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811.
by bugsy 16y ago
Yes, this is a good point. There do exist normal cars now that have good performance and get good mileage, around 60mpg. Most of these are not available in the US due to "safety regulations" unique to the US, proposed and written by oil com
812.
by bugsy 16y ago
A problem with asking someone for their gmail password to sign into malwarenet.org is that it seems very suspicious. Why does malwarenet.org want my password? I bet I can guess - they want to steal my email, find my bank account numbers and
813.
by bugsy 16y ago
Speaking from the perspective of someone who routinely writes his own compilers, and who has extensive experience designing VLSI microprocessors, etc various fancy complicated stuff. It's also odd that many people after 10 year with Perl ha
814.
by bugsy 16y ago
This has been bothering me for a while as well. I don't do facebook due to the privacy problems there and general contempt for customer. Many sites have complex authentication and identity management systems for adding a simple comment. I d
815.
by bugsy 16y ago
Lots of companies made electric cars at the turn of last century, Edison was not the only one nor the first. Electric cars were marketed to women as they had far less maintenance required and were not as noisy or as dirty. At the same time
816.
by bugsy 16y ago
I tried meditation, exercise, healthy eating, and music for years without much results. Finally I turned to alcohol. Now I understand why studies show that those who drink live longer. It removes stress. Stress can really block you from get
817.
by bugsy 16y ago
Every employer believes they pay market rate and their city is the best place to live in the world. This may be true for them, but is not true for others. I have seen job offers from LA shops ranging from $18k-$60k range. This entire range
818.
by bugsy 16y ago
There are two questions here: What's the situation with LA and What's the situation with Perl. It's challenging to get people to move to LA. People who like LA are in LA. People outside of LA have a hard time seeing its charms given the lac
819.
by bugsy 16y ago
"if he was really thinking about Patrick he'd have emailed him the advice" Well part of the post was telling the public that Patrick would be a bargain to hire at a $200,000 salary. That specific part works better in a public post.
820.
by bugsy 16y ago
Oh, the original post did get into some stuff about his possibly being Catholic and suffering from guilt. When I read that in the article I did cringe and thought it was a stretch and detracted from the article. I am not saying the article
821.
by bugsy 16y ago
Could you clarify your question? Is it directed to my post? I am unaware of anything in my own post that could be considered offensive but if it seems otherwise I would appreciate knowing in what way it seems so.
822.
by bugsy 16y ago
The really puzzling part was that... the calls came from inside the house.
823.
by bugsy 16y ago
How very strange. The article about Patrick is very positive and merely suggests that he has the potential to make a lot more than he does now, and gives him some tips to that regard. Since Patrick lives his business life in the open of the
824.
by bugsy 16y ago
This story keeps getting media coverage and is presented as a good thing. I wonder though. Coverage makes clear that running a small business like this is illegal in NYC and the only alternative is to acquire costly government permission to
825.
by bugsy 16y ago
If this is about factory work, yes, training is necessary. If this is about software development it's not clear to me what sort of training we are talking about. I've had to train myself at every job, that's part of what I do. I can't imagi
826.
by bugsy 16y ago
How did I get my first paying customer? One of many stories... I had an application I had written for my own personal use. I was talking to a guy who asked how I did something. I told him I had written this program. He said "I'll pay you $2
827.
by bugsy 16y ago
It's up to you to make a judgment call on this. There is always a risk to helping others. If no one takes risks life is more unpleasant. But if you do take risks there is more ... risk. If you end up bringing them home it can really help to
828.
by bugsy 16y ago
Ended up being 5 lines of code in C. (Cue: reactions from others that it's a one liner in Haskell, or that it's obviously simple and easy since the solution was so short.) (The five lines didn't include the data, but a sixth very long line
829.
by bugsy 16y ago
It's actually completely specified. Note that I don't think it's a great test at this position in the hiring process, but it is completely specified and solvable.
830.
by bugsy 16y ago
I don't agree with that at all. Thinking for 10 minutes is not sufficient. There's two insights and neither are obvious until you get them. Assuming candidates will get them is like assuming quick sort will occur to them if they've never se
831.
by bugsy 16y ago
The biggest total requires the optimal path for the stated constraints, those being the path must yield that biggest total. They aren't asking for a good enough path, but for the best possible path, the one that gives the biggest total. Tha
832.
by bugsy 16y ago
I'm not sure that he does, I thought the same of the ad and didn't say anything but I was glad someone did. Reading in the graph and putting it in a tree structure is a reasonable problem, but not a 10 minute interview one. Traversing the g
833.
by bugsy 16y ago
No, they don't struggle with it. More of a blank stare. They have absolutely no idea what to do or how to get started, unless they happened to have seen it on a "famous programming questions" board and memorized a plausible answer character
834.
by bugsy 16y ago
The puzzle question is an interesting one. I like solving puzzles, that's why I am an engineer. Based on this I used to think that puzzles are a good thing for posts and interviews. In practice, it almost never works out very well. Puzzles
835.
by bugsy 16y ago
Actual salary range. Important. A "competitive salary" in 2010 for an embedded systems designer is not the 50th percentile for HTML coders from a 1996 salary survey. If you have incredibly specialized skills that you've been unable to hire
836.
by bugsy 16y ago
I'll just be putting these figs back on the shelf now.
837.
by bugsy 16y ago
You mention you don't want to work for the man, this sounds like you'd prefer to go freelance or start your own business. Given that and the fact, which I'll accept at face value, that you're a bad ass developer who knows big O notation and
838.
by bugsy 16y ago
It depends on what your app is. If it's some helpful consumer app that doesn't regulate airplane traffic, doesn't secretly install spyware, doesn't accidentally erase the hard drive when the wrong data is entered, your chance of trouble wit
839.
by bugsy 16y ago
The late literacy issue is a very interesting one. I think there is something to be said that different children are best ready to read at different ages. Supposedly in Finland they don't start school to learn to read until age 7 and their
840.
by bugsy 16y ago
knarf_navillus, the description of your cousins who are unschooling which means running wild, being filthy and illiterate, actually sounds like a different movement called "radical unschooling". Radical unschoolers often call themselves uns

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