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by Raidion 8y ago
Problem I have with books is that it's much harder to justify the "time" to get lost in books. When I was a kid, I was near the top of the school's reading program and devoured books. But now, when I do have time on vaca
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by Raidion 8y ago
I agrret with you, but want to say I think it's important to write code that is "brittle" enough to just satisfy the requirements. I've seen a lot of "edge case that probably never happens" code that ends up ca
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by Raidion 8y ago
I personally think of entertainment as something that's enjoyable but doesn't directly advance my goals at getting better at something I prioritize. Which means entertainment is different for different people. Most people would re
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by Raidion 8y ago
I was really surprised by that when my friend bought his house. It's a sneaky way to get around the fact that the bank won't finance anything that's not secured by the house. So say you are buying a house for 200k, but after
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by Raidion 8y ago
I think having to memorize a (fairly) arbitrary masculine/feminine prefix/postfix for nouns makes quite a few romance languages harder than they "need" to be. Would be nice to have some slightly more rigorous spelling an
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by Raidion 8y ago
I think the problem I have with perfectionism, is that in a fairly connected world of 7+ billion people, the people that get "acclaim" are truly some of the most talented/lucky/good people in the world. You never see med
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by Raidion 8y ago
If designing around the back button is a pain point because you have to implement some fairly complicated solution is a good sign your design needs work. I'm working on a corporate site now and it's a mess of buttons going to moda
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Front running and HFT are two different things. Front running implies that you have access to the orders or other information and the ability to get your order in ahead of others. This is at worst, illegal as you're trading on non-publ
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by Raidion 8y ago
What tools in FF do you think are better than Chrome? Honestly, my computer is beefy (and firmly attached to a power source) enough that performance is rarely an issue with any browser, and Chrome dev tools seem to be superior in most ways,
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by Raidion 8y ago
I don't think so, gambling is based on the risk/reward thrill, coupled with the fact that "if I just hit the big one, I can do other activity that I want to do, but can't afford". I don't feel like many people
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by Raidion 8y ago
Not weird when you realize what the target market is, which is basically those that want to get a little bit of "gamble" on. I'm sure their valuation is also closely tied to the volume of trades they provide, so they want peo
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by Raidion 8y ago
I'm not a huge fan of bitcoin and have never owned more than 200 dollars worth, but that's a super weird argument to make. Of course something only goes up in value if someone is willing to pay more for it, that's true of art
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by Raidion 8y ago
I think another point of the article is that even though we humans meta-game, we probably aren't meta-gaming at a high enough level and that might give the human species trouble at some point in the future. You could even argue that it
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by Raidion 8y ago
My dad told me that school isn't about learning, it's about learning how to learn. That really changed my perspective. I won't care about classical painters and what years they were around and why they were remarkable in even
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by Raidion 8y ago
As someone who has worked for a company in that list, that's not strictly true, although I've gotten a chance to work remote when I was just an established code monkey on some project. If you're doing higher level work, you&#
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by Raidion 8y ago
Two options we use, database used as a queue for granular out of process work. If something errors, we'll get a notification for that one record, but the rest will keep processing. For stuff that we don't need such granularity&#x2
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by Raidion 8y ago
Or incredibly motivated and working on something he believes in.
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by Raidion 8y ago
I think a better equivalent would be something like the FE exam that mechanical engineers take out of college. It's given right at the end of college, but could be given at any time for self taught programmers. Hard part is implementin
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by Raidion 8y ago
Wildcard searches are expensive and gmail has a LOT of data. I bet it would cost them more than you expect.
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There are tons of lenders who will give you a mortgage with < 10%. They're much more concerned with income than a down payment because you're paying PMI.
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by Raidion 9y ago
I mean, it doesn't make sense if everyone is playing fair. You can't negotiate without being willing to sacrifice something to hurt the other side. In war, that's soldiers, in trade wars, that's the consumer. Ideally, ev
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by Raidion 9y ago
I mean, CRUD doesn't have to be simple. It can get complexity from the underlying data, or dealing with 100 million users at once, or it having to return results FAST. Just because you don't have to write some novel algorithm does
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by Raidion 9y ago
Tyson doesn't have the academic credentials that Hawking or someone like Richard Feynman does. The power of Hawking and Feynman is that they both were at the top of their fields, but took the time to make the foundations of their scien
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by Raidion 9y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I feel like there is benefit in the knowledge of how inputs/processes do affect performance (aka Big O) as that demonstrates just a deeper level of thinking. It's pretty easy to get someone to understa
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by Raidion 9y ago
If you have only one or two positions open, have no trouble finding applicants, why not give a test that has a 5% pass rate if that means you end up with 6 people to choose from and still have to turn people away? What would the advantage b
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by Raidion 9y ago
To be fair, in the 50s and 60s a lot of the jobs were more engineering than technical, and the US had the advantage of being one of the few nations whose industrial capacity wasn't damaged by World War II. Now, software developers of s
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by Raidion 9y ago
I agree with this. My first job I was under a fairly good partner who took the time to mentor me, get me involved in decision making processes, and take me out to see clients. It was some of the best times of my life and I did learn a ton.
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by Raidion 9y ago
I challenge your statement that "everyone dies eventually". I intend to live forever and so far, so good.
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by Raidion 9y ago
I don't think the trades of congress are public record. You simply aren't able to get that information. And if you are able to get that info, and the rest of the public doesn't have it, then that's inside trading.
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by Raidion 9y ago
In SC there are time constraints in that you're getting resources at a certain rate. You have to grow your capacity to pull resources and at the same time be building units to defend yourself. If you allocate resources poorly, you&#x27

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