xtony

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Ask HN: Best way to help the world with software engineering?
5 points by xtony 4y ago|2 comments
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by xtony 5y ago
Took Spielman's spectral graph theory class back in the day. Was really cool to see the professor engage with students on open questions that pushed at the boundaries of research!
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by xtony 6y ago
Maybe ask a friend who lives in China or a friend who has friends that live in China? They're also subject to fake news, but at least they can give you their experience of what daily life is like where they live. It's not like Chi
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by xtony 6y ago
By that logic, Hacker News should've been a subreddit too.
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by xtony 6y ago
I don't think it's really that you lack imagination; it's that the human condition is quite universal in a lot of ways so the insights you gleaned were not particularly novel. But the real value is in actually taking the insi
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by xtony 6y ago
Not agreeing or disagreeing with you here, but Jack Dorsey claims that they are not being an "arbiter of truth" here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1265837139360485376
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by xtony 6y ago
To be fair, the scoreboard in the post displays the success of the deploys too, which would address the third and fourth point. But of course, people can still game the metric with a ton of insignificant incremental changes that don't
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by xtony 6y ago
Engineers are probably not the audience of this post.
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by xtony 6y ago
Caching is allowed (for up to 30 days). Here are the specific terms for the API in the article: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-te... "Customer can temporarily cache latitude (lat) a
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by xtony 8y ago
The other person was able to use his/my SSN to "mistakenly" withdraw a large amount of money from my bank account. That was what first tipped me off.
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by xtony 8y ago
Cool idea. YMMV with this, though. The government accidentally assigned me someone else's SSN (had the same first/last name as me and was born in the same hospital) and it took about 2 years to rectify.
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by xtony 9y ago
How do you contact these places?
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by xtony 9y ago
What does LRU (least recently used) have to do with picking the highest-priority problem? But overall, pretty good overview and I appreciate the links to other sources.
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by xtony 9y ago
>Sorry, "its" what? Copy editors, please. Imagine the sentence "Alice tinkers with her health care system. Bob revamped his." It's the same concept, but with "its" as the pronoun.