Czarnian

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by Czarnian 13y ago
Who's their compliance officer and what are their qualifications? Without that kind of disclosure, they have forced me to conclude that they are full of shit. Without basic information and contact info about their compliance structur
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by Czarnian 13y ago
It's probably some combination of people downloading the app and signing up for the free service. It is most likely not a reflection of how people use the app on a regular basis or pay for the service. Good luck, guys. It's a to
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by Czarnian 14y ago
The thing that immediately jumps to mind after reading this article is my grandfather's stories about the old mining towns. These were places where the local employer (the mining company) had so much political clout that they became de fac
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by Czarnian 14y ago
I would expect "entrepreneurial solutions to government" to be at best neutral on human rights. Protecting human rights requires a great deal of political will to codify and then enforce. And it usually goes against the perceived best int
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by Czarnian 14y ago
I can honestly say I learned far more about critical thinking in a single Intro to Philosophy class than all of my CS coursework combined.
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by Czarnian 14y ago
Learning how to code has about as much real-world utility as learning how to rebuild an engine block. It's necessary to know if you're in the industry. It's interesting information if you like that sort of thing. For everyone else, it's
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by Czarnian 14y ago
It wasn't a typo. It was just a garden-variety spelling error. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll try to remember the correct spelling in the future. I guess I hold myself to a higher standard than you do. I have old-fashioned ideas. Wri
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by Czarnian 14y ago
AKA: Laziness. (Edited to fix spelling pointed out by child comment. Thanks.) I don't require perfection, just competence. If you don't care enough about your output to make it easily understandable (I don't have to put effort into deciph
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by Czarnian 14y ago
Probably the same reason they don't recognize plagiarism when it jumps up and bites them on the ass. I prescribe a copy of Strunk and White with a healthy dose of proofreading.
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by Czarnian 14y ago
I must be reading this differently than a lot of people. I don't think he's talking about actual business people. People with demonstrated experience, skill, and/or ability. It sounds more like he's talking about the idea tourist. The gu
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by Czarnian 14y ago
It's all on him. He could have avoided the whole thing if he just had the foresight to keep a few hundred bucks in his account as a reserve against charge-backs. It looks like Square adhered strictly to their end of the terms of service.
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by Czarnian 14y ago
Except it's not a very good idea. It's actually a very poor business practice. Dude's got no one else but himself to blame. If he's taking credit card transactions, he should be holding a reserve in the relevant account for exactly this s
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by Czarnian 14y ago
Safety-critical software is any software where failure can result in death/severe injury to a person or loss/severe damage to equipment/property. There are concrete answers to the question. Many languages are just flat not capable of being
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by Czarnian 14y ago
Being non-deterministic is a non-starter for safety or mission critical systems. One of the foundational concepts of safety-critical design is strict scheduling of resources. The schedule must be strictly deterministic. The process must g
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by Czarnian 14y ago
Agreed. My experience is that there is way too much emphasis on languages, libraries, and frameworks. Nobody really talks about the methodologies of building software. For any given day on HN, how many articles are about how such-and-suc
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by Czarnian 14y ago
Software for banking and insurance is like this. The product has to accommodate different rules for all 50 states and federal oversight. Changes to just about anything need to be cleared by the relevant state and federal agencies. Another
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Wind Power Without the Blades(news.discovery.com)
2 points by Czarnian 14y ago|1 comments
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by Czarnian 14y ago
Serious question. What exactly is he right about?
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by Czarnian 15y ago
I'm sure all of your coworkers are very thankful to have a super-hero like you around to protect them from all the mortal dangers that pop up in the office on a daily basis. If I heard you going on and on about how it's unfair that your exp
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by Czarnian 15y ago
- Why do women wear low-cut dresses if not to attract male attention (in the majority of cases)? It's none of your concern why a woman dresses the way she does. As long as she isn't violating company policy, she is under no obligation to j
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by Czarnian 15y ago
I imagine "Don't make women feel unwelcome." would go a long way towards reducing the need for "Make women feel welcome."
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Do you think that the overtly sexist nature of these little frat-parties come hack-a-thons might have any bearing on the lack of women in the tech industry? Last I checked, women generally don't like being treated like perks.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say it was a "well" planned document. If it's a joke, where's the punchline? Were they not going to have women servers? Were the massage people going to be big, hairy, biker types?
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by Czarnian 15y ago
It's not even a prank. It's a couple of half-educated, drunken frat-boys who wanted to throw a frat party disguised as a hack-a-thon. For it to be a prank, there would have to be a punchline. Had they hired a bunch of Chippendale's dancer
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by Czarnian 15y ago
You are correct. Most men like women. However, there is a time and place for men to express their admiration for women. An event like this (as represented to prospective sponsors) is neither.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
The feat of building that kind of app is impressive. I sure as heck can't do it, yet. I do have a few comments, though. Refine your data classification. On one of your screenshots, you are listing "Arrests" as a type of crime. That's co
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by Czarnian 15y ago
I'll probably lose a bunch of karma over this, but here goes. This is my takeaway from the article: The pragmatic approach means that the company (media companies) should accommodate the folks who: 1) Are so emotionally damaged that they c
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by Czarnian 15y ago
If you need to be told to put trash in a trash basket, you deserve to be condescended to. If you don't want to be treated like a child, don't act like a child.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Although I think this is a bit of an apocryphal anecdote, I presume this is happening in a professional setting. Messages of this type require a bit more tact than what you're suggesting.
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by Czarnian 15y ago
Similarly, I have a friend who is in the comic book industry. When he does signings, he brings a bunch of his original work (covers, pages, etc.) with him to sell. He has about 5-10 pieces that he prices at 10x the similar pieces. One ti

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