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by aristus 15y ago
No offense, but the teller will then categorize you as a person lacking imagination. Instant loss of credibility. Communication fails once again and the world is that much poorer. No one is to blame, but it's sad to see it happen.
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by aristus 15y ago
Copyright law. And in Europe at least a deeper moral right to be identified as the author of a work and to have a say in how it's used. For example, I would be very upset if my work was used in advertising, or a political campaign that I vi
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by aristus 15y ago
I don't know anything about those so I can't say. Not everything has a facile real-world analogy, and there may be long chains of dependent concepts to get through first. Here's the thing, though: if you make an honest effort to explain som
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by aristus 15y ago
Off the cuff, I would come up with something involving parking valets and the pegboard for keys. It would illustrate the important bits of the mechanism and its purpose. I don't know if you would dismiss that as meaningless analogy, but exp
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by aristus 15y ago
Indeed, you can explain it to 9-year-olds: http://carlos.bueno.org/2011/01/tortoise.html
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by aristus 15y ago
Interviews have a high but unknown false-negative rate. Don't take it personally, and don't treat this like a video game or college admissions process. If you take a few years working somewhere else, that's perfectly fine. Maybe you'll disc
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by aristus 15y ago
FWIW, I've asked the poster for details which would allow us to investigate what happened, eg which pages, events, and users were allegedly taken down. As it stands there's not a whole lot to go on. On a personal note, I'm astonished at how
578.
by aristus 15y ago
Spellcheck. :D IT is a very broad industry. Off the top of my head: * backups and verification * spearphishing / targeted trojan attacks * evaluation and management of cloud providers * moving from owned software to software as se
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by aristus 15y ago
Lots of luck and some hard work. At the time (mid 90s) the job market was much better and everyone was hiring people to build ecommerce sites. It's harder in some ways now to get that entry level job. On the other hand it's phenomenally eas
580.
by aristus 15y ago
What makes you think that you'd not make it in? I'm a community college dropout. Research the company, check out some of the "easy" puzzles, etc. And send me an email if you are interested.
581.
by aristus 15y ago
At minimum, doing your data fetching in parallel / asynchronously is a huge boost. Likewise flushing to the client in concurrent / out-of-order chunks, possibly in parallel with other work.
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by aristus 15y ago
Once a company files for an ipo they enter a quiet period in which they cannot answer or speak in the media. It's open season on them until the Day. Go back and look T articles about google between April and august 2004.
583.
by aristus 15y ago
Well, it was a small company, a Yellow Pages ad agency. At the time "cut and paste" mostly meant "scissors and glue". The owner's idea was to automate the process of designing, billing, placing, and accounting for advertising. He ended up w
584.
by aristus 15y ago
Consider hiring minors through school vocational programs. I had an apprenticeship between the ages of 15 and 18, at an ad agency that was using the newfangled computers to move faster than their competition. I was bored with high school an
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by aristus 15y ago
An oldie but goodie: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6687 '...we could make YC work more peer-to-peer. Or we could build a robot that would walk around telling everyone "don't make users register," "delete half the text on your frontp
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by aristus 15y ago
I'm not convinced of this rebuttal. The problem is that these systems tend only to improve serendipity within the comfort zone . Greg's One True Scotsman argument that a "well-designed" system would of course be better is not convincing ei
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by aristus 15y ago
We prefer the term "watirboarding".
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by aristus 15y ago
Only if you insist on using bad statistical methods. Averaging high infant mortality into the rest of the population leads to misleading claims like that. Do you really think most people dropped dead at 36? "For example, a Roman Life Expect
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by aristus 15y ago
Off-topic, but the phrase "evidence-based medicine" sounds very loaded. If not evidence, what was it based on before?? Serious question.
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by aristus 15y ago
All p2p tamper-proofing schemes reduce to the Byzantine Generals Problem. There exist working algorithms, and the math was figured out a long time ago. There are two wrinkles, though: BGP solutions are kind of slow. Worse, it is impossible
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by aristus 15y ago
I don't think that's what the OP is asking. Why would someone take the time and effort to post on this unknown site, when there is another, much larger site with millions of dollars' worth of investors? A talented author can build a fan bas
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by aristus 16y ago
Just keep an ear out for someone who can do something about it. A lot of good projects happen when a few people come together with similar ideas in their back pockets.
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by aristus 16y ago
In 1999 I was living in Orlando, Fl, of all places. I was a warm-body "consultant" for a "software company" whose business was really selling my time to customize their crappy website software at $275/hr (out of which I was paid $30/hr... n
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by aristus 16y ago
Facebook allows you to do this. There is no need to give a third party application access all of your information. Click "Account Settings", and then "Download Your Information". Voila. You'll get an email within a few minutes. https://www
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by aristus 16y ago
This is just a special case of modus ponens, right? If I can't break my code, then my code is secure. I can't break my code. Therefore my code is secure.
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by aristus 16y ago
As a class, perhaps not. All I know is from my what I observed with friends and family, mostly from Latin America, and many not in technology.
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by aristus 16y ago
You're right. Negotiating from strength requires being willing and able to walk away.
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by aristus 16y ago
Anecdotally, I've found that there is a "visa discount". H1B workers are paid a lot less than you'd think by looking at these public numbers or the salaries paid to citizens. When you can't quit without being deported, you tend not to negot
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by aristus 16y ago
Making an option is a tempting choice, but as always the devil is in the defaults. In the limit case you get things like Linux apps with umpteen million options, and still no one is happy.
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by aristus 16y ago
Consider this: Facebook is remarkable precisely because no matter how big it gets, your experience with it is more or less bounded by your personal circle. Points are a good proxy for user counts, and over the years I've become more and mor

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