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by ____nope 10y ago
A better way of saying it is that the whole of investors are better at accurately predicting the value of a company than individual investors. Which sounds almost like a truism when you put it in those terms.
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by ____nope 10y ago
Nerds never seem to catch on that dismissing criticism as an ad-hominem is itself an ad-hominem.
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by ____nope 10y ago
Buffet doesn't claim it's impossible to beat the market. He only says that the vast majority of investors cannot pick individual investments accurately enough to beat a diversified, low-cost index fund in the long term. There are
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by ____nope 10y ago
It probably depends on the company but I think this is right. If I interview someone with little working experience it definitely helps that they have some work on Github. But it would be strange to reject a senior candidate with a great re
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by ____nope 10y ago
Exactly. The biggest impediment is going to be insurance and liability. What do you think it will cost to insure a robotic driving vehicle? On whom does the liability fall in the case of an accident – the owner, or the manufacturer?
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by ____nope 10y ago
I think the companies that hire an army of 23-25 year olds are planning to fail fast anyway. Why bother trying to recruit older, more senior talent that is going to expect higher benefits if the skills that they bring to the table vs. a 25
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by ____nope 10y ago
Not being able to serialize an empty string is abysmally poor design.
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by ____nope 10y ago
So it correlates either to a lazy developer or a really good developer? That isn't much of a correlation.
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by ____nope 10y ago
I wish this happened more often in companies. Unfortunately I usually see the following happen. A mid-level developer, let's call him Dave, becomes a critical employee after a few years with the company. He silently become "senior
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by ____nope 10y ago
They already are. I've talked to some recruiters who laugh at bootcamp programs on a resume. A few years ago nobody would ask me about my academic background in a job interview, but now they've started asking explicitly. I've
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by ____nope 10y ago
My point is that you likely learned programming by learning the basics of file I/O in C or Python or something similar. You didn't sit down and learn all about automata theory etc. first. You need the context of what C.S. is used
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by ____nope 10y ago
It's really frustrating that articles like this never state if they are comparing inflation-adjusted numbers or not.
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by ____nope 10y ago
You write tests to automate tests you would have to otherwise perform manually. That is the only reason tests exist, to automate the boring task of testing. That's one problem with the TDD mindset. If you start by looking for things to
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by ____nope 10y ago
It's hard to teach an introduction to programming without teaching a particular language. If you have to pick a particular language, it makes sense to choose something the student is likely to use in the future. This is not hard to und