cynoclast

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by cynoclast 6y ago
Aren't a lot of them 'waste' products that humans wouldn't? I mean, I know Labradors will eat fucking anything.
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by cynoclast 6y ago
This really just highlights the difference between the artificial coding interview via some web based half-assed IDE, and being watched coding on the job. The comparison would be more direct if the surgeon was asked to operate on a dummy us
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by cynoclast 6y ago
>If Software Engineers want to get rid of algorithmic interviews, all they have to do is come up with a professional exam and a strict licensing body... just like most professions carrying a tittle (MD, Lawyers...). By the time the exam
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by cynoclast 6y ago
Everything that matters to the working class* Our imperialism, weapons tech, and exploitation of the working class are top notch. The amount banks take from people with no money in overdraft fees alone should be cause for a revolution.
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by cynoclast 6y ago
>Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery? Yes. >Besides being a dream for micromanagers, it seems to be more about signalling progress vs. actually making progress. It is. Management being able to cha
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by cynoclast 6y ago
My professor (head of CS dept) referred to these as 'weed out classes'. If that sounds evil, imagine the grief, wasted money, time, frustration, and stress of letting people get 3-4 years into computer science and then dropping ou
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by cynoclast 6y ago
>The people who know the domain should be able to maintain (and really, create) any automation of that domain themselves. This is a recipe for disaster 100% of the time. One needs to know both the domain and software to change software i
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by cynoclast 6y ago
>We have to assume that smart people are working at Reddit, Debatable. My guess would be it's meant to annoy you into submission.
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by cynoclast 7y ago
Well they don't hate us "because of our freedoms" they hate us because we meddle in and around the countries, overthrow their governments and kill their citizens.
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by cynoclast 7y ago
So you hate free speech. Got it.
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by cynoclast 7y ago
Or even DNC candidates, if they're actual progressives: https://decisiondata.org/news/political-media-blackouts-pres...
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by cynoclast 7y ago
I can't believe people are applauding this. The whole "you can go make your own platform, facebook/google/twitter/youtube doesn't owe you anything" excuse is bullshit. Look at what happened when people DI
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by cynoclast 7y ago
>Amtrak Found the problem.
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by cynoclast 8y ago
For being unwilling to testify against a journalist it's worth pointing out.
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by cynoclast 8y ago
Straight from https://www.tesla.com/ : >If you haven't test driven the car, you can return it within 7 days or 1,000 miles, whichever comes first. That's the test drive right there.
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by cynoclast 8y ago
Worth noting: >As Mr. Musk lays it out, the change is not so radical. In an email to employees, he said that 78 percent of Model 3 orders were already placed online, and that 82 percent of the model’s buyers made their purchase without a
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by cynoclast 8y ago
Because they don't test failover.
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by cynoclast 8y ago
lol, no we shouldn't It would leave 99.99% of people high and dry. Facebook fills a niche that personal websites don't. Love it or hate it, your computer illiterate grandparents aren't going to create a personal website, and
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by cynoclast 8y ago
He saved the best line for last and knew it: >Sooner or later, you will meet some older man who has been around for a while. At some point, this man will lecture you about the Laws of Programming. Ignore this man entirely. That said, lik
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by cynoclast 8y ago
>I honestly cannot comprehend how anyone could support this law while having any understanding of how the internet works. Who do you think has their arm up the politicians' ass and making them talk?
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by cynoclast 8y ago
We want to feel better than others, and through that shore up our insecurities. Being more 'extreme' is the easiest and most obvious way to do that, even if being more extreme means virtue signalling in more ways, or being more of
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by cynoclast 8y ago
I did not expect Lindsey Graham to rake him over the coals over their lack of a competitor. I'm not normally a fan of Graham having lived under his 'representation' for almost nine years. But I had to respect him for that bit
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by cynoclast 8y ago
You can watch the whole thing here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?443543-1/facebook-ceo-mark-zuc... My thought so far: * he's fielding questions pretty well, honestly. * He's donated to 46/55 of the
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by cynoclast 9y ago
Maybe he means 'walkable'? As in with a integer (or long) based key you can just start at 0, 1, 2 etc and just query for each. This isn't very feasible with UUIDs because something like 99.9999999% of keys won't have a c
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by cynoclast 9y ago
This article sort of assumes you're using a relational database. Most of the drawbacks discussed don't exist if you're using a key value store.
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by cynoclast 9y ago
I was literally thinking "I know you're supposed to read the article before commenting, but so often these days the article turns out to be complete bullshit, so I'm just going to briefly hit the comments section first."
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by cynoclast 9y ago
God this bullshit. On ads, they know accidental ad clicks will get them more revenue so they're incentivized to make people's lives difficult. Fuck the ad industry.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
Irrelevant. The sole criterion for viability of a currency is acceptance.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
Russian hackers made my coffee pot overflow this morning.
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by cynoclast 10y ago
What have they done to tm?

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