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by seekup 29d ago
thank you, and a big congrats on your bounty!
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by seekup 29d ago
A story from my life about not judging a book by its cover...and Algorithm D: Some years after the turn of the millennium I was a CS student at UC Santa Cruz. I was taking various classes for my major and I ended up in a Comparative Program
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by seekup 3mo ago
I seem to remember - but cannot find, even with an AI boost - someone's "law of computing" or somesuch describing the amount of time that has to pass before code you wrote is indistinguishable to you from code written by some
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by seekup 1y ago
I recall a good treatment of this issue in the early part of Joe Haldeman's classic The Forever War. Highly recommended.
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by seekup 2y ago
other folks have responded about the state of Uber’s Autonomous driving program, so I just wanted to weigh in about the other question here. GCP was not a strong competitor (in our eyes) when the on-prem decision was being made in the 2011-
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by seekup 4y ago
Nana Technologies | https://nanahome.com/ | Software Engineers | Hybrid and/or Oakland | FT Nana's mission is to provide economic opportunities for people in the trades. We operate a managed marketplace in the ap
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by seekup 6y ago
i'm not any kind of Asian but I believe #2, chopsticks sticking out of your rice, is rooted in a belief that it resembles the incense burners that would be set up at a funeral - a sort of bad luck charm.
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by seekup 6y ago
>Currently we have a perverse reverse lottery where if you're unlucky you just lose a day/month/year of your life that's what happens if you're lucky
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by seekup 6y ago
The requirement to be actively searching for work has actually been temporarily paused in many states, including eg/ CA https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/eligibility.htm . Presumably that provision will be remove
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by seekup 7y ago
side note: Toyota shut down Scion in 2016
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by seekup 9y ago
1/32,000th is 4x faster than 1/8,000th, no?
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by seekup 11y ago
Bring on the armchair private market economists.
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by seekup 11y ago
More like...dorknet
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by seekup 13y ago
For the record - I used to be a an Engineering Manager at Yelp, and I've had my Yelp work emails searched in discovery during big lawsuits about the review filter. So did all of my colleagues. The result of all that should speak for itsel
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by seekup 13y ago
Trust him about what? That article says: - He's "pretty sure" (direct quote) that they offered to take down reviews. Hardly a smoking gun. - He doesn't agree with the reviews of his business. No surprises there. - There's an article in a
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by seekup 13y ago
To your first question - By all means, you could prove it. Establish relationships with and systematically monitor the displayed and filtered reviews of a statistically significant sample of businesses. Record when they are contacted by Y
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by seekup 13y ago
An important distinction here - the allegations don't just devolve into he-said/she-said: they've been outright dismissed, with prejudice, by courts of law as without merit. Yelp has tens of thousands of paying business customers, and yet w