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Not surprising, because computing mean is O(n) and median is O(n log n). Lack of resources or pure laziness doesn't make it the right measure to use though.

Interactive Brokers already offers this, so I'm wondering what the actual innovation is here.

> What I did do: learned basic Mandarin, established a relationship that has lasted 20+ years, read many non CS / non-technical books, focused on getting healthier and fitter. Woul…

Pretty much every dating app would be on this list if in-app purchases were taken into account.

Blaming disease spread on density is kind of a cop out after how we saw the world respond to crisis. Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong, and most Chinese cities are super dense places th…

They also don't care about security, until one day it bites them in the ass.

You've just described requirements that belong to a service. Congratulations, you made the right (obvious) decision. I'm talking about writing entire services that are just wrapper…

It doesn't even take oodles of money from a SaaS platform to motivate turning a library into a service. Even in in-house development, developers are often motivated to build servic…

This is not the biggest HR issue GitHub has faced in recent memory. https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-preston-werner-resigns-f...

To the extent that the parents chose to raise their children in an environment that taught them advanced emotional manipulation skills at an early age, sure.

This is basically how I feel about dating.

I would much rather have 75% pay for 13 weeks of PTO. Highly unlikely anyone will ever offer that.

Could be a Perl programmer, in which case it doesn't matter at all.

Who wants to work with me on my next startup, which sets up an innocuous-looking Facebook profile for privacy-conscious individuals, including friendships with other perfectly norm…

> I know a guy, a sales guy, who "worked from home" for a large multinational while earning six figures. He spent most of his time doing home improvement projects. He replaced his …

What happens if you have a very small false positive rate for fraud, and end up stiffing the customer? You could easily land in deep trouble with consumer protection laws after fal…

Honestly, it's the growing realization that despite all of my efforts, I haven't done anything worth feeling proud of. To me that feels like I've lived a waste of a life. As you ca…

Do you mean, working for the NSA with the intention of getting access to secrets and then leaking them?

If I want a $1,000,000,000 unicorn, and can't find it, is it because I'm not paying enough? The fact that many SV companies want mythical beings to solve their engineering problems…

> When will the Peoples Republic grant self-determination to Tibet? That would be the action of a self-assured and mature state. Probably around the same time a certain self-assure…

Is this supposed to be Tron or Snake? I distinctly remember Tron being a multiplayer game, with the mechanics such that moving along a wall or trail increases your speed, putting y…

Uhoh. Dan Shipper's web-based business ( http://www.airtimehq.com/ ) has run into a serious namespace collision.

You should try to be constructive on this forum. It's one thing for someone to say "you should" for an entirely self-serving purpose (e.g. "you should follow me on Twitter"). It's …

Not if you invoke the nuclear option and put every facebook domain (including the fbcdn stuff) in your hosts file as 0.0.0.0

For a happier ending, try "Sex, Drugs, and Unix": http://www.tenthousandmonkeys.com/078/078am.htm