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by yajoe 12y ago
$0.02 regarding the name of the feature, which I think anchors too much in the "censorship/free speech" principle discussion when it seems you have much more tactical goals (moderator workload, foster specific topics, etc.).
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by yajoe 13y ago
This is an interesting feature, and certainly not something I would have expected as the "next" feature to add. When I read "pending comments" I expected something similar to slashdot's old "preview" feat
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by yajoe 13y ago
For those who don't know, Greg is one of the common faces of the Seattle VC scene. He is a staple at nearly every startup event -- Startup Weekend, Geekwire events, TechStars, VC panels, etc. I don't have a dog in the fight, but
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by yajoe 13y ago
Don't have a dog in the fight, but interesting how the uberX page doesn't mention specifics of the proposal beyond "put hundreds of drivers out of business and effectively shut UberX down." Where are the links? The spe
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by yajoe 13y ago
Similar to another poster, the only person admitted to MIT from my high school 10 years ago out of a class of 1200 from a wealthy suburb was the daughter of an alumnus who ran the interviews for the region. I just find it hard to believe L
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by yajoe 13y ago
totally off-topic, but because of the SOPA nonsense I've slowly moved my 40-or-so domains to namecheap during 2013 when their renewals came up. I was otherwise ambivalent about which DNS service/registrar to use before that incid
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by yajoe 13y ago
Interesting story. It seems the case went to arbitration due to a clause in the Ilya Semin employment contract and thus out of the light of regular courts: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/5
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by yajoe 13y ago
Mind elaborating, even if it's wild speculation and rumor? I haven't been following YHOO closely to know the backstory or context behind this individual.
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by yajoe 13y ago
This is a good question about the macro US economy. In general I agree with GP. Fact: The Fed has injected large amounts of cash into the asset markets using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing . I'
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by yajoe 13y ago
You both are right! (yeah, yeah, cop out...) Listen to this: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/06/kling_on_the_th.htm...
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by yajoe 13y ago
Thanks, you're right. I don't know why I would have ever thought "!" was bitwise... only on a Saturday night. It just goes to show that sleep is very important for interviews!
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by yajoe 13y ago
Agree on needing comments. My C++ is a bit rusty, but I think the code is in fact checking if the number is divisible by 2 (i.e. n % 2 == 0). I think it's using the bitwise and operator (single &) to AND each bit in n and (n-1) and
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by yajoe 13y ago
Thanks. We've been segregating authenticated vs non-authenticated traffic to different domains for a few years now (we had the same realization as moot), but I was unaware about this specific exploit related to TLS compression. That
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by yajoe 13y ago
> Don't forget to disable TLS compression and HTTP compression for pages containing session ids or CSRF tokens. Dumb question: Is this general advice or is it specific to django due to the "BREACH" [1][2] https attack? It
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by yajoe 13y ago
Really? Exchange: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj900500(v=ex... Gmail: https://developers.google.com/gmail/gmail_inbox_feed (Search is only available publicly via SMTP
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by yajoe 13y ago
This isn't as serious of a proposal as some of the W3C documents on how XML and WS-* works with my name on it (among many, many other smarter people)... and I have a lot of sympathy for someone who had to deal with Win32 APIs (they are
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by yajoe 13y ago
I love this read, and I would love to read entire books of people from the trenches making software. However, most of the specific details Hal cites are... well... dated from someone who learned the craft in the 1980. This line struck out
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by yajoe 13y ago
It's also weird that they didn't explain the how behind this line: > Instead of serving images directly from their original external host servers, Gmail will now serve all images through Google’s own secure proxy servers. In
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by yajoe 13y ago
> It's unclear if Amazon has actually started using Kiva, though. Yeah. They use them a lot. A lot, a lot. It was cheaper to buy the company than pay to outfit every FC. All newish fulfillment centers ( http://www.ama
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by yajoe 13y ago
Yes, many public stocks on major exchanges are just other forms of currency. It just depends on whether the underlying asset is highly liquid (which implies easy to trade, confidence it will exist in short and long terms, etc). I would
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by yajoe 13y ago
Like you, I place little weight on the findings from a few keyword searches. Such vacuous analysis. That said, there are a few incentives in play for the "X for Y" or "<this> for <that>" language and why to
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by yajoe 13y ago
Even though I don't own a gun, I own two sets of ear protection for this very reason! Just as effective as Bose but for $30, could be worn throughout flights (before recent FAA changes), and needed no batteries. Highly recommend this
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by yajoe 13y ago
Completely agree, and I didn't know this practice had spread so widely. While doing the HR-sanctioned stack ranking requires X > MIN_POP_SIZE, in practice each line manager (i.e. lead) provides a pre-sorted list up the chain for me
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by yajoe 13y ago
I thought everpix was a great product and had my family using it (4 paid accounts). I'm very sorry to hear this, and I wish the whole team good fortune. Would you mind sharing the P&L statement and/or pitch deck that the verg
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by yajoe 13y ago
Looks like Rockstar will be this generation's SCO. It's almost exactly the same tactic as last time, except now Microsoft isn't even bothering to hide its role. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93L
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by yajoe 13y ago
It's for the favicon of all things: http://bruceackerman.com/paypal-redesign/img/favicon.ico Holy cow, Google, this is pretty good for automatic protection. It looks like Google sees that the guy is hosting
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by yajoe 13y ago
You're right, and you are the first person I've seen say it out loud. Further evidence: the Office competitor from Apple is also free. Why? The low-end Surface devices bundled Office for free, and one cycle later Apple began bun
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by yajoe 13y ago
I also wish the limitations would disappear, but there are two reasons keeping them in place: 1) Government wants to ensure it can track all digital transfers (many pre-paid cards require activating with SSN) 2) Failing to approve certain t
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by yajoe 13y ago
I completely agree :) Success-styled self-help is a lot like the lottery. There are millions of analytical, intellectual, objective issues with each (e.g. YMMV, survival bias, terrible odds, etc.). What they have in common is they allow u
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by yajoe 13y ago
I work in the industry. Chip and pin is not statistically safer (fraud rates in Spain, UK, and US are all the same despite having very different payment landscapes). The fundamental problem is that in traditional chip-and-pin setups you a

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