altdatathrow

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by altdatathrow 6y ago
All it took was one failed coup
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Please stop defending an attempt to overthrow a lawful election as goofing around.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
> but this is partially our fault Yes, I've called dang out on his inaction numerous times. HN is utterly filled with alt-right scum.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Information overload leads to people seeking succinct information and answers. The upvote/downvote systems ubiquitous today are easily manipulated to spread misinformation, propaganda, and fake news. We need to do away with upvotes and
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Why is there so much aversion to proving one's abilities? Programmers today feel they shouldn’t have to do whiteboards, hackerrank, or take-homes. How does a prospective employer evaluate someone’s problem-solving and programming chops
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
The author of the post, Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>, was involved in the bitcoin project alongside Satoshi at the very beginning: http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/137799 He's among a very
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Gratitude is so rare they should close this as "could not reproduce"
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
fyi that mysql multiple column answer is incorrect, mysql does indeed support row/tuple comparisons [1]: > For row comparisons, (a, b) > (x, y) is equivalent to: > (a > x) OR ((a = x) AND (b > y)) [1] https://
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Add SiriusXM to the list of companies to never work with because they pull the same shit.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Trump has set a precedent for what is acceptable behavior of public servants and the lasting damage will take decades to undo. He pardoned someone convicted of war crimes. He's convinced hundreds of sitting governors, represetnatives,
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
There are plenty of other alt-right hangouts, and probably 3 more already started today.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
I'm glad you're productive in your CLI tool usage but just because it takes you an hour futzing with basic *nix tools doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else. Powershell is extremely cumbersome for me due to the she
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
> small college town That's the key phrase. Police in small towns of America have nothing better to do than setup ways of levying fines against outsiders so they can afford to upgrade their cruisers to the latest dodge chargers or o
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
You should compare the actual effective taxation rates. For example, high earners in Norway get taxed about ~8% higher than comparable earners in California but that comes with affordable healthcare, education, and government-backed pension
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Deregulate it into baby Googles like they did Bell so these states can capture a portion of taxes on that sweet Google corporate revenue away from California. Nothing will fundamentally change for the consumer, only who gets paid.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
> and made sure things were right. Every coding competition I’ve participated in required correctness as a first criteria for basic acceptance, and then speed as a secondary scoring criteria.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Is this an upgrade from my current platform to deploy static sites, FTP?
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Do not use hosted cloud services where the implementation creates publicly accessible API keys and each HTTP request results in a charge to your account. A few specific examples are Firebase, Algolia, and AWS Lambda. All it takes is one pro
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
tech being here to stay is not contradictory with current bubble prices
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
When will they remove the many extensions owned by SimilarWeb that harvest and sell personal browsing history?
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Despite the failure, I'm guessing somewhat better than if they had hired you to make a clone?
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
they want the traffic and recurring revenue, they don't care about the site
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
You only pay for what you use, but you must purchase their virtual currency Snowbux, at least 10,000 units per year.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
static site generators are nothing more than manually triggered cache refreshes.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
I'm guessing: You didn't deliver tangible results and therefore were deemed useless. It was likely one "things are going well!" update after another, while still failing to deliver the most rudimentary of results that a
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
We're going to see a lot more of such attacks (Denial of Capital?) as engineers blindly throw more and more SaaS components together without any sort of rate limiting in place, especially so when those endpoints are publicly accessible
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Is it still a bribe when the public official initiates it? I hope they all get into trouble but I do wonder, when faced with a corrupt public official who is withholding government-provided services, at some point does that not simply becom
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Discord somehow manages to run quite efficiently in contrast to nearly every other Electron app out there.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
> there are a bunch of other software developers who know SQL very well. If your advice was true, then every backend developer would be able to immediately land a data science job I fully disagree. Most backend developers don't know
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Why in the world would expenses be $5k/mo for what presumably some really basis SaaS?

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