wolframarnold

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by wolframarnold 10y ago
Yes, it's far too expensive. You can get a rental car for $20/day. The pricing scheme mentioned in the article with $1/trip would be far more attractive, along with drop off flexibility.
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
What I find missing from this discussion is the safety aspect of wholesale ultrasound. Yes, we've been told they're perfectly safe. That was once said of x-rays as well and physicians were routinely x-raying fetuses in the uertus
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
I'd be curious if the distribution of salary data from H1-B filings was more or less the same. Anecdotally for brand name companies, eg Netflix, the selection bias of Angel List data to the lower end seems to be confirmed. The database
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
Your judgments aside, we have and are vaccinating our child. While it's correct that bipedal locomotion and big heads make childbirth more challenging for humans, it still is not a medical emergency. You'd be surprised, if you did
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
The entire mammalian animal kingdom is fully capable of giving birth, autonomously and unassisted (if necessary). Human females, too, can tap into that part of their brains, if you let them, and don't distract or scare them with bright
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
It's heart-wrenching stories like these that prompted my wife and me to have our daughter at home. It was a beautiful birth. Birth is not a medical emergency, but hospital economic incentives are such that they're always trying to
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
That depends on the service. If you can afford outages that may be fair game. But if you have a high traffic service that's running hundreds or thousands of hosts, you can't take them all offline at once. Deploys can take hours, s
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
I wonder what they used as training data?
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
Unenforceability of noncompetes + hot tech job market == free career insurance
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
Interesting. What's the rationale for this?
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
This is actually BMW's second foray into ride sharing stateside. They ran their Drive Now service in San Francisco for a couple of years. It never took off, because there were too few places to pick up and drop off cars, and their all-
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
You can't build a career on that behavior. Especially if you stick around a place for a decade or so, you'd be surprised whom you run into and whose help you might need down the road. Unless you're leaving town and the indust
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by wolframarnold 10y ago
But you can. The Brazen Head in the Marina, Thai Noodle on Haight and a bunch of places in North Beach will happily serve till 1 AM or later and at a quality that doesn't even compare with fast food. In fact since I've moved to SF
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by wolframarnold 11y ago
This is why Google canned the whole idea of requiring a human to be alert and ready to take over. They want to get rid of the steering wheel and pedals, because they found in their extensive road testing that their own employees just didn&#
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by wolframarnold 11y ago
I think that's spot on. Real Estate: The core Bay Area cities, the pinnacle of which is San Francisco, have not seen substantial real estate slumps in either recession in recent memory (the dot com bust and the mortgage bubble). For ou
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by wolframarnold 11y ago
Being a parent of a young child myself, I can very much empathize with this article, and the plight of child care workers. The conclusions are only logical that this is an area where government support and intervention can reap vast societa
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by wolframarnold 11y ago
This is pretty interesting. Aside from the security questions already asked, and assuming they can be addressed satisfactorily, I have this question/suggestion: Financial institutions all differ in their online offerings and most live
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by wolframarnold 13y ago
Agreed. In fact markets can from time to time exhibit systemic inefficiencies. What this means is that the very fabric of the market itself can give rise to bubbles or crashes. A brilliant book that I found an eye-opening read is by Didie
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Are stock market bubbles like phase transitions? If so, is the next one close?(hussmanfunds.com)
1 points by wolframarnold 13y ago|0 comments
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by wolframarnold 13y ago
I've seen this phenomenon too, and have seen entire engineering teams descend into mediocrity because the companies and their leaders tolerated such behavior and/or had no effective tools against it. I'm curious, too, what ti
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by wolframarnold 13y ago
Some people report that they can get in a state of flow while pair programming. I've experienced this on occasion but I'm unclear on what the exact ingredients are to produce flow while pairing. A big bonus with pairing, however,
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by wolframarnold 13y ago
Switch to Sonic Fusion DSL if you're in their service area (Bay Area, perhaps elsewhere?). http://sonic.net/solutions/home/internet/fusion/ Far cheaper than Comcast and no gimmicks. The service runs
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by wolframarnold 13y ago
I was wondering about the HOA restrictions too. Our condo in San Francisco that we live in came with CC&R's that limit how we can rent the unit out. It's permissible only for periods over 30 days and you're not allowed to
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by wolframarnold 13y ago
Before I came to the U.S. in the mid 1990's I geeked out on two grocery bags' worth of VHS tapes of StarTrek Next Generation. Nothing like learning English from the forever affable Captain Picard or the eternally proper Data. I fo
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by wolframarnold 13y ago
You guys are asking some interesting questions in particular about whether people feel they charge too much or not enough. The best expose on that I've seen is in Gerald Weinberg's "Secrets of Consulting" http:/&#x
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by wolframarnold 13y ago
Rails already raises an exception for you if the secret is blank. In: `actionpack-3.2.13/lib/action_controller/metal/http_authentication.rb`: raise "You must set config.secret_token in your app's config" if secret.blank?
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by wolframarnold 13y ago
The way, we've solved this is to default to a hard-coded secret if the environment doesn't have it. App::Application.config.secret_token = ENV['COOKIE_SECRET'] || '<default secret>' Secured environments like production get
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Crowdfunding $660,000,000 to buy the Tribune Company(indiegogo.com)
2 points by wolframarnold 13y ago|0 comments
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My chat with an "expert" on Stackoverflow(adviza.stackexchange.com)
2 points by wolframarnold 13y ago|0 comments
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
The way I understood the article is that this relies on harvesting data from users on your site. As you cannot control which browser your users have, the point here is that this exploit relies on a vulnerability in a mass-adopted browser.

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