doorbumper

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by doorbumper 8y ago
I want more than anything to use Firefox, but the fact remains that they have internal issues that prevent them from creating a quality product. Slow startup times, constant hangs, memory leaks, crashes, and general sluggishness prevent eve
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by doorbumper 8y ago
Taxes have existed for a very long time.
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by doorbumper 8y ago
Have they ever turned a profit yet? Last I heard they were still losing money in 2017. Not what I would call mature.
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by doorbumper 8y ago
Bitcoin hasn't been useful as a currency for a long time. I don't think that's a good measure for determining how an event might affect bitcoin price.
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by doorbumper 8y ago
Those four role models don't look like me, and I think they're all awful examples of people someone should look up to. But you need to acknowledge both sides. Stop being so stubborn and look at it objectively. We do need more di
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by doorbumper 8y ago
What's interesting is that anyone implementing mass surveillance could care less about your proposed benefits.
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by doorbumper 8y ago
What's telling to me is that while the list of investors if full of famous names (politicians, founders), there isn't what I would consider a single reputable silicon valley investor anywhere in the list.
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by doorbumper 8y ago
I know companies do this, but I don't understand how it works. Given the competitive nature of hiring good engineers what type of candidate would accept a contract position when they probably have five other offers?
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by doorbumper 8y ago
I think there's two different complaints at play in this thread. Surely you're not suggesting that candidates be exempt from proving themselves. The number of developers who become incompetent over time is high. I think the questi
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by doorbumper 8y ago
What really gets me is when you pass all 6, only to be told that you did great but there are no suitable positions open.
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by doorbumper 8y ago
UI Design or a Frontend Software Engineer? I'd expect people working on the frontend to just as proficient in time complexity, space complexity, and performance analysis as a backend engineer. I don't particularly gravitate toward
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by doorbumper 8y ago
So you want a company to hire somebody after talking them for 30 minutes? Based off of what? You honestly can't imagine talking about technical software problems for more than 30 minutes? That's a pretty big red flag to me.
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by doorbumper 8y ago
There's irony. Asking for GitHub is 10x worse than algorithmic questions. I just went through the interview process at big companies, with all the resources out there it's easy to get good at these types of questions. During my pr
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by doorbumper 8y ago
I somewhat agree with you. The US does have a great system in place, and I believe that in the US we're most likely to catch bribery when it occurs, if not close. However, the fact that catching bribery is common means that bribery is
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by doorbumper 8y ago
If Google's human inputs have racial bias that is certainly something that should be fixed. DuckDuckGo has safe search on by default. > That a query for an innocent term such as 'black girls' even with 'safe search of
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by doorbumper 8y ago
You act as though seeing it in an independent cinema is an advantage? Isn't a month of Netflix's subscription cheaper than going to the cinema? That's the real problem. Trying to charge that much for a single viewing of a sin
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by doorbumper 9y ago
The idea that real users will only be slightly inconvenienced is something I see often. However, that imposes real costs. A significant percentage of those users will not be determined enough to solve a captcha every time they login, and th
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by doorbumper 9y ago
I'm not saying Amazon will switch to passenger transport, but you can imagine that their strategy would be to dominate the market by subsidizing ticket prices, then once they have the proper penetration, to raise ticket prices and be t
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by doorbumper 9y ago
Am I missing something? Virtually the entire open source ecosystem resides on GitHub, an unprofitable walled corporation. Not having searchable logs could be an issue, but how that different than an irc channel?
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by doorbumper 9y ago
My mistake then. That's unfortunate, and less interesting then.
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by doorbumper 9y ago
It's not a guaranteed win, no. However, if they are at the point where they wish to be euthanized then their outlook is grim. However, even a minuscule chance is better than zero chance, correct? In addition, by donating their brain st
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by doorbumper 9y ago
It seems interesting from the perspective of the customer, but the really interesting thing is that if this succeeds, they will have access to brain imaging data that no one else has. You can't normally get such detailed scans of a hum
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by doorbumper 9y ago
Trivial appears to be the right word. In the linked cases of bribery government officials were bribed for a hundred to hundreds of thousands of dollars. When public officials are bribed, they all tend to be in that ballpark. What happens wh
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by doorbumper 9y ago
Anna is a hummingbird. Known for its fastest relative speed.
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by doorbumper 9y ago
I thought so before too, but after reading the paper again, I came to the same conclusion as the parent. The usage of distributed lattices is key, but it only works because it allows them to reduce messaging cost and gossip at background in
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by doorbumper 9y ago
That's true, I have more customizations to vim than I can count, however the idea that someone had tried to convey to the parent was probably not that he shouldn't customize it, but that he should remain idiomatic. I don't, f
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by doorbumper 9y ago
Redis is an impressive piece of engineering, but it performs best as an in-memory kv-store on a single core. Its distributed capabilities target a different problem than other distributed kv-stores attempt to solve. Redis Cluster focuses on
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by doorbumper 9y ago
I've just finished reading the paper. One difference is that Anna offers a weaker form of consistency than etcd. Etcd offers sequential consistency, and Anna offers casual consistency. I believe that this could eliminate many etcd use
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by doorbumper 9y ago
It's good to know that there are decent people out there, but as an American who isn't white, I don't why anyone would go through the trouble of living in the Midwest if they had the choice. If anyone wants to move to the US,
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by doorbumper 9y ago
You'd think that this was an April Fool's joke. I hope that there are enough sensible members on the committee to reign in the emotional immaturity of their younger members.

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