RogerL

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by RogerL 13y ago
Well, the post was probably a combination of a bit of hyperbole and lack of details. We go on a 'big' shopping trip once a month or so, where you get all the staples. Then, on a more frequent basis you get the perishables. This le
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by RogerL 13y ago
Star fusion does it every day. Evidence that something exists is evidence that it is created.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Do you have any evidence for the claims in The Value of Cultural Interviews? Because, to be honest, I looked at your Careers page and it made my skin crawl. Everyone looked the same, everyone was in the same age demographic, everyone had si
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by RogerL 13y ago
I should take a day off work, go get mis-measured and stressed out due to the poor interview style, get hired into a job I cannot do, and get fired because you mis-measured me. No. Thank you, but no.
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by RogerL 13y ago
I would like to share how inhuman a lot of the interview processes are. Some examples: * recruiter says a startup is interested, introduces me to the HR person via email. I get a 2 sentence email from HR, telling me that I have to schedule
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by RogerL 13y ago
That's a big if. Why would you not max out your contribution?
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by RogerL 13y ago
This is true, but 401K contributions are capped at around $17K. You can do that with the Austin salary just as well, usually. In Austin you have no state income tax, and the price of everything else is much lower (in general). The absolute
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by RogerL 13y ago
While I grasp the reasoning in the article, and sometimes practice it, I also think it is often either counter productive or impossible. For example, I have friends that released a rather ho-hum mobile app. They quickly garnered something l
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by RogerL 13y ago
does not exist I've worked in that world for a long time, and I assure you we did continuous integration, unit tests, and complexity analysis." Way back in the early 90's, long before it made it into the general population,
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by RogerL 13y ago
Sending uncontrollable accelerations for hundreds or thousands of feet is safer than a maximum of 11 ft of coasting? Yes, there are always trade offs to be made. But a corrupted system is utterly unpredictable - if a control port can do s
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by RogerL 13y ago
If you intend to emphasize the object in that first sentence, the passive voice is correct (as in this sentence). However, we usually do not want to do that. Consider: The chair leg has been chewed by my bored dog. vs My bored dog chewed th
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by RogerL 13y ago
Same here. I grew up in New England, where I think this usage is pretty common. People delight in giving me grief "you are only 'pretty happy'? Shouldn't you be happy...."
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by RogerL 13y ago
All this left/right brain stuff is a myth[1]. I don't doubt doing something other than programming when you are stuck helps. My best ideas come in the shower, for example. http://www.livescience.com/39373-left-brai
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by RogerL 13y ago
I think the concept people are reaching for is the idea of false positives and negatives. Yes, if you have a bad sentence there is a good chance it will highlight it. But, perhaps not (false positive). Similarly, it will flag many perfectly
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by RogerL 13y ago
Calculus is taught in high school. However, it is not mandatory/standard - you have to be on the college track, and it is skippable. (these are all general statements, different school districts make different choices). For example, in
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by RogerL 13y ago
I did quadratic equations in 7th grade in the US, in a back woods small hillbilly school in the US. With that said, I've generally heard foreign students equate the junior year of a math degree at college to their senior year at high s
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by RogerL 13y ago
They are not "giving" you money, you have entered into a contract.
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by RogerL 13y ago
I haven't run the numbers, but I think I would prefer that vs my opponents finding the daily double later in the game.
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by RogerL 13y ago
We aren't asking for vocational training, but for teachers that teach how to think, how to design, how to run experiments, and so on. So many schools (even the 'top' ones) turn out people that cannot do this, and I find it ap
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by RogerL 13y ago
Somehow we managed to do so in the 80s. Classes at the time were a mix of C, Pascal, and Lisp (at my school, YMMV). Certainly all the chances for getting pointers wrong made developing in C harder, at first. Even today I prefer to reach to
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by RogerL 13y ago
"I think they are both valid approaches." For limited ranges of valid. If you are implementing a low performance requirement CRUD app, certainly you can become an effective programmer without knowing the low level details. But if
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by RogerL 13y ago
Let's see, I'm learning about unscented Kalman filters, moving object tracking in computer vision, PCA, and more. I'm learning about the problem domain that I'm working in. I have no interest in learning yet another API
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by RogerL 13y ago
No, you've shut down that one domain, not made it impossible for them to own legal domain names, or otherwise be on the internet. Not that I agree with the law, but you seem to be rather overstating the repercussions. If I was renting
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by RogerL 13y ago
Then you build yourself a not licenced for the road race car - just like so many other people who race. You don't even have to be close to rich to do that.
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by RogerL 13y ago
That's essentially an ad hom. Their product ability has nothing to do with the merits of the HR.
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by RogerL 13y ago
"Every successful engineer I've observed wears socks. Thus, wearing socks is the cause of their success; if you wear socks you will be successful". I hope the logical fallacies are clear when expressed like that. 1) sample si
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, but no. Yes, as in of course you are correct. However, this is an argument that Bjarne often uses in the context of C++, and it drives me a bit batty. For example, he'll wax eloquent on how it is fine that there is no multidimensi
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, and consider char* c = malloc(...); char* d = c+ 100; malloc_size(d); Perfectly cromulent C, and I submit the result of the call is not what you might hope it will be. The article is correct. There is no way in the C language to get th
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes. playing with it a bit more, it seems when clicking in a location that does not give you the circle (to move your position) that this happens. If the circle is there it advances you along the road as it should. I am not sure, but I thin
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by RogerL 13y ago
I like this, but I am getting a lot of weird behavior. Sometimes clicking the image so I can pan it moves me to the previous image. Using the arrow keys sometimes pans the image, sometimes it takes me to the previous image. Firefox 26.0, Wi

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