rando289

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by rando289 10y ago
I can't remember a story like this without horrible data: numbers without much context from which no good conclusions can be drawn.
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by rando289 10y ago
> it's not enough to just look within the 'hire' cohort. Enough for what? Why not? They specifically have a "score", not just a hire / no hire decision. Sure it would be better, but you don't make any c
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by rando289 10y ago
How do you check that? I've found reporting on race in tech to just be absolutely horrible with numbers. Whole stories where the only number is "Google repots X percent of Y race." It tells me absolutely nothing without compa
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by rando289 10y ago
Your 48% is very wrong. From the abstract: "Our results showed that although casual contributors are rather common (48.98% of the whole population of contributors in the projects analyzed), they are responsible for only 1.73% of t
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by rando289 10y ago
I didn't say they were clueless. I said their pr is clueless. Some pr person said "there is no risk" relating to it security of a large organization. That is obviously false, and clueless.
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by rando289 10y ago
"Our systems and our customers’ information were never at risk.", their pr team is clueless. Security is not binary.
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by rando289 10y ago
So it's proprietary?
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by rando289 10y ago
"we still don't know how." No one is stating the obvious: we would know more if we had the source code.
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by rando289 10y ago
Ahh, thank you so much. I read it as "are kind of forgetting" instead of "are a kind of forgetting.", even looking back a few times.
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by rando289 10y ago
What does forgetting mean here? Is it like forgettable? Google failed me.
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by rando289 10y ago
My 12 year old ipod has fm radio, I think a smartphone could do it.
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by rando289 10y ago
Few months ago got an LG G4: the "unlocked international" version had a locked bootloader so you couldn't change the software, but the europe and t-mobile versions didn't. So, sometimes it can be the reverse.
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by rando289 10y ago
> Topics and queues with different segmentation features are much more powerful and fine-grained in control compared to a service that's tied to HTTP transport than, say, a REST or SOAP API. "than" and beyond is an illogic
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by rando289 10y ago
Use a hosted service to self-host? Come on. Does it also have more cloud in it?
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by rando289 11y ago
what is a CN computer?
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by rando289 11y ago
It was, just formatted poorly into paragraphs. A paragraph is supposed to have some feet to stand on it's own.
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by rando289 11y ago
> At least here in the US, money problems are (mostly) a money-management problem. I don't think so.
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by rando289 11y ago
> The biggest problem I see is giving people cash. Why not instead give each adult a voucher for housing (just barely adequate for cheap housing) and each person $5/day food stamps (or something similar), regardless of income. You h
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by rando289 11y ago
Yes, it's a false dichotomy. Either we have a police state, or the terrorists win, take your choice! Don't forget the children, and the .0001 % chance of horribly brutally muderdered by terrorists!
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by rando289 11y ago
This comment will never be a reply to any other comment. However, if I wrote it because the fbi told me to, why wouldn't I reply to absolutely any other comment the fbi told me to?
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by rando289 11y ago
It's beyond the capabilities of most iphone users to lock their phone with a passphrase that is secure enough to withstand a trillion guesses per second, remember it and deal with inputing it often, so yes, this is de facto a master ke
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by rando289 11y ago
Thx. great idea.
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by rando289 11y ago
I've always thought, if I was rich, I would hire one or more developers who's job was to educate me on software (empowering me), and write and run software I was interested in. Wonder why I haven't heard of any rich people do
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Government wants to hack iphones, but hacking your own device can be a felony(defectivebydesign.org)
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by rando289 11y ago
No different in the US regarding prices.
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by rando289 11y ago
Hah! You are delusional. To be specific, it's obvious he meant virtualbox + the roughtly 2 other less commonly used free desktop virtualization softwares. Let's spell out the obvious: People, like me, use virtualbox etc. for free
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by rando289 11y ago
It's trademark, not copyright. And... ya, maybe.
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by rando289 11y ago
> I think algorithms are something to embrace rather than fear He has the same sentiment in his article.
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by rando289 11y ago
"software patents (which have merits)". There are none.
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by rando289 11y ago
Nonsensical statement. There is no other kind of enforcement than that done in the interest of the patent owner.

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