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by candu 11y ago
In this article/talk, the "talent myth" in question is not that individual 10x programmers exist. It's that the distribution of talent is bimodal, that you're either a rockstar or "not really a programmer&quot
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by candu 11y ago
The cost of any given book might be "meaningless". It adds up. Imagine spending that $50 a few dozen times, and you've got the beginnings of a decent technical bookshelf - but now we're talking about thousands of dolla
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by candu 11y ago
I'm surprised they don't mention OpenSCAD [1], which in conjunction with a decent vector graphics editor works wonders for a wide range of objects. Yes, it has a programming interface, but I'd argue the visual/spatial co
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by candu 11y ago
The main difference is that "non-exclusive" part: you retain the right to license it out to other entities, or to use it for your own purposes.
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by candu 11y ago
They have that, it's called Minecraft :p
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by candu 11y ago
Management: How long will it take? Me: 2N weeks.
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by candu 11y ago
It's easy enough (as others have mentioned) to wrap d3.xhr() in a promise. I actually like that d3 uses callbacks here, leaving async control flow concerns to other libraries. No, my main quibble here is that d3.xhr() is still short o
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by candu 11y ago
...in which case you'd have the same issue mentioned above with jQuery, in that d3.selectAll('.foo').selectAll('.bar'); $.find('.foo').find('.bar'); are consistent, whereas d3(
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by candu 11y ago
Exactly this. IMHO, the first paragraph quoted above is especially important to understand. This post reads like someone discovering the line between aggressive and assertive. Aggressive is most definitely unkind. Assertive is often conf
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by candu 11y ago
Or your boss doesn't know, and isn't a reasonably good project manager.
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by candu 11y ago
Some people sacrifice themselves for a probability that many people will have better lives. Some people sacrifice themselves for a probability that specific people around them will have better lives. It's disingenuous to say that only
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by candu 11y ago
If we accept that unconscious bias is a fact, the only real solution is to eliminate the possibility for unconscious bias. To fully do this, you'd need an environment in which all parties are mutually identity-blind. Some kind of virt
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by candu 11y ago
Depends. If your partner asks you how work went and you answer, it's not work. If you're out for beers "after work" with your coworkers and you end up discussing outstanding bugs, planned refactorings, or anything else t
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by candu 11y ago
By this definition, just about everything is work, and the term "work" itself becomes meaningless.
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by candu 11y ago
The US median household income is ~$50k/year, while the US median personal income is ~$35k/year. The average Bay Area software engineer earns ~$100k/year, which is above the 90th percentile of US personal income... ...and if
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by candu 11y ago
Re: piano - for most use cases, mid-to-high range digital pianos are more than good enough nowadays. They don't require tuning, they fit in even fairly small apartments, and they can be moved with relative ease. It's not uncom
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by candu 11y ago
If all competitors "cheat", you have a race to the bottom. (This points out one way to punish defectors: respond in kind.)
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by candu 12y ago
Since this comment thread has risen to the top, here's the link to the Shulevitz op-ed again: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shul...
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by candu 12y ago
Personally, I've always been skeptical of the "straight white men" trope. Yes, each of these specifiers confer a statistical advantage, but this is such a large demographic group (even within the US) that it seems bizarre to
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by candu 12y ago
From [1], we already allocate roughly $6k per person per year in the US, enough to fork over $25k/year to the poorest 20%. (This doesn't account for the potential savings of reduced crime (prisons are expensive!), improved health
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by candu 12y ago
Sure - but "effective" here is essentially a random variable, and the central limit theorem does the rest. "Wealth transfer" isn't transfer to/from particular individuals. As a group, the wealthiest will tend
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by candu 12y ago
It's not necessarily sexism to point out an (unfortunate) demographic fact (at least, in the US [1]). [1] http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm (Don't get me wrong; I'm not a huge fan of the wording of the
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by candu 12y ago
You absolutely can alter the concept of property ownership; to think otherwise is a failure of imagination, historical perspective, or both. (For instance: who owned the land under the buildings at 8th and Market three million years ago?
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by candu 12y ago
I'd say that the palpable difference in critical reasoning capacity between the two ancestor comments speaks volumes.
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by candu 12y ago
Start interviewing elsewhere - anywhere you can find. Even if you don't plan to leave, having another option boosts morale and gives you more confidence to discuss concerns with your current company. It also gives you leverage in neg
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by candu 12y ago
Many web frameworks will allow you to fake PUT, DELETE, etc. via POST requests (usually using a special "_method" parameter).
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by candu 12y ago
> It has enabled me to write extremely powerful programs that no one I know can understand. I'd argue that makes it one of the least useful documents you've ever read :)
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by candu 12y ago
I'd definitely n+1-th this recommendation, if only because I strongly dislike dualistic thinking and have an enormous soft spot for anything that picks it apart.
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by candu 12y ago
On a more constructive note than "fuck the police", the ACLU has been fighting this fight for some time now: https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform https:&
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by candu 12y ago
Because it uses said resources more efficiently ;)

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