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by Drbble 15y ago
Mikeytemple is having a little fun keeping following mchurch around and keeping mhurch honest today.
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by Drbble 15y ago
You might care to familiarize yourself with the terms "bonus", "equity", "expected value", and economics of the "firm".
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by Drbble 15y ago
"501" is not an accepted term, and doesn't even make sense. Is it supposed to mean someone who programs at 5:01 or someone who doesn't? Someone who plays in the office all night, or someone who makes progress on a healthy schedule?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Universities also follow this model, and Google popularized it in the tech industry (inspired by the grad school structure)
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by Drbble 15y ago
There are efficient network structures that are not hierarchical and are not trees. Trees have horrible single point of failure characteristics, where one bad node kills an entire branch.
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by Drbble 15y ago
An "open source web dev who reads Hacker News" will do better machine learning than a Stats MS/PhD at a bank? OK, enjoy your ninja rockstars...
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by Drbble 15y ago
I he only legitimate use for that question is to have an easy excuse to no-hire an idiot who says "10". The correct answer is "I dunno, what does 5 mean" to show humility and an insistence in meaning in metrics, and if pushed say 6, and tru
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by Drbble 15y ago
And it's not because grad students are supposed to do better, it's because grad school grades are more inflated.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Dans premonition is actually one step behind. Knowing the mainstream skills of 2016 will not be enough. But you will have enough room in your inventory because the mainstream skill of 2012 will be irrelevant. 10 years ago if you learned Per
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by Drbble 15y ago
Yes. It's amazing how I can quick pick up my new job's random DSL and special secret sauce algorithm and know house toolchain, and fix bugs in them immediately, whereas 10 years ago I was mindblown for weeks trying to understand how he Y
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by Drbble 15y ago
Every job I have interviewed for in the past five years had "C, C++, Java, Python & Ruby" or a close equivalent as a basic requirement, not hire on the spot. (Before then, Python and Ruby weren't as widespread, and Java wasn't totally u
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by Drbble 15y ago
It's an unintended consequence of the stereotype the all women engineers are imaginary.
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by Drbble 15y ago
It's a random audit. It is good security practice. Amazon and Google test their systems too, it's because they are good, not because they are bad.
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by Drbble 15y ago
It's not clear why you would trust a private corporayion either. Government is made of people, and reflects the society it exists in. By your logic, you should be in favor of self-provided health care. (Maybe you are. Maybe that is the best
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by Drbble 15y ago
How would they lose income? The most efficient tax collection would eliminate fraud and audits and eliminate underreporting, far more of an issue than poor and middle class people claiming deductions.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Except the popular response to modern day taxation is for people to say that they wish they could pay more taxes instead of getting hassled. Complicated tax law is the banal result of decades of special interest lobbying to carve out giveaw
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by Drbble 15y ago
Eugene McCarthy didn't say ineffecient bureaucracy was brutal an callous. It's just annoying and maybe callous. That's the point. Also, um, you know who had an efficient bureaucracy, with computers and everything, in the 1930s? Yeah, --Godw
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by Drbble 15y ago
I thought Pinterest was a site where people bookmark pretty pictures, not Consumerist or Yelp.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Uh, your solution is to retry after random delay? That's jitter.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Larry Wall's original is better: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
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by Drbble 15y ago
But computers don't make mistakes, that's why we have them!
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by Drbble 15y ago
Why haven't they noticed that Blogspot layout doesn't render properly on Android?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Why wouldn't it?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Weight the orders by size.
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by Drbble 15y ago
I don't get it. This proposal sounds like Eclipse that exists today plus a couple of small new plugin for the more aspirational bits.
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by Drbble 15y ago
He said he loves hanging out with his wife. He didn't say he loves blogging or being a voyeurism target.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Do you take drugs to prevent sleep? Because sleep is stealing a huge amount of your life too.
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by Drbble 15y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3855880
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by Drbble 15y ago
Like FireSheep already did?
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by Drbble 15y ago
You don't need to be authenticated for Google to know who you are.

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