chris11

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by chris11 11y ago
What books would you recommend? I'm currently in university, and I've had some exposure to discrete mathematics. But I'm definitely not comfortable with discrete math.
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by chris11 11y ago
It could just be that he didn't want to make a post with personally identifiable information. I know if I was in his position I wouldn't really want my former coworkers to immediately think I was the person who wrote that post.
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by chris11 11y ago
I think a clawback makes a lot of sense. Otherwise you are basically incentivizing your sales team to sell to people who aren't a good fit for your product.
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by chris11 11y ago
I'm not a counselor myself, but I have several in my family. It has been my impression that therapists would not be interested in committing you unless there was an immediate threat to you or someone else. They would much rather use a
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by chris11 11y ago
Why does it need to be that extensive? I think that it might be more useful to keep very specific information walled off from general information. I think finding information would be too noisy otherwise. For instance, if I'm searching
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by chris11 11y ago
I wouldn't exactly say that. I just had a friend get a full-time position. He negotiated his work week to less than 40 hours, with full benefits. That said his hourly pay did seem on the low side.
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by chris11 11y ago
That is definitely her responsibility. But the company is choosing to offer salaries that do not cover living expenses. And I think that is really unethical.
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by chris11 11y ago
A year in a paying position is good, but I see no extra value that Yelp is having that would make the idea of losing money working there a good position. Sure, maybe they liked to promote within, and maybe she could have changed departments
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by chris11 11y ago
I'm not saying that taking the job was a good decision. But it isn't just because of her personal situation, I just don't know who this job would be good for. It wasn't a good opportunity for advancement, she found out s
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by chris11 11y ago
How do you expect people to survive if all they get are bad job offers? Sure she should move to a different city, but it's really screwed up if a city is unable to provide decent jobs to an entire group of people.
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by chris11 11y ago
Sure, taking the job wasn't a good decision. But I don't have any compassion for companies who pay full-time employees poorly enough that they are required to choose between getting outside funding (like family or a second job) an
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by chris11 11y ago
It is of public interest. It may sound like someone just complaining about a bad job, but I'd say companies have responsibility to make sure that they pay a livable wage to their employees. And that should be of interest to the public.
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by chris11 11y ago
They claim they make $8.15/hr after taxes. That's around $16k/yr. I don't know how well they are budgeting, but I wouldn't want to try to live in the bay area on that salary. This letter might not have been a good i
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by chris11 11y ago
So what is your writing process like? I'm personally really interested in how well designed things are created. It seems like there is a paradox, you can't force great things to happen with objectives and planning. But you can obj
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by chris11 11y ago
Yeah, I think that that print(2*71) might also be just as useful as print("hello world"). But I don't really think it is any more useful than hello world. And how connected do you think computer science and mathematical educa
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by chris11 11y ago
That is true, but I don't think I have 30 companies I would be really excited to work at. I could find 30 companies easily, but that would require doing the same amount of research. Sure doing research on 30 different companies may req
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by chris11 11y ago
That my biggest complaint about HN though. I think conversations would be a little bit easier if we had comment notifications.
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by chris11 11y ago
I disagree. "Hello World" as a problem is completely uninteresting. But it can be a part of a great introduction. I'd expect most "Hello World" tutorials to quickly tell me how to go from reading text in my browser
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by chris11 11y ago
I think there are a few implied questions though. First, does alpha exist? Second, can alpha reliably be separated from beta? And third, can future alpha be predicted from past performance? I think Renaissance's track record only answe
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by chris11 11y ago
What specific problems does LinkedIn have that you think Google would solve?
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by chris11 11y ago
Cal Newport just released a book on "Deep Work" that talks about that subject. I haven't finished it yet, but so far the book is really interesting. http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted&#
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by chris11 11y ago
So how would you suggest getting the technical knowledge to build solid, generic foundations if most projects don't have them?
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by chris11 11y ago
I think it would also be political suicide for the democratic party, not just Obama.
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by chris11 11y ago
I'm not arguing that some of Obama's policy implementations are lacking. But it seems like people are expecting too much out of him. I think that solitary confinement is definitely unethical. But I also think the idea of mass pard
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by chris11 11y ago
Do you still do any programming on paper? I've noticed I've occasionally felt like I've relied too much on my tools like my IDE or Resharper. I've been thinking I should get in the habit of doing some programming using j
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by chris11 11y ago
The trick I was taught was to dry the light clothes (shirts, underwear, socks) separately from the heavy clothes (jeans, hoodies). Then hang the shirts up immediately after pulling them out of the dryer while they are still hot. Then you wo
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by chris11 11y ago
I'm not necessarily saying it's illegal, or unethical. I just think it would be a bad idea. It looks like they have done decent work and have not accused players of cheating. But the issue is making international news, so I'm
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by chris11 11y ago
It also seems really stupid. I would not be surprised if he got threatened with lawsuits from the named players.
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by chris11 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how much software development experience did you have? $150/hr seems kind of high to me just starting out freelancing.
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by chris11 11y ago
What languages would you personally pick over C?

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