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by passthefist 4y ago
Hackerman gave me the most impressive interaction I've had so far. I asked it to give me a script to retheme the chat client, and it obliged. I asked it what kind of theme it would want, and here's what it said Hackerman: "Wo
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by passthefist 5y ago
Roadtrippers (Togo Group) | Frontend and Backend Engineer (React/Rails) | Chicago, Cincinnati or REMOTE | Full-Time | https://roadtrippers.com/ Togo Group is creating the leading technology platform for road-based trav
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by passthefist 6y ago
A distributed trust network is a really interesting hard problem but does seem solvable in some ways (as seen by blockchains, though they have their own issues). I've wondered if a somewhat simplistic graph based solution could work, i
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by passthefist 6y ago
Seems like another one (based off the article) is ease of use as well. I'm not familiar with either algorithm, but sounds like OT is less complex and easier to understand, which IMO is a decent tradeoff worth considering.
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by passthefist 6y ago
FWIW this is called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
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by passthefist 6y ago
To me, the value in TDD is the same as testing in general. It's not so much for initial feature development but rather later in a project or application maintenance you see the value. I view it as amortizing the complexity over the lif
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by passthefist 7y ago
I would like to see those numbers. Even if it's evened out with I'd be curious if there's more churn now, which anecdotally seems to be the case.
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by passthefist 8y ago
There's hybrid cases though, where you can use automation/business logic to lower the skill floor required for some work. That's pretty much the business model of the company I work for. We have what is essentially a call cen
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by passthefist 8y ago
I'm of the opinion that some (not all) of this is driven by forces similar to why dollar stores are doing so well, especially as laid out in the NPR article. From https://www.newsweek.com/dollar-stores-general-tree-amer
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by passthefist 8y ago
Yep. Really the only city with a transit system on par with New York/Metro IMO is Chicago. And even then the Manhattan subway system has much better coverage than the L. I prefer living places where I'm not reliant on owning a car
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by passthefist 8y ago
> Noise/smell/bugs from neighbors is awful to deal with, crummy stairwells (never an elevator), fighting for a parking spot and hauling groceries was a hassle. That's unfortunate. One of the things I love about my apartmen
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by passthefist 8y ago
And I've seen some articles/papers suggesting that protectionist policies can make sense for an emerging/developing economy to make sure that established/developed economies don't usurp that growth by blocking them
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by passthefist 8y ago
You can definitely get alcohol w/o a membership. I think it might be a state-by-state thing, but in some states it’s illegal to require a membership for alcohol purchases, so you can buy alcohol even if you don’t have a Costco membersh
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by passthefist 8y ago
While it's not the same, one of the best development setups I've worked with was really low tech, literally ssh-ing into commodity pc's running our app in a closet (production and staging were cloud hosted). Because everyone
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by passthefist 8y ago
Snapsheet | Fullstack/Data/Mobile Developers and UI/UX/Product Designers | Full-time | ONSITE | Chicago, IL At Snapsheet, we work with the auto insurance industry to provide a better claims process for drivers, repair sh
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by passthefist 9y ago
Snapsheet | Fullstack/Data/Mobile Developers and UI/UX/Product Designers | Full-time | ONSITE | Chicago, IL At Snapsheet, we work with the auto insurance industry to provide a better claims process for drivers, repair sh
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by passthefist 9y ago
Ah, my bad. I misread the article. Still interesting that someone would choose to say that publicly.
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by passthefist 9y ago
> 2. On the other hand, there are signs of technological underemployment – robots taking middle-skill jobs and then pushing people into other jobs. Although some people will be “pushed” into higher-skill jobs, many will be pushed into lo
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by passthefist 9y ago
Snapsheet (Car Insurance) | Full-time | ONSITE | Chicago, IL We work with the car insurance industry to provide a better claims process for drivers, shops, and carriers. If you've seen a commercial where someone takes out an app after
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by passthefist 9y ago
When I was in Oakland I was able to get Webpass with my building. $500/yr and 200mbit, though in practice it was actually higher. Never had a problem real with them, and their service was great. Per latency, my ping when playing games
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by passthefist 9y ago
It's totally different but I think Dollar General is benefiting from a similar play. They've really doubled down on rural areas, mostly playing off of the fact that people don't want to drive long distances to stores for basi
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by passthefist 9y ago
I've been playing since Season 3, and there's def been some ridiculous bugs. It's gotten better over time, but the spaghetti code and 'coded as a minion' memes are still just as popular as ever. To be honest I think
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by passthefist 9y ago
I'd love to hear about what you had to do to get connectivity to your house and what was involved with being your own ISP.
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by passthefist 9y ago
> Or perhaps more idiomatically you can "return callback();" when both the callback and the calling function return void At least in JS I think that is idiomatic, it's an option for linting: https://eslint.org&
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by passthefist 9y ago
For one, there's cabotage restrictions. From wikipedia: > Cabotage rights are the right of a company from one country to trade in another country. In aviation, it is the right to operate within the domestic borders of another countr
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by passthefist 9y ago
My concern isn't that there will be widespread unemployment, it's more that there will be a higher barrier of entry to the labor market and/or high skill workers will displace low skill workers. Let's say that 20% of ent
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by passthefist 10y ago
I think accuracy is worth discussing, because even a 99% accurate system can produce poor results if the signal it's searching for is rare. Wikipedia has some good examples about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by passthefist 10y ago
That's if you care about those things, seems like most people don't. Most people seem to just want an affordable service that solves their immediate problem. PHP has like a 70% market share for web backends, Haskell/Rust&#x2F
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by passthefist 10y ago
Don't forget the jobs providing services to the people that drive the trucks. Many of those are going to be lost like those old rail and highway towns that built up and then bust when the popular routes changed.
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by passthefist 10y ago
You should def share the full game somewhere. Sounds super fun.

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