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by bcbrown 10y ago
I too would love suggestions, but I have Cicero's Republic on my list to read.
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Language in Thought and Action, S.I. Hayakawa How to Read a Book, Mortimer J. Adler Gilgamesh Beowulf Snowcrash High Output Management, Andy Grove Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson Programming Pearls, Jon Bentley Walden, Thoreau Autob
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Pick a small subdomain of your work, and use it exclusively there. Perhaps that's editing config files, or editing when sshed into a remote machine. Maybe for a language you only use in one-off scripts. Something you do at least weekly
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The simple algorithm is to build a correlation matrix between of purchases between all items in the store. Then, when given an item to generate recommendations for, you provide the other items with the highest scores, with a "top selle
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My favorite bit of wordplay in that book is when he calls Dolores Haze "dolorous and hazy".
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What I liked was the philosophy of deciding what personal traits are relevant for this job, and then specifically interviewing for those traits. The edit was because people seemed to be keying off the "frustrated" part, and that
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I especially liked this part: > If you need someone who can hit the ground running right away, test them with the exact tools they’ll be using on the job. If you need someone flexible who can learn anything, test them on something new an
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Although it was implemented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers#Real-li...
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> A few months later I renegotiated to have the bonus removed and the base salary increased to $175k. What was your negotiating strategy here? Did you just say "I'm going to make the bonus anyway, please let's just write i
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Have you ever seen that happen? I find it hard to believe that it would start a countdown clock.
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My favorite was a VW Beetle with the plate "FEATURE". No, it's not a bug...
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> return a non-zero status in certain non-error conditions, like when `grep` doesn't find a match, or in other cases where output is valid but empty This has bitten myself and several colleagues when trying to use grep with hadoop s
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by bcbrown 10y ago
I get them through LinkedIn. I have a well-written, informative profile that's peppered with Big Data buzzwords.
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You should put your email in your profile. If you're in Seattle, send me an email.
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> usually there will need to be some discussions among the panels. The way we've handled that (startup, ~30 devs) is that the VP of Engineering goes last, and will go around getting quick reactions from everyone on the loop. If ever
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Statically typed languages. Personally, java or C#.
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This year, I've explicitly been trying to read a book every two weeks, and am at 19 for the year, slightly ahead of pace. Previously, I was reading about 5-10 books a year.
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> a known malicious actor Isn't the entire idea of trustless systems that everyone is assumed malicious?
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> Call your shot. Before you run code, predict out loud exactly what will happen. That's probably my favorite bit of advice. It really helps with understanding how much your assumptions diverge from reality.
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>After having read a little Wittgenstein and the late Umberto Eco's works on semiotics Do you have any suggestions on good starting points? I found Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to be a rough introduction to Wittgenstein. I'm
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by bcbrown 10y ago
I've run into a case where we model an ID as a number, then added a partner that uses alphanumeric IDs. But I'm still pro-types, and think they solve way more problems than they cause.
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How long has leasing out compute resources been an industry? 1-2 decades? I'm sure there were leases on timesharing systems in the 50s and 60s, but that's still just a half century, and hardly the same industry as AWS.
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> You are either willfully ignorant or just a real dope. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable. Why the personal insults?
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What's your thoughts on Dask? I saw a talk on it at Strata, and it seemed fairly promising.
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I disagree. That's a reproduction, not a description.
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The one time I've been offered an exploding offer, I told them that I couldn't respond in the next two days as I was interviewing elsewhere, and that I was also concerned at the level of compensation. They came back with a higher
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by bcbrown 11y ago
I was just reading a paper summary this morning that's relevant to the point about an application working on one filesystem but not another: http://blog.acolyer.org/2016/02/11/fs-not-equal/
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A fair point. I guess what I'm getting at is whether the creative process is an "action" that the government can compel, or "speech" that cannot be so compelled. Is it constitutionally allowable for the government t
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>In my opinion, code in its functional capacity is not speech. The code that locks the user out after 10 tries is just the digital equivalent of a gear or valve: a functional building block of a machine. A gear in its functional capacity
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Placed | Seattle, WA | full time, onsite We're hiring devs for mobile, web, and big data teams; SDETs/testers; data scientists; and PMs. Technologies on the data team include Ruby, Python, Java, Hadoop, AWS. I've been here 8

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