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by yomly 10y ago
It is hard to discern what is going on, and it feels strange to say I trust Google ahead of the government. Google is full of engineers who prize logic and fairness above most else, and culturally most the engineers I meet in most places es
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by yomly 10y ago
Actually, I think it all comes down to the fact that Google's "products" are all free. I think the fact that a service is given away for free has been the loophole for Google and Facebook to create large and powerful all-enco
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by yomly 10y ago
There are others posting here but dropped in to also confirm that I firsthand witnessed this. I had a single device and had to do a fresh install from factory settings. This meant I had about 30 mins before my 500kbps connection would grind
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by yomly 10y ago
From experience of pairing with other people, there are those happy to leave indentation and formatting to their linter/IDE and those who are anal enough to do it all manually. The latter group tend to find lisp not that painful becaus
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by yomly 10y ago
Given that I've heard day rates as high as £2000 for a CIVIL engineer, this would be great if it is a real thing. Alas, the timing of the post suggests otherwise...
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by yomly 10y ago
You'd think Airbnb would be absolutely horrified of stories like this. How many hosts does this incrementally deter from using Airbnb? Additionally, their SLAs for customer support are incredibly user-hostile, bordering on actively so.
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by yomly 10y ago
What kind of settings do you have for reservations? Are you doing any kind of screening of guests? Forcing guests to register their passport on Airbnb and/or asking a bit about what they do for a living tends to be a decent signal for
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by yomly 10y ago
Yep, this is every landlord's nightmare.
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by yomly 10y ago
Agree but the danger is equating only hard work to success. i.e. successful? => works_hard? But works_hard? => successful? does not necessarily follow. In the words of Bezos: "You can work long, hard or smart, but at Amazon.com y
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by yomly 10y ago
Statistical events tend to be lumpy. If you've ever experienced firsthand the act of winning a reasonable amount of money gambling, you'll realize the draw is more than trying to just beat the system.
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by yomly 10y ago
I think that's just a function of how much money is in the field - more people end up in industry than academia AND industry has an even bigger interest in pushing the boundaries. This leads to blurring between the lines of industry an
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by yomly 10y ago
I would assert that, given that great engineers end up at these top unis, they are able to widen their gap with others by a) accelerating their skills/knowledge by associating with like-minded individuals, and b) being stretched by the
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by yomly 10y ago
Yeah - as I said, I'm not saying China is without sin. I just find China bashing to really be nothing more than an exercise of "pulling the ladder up". Europe was perfectly happy colonising the world in its heyday, as was Ame
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by yomly 10y ago
Let's take a look at America: They spy on you, regardless of if you live in the country or not, committing global espionage[0][1] They do not observe human rights when imprisoning you [2][3] They are happy to bomb civilians using autom
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by yomly 10y ago
Ok cool, thanks for sharing! A big part of artisanal coffee is that it uses high quality water (usually magnesium enriched after filtering via reverse osmosis iirc) - is there anything you can do to control for this / shitty water at t
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by yomly 10y ago
Ah ok, with you now! Are you guys mainly a hardware company then? Anything cool going on software-wise for you guys?
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by yomly 10y ago
This is super interesting! I had always assumed coffee was made via liophilization at scale, any insight on why it's not? On the subject of extraction, how are you measuring yield? What are the main differences in the 40% coffee yield
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by yomly 10y ago
I can see your point, but and maybe I'm being fastidious, but I Nagaragawa River also irritates me. It's only born of ignorance - no one calls it Mt Montblanc. I get it - the original meaning of the word is as relevant to its name
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by yomly 10y ago
It never fails to astound me how such a perverted interpretation of the law can go unregulated. In the past people would coerce you into doing things by surrounding themselves with big strong men. All that's changed is the now they sur
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by yomly 10y ago
But people are fine with Mount Fuji... Incidentally, most people are also fine dropping the "Mount" prefix for Everest, Kilimanjaro amongst others...
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by yomly 10y ago
Tateyama or Mt. Tate but never Mt. Tateyama
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by yomly 10y ago
You've never thought "gee this is really cool software, I wonder how they implemented xyz..."?
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by yomly 10y ago
that's really interesting - would love to know more about your JS stack and your project structure?
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by yomly 10y ago
So you've got a working prototype, which is 80% of the way towards your spec (which changes by the day, mind you) where and when do the tests then get written? Do you start from scratch when you go from prototype to product? Is that fe
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by yomly 10y ago
This, I have very rapidly found myself writing code which only very occasionally uses something fancy and otherwise generally opt for the most plain, boring and straightforward code. Internally, I describe the code as idiot proof. Putting i
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by yomly 10y ago
For no particular reason opted to learn from one of the older lecture series. Can confirm that Leighton's lectures are a delight
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by yomly 10y ago
>This is terrible advice. As soon as you start the job, the people who interviewed you will wonder why your accent is totally different, and it will instantly put you on the backfoot. Struggling to see why this would be seen as bad advic
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by yomly 10y ago
There's a lot here to discuss. I think you're right: look at the huge tech grab between China and America. Almost all Western Internet + parts of Asia goes through America (Google/Amazon/Facebook) for example. As for cen
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by yomly 10y ago
It seems convenient to blame technology, and it is definitely going to be the bigger cause in the long term. This said, I am strongly of the opinion that globalization is not a force that benefits everyone (to put it nicely) and it is not c
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by yomly 10y ago
I don't know what is more terrifying: That a person can so easily exploit large companies to gain access to your life or that someone can pwn a tech-literate person with a phishing email when he's expecting it. This doesn't b

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