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by xmprt 5y ago
This is the only right response to this "debate" People can call it whichever they want. If you say gif or jif and someone else corrects you then they're just being dumb. Clearly they understood what you meant and until conse
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by xmprt 5y ago
Vaccinating everyone is a near impossible task but as with most things, you can get almost all the benefits by getting an 80-90% vaccination rate and letting herd immunity take care of the rest.
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by xmprt 5y ago
I think just as his previous article might have been overly optimistic, this one is overly pessimistic. As the pendulum is in the process of swinging to the other extreme, I think we will see a lot of negative events slowing down now that p
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by xmprt 5y ago
If someone just wants a visa, then it's much easier to get a quick and easy masters instead of doing a PhD with 5 years of research.
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by xmprt 5y ago
Jira is a monster that does way too much but that's probably why everyone uses it - execs hear of all the features it has without thinking about how the end users feel about it. The Jira replacement will depend a lot on the reasons you
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by xmprt 5y ago
So this is the business Enron was in? I can see why it can be so lucrative now.
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by xmprt 5y ago
Craiglist's biggest advantage in the past was their userbase. They didn't make the website that user friendly. I might be an outlier on HN but I'd rather give my number and email once to a large corporation instead of having
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by xmprt 5y ago
If I can see the code and clone the repo then regardless of whether Github allows me to automatically fork it, I can fork it myself just be adding another remote.
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by xmprt 5y ago
How is that not the literal definition of insider information and trading on non-public information? I suppose they will claim that they make their predictions based on publicly attainable information and therefore anyone else could have ma
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by xmprt 5y ago
I feel like a lot of these issues come up when people don't have a habit of writing often. Especially when you're starting off, quantity beats quality. * If you don't write often, you won't have other things to link to *
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by xmprt 5y ago
If you've scrolled through tweet-sized brilliant insights and forgot them the next minute then maybe they weren't that brilliant to begin with? Or maybe you have a habit of mindlessly scrolling which you need to get out of. In any
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by xmprt 5y ago
If you think malware ransom payments are the primary use case for transferring money across borders then you should get out of your bubble and make friends with people originating from other countries or with family back in those countries.
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by xmprt 5y ago
Haven't consumers learned the game as well? It seems pretty obvious that if LG sells a bad microwave then I probably shouldn't trust that their other microwaves would be any good either. And why would I buy a microwave with no rev
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by xmprt 5y ago
Could that really work? Sounds like it's highly abusable if someone compromises the database and gets a list of all the hashes. Now, they don't even need to use rainbow tables or any brute force to compute the password. They just
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by xmprt 5y ago
> Autistic people experience the world in a different way than non-autistic people I don't think this is a generalization. In fact, it is the opposite of a generalization. > all non-autistic people perceive the world exactly the
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by xmprt 5y ago
The point is that people make generalizations that they don't realize based on their personal experience. For example, I can make tons of generalization about how nice India is for tourists as an Indian (I currently live in America but
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by xmprt 5y ago
Congratulations on launching because that's no easy feat. However, I'm not sure what an Apple only chat application adds to the world. What does this do that iMessage doesn't?
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by xmprt 5y ago
How does pirateship work? Where do the savings come from if they're still using USPS under the hood?
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by xmprt 5y ago
I have an Android phone. All my friends have iPhones. I have never had issues dealing with them. Wifi passwords can be shared through QR codes. Messaging can be done through apps like Signal if you can't use iMessage.
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by xmprt 5y ago
The problem is that AI (and the English language to some extent) transcends borders. So even if it's an AI developed in the US, it can potentially impact people outside the US and it makes ethical sense to build something that doesn&#x
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by xmprt 5y ago
Because of an antiquated rule where the highest paid or biggest actor's name is always left most. So you naturally end up in the situation where the biggest actor name is on the left but the picture is in the middle.
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by xmprt 5y ago
Staff or experienced senior engineer at a company with stocks or options that have 2x to 3x since getting hired and it's pretty doable. Even large companies like Nvidia and Tesla have gone up significantly in just the last year. Withou
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by xmprt 5y ago
I think software will never feel like it's improved because as technology improves and changes, new features will be expected of software and so while some parts of software improve, other new parts will bring down the average quality.
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by xmprt 5y ago
I agree. With Javascript projects and frameworks, documentation can be extremely hit or miss in a way that I don't experience with other language like Python, Java, or Go.
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by xmprt 5y ago
Would you say that the MVP code should be thrown away when building the actual product?
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by xmprt 5y ago
I think this is why I love green field projects so much. More than being able to work on my own code and design from scratch, I appreciate the fact that no one has messed up how testable and runnable the code is from a developer machine.
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by xmprt 5y ago
Isn't that a good thing? You want to be responsive the the rare notifications that are actually important and disable everything else.
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by xmprt 5y ago
I think people agree that those look similar however the problem is that the first is a common practice while the latter is something that no one in their right mind would do. If people replace the second with something like Stringer, then
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by xmprt 5y ago
On the flip side, having a title is a good way to know if you're being compensated appropriately. If you see someone 2 levels above you working on much less impactful projects then perhaps it's time to have a conversation with you
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by xmprt 5y ago
I first learned about exponential backoff from TCP and TCP has a lot of other smart ways to manage congestion control. You don't need to implement all the ideas into client logic but you can also do a lot better than just basic exponen

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