LockeWatts

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by LockeWatts 13y ago
"I do believe in the concept of maintaining blacklists against well known cheaters, spammers and other evil doers, and anonymizing names makes you unable to discriminate people by level-of-assholiness ;)" If there was a protocol\i
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
Maybe I missed it, where did he say his name implied he had kids?
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
" I have to take time out of my day to do something I'd pay someone for. " But apparently you wouldn't pay enough to have them do it, so it's more valuable to you to use your time to do that job. If you paid more, y
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
I would argue that the market would not be available for low end cars, but owning a nicer car would create a larger incentive for the consumer.
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
Establishing a government backed monopoly on a taxi service due to 'safety concerns' sounds well within the realm of reality though.
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
I think there will be a hybrid model. Owning a driverless car will still be a very commonplace thing, car ownership is too ingrained in the American mindset to just let it go. However, I believe owning a car will also come to be seen as an
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
I feel like you're much to attached to a rather outdated tradition. Given the divorce rate in the country, I don't see how having the legal document makes you more or less likely to be able to successfully raise a child together.
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
"(perhaps based on agreements between nations)" This is a massive and in my mind entirely unfeasible assumption.
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
The difference being that the number of things you can do with a GUI as opposed to a CLI is much greater than the number of new things a touchscreen enables. The author mentions that new programs like powerpoint were invented when the GUI w
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
What you just described is why there is an increasing need for a global government. When companies span continents, they can pick and choose which laws in what countries suit them best, and the citizens of every other country the company in
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
Not really. A hot mobile app can sell for that much, and doesn't require anything more than a laptop and some time.
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
This seems self contradictory. One of the government's jobs is consumer protection and regulation. If support is deemed to be a required thing, why shouldn't it fall under that scope? This just seems like the normal knee jerk reaction from
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
Most interview questions are verbal, and a laptop is capable of compiling code. Your problems with it seems factitious.
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
Why not make it an either or type of thing. "Would you rather solve an algorithm based question, or discuss some work you've done in the past that demonstrates that aptitude?"
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
Have you stopped to consider that given the pressure situation of an interview at a well respected company, and without the common resources a programmer generally works with (an IDE and reference documentation), that a person might have tr
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
Where did you get that information? That is the only time I've ever heard anyone say that, it seems sketchy at best.
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
I'm not really sure why Steve Jobs is your model for code design.
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
If you're on a system where the write times are several orders of magnitude larger than the read times, then I'd say those qualify as unsortable. Or at least unintelligently sortable.
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
But that's for them to decide. You as the candidate have one directive, and an interrupt. If you want the job, do whatever it is you think you will impress the employer, unless whatever that would take convinces you you don't want the job.
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by LockeWatts 13y ago
Yes you are. You didn't answer the question asked, you avoided the question and talked about what you found important, rather than what the interviewer found important.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
You think your messages aren't already being read? That seems a bit naive.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Yes, I will be in Seattle. Sadly we still have to pay the state taxes of our tax home, so the tax rate of Washington versus California doesn't really affect our pay. However, It's only negligible if it doesn't correlate linearly with a star
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
I don't think it'll be that high? I'm not sure. I've heard closer to $130k.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Man, really? I feel kinda screwed then that Amazon is only paying $6k, before housing & misc benefits.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Why does that cause a pit in your stomach? I love knowing that, as an Amazon intern.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Amazon summer intern chiming in, I'm being paid $8,000 cash, that's not factoring in all the myriad things that Amazon pays for.
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
>Until the day a man feels equally comfortable telling a sex-related joke to a woman as to another man, all such jokes are, by definition, sexist. Okay, then in this case the sexism isn't a bad thing. That's called protecting myself. As
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
>You're putting words in my mouth. Not really. I'm rephrasing your argument to be more blunt. What I said was definitely the spirit of your post. >Just as Adria didn't know the history of the guys behind her (for example, the nature
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
>* You don't generate a cone of silence by addressing a statement to a particular person. It is likely that people around you can still hear you. And... so what? If I walk through a cafeteria and someone says something I don't like whil
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by LockeWatts 14y ago
Good luck with that statement, buddy. Anything remotely related to sex and said by men is sexist. Apparently. Don't ask me why.

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