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by Jd 15y ago
And it wouldn't surprise me that the same companies that talk about the free market solving its own problems lobby against any change in onerous government regulations.
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In case you didn't read the preceding comment carefully, he knows that what you say is true, he just doesn't give a shit -- and, moreover, knows that you can't do a damn thing about it.
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I think the general attitude of lispers is frequently a large turn off. There is a lot of elitism, but it is often a needy Mensa-like elitism. There is almost a hidden plea attached "please respect us as the smartest" and the problem is, of
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$500 for a pair is astronomical? That's what I just found on Ebay.
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EVGA UV Plus+
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Also with a maxed out 13" air, had it for 3 weeks. Can't imagine going back to my (previously maxed out) 15" MBP. If you need the screen space plug into a monitor (I've got one 24" and one 27")
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The real problem here is that Arrington couldn't keep his mouth shut then and probably can't now either... Extended version: Arrington should have simply walked out of the interview when he realized he was set up (which he should have reali
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A bit confused why you think that is the same feature set of Github. The core product here is JIRA and everything else is accessories. What does Github give you in the way of project/ticket management? Also what is the Crucible equivalent?
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by Jd 15y ago
Generally speaking you are correct, but practically speaking I think Palantir is absolutely correct in claiming they are a new kind of company. Their hiring focus from early on has been on top notch engineering talent and even though they h
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Thanks. I didn't see these.
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Fourth, Thiel already wrote an entire book (the Diversity Myth) about how one of the major barriers to progress in higher ed is the millions of dollars of often federal money siphoned off to promote "diversity" -- which actually end up in t
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by Jd 15y ago
I had the same distaste for awhile until I realized that the HBGary guy actually edited the slides with Palantir's logo on them himself while making a pitch. Pretty sure Palantir canned the employee who let him get away with that a long tim
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This is the first time I've seen the distinction made between waterfall and spiral methodologies, with agile seemingly considered a subset of the spiral model. Any other resources anyone knows about on this distinction?
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I'm not sure how relevant it is to the work that many web application programmers do every day, which fairly rarely involves algorithm optimization. I understand that there are lots of optimization heavy jobs out there, but I'm not really s
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Yep, I didn't find Rescuetime very helpful. I tend to think employee monitoring is evil and if I am personally not engaged in the work I am doing I would rather find engaging work than look at the time I waste on other things (HN, for examp
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by Jd 15y ago
Codility has a great test feature. You can load test data and see if the output is what you expect it to be.
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At least it is better than getting asked questions about the O-notation of the solution you've just whiteboarded. There has to be a better way...
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Gold is a commodity not a currency. Historically most currencies have been either minted in or based on valuable commodities. Virtually without exception they have been produced by governments. Do you mean to argue that no currency ever has
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Also, make sure sure your first gig is at least six months long and more than 20 hrs per week. The sales side of things is absolutely the worse part of being a consultant. You really have to be out there and not simply meeting other devel
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by Jd 15y ago
Currency is regulated into existence. Someone has to print it. Like it or not, there are all sorts of natural monopolies which exist in nature. The first and foremost is a monopoly on violence by the state. This is, in fact, demanded by the
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by Jd 15y ago
It is more than "what many Chinese firms" are doing; it is what the Chinese government in collusion with many Chinese firms is actively doing all the time at all levels of US infrastructure, including not only industrial espionage but also
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Your analysis is a bit superficial. The government connections keep them from being regulated but don't adequately explain how they can skim so much off the top. For instance, how do the big firms (e.g. Goldman) manage to get into oil futur
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by Jd 15y ago
Sure, but that's a 60 minute driving commute vs. a 60-minute public transit commute, which makes a big difference to a lot of people (e.g. I can read a book on public transit). A lot of the statistics are questionable, most certainly includ
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NYC to most people includes all the bureaus and sometimes even Jersey City, etc. There are lots of more affordable options (e.g. Astoria) than downtown Manhattan, whereas such options do not exist in Silicon Valley.
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It's not just AirBnB, it is the whole YC brand that is at stake. PG on this thread is now on record coming out in defense of AirBnB -- and effectively saying that EJ is lying when contrasted to those "nice guys" over at AirBnB.
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Let alone apartment complexes. The one time I used Airbnb the person whose room I rented told me I could use all the facilities of the apartment complex for free (laundry, exercise rooms, pool, etc. etc.). I'm sure the folks managing the a
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by Jd 15y ago
Notice on the first page of every JSTOR pdf: Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR's Terms and Conditi
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There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will co
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Paas: What are we really fighting over?(fractastical.com)
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There is a huge learning curve with Rails, insofar as it is its own "opinionated" framework with numerous conventions, if well-chosen, that are unique to Rails. You can deploy web apps in Rails without adopting all of these things, but you

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