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by ap22213 10y ago
That statement doesn't align with what I'd learned studying physical anthropology. That is, Almost all genetic adaptations that have been observed across Homo Sapiens have been environmental physical adaptations. I'm not sayi
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by ap22213 10y ago
Well then you'd know that Loudoun is a large county. I'm sure you lived in the eastern part - probably ashburn where they build dense complexes of 450k townhouses that span as far as the eye can see - to house all the 'creati
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by ap22213 10y ago
LOL - of course many of you just seem to want to rebuke me. Makes sense, given today's culture. But, you're just adding to the problem. Most current problems in our society stem from people getting more satisfaction out of pushin
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by ap22213 10y ago
Loudoun county, which is ranked as the highest income county in the US.
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by ap22213 10y ago
I get what you're saying - but the reality is that globalization is to blame. Years ago, if one was born ambitious and able, with enough luck they'd get relatively 'rich' and most likely stop when they hit that point. No
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by ap22213 10y ago
You're not alone - trust me. Most people don't believe me. But, then, I grew up in a place where many if not most household incomes are less than $15k / year. It's all relative though - I have enough saved up to probably
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by ap22213 10y ago
It depends on where one lives. Where I currently live, it takes about $25M in wealth just to get out of middle class and into lower upper class. And, to get into the true upper class requires maybe $500M to a billion. And, at that level, it
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by ap22213 10y ago
My experience is that younger developers take on way too much risk. It's either because they don't know how to manage risk, or they just get a rush from it. Unfortunately, there's a lot of survivorship bias that makes it seem
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by ap22213 10y ago
Absolutely - I'm sure that a bit of innate talent can improve one's rate of learning, but 90% of the willing can do it. The best programmers that I've met just loved the art and science of computing, had respect for their cra
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by ap22213 10y ago
The difference is that the arguments to socket() were arbitrarily defined, but DFS is an algorithm. Anyone who has taken a intro data structures course should be able to at least derive the pseudo code for DFS.
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by ap22213 10y ago
The particular positions that I'm hiring for require certain kinds of knowledge, unfortunately. When one is dealing with Petabytes of structured signal data, it's helpful (but not required) that someone know memory layout. But, i
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by ap22213 10y ago
I've written DFS about 1-2 times a year, on average, for the last 15 years. Why do I need to? Usually, because I need to modify or create a data structure that is kind of graph-like but not quite. If someone didn't know how to wri
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by ap22213 10y ago
In the last two weeks I interviewed three candidates with masters of science C.S. None of the three knew the memory size in bytes of a double precision floating point variable. None of the three could explain scenarios in which they would
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by ap22213 10y ago
Why tax incentives? We have too many of those already.
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by ap22213 10y ago
What is it about Nordic countries that allows them to avoid corruption and political decay? As an outsider, it seems that they're always experimenting with new approaches and evolving the government and laws to keep up with the changi
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by ap22213 10y ago
Plus, for specialized topics, a good portion (10-15%?) of the top-voted answers are just wrong or misleading. About once every few weeks in reviewing one of my team's code, I see something strange. I ask them about it, and they say the
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by ap22213 10y ago
It's revealing that Wells made this letter to Joyce and not the other way around. To the artist, the audience only becomes important when they're either a patron or a subject. And, even then, they often don't matter much. But
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by ap22213 10y ago
Geez - Am I supposed to really believe all the hyperbole in here? It makes it sound like a move to Microservices is the main reason for a company's failure. To me, Microservices are a pragmatic solution to build software in an age of c
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by ap22213 10y ago
Man, wish I could find the link - I had read something probably 10 years ago that discussed the abnormally high number of independently wealthy people in academia and research. Makes sense given how expensive it is and how infrequently it n
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by ap22213 10y ago
What the house needs to do is regulate startup's shady options agreements. I see way too many developers getting burned out striving for that big payout that may never come. It's the classic con game.
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by ap22213 10y ago
A "32 node Citus Cloud cluster" sounds pretty expensive. I couldn't find pricing info.
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by ap22213 10y ago
Timely article. I recently switched to VZ from ATT where I'd been a customer for years. At ATT, I had a grandfathered unlimited plan. Before I switched, I checked my max monthly data usage from the previous few months. The max was way
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by ap22213 10y ago
At least Oracle has the Fortune 500 FUD going for them. But, to think that they can easily beat an entrenched incumbent like AWS is a little much. I mean even Google, with their positive brand, hordes of cash, and guerrilla ad campaign (on
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by ap22213 10y ago
Many of the things described in that reference could be applied to medicine, in general. And, probably other sciences where Human-crafted models cannot possibly account for all influential variables (i.e. Economics, etc.) These days, when o
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by ap22213 10y ago
I hate to say this, but most of the time, I just fork it, fix it, and forget it. That may sound like I'm not being a good community member. But, most of the time, dealing with the maintainers is more effort than I have time for.
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by ap22213 10y ago
Is that speculation, or do you have evidence? I'm genuinely curious, for personal reasons. Schizophrenia and mood disorders run on both sides of my family. The schizophrenia is rare - the mood disorder not so rare. But, we are all ki
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by ap22213 10y ago
What does this even mean? When I think of 'Liberty' I think of freedom of movement and action. But, over the last 16 years, I have not noticed any changes in how I can move or spend my money. And, I have a lot more than I used to
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by ap22213 10y ago
Yep - odds are so low to find someone decent. Let's say you're a good, experienced developer. You get 10 recruiter messages per week. You ignore most of them but 1 in 20 you decide to read. There's a 10% chance that the descr
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by ap22213 10y ago
Which libraries are you talking about? It would be fun to check them out. Anyway, it's all about UX. Certain types of programmers will want a certain types of interfaces. A well designed library will have been crafted to meet those pro
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by ap22213 10y ago
Making generalizations from a set of interviewees is very risky - because interviewees are very, very different from the general population. I should know because I recently made this same error. Background: Current company recently got ser

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