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by bcbrown 13y ago
The wi-fi options in national parks is fantastic. There isn't any. That's the way it should be.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
If you have any suggestions for online courses or other self-learning resources for distributed systems, I would be much obliged. The Ullman book is already in my queue.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
The top-level @replies are just a symptom of someone new to the community who doesn't understand how to use this site. The content-free marketing speak is less forgiveable.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Agreed. I would recommend bringing on board someone who's worked as a strength coach, or has some sort of expertise around long-term training regimens. Specifically, "muscle confusion" isn't a real thing. Have you spoken
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by bcbrown 13y ago
It's a lot easier to track conversations if you use the "reply" link below a question to answer it. I want to "improve or maintain" my fitness. I'm a powerlifter who occasionally competes. I'm receptive to
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by bcbrown 13y ago
As a prospective employee, it's a good filter, though.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Engineering quality and product quality aren't the same. Plus, the better product doesn't always win in the marketplace.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I was one of the gifted math students in high school, and I put in a very little amount of work. In college, I had to put in a lot more work, but the math still came somewhat naturally to me. I'm pretty sure I still had to put in less
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Who is this product aimed at? People with medical conditions, or "fitness enthusiasts"? What's the relation between "muscle quality" and strength? Are there any use cases for powerlifters, for example?
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by bcbrown 13y ago
You can't give 15 people 15% each, that comes out to 225% of the equity. Or is he saying that the 15 people will split the 15%? Because 1% that doesn't vest until a liquidity event isn't that special, it seems to me. I would
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by bcbrown 13y ago
It's newsworthy.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
A short is borrowing stock to sell, promising to re-buy that stock in the future to give back to the lender. The stock price can rise arbitrarily high, which means you may have to pay an arbitrarily high price to re-purchase the stock in th
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by bcbrown 13y ago
One small tip - your page links to the app page, but doesn't otherwise say anything about what it does, just calling it "this thing". That diary page is marketing too, include a summary of what it does there!
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Ugh, ever since we added scala to our projects, the compile-time has doubled. It's certainly an issue to me. It makes it harder to get into flow when I have to wait several minutes for compilation.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I'm a little surprised to see such a differentiation between salaries for Software Engineers and Software Developers. I've always treated the two as synonyms.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
You'd probably enjoy checking out the books of Lloyd Kahn: http://www.amazon.com/Lloyd-Kahn/e/B001JS1BQY/
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by bcbrown 13y ago
>the main concern you ought to have in your calculations is bitcoin being killed by a government or a competing service that offers the same and better benefits that using bitcoin does. Very different from SatoshiDice. Those seem pretty
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by bcbrown 13y ago
It gets you a job offer and $1000. You get the money even if you don't accept the job. I think it's a good idea. I wouldn't have considered applying, because I'm not looking for work. But if they were local, I'd app
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by bcbrown 13y ago
And his client was impressed. Unless you've taken a class from that instructor, I think you're lacking the context necessary to call his project a failure. What if the professor started every lecture by saying "I expect you t
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by bcbrown 13y ago
> Leave yourself plenty of room. You may need to add code or notes in between lines later. Start at the top of the board and leave a blank line between each line. That's a good idea I'll adopt. It looks messy when you start try
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by bcbrown 13y ago
> Right now top engineering talent is getting 165k and above. With some C-Level executives and lower-management in the same range it can make things challenging from an internal-equity standpoint. Do companies stick to their guns and los
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I also prefer the original definition, but I think you're fighting a losing battle. I think in common use, there's now three definitions: 1) The original definition. Someone with curiosity who digs into the internals of systems, m
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Because I'm often more interested in the commentary than in the article itself.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
It's certainly not a great solution, but I practice 'clean room' browsing, by using one browser where I log in to services like GMail, and one browser for anonymous stuff.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I disagree, I think there's plenty of redevelopment. Just look at the controversies over allowing development on separate tax parcels, leading to new houses being built in side yards and back yards. There's also (on Capitol Hill a
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by bcbrown 13y ago
What? I'm doing it wrong because I work 40 hours a week at a job I love, then go home in time to go for a walk in the park, read a book and watch the sunset, play a sport, and see friends? I'm glad whatever you're doing works
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by bcbrown 13y ago
There are also companies that give you room to learn and to grow, help you advance your career in the direction you want, and also let you work reasonable hours.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
My view is that if an interviewer dings me for saying "I don't know", that's a sign I wouldn't want to work there anyway.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
>The more I use Node, the more I wish I could use it in new places. Node is not a perfect language by any means As someone with only a passing familiarity with Javascript, what is Node? I thought it was a Javascript library, is it a sepa
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Where did the 230-310k/employee figure come from? Looking at the graph, I would have guessed 80k-500k/employee as a more reasonable range. 10mm revenue and 100k/employee sure doesn't look like an outlier to me, based on

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