angelbob

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by angelbob 11y ago
It is frequent that it's believed to happen. It's possible, but seems unlikely, that it has literally happened, torture has worked and then the US government has somehow not crowed about it. They are looking very hard for scenar
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by angelbob 11y ago
It's not clear that torture makes it especially likely to prevent lying about information, though. It'd be nice if he studied that instead of making us assume it, though :-P
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by angelbob 11y ago
Inflate the price, lock in their returns. If Facebook had few investors and not much equity sold, they would have the option of offering at a cheaper price to the public -- fewer folks to be paid back. The GP comment is also suggesting they
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by angelbob 11y ago
For anybody doing the VC thing, they need to be able to plausibly promise their VCs to grow really, really fast. That means hiring a lot of engineers, designers, etc., really fast. That's much harder outside the Bay Area, and especiall
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by angelbob 11y ago
Oof. I sell through Gumroad as well, and now I'm a lot more worried :-/ I had been using hand-rolled Stripe integration. They're not bad, but I really like the invoicing in Gumroad, and that they accept PayPal. They've b
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by angelbob 11y ago
Possible. In this case, we're not looking for outliers or measuring based on financial success, but trying to tell if the VC is systematically biased anti-woman. It's not clear that dropping outliers is a bad idea there. It's
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by angelbob 11y ago
Yup. The author mentions that noise is a serious problem for this method in the article, and talks about some ways he looked at trying to reduce it, but didn't come up with a good one.
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by angelbob 11y ago
You'd be amazed how many of these guys make it past even very good resume screens. A resume is easy to lie about. You're right, phone screens usually get them, but not always. A fair number can still make it through.
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by angelbob 11y ago
In general, everybody uses a service like MailChimp or SendGrid to do this. That allows them to send email, but keeps them from building up a good reputation for no spam on their IP addresses -- that reputation is built by the email provide
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by angelbob 11y ago
Finally: I call BS on the idea that Big Beer somehow ruins acquired craft breweries. Goose Island is if anything doing a more consistent and competent job now than they were prior to the acquisition. If their plan to buy up the distributo
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by angelbob 11y ago
Personal experience with physicians has been my primary way to gain this bias against physicians. You could also do research on, say, Lister or checklists and get the bias that way.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Most controllable costs get outsourced. It's not that everybody can't run their own datacenter. It's that often it makes a lot of sense not to. You're implicitly assuming that having not-terribly-tech-savvy organizatio
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by angelbob 11y ago
That would at least be more expensive. Moving the cheating to harder and harder chunks of the entire system is a fine start. You can't have perfect security. You can have security that makes bad actors pay more for the privilege of b
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by angelbob 11y ago
Several of the forum comments mention fresh installs. So possible, but fairly unlikely.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Sure, but they'll have more trouble getting cooperation from non-US companies you're using.
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by angelbob 11y ago
I was gonna wait until vendors who should know better ( cough Percona cough ) stop advertising that they have CA systems before declaring that CAP has reached the end of its usefulness :-)
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by angelbob 11y ago
There's a movement to start calling such things "abuse" rather than "trolling", but I don't see it picking up much steam.
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by angelbob 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the guy running the department was a full professor, yeah. They don't say anything about how they get their data, which is a little odd. Yeah, the numbers on the second page seem more realistic to me. They give mor
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by angelbob 11y ago
Hm. I know the guy who ran the Master of Software Engineering department at CMU West (in Mountain View.) And he didn't make the "average full professor" amount you're claiming. And one would assume he'd be making at
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by angelbob 11y ago
I'm a CMU grad as well. And CMU has a long and storied history of being raided for talent like this. 40 at once is unusually big, but this story plays out regularly. It's good for the profs, it's mostly good for the school, a
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by angelbob 11y ago
Nah, the CMU Robotics Institute folks they're talking about were almost certainly paid. Not by Silicon Valley standards, but they did receive actual money. These were faculty and employees, not students.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Expect to continue seeing more of it. It works, of course. But it's also much less obnoxious than previous methods, so it also generates less bad will in the community.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Retaliation is illegal against them, too.
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by angelbob 11y ago
The link you give defines isolation like this: "The isolation property ensures that the concurrent execution of transactions results in a system state that would be obtained if transactions were executed serially, i.e., one after the o
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by angelbob 11y ago
What I took from the article was that this just isn't going to make enough money for them to deal with it. Iterating gets expensive, fast. And apparently they're not making back the money they put in. I think that's fair. The
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by angelbob 11y ago
It's just seeing it from the other side. Both sides lie, and both sides have coping tactics for the lies of the other.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Start by asking, "who would my manager be?" or "who would my team be?" If you're not being interviewed by anybody who will be on your prospective team, that's already a red flag. You should be talking to your f
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by angelbob 11y ago
What do you see in contrast to "the west"? I'm just curious what you're comparing the US (and possibly Western Europe) to. I don't see China as being a tremendously high-trust social environment, for instance.
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by angelbob 11y ago
I would complain if it had that limit and was called UNLIMITEDINT, for whatever that's worth.
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by angelbob 11y ago
I've heard this said. However, I'm pretty sure most of the companies I've worked for have nobody in this category, at least among developers. I work for small tech companies (generally under 50 devs) though. I can believe it&

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