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Don't know why you're getting "greyed out", but without writing an essay about it, this

Great, now my credit score will be affected by my posture as well

Lol, thank you for reminding us of this golden nugget!

It basically just tips the liberal reader's "oh no, that's bad, that's outdated, white male, bad, 1950s, modernism, bad"

This makes a lot of sense. Every day, at 4am, I would spring out of my bed and begin screaming as I jumped up and down on my parents bed to wake them up, sometimes literally opening their eyelids for them, kept screaming, made myself captain crunch and began watching my daily episode of dragon ball z while eating capn crunch and acting out kung fu moves on the furniture.

My sister on the other hand is pretty quiet and just sometimes procrastinates too much and doesn't clean her apartment.

"We are proud to announce the release of Node.js v4.2.0 "Ganja", the first release covered under the new Long Term Support plan!"

At first I thought the comment was actually serious and couldn't believe it before I read the whole article. Thanks for pointing this out

This clearly shows that we need to disrupt the old and outdated statistics that are powering these studies. Disruption isn't a straight line and you can't fit a straight line to disruption because it's a fractal.

Is this the plot to American Beauty?

People are worried that Jack will be too busy between Twitter and Square, but what they don't know is that the dude's been completely spaced out for the last 4 years, making the same motivational presentation about his Dad's pizza shop to anyone that will listen. Nobody at Twitter talks to Jack anymore, even the most Senior people.

I'm going to work at Zappos and do magic mushrooms all the time, refuse to wear shoes or change out of a wardrobe solely comprised of yak fur, and develop myself into the most central node on the org chart by generally being the chillest, most non reductionist dude in the organization

Haha thanks buddy. I interpreted what they were saying as "looks don't matter", which is obviously false

I read an article by the Economist a few years ago supporting a more general notion that the legal system is subject to a natural increase in the quantity of superfluous fees that are tacked on like pork due to the fact that the legal system is run by lawyers, who naturally like policies and systems that help lawyers make money.

Cool, I did not know that SETH and PvNP were different

Dude... thank you

Why would you want to sleep when you can listen to Spotify some more?

Can you explain the difference between search intent and discovery intent

7,750 is a shockingly low number for a service like Netflix, but I guess it reflects the fact that most movies aren't really that good and you'd probably only be interested in watching a maximum of 10k titles over your lifetime, maybe 15,000 hours / 2 years of content

I hope to join you guys in your fantasy world one day

Ha ha... I'm not against learning preferences at all... I think you misunderstood my comment

This is so dumb... One paragraph they're introducing the concept of "small data", the next paragraph they're talking about how getting the swipe information for huge numbers of users helps them train their collaborative filtering algorithm...

Ultimately it's a big data hype article... GASP we can infer your preferences from your behavior... Written by someone with a Medium tagline of "Sassy futurism. Tech and words."

Look this comes off as totally weak. If you're a strong developer as you claim you have no god damn problem. Tell your wife, "Look these assholes are busting my balls, I'll figure something out within a month" and hustle your ass off and you'll get a job. The market is hot as fuck right now and it is easier than ever to get a high paying job.

If you have no university degree and next to no industry experience, 40k is not that far off the mark. But if you're doing the work of a 75ker, you should be able to convince someone you're worth at least say 60k. I find it strange that you had kids before you were making the kind of money you need to support them.

man this post made me cringe

"But the researchers experimented with different queuing systems, and when they told volunteer queuers that people would be selected from the queue and served at random, the average wait was reduced."

This is all around a much better system than FIFO. Of course LIFO is the fastest on average, but you want there to be a reasonable, predictable bound on how much time an individual can expect to wait. An extension of this policy could be "partially random first come first served", where you just start at the first person in line and flip a coin with probability 0 <= p <= 1 of getting heads, and if you get heads they get served. If you get tails you move to the next person, with the only exception being the last person in line.

In practice, for airports I would prefer to have the people sitting in the back board first. Then you wouldn't have so much congestion from people blocking the aisle while they stuff their bag into the overhead compartment. Also you shouldn't have to sit in your seat longer for the same flight if you bought a first class ticket.

This is really interesting

I love how the police officer was deemed necessary

Dude you must have gone to an elite high school

I am jelly of some of my friends who got really good at programming in high school. One dude managed to replace the keyboard drivers for every keyboard on the entire network with garbage, so that if they plugged in another keyboard, it still wouldn't work. He also gave his English teacher a "wacky mouse", where she would be presenting something and at some random time her cursor switched and behaved as if attached on the end of a spring. She would often inspect the underside of the mouse in response to this problem.

It's not just regular bullying... cue ignorant middle aged schoolteacher gasp chorus IT'S CYBER BULLYING!!! cyborg bursts through the wall and grabs nerd by the collar

I can relate to this story. One of my funniest memories was when my 7th grade teacher reprimanded me for "putting a password" on my website. She was referring to the username and password fields in the sidebar. I told her everything on the site was visible without a user account, but I guess she didn't believe me, because she made one that night. Of course she didn't find anything. The best part was she filled out her whole profile, including a picture of herself, her interests "knitting, helping children", etc, just so she could have a chance at discovering an imaginary section of the site where everyone at my school was lambasting her.