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by Drbble 15y ago
STAR interviewing just selects for talented bullshitters. An interview should be novel questions about someone's skill and experience, not a canned sales pitch.
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by Drbble 15y ago
That's not fair. As a group, 1% of Internet users can DDOS anyone.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Are you aware that Comcast's network was built as a joint venture with local governments with special easements to access underground public and private property, and is therefore a regulated monopoly, not a private enterprise? I didn't giv
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by Drbble 15y ago
The public Internet is a bunch of connected private networks with peering agreements. So comcast can flip the public bit by turning off peering whenever they want.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Bandwidth isn't literally width like a pipe of water. It is linespeed. That is why higher quality cables have higher bandwidth, even though packet transmission is completely serial. "wdth" is an illusion created by time division multiplexin
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by Drbble 15y ago
Who demands 3 week tasks launch in 2 weeks? And Agile dev cycles delivers whatever is ready every two weeks, instead of shipping everything on an arbitrary deadline.
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by Drbble 15y ago
I don't know that Boeing follows your cowboy methodology. Hipmunk probably does. But Boeing puts the planes in the air.
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by Drbble 15y ago
That's like saying Javascript is a very rigid language because your program breaks if you change braces to parenthesis.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Mocking Agile strawman has been a pop pastime since Yegge wrote Good Agile Bad Agile years ago.
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by Drbble 15y ago
You are saying that Agile is supposed to mean programming in Ruby instead of Java? And only small teams can be Agile? Amazon.com would disagree with you, for one.
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by Drbble 15y ago
That is far less than what Google's recommender system actually knows. But it is open question to an outsider whether Google interprets what it knows, or of the knowledge is all a pike of correlation matrices that are opaque until the ads p
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by Drbble 15y ago
Nice feature. Next, please let me delete activity from my history, so Google forgets they saw it.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Hack works on Android Browser. Why the iframe stuff and not just Javascript to send requests to amazon.com?
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by Drbble 15y ago
But my impression is that in the lab sciences (or any crunch mode job) you are made to feel that everyone relies on you so you are stuck taking care of them, whereas the gratitude model is that the company is so nice to you that you want to
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by Drbble 15y ago
Sex is not sexist. TWSS is immature, and inappropriate in a group workplace, as is (my personal favorite) replying "YOUR MOM is X" when some X is mentioned. This bot is a cool hack and a nice way to win a battle on your opponent's terms. B
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by Drbble 15y ago
Reddit has solved this problem.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Or a college hire at a famous company (counting equity and benefits) ,
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by Drbble 15y ago
Start with a Motorcycle Safety Foundation class.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Linkedin in my thoughts big before Facebook, and it is really more of a job board than a networking system.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Parent is talking about Agent systems and just about everything that isn't regular statistics. Basically, in the past 20 years, computers got 1000 times smarter and people didn't, so old statistical models became tractable to apply to terab
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by Drbble 15y ago
Visiting UVillage in Seattle is bizarre. You get the Apple Store that we all know. And you get the Sony Style store which is like the Apple Store but overcomplicated and weird in that Sony way, with 3-D TVs and pink Memory Sticks. And now w
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by Drbble 15y ago
Try Powershell / Monad for Windows. It even solved Haskell's problem of Monad needing a name change :-) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
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by Drbble 15y ago
One of the touted benefits of pure strongly typed code in languages like Haskell or OCaml is that they can compile to assembler that is faster than C, because the compiler can guarantee certain behaviors and thereby increase sharing of comp
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by Drbble 15y ago
Solved how? Most Haskell performance advice (like Tibbel's recent presentation) is to add strictness annotations, which is both non-Haskell98 and non-lazy. So it is solved, but not elegantly or hidden in core libraries.
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by Drbble 15y ago
One thing to watch out for is that sometimes the third book you read is a your favorite, because you have a background familiarity created from the first two. For that reason, it can be not less wrong to reject recs from single book readers
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by Drbble 15y ago
Aerospace is inherently risky! The planet and skies do not submit to human authority.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Do Clojure's transients satisfy your needs for linear types? If not, why not?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Go could certainly be funded by a research institution. Plenty of university researchers work on Java ideas, for example.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Why would you bet that professionals with huge budgets candidate cost-conscious customers wouldn't think about how to solve the problem they're paid to solve? If they don't, you could be a billionaire by selling your ideas.
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by Drbble 15y ago
It's obviously possible to encode all phone numberd, since, you know, your landline doesn't have a dial button, but calls connect. Timezone data is a (smaller) mess, but that has been encoded in a library.

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