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by blobbers 8y ago
How many people have gone through the full regiment of training for interviews described by the original linked author and failed at every major tech company?
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by blobbers 8y ago
Don't you think you're taking a bit of a fatalistic approach to things? I applaud the linked article's can-do attitude and pro-active approach to studying for what to be honest is a slightly silly interview process. I'm
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by blobbers 8y ago
I came from a similar place to yourself and agree with your comments. When I came to SF, I couldn't help but stare at stark poverty. I came from a much smaller place that lacked all of these problems. But what you described is true; af
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by blobbers 8y ago
This story is kind of old news - anyone on chat groups who speaks chinese knows about these. The thing is - chinese nationals using ingenuity to trick money out of americans, that's a recurring theme in the modern world.
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by blobbers 8y ago
agree.
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by blobbers 8y ago
Unless of course there is crime, or a fire. That said, I believe geographic mobility is important and probably one of the things that makes things most challenging as an adult.
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by blobbers 8y ago
Acknowledging the way the world works and trying to improve conditions without addressing the root cause is sometimes one of the best possible outcomes. When a doctor helps you with the arm you broke because a car hit your bicycle, a doctor
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by blobbers 8y ago
Once skynet takes over the headline will be: 'New autonomous farm wants to produce fuel without human workers' ... fuel for the robots.
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by blobbers 8y ago
Voleon Group | Senior Software Engineers or Senior Sysadmin / Linux DB SysAdmins | ONSITE Berkeley, California | Co-founded in 2007 by two leading scientists, The Voleon Group combines an academic approach to research with an emphasis
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by blobbers 8y ago
Do the math yourself.
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by blobbers 8y ago
Why is everyone reporting this deal is worth 3.5B. It's worth 2.5B.
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by blobbers 8y ago
It sounds like he has a phone number and an email. He could get a mailbox at a fedex as a permanent address. This individual sounds more stubborn than your average person but also that he's had a tough life. Hope the world works out fo
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by blobbers 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_7:7%E2%80%938 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23_1WlxGGM4
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by blobbers 8y ago
It isn't even good marketing - these demo pages are terrible!
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by blobbers 8y ago
I suspect you might be just a little bit desensitized to what 'good food' is. Grocery stores sell products. They used to sell food.
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by blobbers 8y ago
I'm jealous of his 2 year old phone. My iPhone 6s is so slowwww....
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by blobbers 8y ago
I was thinking the same thing. The gigafactory isn't mention in this, but could there be synergies with Tesla's (somewhat shady... pun intended) acquisition of SolarCity? These sorts of installs aren't exactly the same thing
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by blobbers 8y ago
I was half making a joke... but I believe if you have a large external thermal source or sink the time for keys to renormalize would be dramatically shorter.
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by blobbers 8y ago
Apparently the attacker has never seen my macbook air running a heavy compilation job. Fan is cranked and the keyboard is so hot that there is no way they are getting my password! Nothing but noise to a thermal camera...
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by blobbers 8y ago
btw, mostly seems to run on python2! I believe you intended to run in python3 based on your last cell. changing maketrans and translate will have it run in python2.7 table = string.maketrans('', '') # remove punct
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by blobbers 8y ago
Fun post!
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by blobbers 8y ago
Urban design in the United States and North America has generally been evolved in a way you'd expect. Larger spaces caused people to spread out further. North America is a (relatively) new place where people seeking land struck out fro
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by blobbers 9y ago
This is a big deal in the sense that wealthfront started out as a fairly dumb unsophisticated asset manager, but has since added tax loss harvesting, factor models and risk parity strategies at a fraction of the typical active management fe
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Wealthfront launches Bridgewater look-alike risk parity strategy(prnewswire.com)
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by blobbers 9y ago
You win a prize for the most bizarre story I'll read today. That said, I think one thing you indicate here is helpful - life is a personal experience, and while some people may experience motivation from the exercise of willpower, othe
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by blobbers 9y ago
Robot aside, is this endemic of the feelings held outside the San Francisco towards robots, technology, and the rich? The robot didn't really have much to it except it wanted to go to San Francisco. The disconnection of pollsters with
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by blobbers 9y ago
Is quantopian a viable platform or are you just going to food for the bigger fish in the pond?
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by blobbers 9y ago
Do I read this correctly in seeing that Wealth Inequality section in the United States shows the top 10% have 73% of wealth, the next 40% of people have 27% of the wealth and the bottom 50% are effectively living pay cheque to pay cheque an
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by blobbers 9y ago
Informational note: The notion of fixed rate mortgages does not exist in Canada. You can lock in for about 5 years, but otherwise your mortgage rate floats with prime. If prime rates rise, borrowers can be on the hook for large amounts o
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by blobbers 9y ago
If TP made it to the top of your list of useful things in a societal meltdown, you need to spend a bit more time roughing it.

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