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by zevyoura 13y ago
Why do we have to make an assumption either way? Damage to Github's reputation may not be a "great injustice," but it's not exactly consequence-free. It seems to me that withholding judgment is a far better course of act
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by zevyoura 13y ago
> just as you can see the remains of failed fast food chains There was an interesting recent episode of 99% Invisible about re-using old Pizza Huts: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/u-t-b-a-p-h/
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by zevyoura 13y ago
I just started at Google two weeks ago (as a SWE, not SRE, though), and I found Cracking the Coding Interview to be the most helpful book for preparing for interviews in general. I also used Programming Interviews Exposed, which is comparab
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by zevyoura 13y ago
From the article: "Never mind the fact that Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code holds that website owners cannot be held responsible for comments that their users make."
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by zevyoura 13y ago
I think you'll have a hard time convincing the majority of Americans (or even just humans in general) that we should literally let people die on the street.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
You might be interested in Bhutan's use of "gross national happiness" as a metric[0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness
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by zevyoura 13y ago
This is called premining and it's a common accusation towards new altcoins.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
The parent post said: > Most teens I know never check their email. Many of them don't even have email addresses.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
I have the same feeling of unease, but what about when the alternative is poverty, which I think is often the case?
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by zevyoura 13y ago
There are laws about pre-employment background checks; in general they can only be run with the consent of the person being investigated, and the person being investigated must be able to receive a free copy. So you will know. In addition,
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by zevyoura 13y ago
> If you're really good, all it takes is a few phone calls to a recruiter you already know, an interview that week, and your notice on Friday. That sounds like the kind of job hunt that puts you into the exact same position of frust
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by zevyoura 13y ago
Audrey Hepburn's digital likeness was used in a galaxy commercial, and her estate was paid for the rights, so there is some precedent here.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
Assessing future value is the point of the stock market, isn't it?
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by zevyoura 13y ago
In 2007/8 Facebook had roughly 100 million users. They now have well over a billion. That's something in itself.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
Is there any actual evidence that Google knew about the NSA's tapping of their fiber before the news broke?
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by zevyoura 13y ago
I like the self-hosted approach, but it's vulnerable to power and internet outages, which make it more or less a non-starter if you really need access to it everywhere. If it's not self-hosted it seems like it will naturally gravi
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by zevyoura 13y ago
Because it's a class to learn programming, not a new text editor.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
Actually, the bottom 11 teams in the NBA are all worth less than $500 million according to Forbes[0] [0] http://www.forbes.com/nba-valuations/
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by zevyoura 13y ago
Those are exceptionally poor choices for a beginner's class.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
I have this as well, and I'm in Los Angeles, which seems like one of the earlier markets they'd nail down. Can someone who does have results for their area post a screenshot of what it looks like?
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by zevyoura 13y ago
According to this[0] they're hashed using the "Portable PHP Password Hashing Framework"[1]. [0] https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1813965 [1] http://www.openwall.com&#x2
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by zevyoura 13y ago
Check out this comment[0] on this post: >Did you post it??? how about this: attach the HTML to THIS article and I'll tweet this out for you - that would be META! Named as the same guy as the email exchange, Mahbod. [0] http:/&
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by zevyoura 13y ago
It's not that they couldn't do it to credit cards, but credit cards generally have better consumer fraud protections than debit cards.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
Even if you do have a background in software, evaluating talent is difficult; it's why the interview process can be so convoluted.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
This is an outright display of displeasure from the government, designed to intimidate. While I don't endorse the activities of the US gov't that you mention, they're not meant for this sort of blatant intimidation (or else t
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by zevyoura 13y ago
You can write the magnetic strip information to the a new (blank magnetic strip) card, which could look authentic enough to fool most merchants.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
> When I'm in Midtown or some other place where I'm "sharing the road" (that's cute) and thousands of two-ton 350 horsepower motor vehicles are bearing down on me because they're driven by people whose only
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by zevyoura 13y ago
Check out the DOM structure of the character heads, these were almost certainly done by hand.
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by zevyoura 13y ago
> Posts by some folks such as PG get auto-voted to the top My understanding of HN's sorting is that it takes into account the average karma of a poster's past comments and includes that in the weighting. Given that, it's n
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by zevyoura 13y ago
It switches itself "off" to avoid unintentional page turns and other undesired user input. In addition, the mechanism you describe must still be active when "off" to listen to the power switch anyways.

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