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by bcassedy 10y ago
Season tickets cost thousands of dollars and in many cases have extremely long waiting lists. When I still lived in the DC area, the waiting list for Redskins season tickets was decades long. It's important to keep the sport seemingly
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by bcassedy 10y ago
Reviews in general are not a great indicator because the average person writes a terrible review. Either the review is made based on irrelevant details or they lack the perspective necessary to review the item appropriately. Two recent exam
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by bcassedy 10y ago
There are a number of problems with this approach. It's difficult to standardize so personal biases are more likely to creep in. I've asked this question in interviews a number of times, but it's primarily to gauge communicat
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by bcassedy 11y ago
I attended App Academy and am one of the people who had already started digging in and used bootcamp as an accelerator of sorts. That is actually the reason I've never written a formal review. I've written reviews on a message boa
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by bcassedy 11y ago
I've recently started playing with Mithril as well and I quite like it. I haven't used React or Mithril enough to speak confidently about the differences, but it seems Mithril offers everything React does and more with better perf
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by bcassedy 11y ago
How do you select for these people with high capacity to learn?
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by bcassedy 11y ago
Change is nice too. We've got an open office and we change desks 2 to 4 times a year. So far we're grouped only with other engineers, but even with a small team you get much more comfortable with the people you work in close proxi
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by bcassedy 11y ago
While there may be some benefit to avoiding free riders, that definitely is not the goal. The goal is to hopefully prevent some new installs of ad blockers with a hope that some of those existing free riders disable their ad-blockers on Wir
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by bcassedy 11y ago
no
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As someone that has experimented with polyphasic sleep, I'd like to see some studies designed in such a way that they mirror what people actually do when they switch to one of these schedules. That is to say allow for an adjustment per
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by bcassedy 11y ago
I think he's referring to the DNA evidence from the hood latch. The DNA sample was collected from the latch, supposedly prompted by a Dassey interview. Dassey only speaks about Steven's using and opening up the RAV4 hood on prompt
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by bcassedy 11y ago
The defense expert tested that the test can only definitely say that EDTA is present, not that it is absent. Due to the rushed nature of the test and the fact that it has only been used once before, there are definitely questions about the
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by bcassedy 11y ago
Also, there's just some plain painful stuff in there. "(the flop) reveals the straight I've been chasing is no longer a possibility"? You don't really "chase a straight" preflop and AQ is a not a hand that
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by bcassedy 11y ago
Notably, the user that posted the article has 47,000+ karma. I imagine that's a factor
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by bcassedy 11y ago
Anecdata: People that rely on GPS navigation all the time seem to have trouble remembering how to get places they've been dozens of times.
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by bcassedy 11y ago
Has this not always been the case for engineering majors? I seem to recall that graduating in 5 years was pretty much the norm for engineers.
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by bcassedy 11y ago
I feel like looking at how the 0.01% got ultra-rich is mostly focusing on the wrong thing. The problem is that the rich and ultra-rich are getting richer while everyone else is stagnating or regressing
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by bcassedy 11y ago
The employees at the types of places that the parent post is referring to are often in a situation that amounts to indentured servitude. They're locked to one employer for a long period of time in one location. They have almost zero co
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by bcassedy 11y ago
Most of the time when I try to price match at Best Buy or the like it turns out the model available on Amazon with the exact same specs and similar lower price point has one char changed on the SKU. It's become pretty common for there
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by bcassedy 11y ago
The people doing it as a sole source of income are people that don't have many other options
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by bcassedy 11y ago
I'm curious what you're asking in phone screens that identifies these types. I typically don't handle phone screens, but it's pretty common for us to get candidates with 5 - 20+ years of experience that clearly have not
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by bcassedy 11y ago
Some great advice in this article. In general I'm a huge fan of the content on Interview Cake. Lots of good problems to work through with increasingly valuable hints to step you through if you get stuck.
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by bcassedy 11y ago
I really dislike this kind of judgement of non-STEM majors. I used to make these kinds of judgements myself. The problem is the quality of education in America. Outside of certain, well-defined technical fields our universities have largely
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by bcassedy 11y ago
We have direct evidence to the contrary. Uber disallows tipping and pays somewhat substantially less than Lyft. It's great that you want people to be paid sanely for the job they do, but the fact of the matter is people largely aren&#x
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by bcassedy 11y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_Enf... "The Act was passed on the last day before Congress adjourned for the 2006 elections. According to Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), no one on the
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by bcassedy 11y ago
"Their "value" is just a function of the job, not a measure of its worth." I think we need to be careful with terminology here. I'm defining value as return on investment (and sometimes I'll be using the expect
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by bcassedy 11y ago
This is an interesting article, yet I believe it largely misses the issues people have with income inequality. The article seems to focus on pay discrepancies between people with the same role, missing a lot of the big picture. Completely m
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by bcassedy 11y ago
Man this is very cool to see. I know part of the reason the US has been traditionally been subpar at Olympic Weightlifting is the lack of emphasis at the youth level. That said, my understanding is American coaches are leagues behind the re
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by bcassedy 11y ago
Seriously though, "any engineer with a decent job?". Where are these 200k+ jobs being advertised? Most that I see want to pay 100-170k (and you have to be amazing to get that 170k). Even Netflix which has a reputation for paying w
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by bcassedy 11y ago
That certainly sounds like a more senior role. My take on bootcamp grads (I am one), is that the purpose is to make them a competitive or superior option to a fresh CS grad. How does that expectation compare to your experience?

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