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by throwaway613834 8y ago
It's rather jarring to read "Can lisp programmers still feel smug about using lisp? No" followed by "the average programmer is probably best actively discouraged from utilizing this freedom because they probably have
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
Like most other people commenting here, I don't have advice on the career path—in my case, it's because you haven't given any information about what your strengths or interests are besides programming. Could you give us a lit
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
You call out impostor syndrome when you actually have evidence to suggest it is the case, not completely baselessly. Like when you give someone a role because you believe in their ability (whether through prior interviews with them, or se
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
>> "Easy problems take me 2-5 hours." > Those problems are supposed to be hard because they're based on ideas discovered by the most brilliant minds. If you can do them in 2-5 hours with no background you might actua
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
Thanks! The trouble is all of these can fail for what I would consider legitimate reasons. Requiring a receipt fails if they just open it, maybe even use it a bit (or not), and wait a few months before selling it, since nowadays people seem
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
Does anyone know what obligation the company has to provide the transcript?
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
You really think a judge is going to buy this?
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
To themselves, not you. And in the "might" sense, not in the "permitted" sense.
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
> That's why I like it when companies tell me they're recording - then I have a green light. I'm not sure them having permission to record implies you also having permission to record in all-party-consent states. I would a
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
Erm... I wasn't asking if it's difficult, I was asking what do you look for? Why in the world would a set of things to look for be a subject to conceal? Edit: never mind, just realized you're worried I or someone else is tr
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
...huh. How do you tell stolen goods from legitimate ones? Obviously the price can't be the only factor since they could just try to sell it closer to a realistic price.
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
> I’d encourage you to take these implicit bias tests, specifically the Race IAT and the Gender-Career IAT. If you’re like me, they’re going to hurt. Hurt, and possibly needlessly so. I would also encourage reading about the flaws of sai
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by throwaway613834 8y ago
I wonder if the Americans freaking out about this whole foreign influence thing have any idea what their nation has done to other countries' (both democracies and otherwise). What's happened here is a complete joke in comparison
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Some people's senses of humor...
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> It is well documented that there is no cell phone that cannot be unlocked. Citation needed?
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
So terminating in a root CA imposes more restrictions than terminating in a non-root CA here? Something about that seems off...
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
I'm confused, isn't this the normal criterion for a certificate being valid? If your certificate chain doesn't end in a locally-installed trusted CA then how is that any different from a random cert signed by a nobody off the
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
I like how absolutely critical little 'details' like this get missed on HN so easily, by people speaking with extreme confidence. Thanks for the reality check!
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> I wonder if you have the same concerns about other closed source software like Sublime Text. This was an unnecessary personal jab, but I'll respond. Sublime? I don't use it. Software that deals with my credentials just like y
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Oh wow, thank you! It very much did remind me of The Atlantic -- makes sense now!
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Do you happen to know what Quartz's business model is (qz.com)? They seem to have no subscription model to pay for even if you want to, nor do they seem to serve ads (as far as I've noticed, but maybe they serve a few), and yet th
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> Spotify & Apple Music. Pay $10/mo for unlimited access to most music. Took the wind out of music piracy. Did artists make more money as a result?
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Although you claim Wireshark, etc. can be used to verify the lack of external communication, the fact of the matter is that it only verifies you aren't sending data to third-parties all the time. It does not mean that it won't d
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Update: For what it's worth, I just tried it with wired headphones (again, a decent pair) and they don't sound different as far as I can tell, so BT compression doesn't seem to be having any observable effects.
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Wow, I had no idea about this. I've used it on software before since it looks well-suited to software, and I suspect others are in the same boat. Thanks for mentioning this!
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Dupe... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411227
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Thanks! I had no idea.
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> Meaning it's just a rendition of a hum, not an actual recording of "the hum". ...what? Did you not open the link at all? Or are you suggesting they're lying? They literally explicitly say it's an actual recor
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Could you elaborate on why that is necessarily a problem? Couldn't they have done it losslessly?
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
On the YouTube video it definitely does sound like something strong going on underground... but that's probably a very poor method of assessment.

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