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by probablybroken 7y ago
The only way for Amazon to do what you ask is to not allow third parties to list products in their system at all, and to verify continuity of supply by continually spot checking product, and penalising vendors for changing spec on them.
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by probablybroken 7y ago
Personally, I find browsing amazon impossible simply due to the widespread mis-categorisation of products. It seems that suppliers just chuck everything into inappropriate categories in the hope that it gets them more views. This renders
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by probablybroken 7y ago
It's worth mentioning that the housings of many products are frequently sold to multiple manufacturers as components ( though in this case I suspect it's probably the same product ). I've also seen suppliers change the con
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by probablybroken 7y ago
That's really strange... I always found Excel to perform dreadfully on data sets with even just hundreds of thousands of rows - it was always easier to just load the data into a database, or manipulate it with a script.
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by probablybroken 7y ago
The cubic earth made me laugh; I'm currently making a planetary terrain generator which uses a normalised cube to generate spherical terrain, so this was particularly close to home :)
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by probablybroken 7y ago
This exact theory made me utterly sick of math at a very early age. The response of the school was to assign increasingly more time to math bookwork, which I had completely stalled on. The more I was forced to do it, the more it made me s
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by probablybroken 7y ago
It's true that good developers can learn new things, but it can take years to learn the frameworks and ecosystems. I've seen projects fail due to a lack of skilled developers & having to either recruit contractors, or develop
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by probablybroken 7y ago
Strange that the availability of developers who can actually be recruited for the given languages isn't listed as a factor.
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by probablybroken 7y ago
Could be that they have become less kind, or were less kind victims now seeking some sort of vengeance by participating in a study. It seems to me like it would be extremely hard to determine anything about a victim after the fact.
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by probablybroken 7y ago
A possibility would be that you might want to make multiple changes in light level at random intervals to make it harder for e.g, a video being presented to the camera that matches the input it would expect.
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by probablybroken 7y ago
It's also sometimes possible to get some small contract work with the employer you are leaving, so long as you don't burn any bridges. ( At least in software dev. There are frequently systems no one else knows how to maintain et
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by probablybroken 7y ago
You probably are rejecting potentially good candidates, but I would personally suggest that of the developers that I want to hire, most of them are members of the set of developers who know what the modulo operator is for. And since hiring
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by probablybroken 7y ago
I find I tend to write bugs after around 7 hour's work, and during the first four, I can throw myself at a new task in a way that at the end of the day I'd be utterly incapable. I think shorter office days would benefit most matu
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by probablybroken 7y ago
I remember this being similar to the reason claimed for the use of leet speak back in the day (i.e, that it prevented searching of messages by 'the man' ); Interesting to see something so similar actually being practically applie
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by probablybroken 7y ago
This was my feeling too.. I suspect there's enough overlap between those people who are interested in completing IQ tests, and those on the spectrum to create the same effect mentioned by the author. I found their comment about small
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by probablybroken 7y ago
The PHP base is huge, I've known many good PHP developers who prefer stricter implementations, but work with PHP because they get paid to, and because they know the language and libraries end up using it for new projects. This proposa
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by probablybroken 7y ago
Yes... The screen shot in the article looks a lot more like the 'filter' in use is actually another actress. Though I'd love to be proven wrong.
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by probablybroken 7y ago
I'd usually use a queue + worker for this purpose. You will have to work out how to deal with old requests, backlogs, etc.. But then, if you are considering effectively forcibly making requests time out to internal servers, you will a
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by probablybroken 7y ago
You may want to refer to Galileo's leaning tower of pisa experiment...
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by probablybroken 7y ago
Why would the size of the object matter in this instance?
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by probablybroken 7y ago
Yes - you'd think it would be longer lived in orbit. Clearly practicality wasn't the main concern of this mission.
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by probablybroken 7y ago
This story also raises an interesting point for development managers; When you transfer a dev to a new project, it's a lot like getting a new job - you ( probably ) won't have the domain knowledge, knowledge of the tools in use,
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by probablybroken 8y ago
It doesn't matter how convincing your message is if it never reaches anyone because your opponents are paying more than you for the same keywords / etc.
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by probablybroken 8y ago
But then you need to either replace your existing team with erlang developers, or retrain them ( and then have to suffer years of criticism and staff losses from those who disagree with the move. ) Probably easier, and potentially more ap
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by probablybroken 8y ago
Wouldn't he also have to learn a lot of advanced mathematics? I'd imagine the bunch of graduates in this case would be math majors. Obviously I don't know the specific requirements of your organisation, but this re-skilling
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by probablybroken 9y ago
Because opioids are regulated?
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by probablybroken 9y ago
I'm much the same, but I'd say that regular contact with people does have a levelling effect - it's harder for stress to take hold long term, and it provides a distraction from whatever negative internal dialogue you may suff
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by probablybroken 9y ago
Is there a massive difference between this and having a large public sector? I guess the guaranteed jobs would need to have low to zero skill requirements..
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by probablybroken 9y ago
I wonder if a system like this were used in the real world, it might simply end up behaving as a hashing algorithm, always assigning the same category of bug to the same developer - who would become skilled in handling this type of bug and
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by probablybroken 9y ago
Surely, not putting in a backdoor is a cost saving measure though?

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