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Comment · 10 years ago
It still has the integer ID in the URL, so if you're willing to drop $20 a week on getting your own pizza, you can still see how many online orders Dominoes gets - it could be valuable information for competitors, or investors, as you say.
Comment · 10 years ago
The article says this is repairing a loophole:

> The 1959 law on which the regulations are based already required employers to disclose the hiring of such consultants. But the Labor Department argued that previous administrations had allowed an enormous loophole that effectively exempted consultants who coached supervisors on how to influence employees so long as the consultants didn’t interact with the employees directly.

But won't they just hire the same people as "workforce relationship consultants who are TOTALLY not anti-union"? Isn't there an infinite supply of loopholes here?

Comment · 11 years ago
Normally you're right that no net exposure implies no risk. However, you've completely forgotten the financial crisis? Counterparty risk can completely destroy the idea of "all positions are offset". If I buy a derivative and then re-sell it for a profit, that's fine until the people I bought it from suddenly go under, and now my position is not protected anymore!
Comment · 11 years ago
As an outsider to the field, I really enjoyed reading this paper: http://www.pcg-random.org/paper.html

It's advocating for a particular new kind of PRNG, but it also includes a lot of great explanations and citations for more reading.

Comment · 11 years ago
This assumes that random people die each year. However, if you survive for a year, you are probably very tough, and your life expectancy might actually go up.
Comment · 11 years ago
Mitsuhiko has written extensively about Py3 unicode problems, e.g. http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/

I think a lot of it boils down to, sometimes you really really don't want to care about unicode. Linux filenames are one thorny issue - Linux thinks of them as strings of bytes, and a tool is broken if it can't also deal with them that way. Py3 makes it very difficult to do that correctly. There are also issues with stdin/out being opened as unicode vs byte streams.

For web development, the "unicode sandwich" (http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html) works great in my experience. However, I can see his point that for some kinds of tasks, Py3 is unambiguously a downgrade.

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Thanks for this interesting answer! I read most of the getting started guide last night and I'll probably try Elixir for a toy project sometime soon :)
Comment · 11 years ago
Are macros useful in a web development context? I don't feel like I've been missing them in Django, but maybe I've just forgotten because it's been a long time since I wrote anything substantial in Scheme. (Are Elixir macros similar to Scheme macros?)
Comment · 11 years ago
"dog eats software"

- Examine why dogs will eat poop.

- In what way did many dog owners get very upset when their dog eats poop?

- Is this a wonderful opportunity for their dog to interact with someone?

- Talk about what some dogs are.

- How do some dogs have instincts to carry stuff in their mouths?

- What is the cloud?

Comment · 11 years ago
tl;dr -

* Content Neutrality: Content blocking software should focus on addressing potential user needs (such as on performance, security, and privacy) instead of blocking specific types of content (such as advertising).

* Transparency & Control: The content blocking software should provide users with transparency and meaningful controls over the needs it is attempting to address.

* Openness: Blocking should maintain a level playing field and should block under the same principles regardless of source of the content. Publishers and other content providers should be given ways to participate in an open Web ecosystem, instead of being placed in a permanent penalty box that closes off the Web to their products and services.

Comment · 11 years ago
Might want to electrical-tape over the phone's front-facing camera, and maybe even excavate out its microphone. Just In Case.
Comment · 11 years ago
I can't zoom in far enough to see many of the hops :(

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