lbatx

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by lbatx 3y ago
This sort of implies the street criminals become cyber criminals, which seems to not be a matching skill set. Call me skeptical of the study I admittedly haven't read.
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by lbatx 7y ago
Ah, thanks. As in Expired (date). Where date is every day from the day it expires until forever. Not Expired on date, but currently expired. Makes sense now.
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by lbatx 7y ago
Hmm, in that case, it's not really Google's fault. They are following the law (maybe not in every single case, but if the protections in the US are more loose, then they can/will do things here they wouldn't do somewhere
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by lbatx 7y ago
So then do you believe that Google acts differently in other countries, and only (allegedly) conducts this abuse in the US? Note: genuinely curious as to your viewpoint. Not sure what my own opinion is here yet...
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by lbatx 7y ago
Clicked on your link just to get on the list (or move up, I suppose). ;-)
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by lbatx 7y ago
There seems to be a weird bug on the Google Patents site. I've noticed that the expiration date of a patent is always the day I visit the site, even for patents I know expired a while ago. This may be something like that.
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by lbatx 7y ago
And how do people decide they like the trade itself? Fine line there. How are people to know about the trades if all they hear is "go to college"?
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by lbatx 7y ago
Agreed. I don't see how you can leave out (among other things) databases, Big O notation, networking, and call it a computer science primer. Good for what it is, but misnamed.
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by lbatx 7y ago
You make an interesting (unsupported) assertion here. You, who find talking to an IRQ controller, real-time clock, etc. interesting, find Scheme boring, therefore others (who may not share your interests in such details) will also find it b
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by lbatx 7y ago
Taking your comment to its logical conclusion, then, no one should become an electrician. Too dangerous. Low (relative to a degree) pay. Well, who then is going to fulfill this necessary role?
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by lbatx 7y ago
I've always thought of "order of magnitude" as adding a zero, so anything less than 10 is a different order of magnitude. Gets weird thinking about 9 being both one number less and one order of magnitude less than 10, while 9
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by lbatx 7y ago
I don't think so. This guy is the second (or third or whatever) person to sue AT&T over a SIM swap. The first case is already moving to trial: https://www.coindesk.com/att-fails-to-win-dismissal-in-24-mi... .
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by lbatx 7y ago
I don't have the stats in front of me, but my recollection is something like (using the same base number for Phone Screen but our rates): Applications: 5000 candidates; ~20% pass rate (vs unknown) Phone Screen: 1000 candidates; ~50% pa
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by lbatx 7y ago
That could be an even more efficient version of our test. As long as it screens for what you're looking for, I would definitely agree that shorter is better. It feels like it tests something different than writing code, though both may
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by lbatx 7y ago
Hate it all you want. In this case, it's true. There are no hidden factors in my description. There was no token and it was a public API. I'm sorry you've been burned, but that doesn't mean there aren't tests that a
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by lbatx 7y ago
At a previous company, we too would administer a technical test. Our pass rate was close to what was described in the article (40% for ours vs 25%). However, our test was incredibly simple. At most, it should have take a competent developer
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by lbatx 7y ago
> There are just as many counterfactuals to this strategy as there are examples. The scooter market is an especially bad - there is so much capital from so many companies - if you were trying to establish monopolies that would be a bad b
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by lbatx 7y ago
I get that they are different. It was an analogy. Either way, I don't think there's enough momentum to stop it this time either. BTW, your argument about being able to inspect local code still seems moot in light of the fact that
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by lbatx 7y ago
Apparently you don't visit any sites using Angular?
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by lbatx 7y ago
We fought a similar battle with Javascript-enabled sites (remember when sites worked without Javascript?) and lost...
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by lbatx 7y ago
Which parts do I choose? How do I assemble them? How do I make sure they all fit together? Plus as another commenter pointed out, I can buy an off-the-shelf combustion engine. So by your logic, it should be just as easy to build an ICE car.
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by lbatx 7y ago
EVs are not that much less complex: interior is the same (hundreds of parts), suspension, AC, heat, wiper blades, brakes, etc. The engine is certainly different but I don't think that lowers the overall complexity of the vehicle into &
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by lbatx 7y ago
Worldwide?
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by lbatx 7y ago
Doubtful. I put that in since absolute statements are always dangerous. I'd say at any given time, there's an excess of 20-50%. There's virtually no chance they were lacking capacity.
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by lbatx 7y ago
I guess you're not familiar with how cloud services work. There's (generally) plenty of excess capacity.
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by lbatx 7y ago
No, we need to use more of what we get. We don't use hardly any of what hits the earth. I believe I read that the Sun supplies 50X the amount of energy we consume (if of course we could capture it as energy).
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by lbatx 7y ago
There are actually plenty, most of them have the same rules, they just don't say it that way. In other words, they are tactful. I'd say any of the bootstrapped software companies hold those philosophies (they don't need the i
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by lbatx 7y ago
Your analogy falls apart. Re-read what I wrote: "share in the additional profits above and beyond". Let's say we expect to make $1MM for the year. We need to keep a reserve to pay people when we are between contracts, rent, t
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by lbatx 7y ago
>Is being paid well not good enough? I would say no. Since the employees are one of the keys to the success of the company, why should they not share in the additional profits above and beyond what is planned for the year? >Companies
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by lbatx 7y ago
>He sounds like an asshole but really being able to work for a privately owned fast growing company without shitty options being paid well is pretty great in the tech world. But not as great as working for a privately owned fast growing

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