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zwerdlds··on Mandrill’s Betrayal
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It seems like this change is to avoid being on the hook for those non-{legal, non-spam} emails.

zwerdlds··on Mandrill’s Betrayal
Not sure if that's really true. Non-bulk marketing and newsletter emails are a thing.
zwerdlds··on Bill Gates calls for terror data debate
Came here to say this. The feds almost universally use the MS ecosystem.
zwerdlds··on We had a unit test which only failed on Sundays
Using a library is definitely the way to go when you can. For serialization, ALWAYS use 8601.
zwerdlds··on United Airlines Bug Bounty: An experience in reporting a serious vulnerability
If they were genuinely behind on patching vulnerabilities, I can sort-of understand.

Then again, how hard is it for a company of their size to hire some 1099's for a brief time...

zwerdlds··on Baltic Dry Index Falls Below 500 for First Time
The Fed is probably deciding primarily on domestic indicators.
zwerdlds··on The Five Biggest Myths About Saving Money, According to a Millennial
Typical rates are between 4 and 7 percent.

Agreed about the issue of compound interest, but everyone's case is different. I think that's all he's saying: "Take the time to be unemployed and figure out what you want to do. Three years of CI is less important than knowing what you want to spend your life making money at."

Now one might argue that this decision should be made prior to going to university in the first place...

zwerdlds··on The Five Biggest Myths About Saving Money, According to a Millennial
No, he said that you shouldn't worry about paying them for the first three years - presumably because this is the period of time for which all student loans can be deferred due to unemployment in the United States.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/deferment-forbearan...

zwerdlds··on Nelson Rules
There is also a MILSPEC for general quality control processes, though I can't find the particular document at the moment.

If you're one of the people in the thread describing this as too subjective or strict, the MILSPEC is probably more appropriate for your process.

zwerdlds··on A Well Known but Forgotten Trick: Object Pooling
It's been a while, but this was a common technique for agent based modeling in MASON back in the day.

Having tens of thousands of agents constantly being garbage invalidated was the use case.

zwerdlds··on Who's doing this to my internet?
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
zwerdlds··on Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum
Jumping to conclusions aside, wouldn't they communicate that?
zwerdlds··on Slavoj Žižek on GReferendum: The Greeks are correct
My Great Depression Economics professor at university had the opinion that the newly formed ECU was going to be temporary or at least limited in scope, due to the lack of exchange float - similar to the gold standard. I also see a lack of "political float" here. op/ It's too idealistic to expect separate nation states to ignore their differences. /op
zwerdlds··on 2015 Tesla Model S P85D First Test
Drag increases as the square of velocity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_equation
zwerdlds··on [dead]
Developer mode is probably available on this machine like it has been on chromebooks, which would allow you to install another os. in my experience, though, it's just a hassle and really not worth putting up with. Maybe theyre more open now, but in the past it was a pain.
zwerdlds··on Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery
You're right though. Even MS is starting to realize the lack of power in their GUI-centric designers. I will say that, in trying to catch up, theyre way out of practice in buildin powerful/customizable command like tools (see SQLMetal and t4 for starters)
zwerdlds··on Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery
Sounds like a docker/vagrant use case.

I do disagree with the thesis though. If youre building on a tool you ought to learn how to use it properly. Otherwise what happens when something breaks? Placing "sensible defaults" works until you need to change the tools functionality, at which point, if you dont know how to use the tool you will be once again lost.

It's a whack-a-mole method vs the dynamite approach IMHO.

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