PurpleBoxDragon

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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Is it really normal for a developer to need to apply to that many positions to find a decent match? I've only ever done a dozen or so at once, and each one I spend a decent amount of time researching the company for tailoring a cover
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
I've seen companies hire truly awful senior developers who ended up costing the company quite a lot after they were fired and the entire search had to begin again 3 months later. If the position is in high demand, you still need to ga
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>you don't over-engineer but you keep it as simple as possible It should also mean you don't under engineer, but that is extremely hard to test for because that involves knowing the business and your customers and having a reas
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
If the project only takes an hour for a junior it shouldn't be a problem. I would be worried that their senior position problems might not be as quick to solve (which is similar to the real world), but then this interview technique mi
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Sometimes refusing to ship means that you just lost first to market advantage to someone who did. There are always trade offs, cost benefit analysis, and risk analysis to do with these decisions. For most software out there, assuming that
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎. >No, your system is badly designed. >People have names. >This one is perhaps the most difficult for which to give
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>"companies that maximize profits by firing employees, avoiding taxes, selling shoddy products or polluting the environment can harm their shareholders more than helping them." In which case are they really maximizing profits?
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>And replaced with? Nothing. Industry secrets is a far better model than giving major corporations access to government power that they can use to crush smaller competition, sometimes for work that they stole from the smaller competitio
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
These are just some of the reasons patents are fundamentally broken and the patent system as a whole should be scrapped. Another big issue is that, like most any law, enforcing it costs significant money, and that cost scales depending upo
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
That's why it should just be under neurology.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs Unmentioned is the judgment that you don't need that, I don't need this, buy they do need that other thing. I'm being overly generic, but what counts as
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>It does not seem all that healthy to just dismiss and ignore and totally negate compounding value of cross-generational achievements and accomplishments ... that you are not better than the last widget you created compared to the next p
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>Does it come to America? What about searches that seem criminal? My guess is that it is already here, just for things we deem acceptable. The problem with censorship is that everyone has something they think acceptable to censor, so th
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Is it ethical to use code while not agreeing to the license it is provided under?
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
What was he compensated with in exchange for taking on responsibility? Without compensation the contract by which he takes on responsibility is not valid.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
If I peel back the onion further, I find the root of the problem is how to measure someone who is good at science. How should we measure scientific output to determine compensation (not just monetary or tenure, reputation itself can be con
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
0: Have a collection of unwanted but not illegal material.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>Can we just say "Darwins law" and let it be? Only if we are willing to say the same once someone decides to fight back with actual force. If someone outright kills a scammer doing this, are you willing to write it off as &quo
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
To the same extent, the weight or mass of the plastic may not be relevant as well. The shape, density, and strength of the plastic would probably matter much more than the weight.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Generally we measure how lethal something is by using an LD 50 that looks at mass of chemical per mass of body. There are exceptions to this, but as a first assumption it seems reasonable.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
The core problem persists in either model. If people don't think they should pay for science, they'll vote either with their wallet or for the politicians who promise to return (or spend elsewhere) their tax dollars. Add in the
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>This kind of post-facto justification for poor working conditions or wages needs a name, so it can be dismissed out of hand. It seems to assume that the market is “fair” and getting poor pay must be justified by some other factor about
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>but not "John Doe at 123 Main Street, Hollywood, California". How can you be so sure? Between IP addresses and what wireless networks are available you can get a decently precise location for the majority of users. And this
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>you feeling awkward is more important than someone having food that day Have you ever spent any money on something that would make you feel less awkward that you could've donated to help feed the hungry? Have you ever bought new c
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>at some point a judge will be asked if it fits the charge, and make a layman decision, not a programmer's one. There seems to be a doubles standard in regards to the use of technical vs layman decisions. I've seen legal cases
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Yes. I've seen far too many people who don't really have a clue at how to actually make data anonymized and which have adversarial systems systems set up for reporting any issues that encourages ignoring the issue over fixing it.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Anything along the line of Rind et al. Not that paper in particular, but anything that is even remotely in the same region.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
I see people doing this, but only selectively when it benefits their existing beliefs. They look at the worse groups agreeing with those they disagree with, while ignoring the worst groups that agree with them.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
I think that English OR is Logical XOR and logical OR is English "A or B or both" or "A and/or B". Oddly enough, my use of or seems to violates the very rule it is used to describe.
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by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
>If someone is busy triggering mail bombers and lunatic shooters just by targeting and upvoting their posts on social media what's all this sci-fi stuff good for? Your first assumption is that any of those actions were against the e

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