Aqueous

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by Aqueous 13y ago
I guess you failed to read my comment. Did I say it was the only thing? No. I said that the burden of proof shouldn't require three phone screens, a multi-hour (7 - 8+?) coding test, and then a 5 hour on-site interview. Companies are
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Do you need another 5 hours of coding to prove that I'd be a good culture fit, or would a 30 minute - 1 hour interview and the high recommendation of my references suffice?
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Yes. I have a new rule with recruiters. If you are trying to recruit me, make me an offer. Otherwise, go away. You called me, not the other way around. I'm not going to jump through a bunch of your hoops to prove to you for free tha
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Another way of saying this: When it rains, it pours. And of course this is true. For any given node in an example network, the number of incoming links to it is the same as the number of people who have already 'vouched' for that
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by Aqueous 13y ago
If this article is slanted, it's because reality has a bias, not MIT.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I've deactivated my Facebook account too, but it wasn't weakness that kept me there. Just like with anything, moderation is the key. If you can't do that then the best thing to do is delete. But I wouldn't call >1 bil
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree. The technological revolution hadn't happened yet in 1913. We saw an increase in new types of jobs over the course of the 20th century because any innovation that occurred still required a significant amount o
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by Aqueous 13y ago
In the future, there won't be enough work for everybody to do. Technology won't just produce cars. Technology won't just produce our food and our clothing. Technology will do everything. Technology will make the allocation o
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Indeed. Even if you are not using an ORM, controller functions should be short. Functions are just not supposed to be 30+ lines. If my controller function isn't less than 20 lines of code I look over it and figure out what code can be
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I really like this concept, very much. It seems like a "Dock" for web pages. I find myself opening up the same page twice in a tab all the time throughout the day, since my default move once I can't easily find a tab is to op
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I'm amazed by the creative ideas she comes up with day after day. You're almost there!
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by Aqueous 13y ago
'How much worse is that than e.g. Sweden, ' I'm going to go ahead and say that Turkey and Russia are still, pretty clearly, worse in this area, and you could probably quantify this. It's not good that Sweden's press
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Right. The rankings aren't the last word on an institution. They aren't even close to it. But that doesn't mean they're meaningless. Similarly with countries. These metrics refer to real data corresponding to the actual,
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Yep. There will always be people complaining that technology makes us lazy. I think that's a good thing, because if there's no meaningful difference in our health, the time we spent trying to fend off the weight gain we could be s
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by Aqueous 13y ago
'"“I’m very excited about this,” he added, saying the next step will be to try using gut bacteria to treat obesity by transplanting feces from thin people. “I have little doubt that that will be the next thing that happens,” Dr. F
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It's not useful for engineering yet.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
"(they are only comfortable bandaiding and throwing a few routines in existing code)" In my experience it actually takes a better programmer to refactor existing code than to start from scratch, because anyone can type 'git i
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by Aqueous 13y ago
"It took me roughtly the same amount of time to build the new codebase as it did the old codebase." Imagine if you spent that time re-engaging with, documenting, and cleaning up the old codebase - you could have also added a bunch
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by Aqueous 13y ago
There are some parallels but the analogy falls apart. Even the most perfect car does only one thing very well: get people from point A to point B. That is, there is a finite amount of autorepairs and new car manufacturing that is done and w
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I hate to throw cold water on an otherwise appealing idea, but this would make absolutely no business sense for Microsoft. Windows is Microsoft's core business. In fact, if anything, Ballmer's tenure was successful if only because
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by Aqueous 13y ago
While i can see his point, I'm not entirely sure this is the case. A text-book example of a multi-paradigm language is Scala. And yet with Scala, the more I've learned about the functional side of things, the more tempting it is j
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by Aqueous 13y ago
you, sir, are a talented man.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
don't think it's about being against the electric car, but against a world where car dealerships are unnecessary. car dealerships will eventually go the way of the book store. they don't want a world in which they aren't
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I would consider Maps, Gmail, and G+, CRUD applications. What does it take to not be a CRUD application? I'm not sure. I think every web-based application in which enormous amounts of data are stored and manipulated qualifies as a CRUD
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It seems like everything they do are CRUD apps, in the sense that they are concerned with creating, updating, reading, and destroying database records. They are just massively parallelized on the backend to deal with all the traffic. Someti
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Ok, by default I can do pretty much everything I want, and with a little work I can do everything I want.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Android phones are not locked down, at least not nearly to the same degree as iOS devices. I can pretty much do anything I want with my phone. As long as i can still buy a general-purpose computer for $200 that can do/run anything I wa
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by Aqueous 13y ago
And in the 2 years since this was published, this has turned out to be completely spot-on...OH WAIT. it hasn't at all. Modern political discourse: Everything is a war on something. This kind of language radicalizes people from the outs

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