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by jack6e 7mo ago
Perhaps it reminds you of Screeps because of what the author wrote in the third paragraph of the submission.
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Apple Posts Drop in Quarterly Revenue and Profit(wsj.com)
19 points by jack6e 8y ago|6 comments
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Apple Q1 Earnings(wsj.com)
4 points by jack6e 8y ago|0 comments
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by jack6e 8y ago
Specific technology choices aside, this was an incredible write-up of their migration process: thorough, organized, readable prose about a technical topic. It is helpful to read how other teams handle these types of processes in real produc
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by jack6e 8y ago
The link to the actual vote results [0] states that the electorate was "CPython core developers with a known email-address." [0] https://discuss.python.org/t/python-governance-vote-december...
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by jack6e 8y ago
I'd like to point out that my comment mostly referred to the article's original title, which was click-bait referencing GitLab's "secret" to multi-million dollar "success." Spoiler alert: the "secret&
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by jack6e 8y ago
Skipping over the little annoying facts that fully remote work is not some secret strategy, and that no Fortune 500 company (as an index of success) is 100% remote, let's just do a direct comparison of competitors: - GitLab is 100% rem
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by jack6e 8y ago
Qualtrics is pretty popular among their initial target audience mentioned in the article: academics. Among academic survey shops this product is the definite go-to. I imagine, based on my own experience, the average tech worker thinks of su
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by jack6e 8y ago
What? This is entirely untrue, and I feel bad that you had a teacher or reading experience that did not focus on how much inner life, motivation, and emotion are in this poem. I have had the exact opposite experience: people think of Beow
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by jack6e 8y ago
Considering that miniature books have been a part of literary and publishing history since at least the 16th century, I doubt this modern rehash will drastically change reading any more than the existing four centuries of iterations. That s
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Merkel to Step Down from Party Leadership(wsj.com)
3 points by jack6e 8y ago|0 comments
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by jack6e 8y ago
They state that the cumulative valuation of these 100 companies is $100+ billion, of which $81+ billion comes from the top 5 companies, and $95+ billion comes from the top 10. Also interesting that the top 2 (Airbnb and Stripe) were in the
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by jack6e 8y ago
The difference is two-fold: actively planting a fake story means that first, the espionage is fake and thus no real intelligence can be gathered, so the only benefit is the hypothetical respect you suggested; second, the story will definite
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by jack6e 8y ago
But the effect of that would be to cause massive distrust of Chinese suppliers and cause a shift away from electronics being produced there. IC and cyber experts generally identify the Chinese as using intelligence operations for primarily
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by jack6e 8y ago
> Or at least have testimonies by employees in these company The original article directly addressed this: " The companies’ denials are countered by six current and former senior national security officials, who—in conversations t
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by jack6e 8y ago
> "Not as clickbaity though...." Not as accurate, either, given that the title of the paper is "Get Billions and Billions of Correct Digits of pi from a Wrong Formula," and it was published before "click-bait&q
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by jack6e 8y ago
This is an old investing strategy summarized by Rothschild in the anecdote, "The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets." I think that maxim captures the crass greed of the strategy.
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by jack6e 8y ago
Try 2165749873212654987321354.
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by jack6e 8y ago
Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google. Jim Cramer created the acronym to name these four companies as high-performing tech stocks years ago [0]. But now, as in the above usage, it is more of a catch-all name for the big tech companies. And in i
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by jack6e 8y ago
This is awesome work, and kudos to Tang, but I am also really impressed with how his advisor, Scott Aaronson, seems to have so selflessly supported his research and given him full credit. Even in Aaronson's quotes within the article he
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by jack6e 8y ago
At PyCon in Cleveland this year Amjith Ramanujam did a presentation on "how Netflix does failovers in 7 minutes flat" [0]. Worth a watch/listen for anyone interested in what their response may have looked like. Now I'm c
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by jack6e 8y ago
> This was likely inspired by an event preceding the Nanking Massacre There is about no likelihood that Tolkien heard about a despicable war crime committed by an Axis power, involving an evil, flagrant disregard for human life, and de
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by jack6e 8y ago
This timeline is wonderful: https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/hypetime.htm The IPO of Yahoo, the creation of MSNBC.
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TSA Rule for Lightsabers(tsa.gov)
2 points by jack6e 8y ago|0 comments
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by jack6e 8y ago
UVA is doing some great focused work in certain CS fields. Their student team recently won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in their first year competing [0]. [0] http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/2018-04-15-Uni
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by jack6e 8y ago
This may be a (passable) evolution of the Latin alphabet, but it is not the English evolution. Missing are runes, and the lost letters eth, thorn, and yogh, which were still in use alongside the Latin alphabet as late as the 16th century.
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by jack6e 9y ago
Probably not many. The most recent SO developer survey said only 20% of respondents thought responsibility for unethical code fell on developers, compared to 80% thinking designers/managers should be responsible. That's globally.
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by jack6e 9y ago
Sorry if that is wrong, I'm just repeating the metaphor used by the more educated people in that other thread to the best of my understanding.
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by jack6e 9y ago
In another story popular on HN yesterday/today about DNA [0], some of the commenters discussed epigenetics, and the fact that the DNA sequence is simply the "hardware" that encodes what is possible for cells to produce, but t
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by jack6e 9y ago
It sounds like you are confusing the multiple attacks described in the article. The most recent attack in August 2017, the primary focus of the article, was indeed intended to manipulate controls and cause an explosion. The January 2017 att

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