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by dbt00 8y ago
not a criminal trial, standards of evidence don't apply. You just watched a federal judge commit several baldfaced lies and rant about political hits. That's not acceptable conduct for the supreme court, full stop.
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by dbt00 8y ago
That was the threat the SEC put in their public filing after Elon/Tesla turned down the first offer.
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by dbt00 8y ago
I mean, I've paid both Comcast and Verizon a lot of money for internet access, and they both have done awful, privacy-shattering things while I've paid them. (Subverting DNS, X-UIDH header, etc). Once there's money on the tab
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by dbt00 8y ago
Sometimes the most important job a manager can do is make sure you have a full queue of day to day work to go do and stay the F out of your way. :)
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by dbt00 8y ago
> That said, incelism is a retaliation against the false idea that everyone has an equal chance at finding a mate That's an incredibly poor interpretation of "there's someone out there for everyone". And whatever vers
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by dbt00 8y ago
“Are most of your day to day problems solved by rote memorization of esoterica?”
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by dbt00 8y ago
I found the Uber comments interesting. As someone on the other side of the table from Uber recruiting, I always figured a huge part of their hiring problem is that it was obvious from the early stages that Uber was run by and populated by a
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by dbt00 8y ago
> he would have had grounds to file a lawsuit. Anybody can file a lawsuit against anyone else at any time for any reason.
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by dbt00 8y ago
> Just have the candidates use their own machines I agree with you generally, but you'd better have loaner machines ready. Not every candidate currently has a working, dev-capable laptop. Economic bias. (Hell, my current laptop is o
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by dbt00 8y ago
If someone can't communicate their knowledge and skills that's one problem, and a very common one with or without an accent barrier. If someone can communicate their ideas and do the job and you don't want to hire them to avo
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by dbt00 8y ago
Speaking the language and speaking with an accent are two different things. Learning to listen to someone with an accent is a skill you can develop, same as they can develop their english skills (which they will, with practice and time).
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by dbt00 8y ago
I know this candidate too, and I've struggled with this hiring decision -- and I always tried to remain unbiased by reading as little as possible about the candidate before interviewing them (as in, don't even look at the resume).
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by dbt00 8y ago
I've had a colleague with that mindset too. I didn't join his next venture. I'm glad I didn't.
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by dbt00 8y ago
I was in high school in the early 90s and heard this song a bajillion times. To the extent I thought about the meaning of this song lyrics (I tried really hard not to), I always thought it meant child, not lover.
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by dbt00 8y ago
I think the comment was saying that it's way worse than income tax. I don't think you're disagreeing.
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by dbt00 8y ago
I've been running open source, free, libre, etc software since the mid-90s. My firewall is openbsd. my laptop runs linux. I use emacs for most of my software editing. I want you to understand that I am a big open source weenie, and hav
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by dbt00 8y ago
The best music curation I experienced was a service called Songza, which was acquired by and absorbed into google music. I still have a subscription to google play music, even though the songza playlists had gotten hard enough to find at on
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by dbt00 8y ago
I loathe the new keyboards, touchbar included, but I'm happy they're decoupling upgrading the internal specs from finishing the promised keyboard changes.
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by dbt00 8y ago
Reading this post-mortem was very useful, and I appreciate the segment engineering team sharing it. It seems like the primary problem causes were flaky/unreliable tests, and difficulty making coordinated changes across many small repos
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by dbt00 8y ago
The least bad options seem to be strl* or snprintf(..., “%s”, ...) but yeah nothing is perfect.
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by dbt00 8y ago
Spent a month with shingles. Chicken pox is satan, y'all.
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by dbt00 8y ago
Palantir is pretty good at optimizing against people who are just in it for the cash. I liked working at Palantir because the work was important and the company's actual ethics was very strong, contrary to the impression you might get
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by dbt00 8y ago
Your last line is instructive. Often the biggest failing of people who abuse this adage is they fail to complete the process -- they don't actually ask for forgiveness and reconcile an urgent action with the needs of the people around
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by dbt00 8y ago
Because it's not just impropriety, it's the appearance of impropriety. It erodes trust in the organization to treat employees fairly by their competence/skillset/behavior/etc.
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by dbt00 8y ago
The president is not the boss of citizens the way a CEO is employees at her firm. If that's your view of american civics, time to update your civics lessons.
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by dbt00 8y ago
If they're not all involved, it won't work, but firefox really lead asm.js, which was the actual precursor to webassembly. NaCL was more like a competitor that tried to do something similar but never got the kind of mainstream ado
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by dbt00 8y ago
Tesla doesn't publish current mileage or crash incident reports under autopilot; given their willingness to lie about Wei Huang's conduct before his crash I'd be surprised if their statistics actually held up as beneficial. T
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by dbt00 8y ago
So far, per mile driven, the fatality rates of Uber and Tesla SDVs are far higher than human drivers in statistically safer than average vehicles. Waymo has a better track record but essentially refuses to drive at significant speed -- I ha
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by dbt00 8y ago
You're comparing what humans do to what software could possibly do, which is a category error. Software doesn't recognize color coded warning signs. Software doesn't trust it's stationary object recognition at high speed
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by dbt00 8y ago
The theorized upside is immense but that doesn't mean the practical difference now is even positive. If Tesla (Uber's already out of the game, probably) wants to keep operating autopilot in public, they owe us actual statistics on

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