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by crdb 11y ago
The other issue with judging sample code is the sheer amount of time it takes. The two of us took around 3 months (full time, effectively, doing nothing else) to select, interview and make offers to around 10 employees out of a pool of over
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by crdb 11y ago
Mind talking more about what the challenges in running a 50TB relational database? I and I'm sure many others would be very interested in a blog post or long-ish comment with anecdotes and lessons learnt...
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by crdb 11y ago
Don't forget visas.
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by crdb 11y ago
The small local market is a common misconception. Australia does have 22 million inhabitants, but Australian GDP is around 1.56 trillion USD (2013, World Bank) vs 2.1 trillion for the whole of South East Asia. Which has over 600 million inh
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by crdb 11y ago
In theory yes. In practice, investments, particularly in early stage companies, require effort and time and other invisible costs (you can line up 20 meetings in San Francisco in the time it would take you to fly to Singapore and back for o
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by crdb 11y ago
No. The real reason Europe/Asia/Latin America/Africa trails the US in tech is because none of these regions have even the same order of magnitude of funding, period. 2014: 225 deals in the UK for a total of GBP 1.7 billion (2
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by crdb 11y ago
I used to (and, a few years ago, turned away smart people who failed them), but realized they were the wrong test for a small company. I switched initially to getting people to complete a task in their own time with the resources they liked
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by crdb 11y ago
Try a rewrite at a company with more than 100 employees... cf http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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by crdb 11y ago
As a former Rocket employee who came from gleaming big corp, I used to think that, but later realized that the slightly more aggressive, chaotic culture was fairly typical of the startup world. Big companies have had the resources and time
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by crdb 11y ago
So, I had a thought, and checked, and indeed, Dietary Fiber is 24-25g from 1998 onwards. Could it be as simple as someone accidentally including Dietary Fiber in Fats & Oils?
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by crdb 11y ago
Found the data [1] from [2] There is indeed a 17% increase in grams of fat between 1998 and 2000. That's 25g per day - around 5 times the olive oil you'd put in a portion of salad. Amazing increase for an entire population, no? [1
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by crdb 11y ago
Interesting theory but the "caloric sweeteners", whilst dropping from that period, do not do so anywhere near as much or violently as fats rose, and continue dropping after fats stabilize (2002 onwards). In fact, corn-based sweete
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by crdb 11y ago
I thought about that, but both the second Atkins book (the first was in the 70s) and Cordain's Paleo book came out in 2002, whilst the trend really picks up starting 1997-8 or so.
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by crdb 11y ago
What happened around 2000 that the fats & oils calories jumped so fast?
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by crdb 11y ago
As a "buyer" I think it's an excellent idea. There's a prominent developer in a community I follow who recently found his company to fold, and posted that he was looking on his blog. At the time, I was pitching for a pro
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by crdb 11y ago
Scale is a function of what you track, though. Taking e-commerce as an example: most people will track conversion rate (product purchases / product page views); most also track cart add rate, checkout rate, etc. But much fewer will tra
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by crdb 11y ago
GA is not "live"; it takes about 1.5 days for the "raw" data (hit level) to be available in BigQuery, and cherry on the cake, they'll charge you extra for the privilege. I was fond of Webtrekk, which whilst only one
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by crdb 11y ago
Looking at the top comment though, it does not look like these 500 software engineers have much power. If they had, they could effect real change. Finding budget for 500 programmers is a drop in the ocean of the current Federal budget. They
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by crdb 11y ago
But you don't work for the government, you work for the public, which happens to be a government job. And this changes everything (go ask a Marine about it). "Being patriotic for the government" has no meaning in a free count
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by crdb 11y ago
I've tried probably a dozen brands. Counter-intuitively, I found that the sharpest were the ones least likely to cut, because you apply so little pressure (and maybe because they notch the hair immediately, instead of sliding down to t
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by crdb 11y ago
As a frequent flyer, here's my 2 cents: - transport it bladeless, put it at the top of your bag. In Asia and Europe it gets asked about 1 out of 5 times. You can then take it out, and apart in 10 seconds. - stock up blades at your freq
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by crdb 11y ago
Different line of argument: think of that which is not seen [1]. Most of the arguments presented here take only the current residential population, and current time into account, but cities evolve over time and see large in- and outflows of
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by crdb 11y ago
If we're talking about ideas crossing over, Malaya and Kenya definitely inspired much of today's US focus on counter-insurgency, and Kitson's book on the subject [1] is still popular reading across the pond. He did talk about
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by crdb 11y ago
Pretty much agree with this. It worked for me. 10 minutes a week, high intensity, for a couple years, pain was gone in about 2 months and never came back. Just machines, due to getting injured with free weights early, no cardio, no other ex
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by crdb 11y ago
I agree with this. If you set expectations and make sure you work with decent people (and that last part is just a function of life experience, unfortunately), you will have a much smoother ride. I've had both, learning the hard way. A
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by crdb 11y ago
Months, not days (really, this "I want it tomorrow" culture is quite harmful). And yes, I do think developers who become co-founders or C-levels should take some time to familiarize themselves with basic legal and financial concep
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by crdb 11y ago
Ha, I read that to mean streaming business meetings with strangers, to help you discover people outside your network and habits... it might be a cool solution to a problem I have, which is how to meet people who have a different worldview a
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by crdb 11y ago
I think what Alain is saying is you don't know how somebody is until you have worked a significant period of time with them, including stressful times where things went wrong (my own benchmark of whether someone is trustworthy is prett
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by crdb 11y ago
> Have you considered that some people with a head for business just might not grok programming? Bollocks to that. I was an FX trader who copy/pasted values for excel formula results because I was scared they'd go away if I typ
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by crdb 11y ago
I disagree with you somewhat: you ARE more knowledgeable, in that you now know that you cannot be certain of the facts presented by a single source, which itself is information (the information that some of your information is unreliable).

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