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kevinr

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About kevinr

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    Comment #18136486

    Start a nudes pinterest. Lmk how it goes

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    Comment #18136457

    > If you are looking to subscribe to other profiles you will need to add a payment card. When adding a payment card, your card information is stored by a payment processor, which i…

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    Comment #18136448

    Try following any of those links now, you fucking tease

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    Comment #18082519

    > [I]t's clear that the top 10% of companies make up the overwhelming majority of their portfolio. So they go for moonshots. You've just described the entire business model of ever…

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    Comment #17158685

    It depends on the law. In the case of the GDPR, it does apply despite the person not being physically in the EU.

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    Comment #17158546

    There's one very important problem with this approach: this blocks people from accessing your site who are doing so from the EU, whereas the GDPR applies to EU citizens , wherever …

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    Comment #17139430

    This is a really useful article. What I really want is Java-minus-Oracle, and it sounded from some of the chatter around Kotlin like it might be that, but it seems what I really wa…

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    Comment #15746861

    What a missed opportunity, not to title this article "In Search of Lost Primes". (inb4 all the Proust fans downmod me to oblivion)

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    Comment #15657639

    It's not coincidental; I believe the 'sole application' the author talks about was in fact an online game.

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    Comment #15608687

    Netflix explicitly have a policy of trying to pay the best in the industry, as I was told when I interviewed there. Turns out it works!

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    Comment #15608682

    Recognizing both expenses and revenue over time is part of generally accepted accounting practices (GAAP). Intuitionistically, it makes total sense that you get a clearer picture o…

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    Comment #15608672

    The hed is a little misleading---what is meant by happiness in the article itself is that Netflix employees more likely feel they're compensated fairly and aren't looking for other…

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    Comment #15578729

    Oh this is very cool. The structure reminds me of Matthew Brown's "Music for Shuffle" project: http://musicforshuffle.com/2014/04/06/session1/

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    Comment #15496704

    Zelle is not really the same thing as what WePay does. Zelle is peer-to-peer payments, competitive with Paypal, Square Cash, Venmo, etc. (P2P is a term of art in the industry; it's…

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    Comment #15487872

    So few companies are clear about it in their hiring processes, and therefore wind up hiring for all sorts of skills which have at best weak bearing on actual job performance in mos…

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    Comment #15487859

    I think it's all going to depend on how the tenure mechanism is implemented. There's got to be some way for new money to "catch up" to old money within some reasonable time horizon…

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    Comment #15469935

    Does your concern about an interviewer misinterpreting the intent of the question change if the asker presents as a white man?

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    Comment #15469923

    It's going to depend a lot on the individual interviewer how well they can answer that question. If recruiting and the hiring manager don't both have good answers to that question,…

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    Comment #15469915

    Companies above garage size literally employ people to answer candidate questions. If the company hasn't invested the time to answer "What are you trying to figure out about a cand…

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    Comment #15034764

    Standard---maybe not objection, but complication: I'm waiting for the day AI can do this in 2100 KWh. (Human brain uses ~15W continuous. 15 W * 24h * 365 days * 16 years.)

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    Comment #14996566

    That's no different than public feedback, though. It's not a problem specific to gossip.

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    Comment #14977603

    That's why Kenn only recommends using services with per-user PSK for geo-shifting video streams. For all other uses, Kenn recommends Algo, and I recommend Cloak, neither of which u…

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    Comment #14977589

    When I'm providing security advice to a general audience, I can't expect people to reliably follow detailed instructions. "Oh, use VyperVPN, except you have to use OpenVPN, except …