y ago
As a Santa Monica resident, I would love that. When I got married my (large, greek) family visited for 2 weeks. I lived in an apartment at the time, and it was wonderful that could all rent a large house to stay in. Even today that would
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by wdr1 10y ago
The iAd step seems out of place, given it's being shutdown. https://developer.apple.com/support/iad/
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by wdr1 10y ago
This article has gotten a fair bit of attention here in Santa Monica. We have the highest rents in LA, possibly one of the strongest anti-development communities, and aggressive rent control. This fall there will be an initiative on the ba
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“I was fired from my internship for proposing a more flexible dress code”(askamanager.org)
65 points by wdr1 10y ago|110 comments
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by wdr1 10y ago
Could you disclose/open source your methodology?

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