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For me, I learn mostly for practical use, so for instance I want to build a markov chain generator:

- I refresh up on probabilities in general

- I look at the markov chain wiki article

- I look at related pages to see what else I could do

- etc. (goto step 2/3)

I will say it: Wikipedia. You do need to have the common knowledge used to describe the topics but Wikipedia is an amazing source.

(out of your list, I mainly looked at Game Theory, Probability, and Statistics there).

Chrome has a built-in ad blocker that blocks the ads Google finds too disruptive for the users: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chromes-built-in-ad-blo...

Seems to be a lightweight shell that links to their wiki: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Jd/Overview

I'm having trouble with the google cache version too, so here is the archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20190408150115/https://misfra.me...

The "thank you" emails seems to be a tradition/expectation of the classic corporate culture where the employer has a extreme amount of candidates for each opening and each candidate must please the interviewer at all cost. (e.g. a extreme imbalance in power between employer/candidate).

Quite contrary to the "startup" culture where there is a limited amount of candidates for each opening and where it's acknowledged that candidates might get multiple offers (e.g. a more balanced employer/candidate power)

What would be interesting is that we move away from domain blacklists (e.g. adblocks, /etc/hosts, pi hole, etc.) to domain/ips whitelists (like firewalls).

> If you want another database such as PostgreSQL, MySQL et al, you must deploy them in another container as an addon.

Sounds like a pain.

Hi, do you handle something similar to buildpacks and heroku addons? The price is very attractive. I should get around to try it this week.

> On the last day of trial, Serrin Turner, the NY lead prosecutor, addressed the jury and stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire allegations occurred.[28] One charge of procuring murder was originally filed in October 2013 in a separate pending indictment in Maryland (which was later dismissed in its entirety in July 2018);[8] the other five allegations were never filed.[38]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht

Maybe "meaningful" would be a better choice of word, not sure.

> Issues may not be added to the sprint

I don't see this happening, even if that's a good rule, because issues come up that take higher priority than existing issues.

I think he puts Twitter there because he doesn't use it. If you follow the right people it actually promotes intelligent discourse.

> If your app or website uses a Unicode character which isn't supported on a device, the user will usually see � - a replacement character. If you include Unifont, they'll see the correct character.

Neat idea. I think the transition to UTF-8 is practically done, I'm not seeing � anymore these days (used to be extremely common a while back).

They do all kinds of caching, image compression, etc. I think most of those are in paid plans though.

Just mentioning it as it's quite a simple, fast, free change that doesn't cost any developer hours.

Would be cool to see what the performance would be with Cloudflare in front of those sites.

They often offer either the simple option or the custom-built option basically:

- Stripe Checkout (https://stripe.com/docs/checkout) vs implementing your custom credit card form and using the API directly (https://stripe.com/docs/charges)

- Standard, Express, Custom options for Stripe Connect (e.g. take money from someone and give it to someone else): https://stripe.com/docs/connect/accounts

archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20190401005430/https://www.jemja...

And original link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190401004514/https://www.jemja...

I'm getting errors when using a VPN:

> The firewall on this server is blocking your connection.

I've found HackerRank to be great at acing the algorithmic/data structures questions during interviews. You don't even need to finish Cracking the Coding Interview (which is incredibly hard to do with ruby as it's mostly performance based).

Thought it was going to be a phishing testing service which I don't remember the name of (maybe https://www.getusecure.com).

(Seems like tallpoppy is focused on harassment)

You could use "hacker for hire" services on Tor.

You could also hide a bounty somewhere (e.g. in an email, in a private Github repo, etc.).

You don't even need to mention this is your account, e.g. "I want the email password of X for Y bitcoins".

Both solutions comes with its own issues, but I don't think there is a legal way to do a full pentest.

# Code of Conduct

This is a dictatorship, I do what I want.

Thanks.

Wouldn't most of those use cases be illegal? For instance tracking license plates of cars is already illegal as far as I know.

Hi, if you are interested in helping people with their ruby/rails issues, there is also reddit / ruby discord / rails slack / and stack overflow. I'm trying to be active on Reddit and the Discord but not very active on slack/stack overflow. There are already quite a few people helping but more people would help :).

Applying what you are learning to a project you are working on, you get free "spaced repetition" that way every time you use that bit and/or come back to re-read/edit it.

Looks like Uber would be a $90B - $120B valuation, so about ~1/4th of Uber.

Uber has ~15 millions daily trips, while Lyft has ~2 million daily trips.

It's a redirect to: https://erik.itland.no/what-did-google-get-right (I was just checking for url shorteners)

Stack Overflow is such a mess I prefer helping people on Reddit / Discord / Slack nowadays.

SO is becoming read-only in my opinion.

Preaching what I like, and I'm not into extreme performance much:

- Ruby for most things (most generalist language I know)

- JS for whatever can't be done in Ruby

- Other languages when anything really can't be done (or a magnitude harder) in JS or Ruby

I think just trying out to make some simple thing (e.g. an Hacker News scrapper) in different languages will tell you much more than any person's opinions.

https://learnxinyminutes.com helps grabs the basics of a language quickly (especially as you are familiar with other languages).

> Free plan ‐ 12000 queries per month

That's nice. Maybe a free plan without an API key would be nice to try without registration.

Also you might want to integrate it to geocoder ip lookup: https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder