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by gburt 3y ago
To the extent that is true, I agree, they should see the positive impact of what they do as well. Your blind faith in the regulatory regime, however, is deeply undeserved. Many approved drugs prove to be dangerous and we can reasonably expe
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by gburt 3y ago
I understand some people are checking boxes, with no space to consider their impact. Please generously reinterpret my point to extend to their management stack and the political establishment that is responsible for the system. Those who es
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by gburt 3y ago
Regulators are, in general, too sheltered and disconnected from the impact of their actions. Incentives matter. When you get to make decisions that impact others, but not feel any of the costs associated with that, you do not have the corre
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by gburt 4y ago
Counting lines of code, commits, changesets or any other simple metric will destroy your culture. The team _will_ find out, and then instead of contributing to the success of the business in earnest, they’ll be doing stupid things like maxi
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by gburt 8y ago
> Recruiters at my company aren't explicitly told to hit certain quotas, but they are given larger bonuses for diverse hires and they do have targets for certain percentages of diverse candidate. I'm definitely not a lawyer and
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by gburt 8y ago
He almost surely means Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman [1]... or one of the earlier versions of the book with different authors and titles ;-). As was common fo
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by gburt 8y ago
This article doesn't seem to answer the question. It just asserts, without evidence, that "luxury is about no-nonsense boldness." Why wasn't this true in the past?
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by gburt 8y ago
The OP did precisely this!
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by gburt 8y ago
Which platforms don't ban consistent winners?
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by gburt 8y ago
This is merely a series of opinions in academic article form.
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by gburt 8y ago
I went ahead and flagged this. It is not HN quality. It is not even Globe and Mail quality. The other comments have already expressed why that is the case - but in summary, there is no security flaw coherently expressed here, Excel is possi
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by gburt 8y ago
I am generally against often-called "excessive regulation," but the regulator -- perhaps FTC -- should aggressively prohibit the misleading marketing message here. The entire problem manifests from calling this lane keeping mechan
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Canada to offer $10/100GB internet plan for low-income families(mobilesyrup.com)
1 points by gburt 8y ago|0 comments
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by gburt 8y ago
If that is the case, why are there only 2000? The conditions must be more complex than that. Unless 2000 is nearly every phone they touched in that time period?
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by gburt 8y ago
I'm having a hard time speculating about what phones are "encrypted cellphones" by this count. Are they counting iOS devices with a strong passcode or is there some other functionality they're specifically "having t
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by gburt 8y ago
Giving him 1 star is part of the "economy" here, he won't be allowed to drive if people don't like this process.
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by gburt 8y ago
Please write to CIPPIC [0] and the Members of Parliament [1] and Members of the Provincial Leglisation [2] for both your local jurisdiction if appropriate and Halifax, Nova Scotia to help protect this kid. The federal Minister of Justice [3
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by gburt 8y ago
Please keep us informed on the outcome. I have written a letter to my MP and MLA as well as the MP for Halifax.
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by gburt 8y ago
It turns out administrators could change the email address anyway. :)
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by gburt 8y ago
`whyever` said _end-to-end_ encrypted, presumably meaning "between the intended recipient and I," not "between a middleman and I." Of course, you also need to trust your hardware.
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by gburt 9y ago
So, where did the $50 million come from? That is a significant amount of money for what has been a handful of people, not taking venture capital, now operating as a nonprofit to "secure communications."
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by gburt 9y ago
I'm pretty sure CoinMarketCap just updated to include the previous minting issues: http://omnichest.info/lookupadd.aspx?address=3MbYQMMmSkC3AgW... What is interesting, is it appears that CMC updating the total supply o
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by gburt 9y ago
This is what I get out of his writing. He is a great pop-culture writer, expresses some important (and mostly, relatively old, repackaged) ideas about convexity and natural mathematical implications thereof. He is one of my favorite authors
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by gburt 9y ago
The linked paper is empirical counterevidence to that theoretical model though. Admittedly, we can always just say "we're not in the long run," I'm not sure how useful that is. I'm not certain what model exactly you
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by gburt 9y ago
I'm not sure I assumed developers are driven by the same things. A careful reading of my last sentence did not define what it meant for code to be good or by what process you would be proud of the output, I think that is a product for
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by gburt 9y ago
My teams also assign code review "in addition" to the regular workload, but this is always in the context of an agile team effort: we get done what we get done [1]. A developer takes a story and works on it until it is solved (or
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by gburt 9y ago
Another thing to add, is that for "obvious" style suggestions (i.e., changes that everyone is nearly certain to agree on, though they might not agree on the importance), I encourage the reviewer to simply make the change. This is
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by gburt 9y ago
With some reflection, I think you're correct on the understanding problem. The problem has always been inconsistent - some code reviews are worth thousands of times more than others - and a determining factor may be how invested the pa
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by gburt 9y ago
Con 2 has historically been the biggest problem for me. If any experienced people have good methods to help me mitigate that problem on my teams, I want to hear it. We've done a few strategies at places I've managed code review: 1
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by gburt 9y ago
Have you ever actually been constrained in how much time you can spend on code review? I generally try to get my developers to spend more time on it than they think is necessary -- if it comes at the short-term pains of their productivity,

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