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by czep 11y ago
Yes but how would they react to your sister dating a black man?
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by czep 11y ago
Interesting that this doesn't apply to engineers, only product, sales, and g&a. Why is that? I have heard arguments that engineering salaries are likewise kept low through collusion but this wouldn't provide any evidence for
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by czep 12y ago
You have a choice to go to a trade school instead of a college. But why not try to learn something new? Engineering may be fun, but it won't put you in touch with humanity, if that's all you ever study. You may regret that in 60
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by czep 12y ago
"The Higher Learning in America", by Thorstein Veblen, 1918. If this poor fellow had only read this book before commencing in his studies, perhaps it would have steeled his nerves somewhat, or sent him in another direction.
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Ask HN: Best certificate authority for personal web/email server?
1 points by czep 12y ago|1 comments
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by czep 12y ago
This is a worthwhile consideration for all of us. I do think it's helpful for your career development, socialization, skill and salary advancement, to spend some time in the "Capitol" of SV. But leaving before it burns you
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by czep 12y ago
Yes but you must realize it can't work for everyone. Clearly you made some smart decisions that involved a lot of sacrifice to end up in this position, and I'm not denigrating that at all. But a) not everyone has the ability to
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by czep 12y ago
42, happily but anxiously still coding. What most disturbs me about the ageism debate is that so many young programmers believe it is right, natural, and inevitable to assume that older programmers should be cast aside. It is an odd form
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by czep 12y ago
I've seen the exact opposite. Startup, pivoted 3x in 3 years. The younger devs have a much harder time accepting he pivot and figuring out how to adapt. So without any more substantive evidence, my experience definitely refutes this
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by czep 12y ago
Yes bootstrapping should be introduced far sooner. Most of the variables we are interested in, say revenue per session, are in no way normally distributed, thus violating the assumptions of classical two-sampled t-tests. Bootstrapping, an
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by czep 12y ago
There are 4 inputs needed to estimate sample size for a test: power, confidence level, expected difference, and variance. You need all 4 before you run any test. You use the A/A test to estimate variance. Power is the probability o
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by czep 12y ago
Please see the papers here: http://www.exp-platform.com/Pages/default.aspx These are from the team that built amazon's weblab. The foundation of large scale web experimentation. To be working in this field and n
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by czep 12y ago
I tried jekyll and it is an excellent compromise, providing all the goodness of a flexible templating and layout system with the ease and server-lessness of static pages. Combined with s3-website, it took me about 3 hours to rebuild my blo
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Blog: roll my own or just use Wordpress?
8 points by czep 12y ago|17 comments
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by czep 12y ago
Criminals and marketers already know how rich you are based on where you live. Published tax forms will have no effect on your probability of being robbed. It argue tax forms are private, but that's what's at issue here. Many so
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by czep 12y ago
Men at all age levels have higher insurance rates than women. This means they are riskier employees than women and if the reason women are being paid less is purely economic then the situation ought to be reversed and men should be paid le
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by czep 12y ago
Women are not objectively less productive workers. Men die earlier--insurance companies have figured this out so why don't companies pay them less as a result? They're going to die sooner, that's a significant risk to the c
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by czep 12y ago
If you ever have the opportunity to work 4 days a week, choose Tuesday to Friday, rather than Monday to Thursday. The reason is that everyone else will be in a good mood on Friday so it will be much less stressful working Fridays rather th
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by czep 13y ago
> Is there a group for older white males trying to break into the industry? Uh, the ACM? Or any of a number of professional organizations where being older, white, and male will typically confer an image of knowledge and competency. I s
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by czep 13y ago
You're not going back far enough! Why would you think 5 years is enough to draw conclusions? If you look back 15 years (long enough to include 9/11), then 50% of commercial aviation fatalities are due to terrorism.
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by czep 13y ago
Vapid. Is anyone else sick of his recycling of obvious memes in 200 words or less with xxlarge fonts and all too generous padding? This is the 3rd or 4th time I've seen this dude's blog on HN. I suppose an army of shills is the
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by czep 13y ago
At least your failed projects have names, mine never even got that far! But seriously, how should you answer the question if the honest answer is something you did 10+ years ago? I could talk about that project all day long, but I can sen
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by czep 13y ago
That was my first impression too.