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by Retra 8y ago
Hence the usage of words like "not entirely" and "approximately".
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by Retra 8y ago
You are a team, but you should still attempt to be objective enough in your evaluation to determine whether a new person will allow you to be a functional team. But when you say "culture fit", the implication is that the team woul
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by Retra 8y ago
Not sure what that means? There are many languages and interpretations on this planet, and boiling the ocean to remove the redundancy would be futile, so my advice would be to learn to ride the waves instead.
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by Retra 8y ago
It's not a necessity, but it is not unnatural either. A flat emission spectrum of zero energy is the only spectrum that corresponds to zero emissions.
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by Retra 8y ago
>They don't care if the idea is silly or has no bearing on the company's business. That's not entirely true. They do, perhaps approximately, require that the idea be within a market that IBM could consider moving into if t
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by Retra 8y ago
No, that would ensure only people with the means to produce things could secure patent rights to their inventions.
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by Retra 8y ago
Is it possible to tell the difference between a human being and a Markov chain word generator? In some cases, no.
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by Retra 8y ago
That doesn't exclude anything. Code can exist to pad resumes, feed paranoia, and bolster egos, manipulate people, or simply because someone can't admit their own mistakes. Anything can be a solution to a problem.
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by Retra 8y ago
>they still need to spend nights and weekends to maintain their OSS project on the side. They don't, though. They can simply stop working on it and say "pay me if you want updates from me."
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by Retra 8y ago
Slaves didn't get paid either, that doesn't mean the work they did was worth the experience they gained. Don't try to extract morality from the status quo. That literally sets your goal to "nowhere."
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by Retra 8y ago
"Successful" by literally any measure.
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by Retra 8y ago
Then you decide have your first child and every reasonable thing you said suddenly looks impossible.
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by Retra 8y ago
Pssh, I get all that at my entry level corporate job.
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by Retra 8y ago
Lyrics for popular music were always shallow. It's no worse today.
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by Retra 8y ago
"Experience" isn't really a form of payment anyhow.
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by Retra 8y ago
Integrity doesn't mean what you think it means then. You can be honest in upholding your principles by lying to an authority.
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by Retra 8y ago
It depends where your state is. If it's all in one place, set-able in one language, then it's probably no worse. But if your state is spread out across 30 different config files for 12 different versions of software, spread among
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by Retra 8y ago
Unsurprisingly, if you start treating a personal relationship like a legal agreement, you'll probably suffer the situation just as badly as if you treat a legal agreement like a personal relationship. They're entirely different cr
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by Retra 8y ago
The center of mass of a massless object makes as much as "everywhere" being a location of anything.
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by Retra 8y ago
Your resume, Github account, demonstration of previous projects, ability to discuss problems you've solved, references from previous coworkers & instructors... The whiteboard is not providing "high signal". Everything els
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by Retra 8y ago
It is more realistic, but you can't really expect someone to be novel, and if they're not being novel, you should expect someone else to solve the problem. So this method has problems, and it kind of demands payment for results.
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by Retra 8y ago
Let me just hand my credit card to the car salesman and tell him "buy me a car." I mean, the only thing advertisers want more than your attention is the ability to make your purchases for you. People shouldn't buy things thro
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by Retra 8y ago
Why do you say that?
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by Retra 8y ago
Nonfiction is only harder if you are trying to make it interesting. Outside of that, it is very much easier.
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by Retra 8y ago
If there is no controversy, then there is nothing being said.
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by Retra 8y ago
There isn't any compelling reason to favor one person's fiction over another's. We can invoke memetic references to magic mechanisms all day long and accomplish little.
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by Retra 8y ago
Most projects do not make a language choice based on the needs of the model, but based on the needs of the developers. It's the same reason you've chosen English to write your comment in, rather than some other language that might
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by Retra 8y ago
One of my roommates used to accuse me of making them uncomfortable all the time because I never talked to them (for instance, when I would walk into the kitchen and quietly wait for them to get out of the way.) It turned into an argument on
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by Retra 8y ago
You're reading that statement far too uncharitably. They said nothing at all about teaching, and only mentioned how students interact with one small system. Obviously that's not the whole job?
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by Retra 8y ago
Clearly such an exceptional dog-lover won't conform to your expectations about how that love manifests, either.

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