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by agentgt 10y ago
If you are not working at the big boys the secret to approaching $255k is ownership and bonuses (either through MBO and/or dividends). So I suppose it is not really raising your base salary. BTW it is probably not $255 anymore but I be
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by agentgt 10y ago
If the wife didn't have a job and didn't like being close to family I would not mind living in Nice France. I was just there recently (luckily before the attack) and loved it. It is like San Diego but with French+Italian cuisine a
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by agentgt 10y ago
With Lisp I get the data thing but with ML you learn almost everything is a language. I can't really explain it but the whole variant/ADT pattern matching really forces to make you think of your problem domain as a specification o
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by agentgt 10y ago
IMO The game does operate differently for experienced developers. I'm not a negotiation expert either (even though ironically I am a founder of a recruiting software company) but I would say there is $100k line and a $255k line. Once y
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by agentgt 10y ago
I like Scheme/Lisp but I don't know if I buy the whole "learning Lisp turns you into a better programmer". Maybe more knowledgeable but not necessarily a better a developer. In some ways learning a really flexible langua
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by agentgt 10y ago
Did anyone else chuckle at the bug labels (I often find weird things funny)?
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by agentgt 10y ago
I think this could be a big deal depending on future politics. I would not be surprised if Manhattan in 10 years or so only allows etrucks over the bridge (with certain exemptions of course). If that happens there could be some interesting
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by agentgt 10y ago
I'm not sure this will ever be possible considering even switching to different RDBMS that do have a standard (SQL) is usually non trivial. BTW when people say cloud here I assume they mean PaaS and not IaaS because IaaS has many stand
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by agentgt 10y ago
I do a vaguely similar thing but I don't share it with the world :)
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by agentgt 10y ago
I think the article/blog post is missing a key point in that the employee came to the manager asking what he thought. This is a critical role that the manager plays that the article decides to come up with a unreferenced social psychol
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by agentgt 10y ago
The author is very gifted writer. I was hoping for a quick skim but I could not stop reading.
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by agentgt 10y ago
Actually we don't have issues parsing PDF but rather downstream some old ATS are not very good at parsing PDF (particularly MS technology based ones that we push to). The other issue with PDF is that some cheap PDF conversion tools wil
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by agentgt 10y ago
Oh my that is some hilarious content. It reminds me of me circa 2005-08. I had so many jugs of protein laying around the office that they call me Mr. Wizard. Of course I should have showed my dominance and ridiculed them and demanded they c
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by agentgt 10y ago
> (my guess: protein powder). [1] I wonder what this is in reference to. [1]: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blame/master/posts/201...
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by agentgt 10y ago
Because it is just one more inhibition to write stuff when you are are worried what your blog looks like and if it will generate correctly. My blog looking like crap is sadly one of the excuses I make not to blog. Every time I go to look at
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by agentgt 10y ago
I vaguely remember reading somewhere how domestication brings about cuteness in animals. When animals are breed to be less aggressive they look more like babies. We are not even sure if humans are naturally selecting the traits (as baby lik
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by agentgt 10y ago
I like to chime in here with my own observations since I run/own a recruiting software company (SnapHop). We make career portals that sit on top of legacy or existing candidate tracking software (aka ATS: applicant tracking software).
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Why Big, Why Now, Why You? (2013)(altos.vc)
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by agentgt 10y ago
Aha I think I have found one of the originals: http://altos.vc/2013/05/why-big-why-now-why-you/ IMO the above is very good.
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by agentgt 10y ago
No it was like 2-3 years ago. I thought it was by one of the ycombinator folks but I can't seem to google. I'm sure it wasn't the first but it was the first time I have seen the questions (since then I have seen similar thing
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by agentgt 10y ago
Somewhat analogous I believe to previous post I have seen from a YCombinator investor is basically: "Why You, Why This and Why Now?". I'm paraphrasing. I can't find the original as there are lots of copy cats (including
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by agentgt 10y ago
Making the next page opaque as you said is a good thing also because limit and offset will often become unstable or incorrect if the dataset is changing without a proper timestamp. That is you may get more or less records then you are expec
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by agentgt 10y ago
In the Java world URL/URI/URN construction, escaping, unescaping, manipulation is a confusing disparate buggy mess. Of course there is the obvious broken `java.net.URL` but there are so many other libraries and coding practices wh
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by agentgt 10y ago
Guilty as charged.. I did learn OCaml first and from that official green HTML documentation which still appears to be green after 16 years :). My complaint with OCaml was OCamlp and the tedium of creating modules and functors. While AdHoc p
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by agentgt 10y ago
Well yes I agree if you compare OCaml to Standard ML its syntax is not as good and I do prefer Standard ML over it. However I prefer OCaml over Java, Javascript, Scala (and the bazillion other brace block languages that are the same), and y
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by agentgt 10y ago
No it was not. I wish I could provide an official link of her work but I can't seem to google anything. She isn't famous by any means and is exceedingly humble (hence the difficulty on finding details indirectly). Interestingly th
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by agentgt 10y ago
My grandmother who is in her 80s was one of the US military's first female programmers... and she was a widow... and she was German expatriate (as you can imagine the difficulty of that post WWII). They programmed in punch cards and dr
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by agentgt 10y ago
I'm sort of sick of hearing that OCaml has crappy or crufty syntax. I like OCaml's syntax. There is just a sea of useless algol brackets in so many languages. I was sort of sad that Rust fell victim to the damn bracket. At times I
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by agentgt 10y ago
I'm not entirely sure it really had anything to do with money between the brothers. The details seem to be nebulous but I think it was a matter of "you made a massive decision with out me" process. Growing up with a brother I
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by agentgt 10y ago
I would say "Divide and Conquer" should be a 0... it is that useful and it can be applied to many many different categories. So many things seem intractable and formidable in complexity yet once these things are broken down into p

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