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by btmorex 16y ago
Well, I don't know about the others, but the US President can preempt any prime time program on every major network whenever he wants. That seems quite a bit more powerful than a 60 minutes interview.
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by btmorex 16y ago
I've been doing a lot of interviewing recently. When people struggle with a white board problem, I give them a laptop to code on. I have yet to find someone who struggled at the white board, but did fine on the laptop. Maybe they exist, but
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by btmorex 16y ago
Disagree completely. I could only answer one or maybe two of the grammar questions and yet I speak and write English just fine. Honestly, I don't even know what the "Principle Parts" of a verb refer to and I certainly can't list them. What
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by btmorex 16y ago
If this doesn't literally bring down a major bank, it's already been overhyped (and it was just announced).
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by btmorex 16y ago
Releasing the raw contents without any redactions would probably be a disaster. Remember that a lot of these documents name spies/confidential informants. This is also at the level where people are actually killed. I guess what I'm saying i
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by btmorex 16y ago
I don't think these are mundane at all, but I also don't think the US comes out looking very bad. There are surely going to be some relationships that are slightly damaged especially with some allies, but so far, it's nothing too bad. Other
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by btmorex 16y ago
Too bad we all don't have a spare New York Times reporter to get a company to do what they should have done in the first place.
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by btmorex 16y ago
Just curious, do other people really consider Zynga products to be games? There's little to no gameplay, not really a skill progression, no storyline... To me, they're just activities that have been finely tuned for maximum addictiveness an
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by btmorex 16y ago
I actually don't look at this through the narrow lens of an Apple shareholder. Who wins--iphone or android--matters a great deal for the future of the smartphone ecosystem. I have no doubt that Apple can turn a nice profit while controlling
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by btmorex 16y ago
The business argument would have been "you can't maintain majority market share with such tight fisted control of the app store, approval process, choice of carrier, etc". But that was really an argument that applied 1+ years ago before iph
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by btmorex 16y ago
I'm very skeptical too especially when they write this near the end of the paper: "One virtue of the affirmation is that it can be combined with instructional approaches that show promise in closing the gender gap, such as the interactive e
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by btmorex 16y ago
It also discourages people from embellishing their resume with stuff that they don't really know. I think a lot of especially younger people don't realize that if you list a programming language on your resume it's sort of expected that you
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by btmorex 16y ago
Why not just pick and choose what you need from C++? For all the hate that C++ gets, one nice thing is it doesn't force anything down your throat. Between simple not using features, and compile time options (disabling exceptions for example
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by btmorex 16y ago
Here's what I predict: 1.) IPv4 addresses get harder and harder to obtain especially in large numbers. 2.) Some authoritarian country with a quickly growing internet population (China) mandates a switchover. 3.) Business everywhere scramble
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by btmorex 16y ago
Well, one problem is: "In 2000, a law was passed mandating that women have the right to cut back hours at their jobs without repercussions from employers." If the article's correct, that seems like it discriminates against men. If cutting b
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by btmorex 16y ago
"""Us old timers remember 2001-2004 when anything related to the internet was ridiculed as a ponzi scheme. The conventional wisdom was no internet company would ever make money and all the ideas of the dot-com boom were stupid.""" No one w
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by btmorex 16y ago
https incurs a heavy performance penalty for everyone. Server load isn't the problem; a large increase in latency for every single connection is. Your typical blog is probably going to suffer even more from enabling https globally when comp
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by btmorex 16y ago
When my internet is slow, my first inclination is traceroute (mainly so I can complain to comcast is it's their fault which it usually is), which presumably would show what was happening.
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by btmorex 16y ago
People shouldn't make claims like that honestly. It makes be discount the language almost immediately because I know I can't really trust what's written about it on its site. Furthermore, there's tons and tons of parallel C code. Probably m
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by btmorex 16y ago
I assume by people you mean people who regularly vote. The problem with Prop 19 and other similar measures is not that they don't have support, it's that their base of support by and large doesn't vote (at least until they grow up and reali
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by btmorex 16y ago
The real problem is that the existing rail lines aren't straight enough for truly high speed rail. To build new ones, you would need broad public support (because you're going to be kicking people out of their homes with eminent domain).
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by btmorex 16y ago
^^ most
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by btmorex 16y ago
From what I'm hearing, Google isn't getting talent at below market prices. What's not immediately clear in the acquisition price is the ridiculous retention bonuses Google's paying to keep these people on board. In fact, I think they're pay
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by btmorex 16y ago
This kind of ignores the fact that most taxes beyond income/property are actually there to modify behavior, not necessarily to generate revenue.
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Gevent: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly(code.mixpanel.com)
44 points by btmorex 16y ago|27 comments
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by btmorex 16y ago
Actually, my card gives decent cash back and it's definitely worth it if you try to put as much as possible on the card. I haven't heard of a debit cash back card.
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by btmorex 16y ago
Even the basic reporting is pretty terrible. For example, I have a pretty low credit limit given my income (mostly because I stupidly canceled cards I wasn't using). For months I tried to get it raised without any success. Finally, I paid f
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by btmorex 16y ago
Was that really excruciating detail? All I learned is that they had some bug in their messaging system and they screwed up while trying to fix it. Their postmortem pales in comparison to the recent facebook and foursquare postmortems.
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by btmorex 16y ago
I'm not Google fan, but I don't believe that they special case "affiliated" sites in search results. That would be an idiotic move on their part. Possibly undermine their cash cow (search) to boost marginal sources of revenue? Honestly, you
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by btmorex 16y ago
... except that AWS and libarchive didn't actually found your company with you. To be honest, the title of the post intrigued me and the actual article was a let down because it was completely different from my expectation.

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