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by dadkins 11y ago
It would be really nice if they would go ahead and release the Google version of MapReduce now that they've learned their lesson. It's not too late for everyone to learn from the original, and it's no longer a competitive adv
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What If the Angels Go Back to Heaven?(techcrunch.com)
1 points by dadkins 11y ago|0 comments
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The tech CEO whose resignation letter went viral has found a new job(sfgate.com)
2 points by dadkins 11y ago|0 comments
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The Illusion of Stock-Picking Skill(blog.wealthfront.com)
4 points by dadkins 11y ago|0 comments
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The Story of the Greatest Shopping Technology That Never Was (2011)(businessinsider.com)
1 points by dadkins 11y ago|0 comments
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by dadkins 11y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-the-greatest-sho...
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Things You Learn When You Take a Yearlong Break from Facebook, Twitter, and Work(nymag.com)
1 points by dadkins 12y ago|0 comments
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How Many Gigatons of Carbon Dioxide...?(informationisbeautiful.net)
2 points by dadkins 12y ago|0 comments
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by dadkins 13y ago
Bell Labs most certainly did not release Unix into the public domain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi
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The VC Firm That Funded Facebook Explains How To Hire(businessinsider.com)
2 points by dadkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by dadkins 14y ago
How do compute the risk-adjusted part? What would 50k risk-adjusted mean in your example?
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by dadkins 14y ago
There's a library for that pattern: http://golang.org/pkg/sync/#WaitGroup Instead of counting and using a done channel, import "sync" ... var wg sync.WaitGroup for ... { wg.Add(1) go dowork() } wg
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by dadkins 14y ago
Do you really think a Google or Facebook recruiter will tell you what they're willing to offer before they've interviewed you?
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by dadkins 14y ago
And when they respond back, "That depends on experience. Why don't you tell us what you're expecting so we're not wasting each others' time."?
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by dadkins 14y ago
Would you mind being a little more specific? It's hard to get any solid numbers out of anyone, and the article provides some. If those are off, what do you think the current market rates are?
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by dadkins 14y ago
I find James Plank's tutorials and accompanying code very good: http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/CS-07-593/ And if you want an excellent description of how Reed-Solomon coding is efficiently implemented in Linux, try this: htt
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by dadkins 15y ago
How do you know all of this if you haven't tried it? I think you'll find Cilk a lot more polished and refined then you might at first realize. Having language level support for fine-grained parallelism together with a provably efficient s
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by dadkins 15y ago
That doesn't invalidate the study at all. A correlation is still a very real statistical thing. It doesn't automatically imply causation, but it doesn't rule it out either. In fact, it's usually pretty good evidence in favor of causality
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by dadkins 15y ago
Even though the $1M figure was meant to be rhetorical: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG&fstype=ii Google had revenues of $31B with less than 30,000 full time employees over the last year. Programmers there are bringing in
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by dadkins 15y ago
There is no shortage of software developers with the "right skills". Companies just aren't willing to pay them enough. As an experiment, try offering a salary of $1 million and see how many qualified applicants show up.
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by dadkins 15y ago
Honest question: how is Airbnb or any of their competitors different than vacation rentals? You rent a house for a week when the owners aren't using it. Often the key's in a combo box or they mail it to you. The only real protection is a
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by dadkins 15y ago
Why is it a headache when an employee compares offers, but ok when a company tries to pay as little as they can get away with? BTW, this only works if you're willing to leave for the much better offer. It sounded like the OP was unhappy wi
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by dadkins 15y ago
Tip: "Market rate" is what someone else is willing to pay you. Go to your boss with a better offer from elsewhere and they will change their tune fast!
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by dadkins 15y ago
That'd be Captain Crunch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper
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by dadkins 15y ago
Forward exercising in an early stage startup is a great idea. The company doesn't yet have a meaningful valuation so you can exercise for next to nothing. The board typically sets the strike price of options low so that employees don't wo
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by dadkins 16y ago
The question isn't, "are founders more valuable than employees?". As you've pointed out, that's trivially true. The question is -- as it is with beachfront property -- " how much more valuable are they?"
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by dadkins 16y ago
"Cloudera builds something called Hadoop" Umm... no mention of Doug Cutting or Yahoo?
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by dadkins 16y ago
Sure it is. Base case: In a one item list, the first element is selected with probability 1. Induction: Assume we've picked an element uniformly at random from the first n elements. When we encounter the n+1'th element, we pick it with pr
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by dadkins 16y ago
"Given an infinitely long linked list which you can only traverse once select a random item with O(1) storage." I assume they meant arbitrarily long instead of infinitely long. In which case, I just wrote that code today: val := nil
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by dadkins 16y ago
"The reason for failing to be hired is invaluable feedback on your shortcomings, which are much harder to self-assess." Good luck trying to get any useful feedback from a Google or Facebook rejection. Often it's just random.

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