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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Yes this is true, but also we'll have trillionaires added to our spellchecker dictionaries in a couple years. We really do have a huge problem on our hands.
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Oh nice! Thanks for letting me know.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I dunno. When I was still writing publicly someone reached out for me to add RSS to my website and it took me like 3 hours maybe to add it to my hand written static site compiler. It's a pretty simple protocol, even if I would have don
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
How about having an international bribery conspiracy pinned on you? Happened to my pops because he, a German-born Canadian of Turkish and German descent, refused to pay bribes. I was actually conceived while he was out there in Saudi Arabia
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Well, I make a lot. I'm sure my boss is aware of that. I don't know a single person that is paid this much in Toronto and doesn't have to manage others. Not even close. So maybe that's why he doesn't need to know.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
> And yet so much (not all, but a substantial part) of what that book is about has very little relationship to language safety. Yes, yes. I know that. But we literally have a book floating around around THE END of the WORLD and us nerds
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I find it kinda amusing that the New York Times lead reporter on cybersecurity has a book out literally called "This is How They Tell Me the World Ends" and we're on the worlds premier hacker forum pondering about the point o
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
My boss doesn't know how much I'm paid. I like it that way. He communicates how he feels I'm doing to the people that need to know and it's working out ok.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
> they've got more important things to do. Well, fine. They feel that way, but it isn't really true. Their going to be the ones maintaining that software for a while and even a basic Google like "Visual Basic best practice
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Writing software for a long time really changes your perspective on things. It no longer seems weird that "the" cat is both alive and dead. It's just compression between two universes and until we open the box our perspective
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
> You can't compel a company to provide you with a service. Yes we can. We have for centuries. These entities exist as the result of the will of the people. We are the ones that allowed the concept of corporate personhood to come in
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
> institutionally sized portfolio Is the part that cuts both ways.
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That's true. Not my game, but it is true.
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I agree it's a meme stock now, but it wasn't always a meme stock. There was a time where it was severely undervalued and that's when I bought. I did not hold it all the way to the top. I sold it way before then.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
> Let's naively assume that you actually can pick stocks. At $10Bn - you need to pick more stocks - otherwise you would drive up the price too much in buying that much of the stock This refrain is common enough, but I don't thi
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Everything else being equal, I prefer shorter code. I agree that this example is both shorter and more readable, but it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I believe you, but I haven't. Though I haven't done much large sized tech company work other than the Nasdaq gig I mentioned, which was background checked. I think the overall point doesn't really change. Apply. Let other peo
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Nope. The only background checks I've ever had working for Americans was law enforcement / intelligence agency software (I was working for a Canadian company and they sold to them) and a contract for the Nasdaq. Other than that, i
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Apply for everything. Let other people say no for you. If people find out about your past be 100% straight with them, but you don't need to be the one to bring it up. Work your hardest to provide value, ask for feedback and correct whe
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
The types of nits I raise are the ones where I think the author of the pull request would appreciate as something they should do going forward. For example: if foo > bar: return foo else: return bar Should just b
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Cuts both ways, in my opinion. Institutional portfolios have access to more opportunities and talent than retail investors.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
As of now? I don't think so. But I did that math back in 2001 or 2002, way before Tesla was publicly traded.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I also didn't mention buying Bitcoin, which I did on credit. People don't like hearing that the market can be beat because they don't like feeling inadequate. But it can be beat if you understand industries and physics and co
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
You don't miss all the crashes, but there are some fundamentals that when they get out of whack at best you get a flat market for years and at worse you see a crash. Why buy into an overhyped market?
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
People keep telling me this, but I keep beating the market. It's been 20 years or so of applying very basic reasoning and getting ahead. 1. Commodities are bad long term bets because technology gets better. I remember people talking my
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Definitely more challenging but it needs some nice to haves like showing which letters haven't been guessed or that couldn't possibly matter (a zero, zero row). Also, I don't like having to press enter. But overall fun.
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Yeah I don't know what it's like going in the front door. I just sounded smart at a lunch with someone that worked for the Prime Ministers Office. When they were having trouble with something I got a really random email haha.
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
I understand you feel that way, but unfortunately the political spectrum has gotten too large and too dumb for me to tolerate it any more. I'm a centre leftist who thinks for himself and comes to right wing conclusions here and there.
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There is red tape, yes, but there are upsides to doing contract work for them too. The sheer scale of impact is daunting. Millions of people looking for work and you help them figure out the areas their recommender system needs improvement?
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by 3pt14159 5y ago
Big time. I remember hanging out with the AI team here in Toronto before deep learning took off. Then it took off and Microsoft just bought the research team out from under UoT's feet. It was a sky high payout. Same thing for the gover

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