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by ampersandy 6y ago
As a trading noob, what then happens when you sell a future but do not buy one later (and you obviously don't have X amount of crudge to deliver to Cushing)? Also, any suggestions on good books to learn more (not necessarily to start t
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by ampersandy 6y ago
The imaginary PM stereotype everyone likes to bash would do that, real teammates you work with that respect your time will work with you to plot things in a way that better reflects the team/organization’s shared priorities :) Don’t s
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by ampersandy 6y ago
No, there's an important distinction here. Many countries tax world-wide income, but USA is one of the few that taxes your non-US income even if you are not considered a resident for tax purposes . For example, if you are a Canadian e
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by ampersandy 6y ago
My first thought is that police policy may require security audits/etc. before they have any location tracking software installed on their phones that may potentially be abused to know the location of police.
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by ampersandy 6y ago
I would have settled for a simple bar chart... these ring plots are useless.
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by ampersandy 6y ago
Oh, so it's more of a "I know she's mad at me now, but we're going to resolve this conflict and in the end I get a delicious steak", which motivates you to work on fixing whatever made her mad. Is that it?
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by ampersandy 6y ago
> I care about technologies used, how will it enhance my career for my next job, location, and salary. How would you know this without doing your research? You've proved my point.
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by ampersandy 6y ago
This is great advice. It also helps expose one of the fundamentally broken pieces of advice that come from scattershot interviewers: "make sure you know at least one thing about the company so you look good!" Why are you interview
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by ampersandy 6y ago
No, I said quite clearly there are no exemptions due to their size. There's a difference between an exemption for companies with N+ employees and tax credits/exemptions you can capitalize on because you are a company that makes bi
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by ampersandy 6y ago
Who is saying they shouldn't be taxed because they are large? There's no 'large company' tax break. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/why-amazon-paid-no-federal-i... There's specific cr
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by ampersandy 6y ago
Who do you use for DNS then that you do trust?
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by ampersandy 6y ago
In context, the quote is actually from a list of principles/observations the character has written in a notebook. I do not read it as an argument that mastering a skill/field is bad, but simply an observation that never bothering
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by ampersandy 6y ago
Especially when said statements are just wrong. Anecdotal evidence from individual companies does not allow you to make representative statements about the entire internet... https://w3techs.com/technologies/details&#x2
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by ampersandy 6y ago
Is there a particular reason the Linux kernel favors names like `somaxconn` instead of `socket_max_connections`? It seems like a rather straightforward improvement for readability; so, why are shorter, compressed names preferred?
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by ampersandy 6y ago
> We're talking about internal tooling for businesses here, this isn't necessary at all. Why treat internal 'customers' any differently than forward facing ones? Building great internal tools can dramatically improve
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by ampersandy 6y ago
What's the latest, then? Preferably this document could be updated to point to more up-to-date advice on using SQLite, while retaining the old information for historical reference.
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Building a subsea cable to better connect Africa(engineering.fb.com)
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by ampersandy 6y ago
It's abundantly clear that he took issue with the entire article, it wasn't some rant about racism. Original tweet: https://twitter.com/cory_foy/status/1251705040873689088 It's also quite clear he t
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by ampersandy 7y ago
Pointing out that there are a huge number of other factors that influence the spread of COVID-19 in each country is not cherry-picking, it's highlighting that you can't simply look at said graph and say "it's because the
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by ampersandy 7y ago
It refutes nothing — it's some layperson's uneducated opinion based on a couple of cherry picked statistics (as gombosg already pointed out). Let the epidemiologists guiding global responses to the pandemic provide guidance and ev
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by ampersandy 7y ago
Is it really abuse, though? Asking employees to volunteer their time to charity has got to be pretty low on the list of scummy ways to boost motivation and PR.
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by ampersandy 7y ago
Does it matter? How is a random person on the internet sufficiently qualified to define theft in a complex domain like digital copyright and intellectual property? You don't have to be a lawyer to be skeptical of what someone says onli
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by ampersandy 7y ago
This is a great analogy, as it actually has a name in magic circles! It's called the Too-Perfect theory. The idea being that some tricks are "too perfect", so the only way to do it is obvious, or the solution the audience arr
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by ampersandy 7y ago
https://github.com/search?q=language%3Arust You can easily find counter-examples if you look for them.
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by ampersandy 7y ago
If I criticize the US but do not criticize Russia in the same breath, does that mean I'm a Russian operative? Your logic does not make sense. If leaked Russian documents surface and Wikileaks refuses to publish them... that's a di
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by ampersandy 7y ago
It took more time for me to read your complaint about "bloat" than it took to load the site, read it all, and come to the comments. This type of elitist posturing is more corrosive to my enjoyment of this profession than any poorl
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by ampersandy 7y ago
Er, why isn't this prominently mentioned in the blog post? https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/bellum-om... I didn't lose trust in PIA because of Kape, I lost it because your blog pos
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by ampersandy 7y ago
Let's just dig into one aspect of a file syncing app: storing the files at Dropbox scale. Without spending too long thinking about it, I'd say we need: * An API to request files/upload files * Authentication/encryp
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by ampersandy 7y ago
We (Facebook) just released our Adaptive Experimentation platform as open source: https://github.com/facebook/Ax . It supports bandit optimization for discrete sets of candidates and bayesian optimization for continuous
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by ampersandy 7y ago
Because they actually bothered to file a bug report. The author thinks what's obvious to them must be obvious to everyone so didn't file anything. Of course it isn't going to be fixed in a timely fashion.

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