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by awesome_dude 4y ago
This is a slap on the back for... no real reason. Sure the USA has led in some quarters, but that's more to do with the close of the second world war where European invented technologies (and the brightest creators) were confiscated (f
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by awesome_dude 4y ago
No, hard no. In my experience good communication solves this every time. MGMT: We need an estimate ENG: I have several unknowns MGMT: We really need an estimate ENG: This is my rough estimate, but be aware that the unknowns could change thi
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by awesome_dude 4y ago
Function calls are expensive, more news at 11
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by awesome_dude 4y ago
They're right to drop "American" but not for the reasons outlined. An "American" is by definition is someone from the American continents (North and South America). Further a "North American" is someone fr
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by awesome_dude 4y ago
Before the internet (I'm that old :( life was dull and had no meaning. I used to pick up trivia (useless facts!) and was ridiculed for it (who cares! why do you learn these useless things!) Now that I live inside the biggest library in
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by awesome_dude 4y ago
Lots of things precede central banking - that doesn't change how the system now is still essentially the same as when hard currency was shipped out and about
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by awesome_dude 4y ago
Gold, especially, only has one valuable property, which is why I believe it was used as a representative "money" - it's an inert metal. It doesn't degrade, ever, not for thousands of years. The amount of gold in a blob c
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by awesome_dude 4y ago
I've never understood the complaint. Once upon a time the central bank would load up trains and armoured trucks with hard currency that they would send to the bank. The bank would then loan that out for stuff (houses, cars, whatever).
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by awesome_dude 4y ago
They're definitely trying, but they're not as open as they might appear. I had one of their in-house recruiters work hard to get me into their company, and was kind of happy until it came to the reference checks, nobody had mentio
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by awesome_dude 6y ago
I use mutt for Gmail in my terminal, the setup is fairly easy and documented across blog posts example muttrc ========================================================= set imap_user = '<username>@gmail.com' set imap_authenti
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by awesome_dude 6y ago
Is this the only way the USA can compete with China, first they attacked Huawei, for having a better 5G product, then they went after Tik Tok, because kids used it, now they're after Alibaba for being better than eBay?
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by awesome_dude 6y ago
Yick, as a user I refuse to install apps now, I don't need 8 zillion apps, I just need a browser. It's not a security thing, it's a plain and simple, I only want one thing to launch, that I can use for anything. The only ap
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by awesome_dude 6y ago
On an average day? Mode: On a typical day <<-- most common meaning for average in day to day conversation Mean: On a day that is in the calculated middle (for some variance) <<-- most common meaning when we think the question i
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by awesome_dude 6y ago
It's the fault of the "Outliers" book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book) The argument was that all you needed to become an expert was 10,000 hours. It's since been debunked, though, but H
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by awesome_dude 6y ago
Like the series by Carlos Castenada? Or Huxley's Doors of our mind?
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by awesome_dude 6y ago
This is a new concept to me (governments paying for fire departments). Fire departments have always been paid for by insurance companies, a long time ago there were competing departments, owned by competing insurers. Problem was if your hou
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by awesome_dude 7y ago
A famous example of a strategy that was published, and shared, whilst still profitable is that of Benjamin Graham, several of his students went on to be incredibly successful traders (we all know about Buffett, right?) But that's an ex
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by awesome_dude 7y ago
Can someone explain to me (like a five yo) how the borrow checker is different to Go's -race flag for compilation? Genuine question.
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by awesome_dude 7y ago
So, I have been giving this a bit of thought, when I interview badly (and I have a zillion times), it's mostly because I'm not used to vocalising my thoughts whilst I work. That is interviewer: Tell me what your next step is in s
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by awesome_dude 7y ago
Single Job Syndrome: Engineers/Managers have only ever worked for the same people for the last 5 or 10 years, and have no idea what engineers look like in the wild.
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by awesome_dude 7y ago
A lot of comments discuss Zuck's luck, but a better example would be William Henry Gates III. Here was a kid born to a wealthy family, given a chance to learn about computers at an early age (before he was 11!). He leveraged that knowl
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by awesome_dude 7y ago
The cost function is the gaining of skills to make you good. Whilst upskilling, you're not out catching your lucky chance, you're busy reading/studying/practising.
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by awesome_dude 7y ago
The problem isn't limited to engineering hires, ever bought a house and had to go look for a builder to check the house is in good nick? What about the lawyer you use for the conveyancing? How about an accountant to do your taxes? Furt