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by bootsz 9y ago
This reminds me a lot of a book I read a while ago called "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt. It focuses on the sociological aspects of hiring practices & performance evaluation measures in the knowledge economy. It's
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by bootsz 9y ago
I sympathize with both sides of this argument. The author is correct: If you're providing a service on the web, especially a widely used one, you should make it usable for all web users to the fullest extent possible, regardless of br
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by bootsz 9y ago
> Much of what we choose to spend money on is stuff that we as Americans seem to value. Much of that value, unfortunately, isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. This speaks volumes, far beyond just the healthcare system too.
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by bootsz 9y ago
Is it safe to assume that they are defining "income" as "after-tax income"?
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by bootsz 9y ago
Agree, especially since many other costs tend to be more fixed (or at least grow fairly slowly as a function of income). In this case % of income doesn't seem to be a super helpful metric.
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by bootsz 9y ago
> Just because you can call that there will be a Bitcoin pull back in the next twelve months, doesn't mean that it will be less than the price right now > you aren't really giving good advice for what to do today This.
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by bootsz 9y ago
$20/month for a bundled subscription to various popular news sites (WSJ, NYT) & other online media (The Atlantic, New Yorker, etc.). So many of these sites are behind paywalls and everyone wants you to subscribe to them. It'
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by bootsz 9y ago
I agree that there is no "perfect" interview process, but I have seen from experience that there are ways to go about it that reduce the crappiness for both sides, beyond what a lot of "top" companies are currently doing
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by bootsz 9y ago
> it's an entirely different set of skills entirely I'm not sure whiteboarding-style interviews are entirely orthogonal. They are definitely not a measure of real software engineering ability, but I suspect there is decent c
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by bootsz 9y ago
> I often feel that engineers write these posts because they know that they themselves are good at their job, but feel it is silly to have to develop an alternative set of skills in order to signal that they are a good hire. It does fe
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by bootsz 9y ago
Not email-based, but I'm keeping my eye on ActivityPub from W3C: https://activitypub.rocks . Seems to be a step in the right direction
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by bootsz 9y ago
"There's nothing you can do that can't be done" - The Beatles
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by bootsz 9y ago
End-To-End Arguments in System Design http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...
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True, it's not exactly the same thing. But I think there is room for a conversation about "published" content as well. The internet covers a much broader scope of content than say print media. I think it is interesting to
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by bootsz 9y ago
This. I'm really excited about projects like IPFS but I'm not totally comfortable with the "everything persists forever" philosophy as it stands now. Preventing link rot is a very worthwhile cause, but content creators
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by bootsz 9y ago
In what form? I got one email on July 27
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by bootsz 9y ago
Their particular position is one thing, but giving only 4 days notice is quite another. Especially considering any BTC held in their "vault" service takes 48h to transfer into standard wallet. I (and I'm assuming many other
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by bootsz 9y ago
Summary: https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.158316898.2338/flat,800x800,...
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by bootsz 9y ago
+1 to the Coursera course by Princeton that others have mentioned. Just finished it and really feel like I came away with a pretty thorough understanding of the fundamentals. Got exactly what I was looking for.
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by bootsz 9y ago
When I was preparing to apply to grad school ~4 years out of undergrad I spent a lot of time working through the various Math modules on Khan Academy and found it very helpful for getting me back up to speed on the basics. They have some h
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by bootsz 10y ago
Couldn't help myself... http://imgur.com/a/7j5RH Kidding aside, this is a cool idea
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by bootsz 10y ago
Very interesting topic. I also just generally enjoyed the liberal use of exclamation points throughout. "These are Irreducible Mathematical Truths!!! No rational justification is possible!" Imagine just shouting that at someone w