groaner

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by groaner 5y ago
Not surprising, because computing mean is O(n) and median is O(n log n). Lack of resources or pure laziness doesn't make it the right measure to use though.
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by groaner 5y ago
Interactive Brokers already offers this, so I'm wondering what the actual innovation is here.
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by groaner 5y ago
> What I did do: learned basic Mandarin, established a relationship that has lasted 20+ years, read many non CS / non-technical books, focused on getting healthier and fitter. Would imposing a structure and setting goals for your ti
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by groaner 5y ago
Pretty much every dating app would be on this list if in-app purchases were taken into account.
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by groaner 5y ago
Blaming disease spread on density is kind of a cop out after how we saw the world respond to crisis. Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong, and most Chinese cities are super dense places that, for most of 2020, I would have preferred to be living i
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by groaner 5y ago
They also don't care about security, until one day it bites them in the ass.
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by groaner 6y ago
You've just described requirements that belong to a service. Congratulations, you made the right (obvious) decision. I'm talking about writing entire services that are just wrappers around ffmpeg, pdf2html, parquet-tools, Olson t
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by groaner 6y ago
It doesn't even take oodles of money from a SaaS platform to motivate turning a library into a service. Even in in-house development, developers are often motivated to build services and have internal customers take dependencies on the
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by groaner 6y ago
This is not the biggest HR issue GitHub has faced in recent memory. https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-preston-werner-resigns-f...
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by groaner 8y ago
To the extent that the parents chose to raise their children in an environment that taught them advanced emotional manipulation skills at an early age, sure.
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by groaner 10y ago
This is basically how I feel about dating.
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by groaner 10y ago
I would much rather have 75% pay for 13 weeks of PTO. Highly unlikely anyone will ever offer that.
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by groaner 10y ago
Could be a Perl programmer, in which case it doesn't matter at all.
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by groaner 10y ago
Who wants to work with me on my next startup, which sets up an innocuous-looking Facebook profile for privacy-conscious individuals, including friendships with other perfectly normal people and records of totally commonplace, unobjectionabl
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by groaner 10y ago
> I know a guy, a sales guy, who "worked from home" for a large multinational while earning six figures. He spent most of his time doing home improvement projects. He replaced his roof (himself), he built and installed new kitc
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by groaner 10y ago
What happens if you have a very small false positive rate for fraud, and end up stiffing the customer? You could easily land in deep trouble with consumer protection laws after falsely satisfying their order.
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by groaner 11y ago
Honestly, it's the growing realization that despite all of my efforts, I haven't done anything worth feeling proud of. To me that feels like I've lived a waste of a life. As you can tell, this is an ineffective strategy for
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by groaner 13y ago
Do you mean, working for the NSA with the intention of getting access to secrets and then leaking them?
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by groaner 13y ago
If I want a $1,000,000,000 unicorn, and can't find it, is it because I'm not paying enough? The fact that many SV companies want mythical beings to solve their engineering problems is an entirely different issue, but this does not invalidat
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by groaner 13y ago
> When will the Peoples Republic grant self-determination to Tibet? That would be the action of a self-assured and mature state. Probably around the same time a certain self-assured and mature state grants self-determination to the indi
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by groaner 14y ago
Is this supposed to be Tron or Snake? I distinctly remember Tron being a multiplayer game, with the mechanics such that moving along a wall or trail increases your speed, putting you in position to cut off the other players and make them c
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by groaner 14y ago
Uhoh. Dan Shipper's web-based business ( http://www.airtimehq.com/ ) has run into a serious namespace collision.
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by groaner 14y ago
You should try to be constructive on this forum. It's one thing for someone to say "you should" for an entirely self-serving purpose (e.g. "you should follow me on Twitter"). It's an entirely different thing for someone to offer suggestion
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by groaner 14y ago
Not if you invoke the nuclear option and put every facebook domain (including the fbcdn stuff) in your hosts file as 0.0.0.0
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by groaner 15y ago
For a happier ending, try "Sex, Drugs, and Unix": http://www.tenthousandmonkeys.com/078/078am.htm
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by groaner 15y ago
Minor typo on your about page: Yasiv is a visual di S covery engine.
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by groaner 15y ago
Step 2, unfortunately, is more likely to be "axe these useless dead-weight middle managers who waste resources on turf wars and lie out of their teeth to screw over everyone else" than some neat technology.
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by groaner 15y ago
I suck at pure math, so I tend to think of this in some sort of analogy. Suppose the fraction a/b is some statistic you are trying to measure, say, a batting average or percentage of correct notes played in Guitar Hero. (a+1)/(b+1) would b
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by groaner 15y ago
I'd guess that whatever blogging software that was used here (WordPress?) doesn't make it easy to insert arbitrary JavaScript. Too easy to create a security loophole, especially on a third-party hosted blog site.
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by groaner 15y ago
Considering that figures floating around say that as many as 90% of software projects fail, there's probably many of us in that group. (I consider myself one of them.) There's got to be a way to put a positive spin on a project that was

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