ryderm

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by ryderm 8y ago
Cracking jokes at the unfairness as a way to swallow it is very different than cracking jokes as a way to point out how unfair it is to others. I'm not exactly sure which you mean, but it seems like the former, and that is depressingly
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by ryderm 8y ago
Don't accept it, try to to change it!
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by ryderm 8y ago
> but this critic is almost certainly making perfect the enemy of good in pursuit of an ideal. Yes, because "good" means preventable poverty related deaths by the millions because it is not profitable to do anything about it \s
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by ryderm 8y ago
> Doing the right thing — not what’s profitable or power enhancing — isn’t what business is about. If only society / the global economic system wasn't set up to incentive profit over all else....
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by ryderm 8y ago
a bit ?
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by ryderm 9y ago
So, if you would love to clear up the misconceptions, actually answer all of the questions you listed? The only one you answered is about discounts for your product.
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by ryderm 9y ago
Sure, clearly that was hyperbole. All the evidence never points anywhere. This means the vast majority of actual peer reviewed science.
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by ryderm 9y ago
Obviously they are biologically different! That is not the question. The question is: Do these differences make women less interested in tech, or are there less women in tech because experiences they have had since birth make them feel unwe
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by ryderm 9y ago
> Is it such a huge deal that most women are not interested in technology? If this is because they have been systematically discriminated against in tech and primed at a young age with BS like "cars are for boys and dolls are for gi
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by ryderm 10y ago
This isn't quite true. It is up to your issuer if they decide to approve the transaction despite failing AVS or CVV checks. Often they will decline the authorization, but depending on their risk signals, might decide to approve it. The
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by ryderm 10y ago
Anybody else seeing that the site is broken? It says 1 vote still, even after signing and confirming my email.
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by ryderm 11y ago
I can't speak for this book, but Michael Hartl's rails tutorial is what got me addicted to programming, and is largely responsible for me switching majors to CS during my undergrad and getting into the industry. He is a great tech
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by ryderm 11y ago
I doubt that either of these outcomes are likely
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by ryderm 11y ago
Part of being a good software engineer is knowing when to do the "wrong" thing (implement something poorly to ship fast). But you must be aware of the trade offs. For early stage companies/products that are struggling for a m
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by ryderm 11y ago
Interesting point of view to hear. RE: enums - There is an idiomatic way to do enums in go I believe: type MyEnum int const ( A MyEnum = iota B C D )
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by ryderm 12y ago
Yeah, events. Which are message queues for most things, api calls if it really needs to be done synchronously
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by ryderm 12y ago
So you have short timeouts and retries that are load balanced to different nodes. But ideally your services are fast even in their 99 percentiles so this isn't an issue. This is much easier to achieve in a small service than a huge com
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Square Expands Its Cash Advance Service(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by ryderm 12y ago|0 comments
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by ryderm 12y ago
> Add a booking button to your email and embed the Square Appointments widget directly on your website or WordPress site. No coding required. It’s as simple as copy and paste. End users do not need to install an app
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by ryderm 12y ago
Wow, how do lyft and uber manage to launch the same thing at the same time?
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by ryderm 12y ago
Square gets item level data on each merchant. That means exactly what was sold and when. Plus, they get info about who bought it and can see things like a buisness suddenly getting huge numbers of new buyers as opposed to returning, etc.
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by ryderm 12y ago
I find Google Flights to be much better than Kayak, and so have the couple people I've talked to about the difference. What do you like more about Kayak?
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by ryderm 12y ago
folding@home? hardly nefarious
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Isotopic 256(jamesdonnelly.github.io)
2 points by ryderm 12y ago|0 comments
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by ryderm 12y ago
I think you mean per month?
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by ryderm 12y ago
I'm about to graduate from a US college, and I've never paid for a text book. Very few classes use them for more than supplementary reading or for homework problems. With a combination of learning things online, recorded lectures,
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by ryderm 13y ago
Many languages have a few "killer" features/libs/uses. I often start with a project that uses one of them. Eg: ruby => rails python => nltk,django,opencv,scipy c++ => opengl,opencv java => opencv j
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by ryderm 13y ago
same thing happened to me, except I saw the first two lines of the example. weird.
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by ryderm 13y ago
This. I don't think companies that are fighting for qualified employees are turning down candidates because of color. I'm in a CS program at a university and I can only think of a few CS students who aren't white/Asian&#
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by ryderm 13y ago
She is also raising money to research a new method of oil spill response: https://experiment.com/projects/can-naturally-occurring-soap...

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