PublicEnemy111

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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
This seems very uncharacteristic of China. The residents of Beijing have been told by the government for years that if you don't absolutely need to be outside, then don't go outside. This is the first I've heard of China putt
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Stanford. If your plan is to start a startup, potential employees and investors alike will look to see some sort of indicator that you have potential. It sucks to admit, but pedigree IS important. Think of it as you filling the "Please
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Article not behind paywall: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/googles-cfo-70m-d...
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
I think its pretty big everywhere else in the world. People in South Korea use it for "muk-bang"(watching pretty girls eat a TON of food) and Chinese use it for gaming(most gaming channels with 10k+ viewers are chinese channels).
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Stabs like this at the Bush administration make it hard for me to take the rest of the article seriously. To assert that the Bush administration is to blame for the credit crisis is laughable, assuming that's what the author meant by t
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
I've been wondering if there's a sort of nash equilibrium to these things. How many startups will a restaurant let auction its open tables before losing faith in all of them?
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
More important than the current bubble, what happens when the self-driving car becomes a reality? Probably a dotcom-esque era. Even if the current bubble pops tomorrow, the self-driving car will bring so much focus to the tech industry that
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
If someone is desperate enough, they can recreate the repositories using google cache. See http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YiBFZmB...
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
> There is no metric by which Whatsapp is worth 19B, except for the fact that Facebook can spend that much money. Any attempt to monetize those users will result in decreased users. I hate to pick on you, but anyone who says WhatsApp is
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
"House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals." -Ben Bernan
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
The key to rhetoric isn't that you have to be correct, its that you have to prove that the other person is wrong(or incompetent). Thus, we have the ad hominem attacks that are so prevalent
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-empl...
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Jeff Bezos had a fairly long career on Wall Street before founding Amazon. I believe he was ~30 when he first flew to Seattle to start it in his garage
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
This is so cool. Netflix seems to have a damn fine eng team. Its too bad they don't have roles for new grads :P Is there an authoritative beginners guide to linux performance analysis? A cursory glance at trace-cmd tutorials shows I ha
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Isn't the holy grail of advertising perfect targeting? Users aren't annoyed by the perceived degradation of the platform where the ads are served, ad companies don't waste money on ads the user isn't interested in, and t
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Aren't SF residents actively fighting the building of new apartment complexes to "preserve the skyline"?
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Judging by the abuse of prohormones, legalizing steroids would be a terrible idea. You can recover from cocaine, crack, heroin, etc. but damaging your HPTA can ruin your life not to mention rendering you infertile. And that is just one clas
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
I'm still early in my career, but my impression is that you can't code forever. At some point, you have to move into the business side of things in order to advance. I've heard rumors that there is a programmer making $3 mill
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
There were a lot of lottery winners who lost everything in the first tech bubble. Mark sold his company for billions then locked in his fortune using put and call options. Pretty smart if you ask me. Though, I do not agree with this article
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Doesn't Apple use quite a bit of clojure as well? A good chunk of their jobs ads require clojure experience.
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Well, I'm still an undergraduate. I was pretty much coding 24/7, but it was hackerrank, leetcode, codechef problems. My side projects slowed down tremendously during this time; however, once I started them back up, I was working a
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
I used to share the same sentiment about whiteboard interviews and the cs "fundamentals"(read: brainteasers) interviews. 2 years ago, I failed spectacularly in an interview for a Pinterest internship -- I couldn't answer a si
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
>For my father's generation (the silent generation) the path to success was a steady union job or say becoming a professional like a lawyer. However for my generation (gen x) union jobs didn't exist and many of my friends who b
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Uncaught TypeError: (intermediate value)(intermediate value)(...) is not a function chrome canary
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Since when is using nmap or its kin illegal?
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Open source courses would be cool. Not open source like mit's ocw or coursera, but a platform where everyone collectively decides on the material. So, for an algorithms course, maybe MIT's hashing lectures are second to none, but
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
> Database designs are always fighting the last war, based on assumptions about resource balance, hardware behaviors, and system architectures that may not be strictly true anymore. I've been studying cache-oblivious data structures
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
What benefits does parabiosis have over taking HGH? The effects of parabiosis in mice sounds almost exactly like the effects of growth hormone
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
Men certainly dominated the govt and positions in high society; however, this was really where the partiarchal dominance ends. The mother of the friends I stayed with in Aleppo actually played for Syria's national basketball team. The
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by PublicEnemy111 12y ago
I was in Syria before the war(~2006) and there was no patriarch-dominance or extreme unemployment in Aleppo or Damascus. These cities had religious freedom and many Syrians were Catholic. I was fortunate enough to live with locals in both c

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