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+1. Haha, what an apt comparison. Yes, Arlington is a nice model to adopt, but needs to be even denser.

Exactly. It's a travesty that Silicon Valley looks like a suburb in 2015. It should've been a great example of a dense, clean, urban region, which would also mitigate the commuter problems and the pressure on San Francisco rents.

I'm guessing those are in the upper echelons of the finance industry such as hedge funds.

It worked! Thanks a ton

Thanks, will try it out!

I'd dispute the 2015 one. There have been lots of Go related articles on HN, but Go usually gets a mixed reception.

It's really annoying and reminds me of Windows where such issues were routine and rebooting was not a big deal. I moved to a Mac to get away from such issues, and largely have, except this one niggling issue.

I don't have a 'video issue' as explained here, but I do have a problem with my my 'iSight' camera frequently not being recognized by Facetime (or anywhere else). The issue goes away upon rebooting.

Any ideas? It's a 2012 edition MacBook Pro with Retina Display 15"

Not just clickbait either. The whole article is a mish-mash of bad tech history analogies.

Great. More 'X is the new Y' articles. I wonder if there's a list of cliches somewhere that get repeated by tech journalists every so often.

I would find out the medium term goals of the organization, and find all the resources I would need to accomplish some of them - people (on LinkedIn, Meetup.com), courses (Udacity Nanodegree, Coursera Specialization, Thinkful, etc), books (Such as Intro to Algorithms, etc).

And then draft a comprehensive plan to make this happen. If you do this, then you will become truly irreplaceable for your organization.

^ To those not in the know, the above poster 'jashkenas' is Jeremy Ashkenas, the creator of CoffeeScript and Backbone.js

Are there any downsides to this design?

Yes, which is also why The Checklist Manifesto was so successful.

Brilliant! When profilers are this easy to use, more people will use them, and the whole Ruby ecosystem will see better performance. Well done.

Poe's Law? In a good way.

Wonderful, thanks.

It was an actual charge for a specific route (e.g. SFO - JFK). I couldn't later claim that it was for SFO - YYZ.

The weird part was that I was booking the flight sitting at home from my personal laptop. In short, my modal usage of the credit card for online shopping.

Yes if the transaction was 'on hold' it may have been fine. The problem occurred because the transaction went thru on the sales page, but was then blocked by Amex before the airline could send a confirmation, and then there was no confirmation as the payment had not been approved. So, infact, if the card was refused AT the submission form, the website would've held onto the ticket, and waited for re-submission.

I don't mind the false positive. It's just that people should be compensated for it, especially if the rate is low. It's just good business sense. If the bank can eat up actual fraud charges, why should it not eat false positives?

I come from a long line of docs, though I'm a software dev. Let me tell you that the vast majority of patients can easily be sorted into these pre-formed category bins. Rare conditions are rare by definition. Most of medicine is dreary repetition.

I suffered from Amex's fraud detection algorithm recently when trying to book a discount airfare. There was 1 ticket left, I tried paying for it, and Amex blocked the charge, and by the time I tried it again (90 seconds or so), the ticket was gone. I was on call with many service reps, and no one was able to cover the differential between the cheapest new flight and the discount fare that I missed due to the 'false positive' fraud block. Why should the customer suffer penalties for false positives? Considering that fraudulent charges themselves do not accrue liability for the customer, why should false positives do so?

Yeah I realize that and it's broken. There's clearly a use case that the LED served between ZERO interruptions and buzzing/ringing.

Working hard is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success. Like Patrick said, working very hard at digging ditches is not going to land you in a C-suite, obviously, but very few people end up successful WITHOUT working hard.

That's tautological. He's lucky because he's lucky. But if you meant that genetic inheritance plays a large role in success, then obviously I agree.

The very reason they fund 100 and hope for 1 is that all the analysis and data in the world have not helped narrow likely success criteria beyond 'fund the team.' What's stopping you from starting a VC fund that's REALLY CAREFUL with investments?

Very cool.

Android Lollipop also broke the led indicator at the bottom of my Nexus 5. I can no longer count on it to reliably indicate if I have messages/emails pending on silent mode.

Check out the National Crime Victimization Survey which corroborates the conviction stats.