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by dieterrams 9y ago
Non-paywall link: http://www.cetusnews.com/life/The-Management-Fix-That-Made-F...
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by dieterrams 9y ago
> Finally, I must at least address the question of whether greatness is worth the large effort it requires. Those who have done really great things generally report, privately, that it is better than wine, the opposite sex, and song put
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Depends. Equality of opportunity, equality of the vote, equal in the eyes of the law, those are largely uncontested. Income/outcome equality is certainly a hot button issue.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Survey methodology and all that, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if most of the affected population didn't know. Net Equality would have likely perked up more interest.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
> If it does not fundamentally provide some value that you care about, you will stop using it This isn't quite true, where addiction / compulsive usage can be implicated. Still, it's true that FB isn't completely in t
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by dieterrams 9y ago
It's not postmodernism. It's hot cognition, and this sort of behavior isn't limited to the left.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
To elaborate, MI 1 and 2 can very much be seen as the glorified daydream of a child imagining himself to be a pirate. (There are certainly some books that play with this sort of thing, but I'm not remembering them at the moment. Pan&#x
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by dieterrams 9y ago
MI3 is a good adventure game in its own right, but it's a very different flavor of MI than the first two, which are decidedly more literary/surreal/sardonic.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
We haven't been arguing that programming can't benefit from math. > ignoring math as a programmer, feels like ignoring music theory as a musician or linear algebra as a structural engineer. We're not ignoring math.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Curry-Howard isomorphism does not mean the same practices that are performed in mathematics research must be applied to writing software. Some aspects of language design are reinventing wheels invented by the math community. This is far fro
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by dieterrams 9y ago
> I haven't seen a single criticism of the paper that even recognizes the author is referencing large-scale incontrovertible research involving the Big-5 personality model (the giveaway is the use of terms "agreeability",
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by dieterrams 9y ago
>>Writing software is not math. > You're wrong, and I've explained this upthread. I suspect there is a difference in semantics, here. Software is inherently mathematical, yes. But the practice of writing software is not t
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Software engineering isn't math research. While I'm not against making it easier to formally prove correctness, at the same time I'm not sure why you think it's so important. We've been doing pretty well without it.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
A $100k company could only be a 10x return for a $10k investment if that investment was for 100% of the company.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
That isn't being implied. And an "unquestionable" symbolism is not the same as "the only possible" symbolism.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
You and the people you know are definitely outliers.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Combo of poor performance and battery usage. I'm sure the unstated reasons included that it generally made for poor UX across the web.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Generally I told people that I had done a tiny bit of contract work (true) and had been working on my own project (somewhat true, although it never got past the conceptual stage). There were a couple other things, which I won't elabora
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by dieterrams 9y ago
I spent a year not working and had no trouble lining up dozens of interviews when I started looking. However, it did take several months before (a) my interview game was up to par, and (b) I found a company I actually wanted to work for.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
On what grounds do you consider a claim "remarkable"? This also isn't a standard of admittance that would work terribly well for minorities.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
> It's almost certainly a mistake to judge them negatively based on this story. Logically speaking, it would also be a mistake to dismiss every report of poor employee treatment where those selection biases apply.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Amazon-Spain-Salaries-EI_IE... Doing a Numbeo cost of living conversion suggests at least the base salary is roughly comparable to what you'd be making in the US. The total comp nu
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by dieterrams 10y ago
Just to share my experience: Like you, I also didn't have a CS degree (I did take foundational CS coursework in undergrad, and also had an MS in something akin to HCI). I was hired for my first software engineering job in SF by a coupl
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by dieterrams 10y ago
I'm completely sympathetic to your point. Part of the problem is that the examples you give were, sadly, not enough of a deviation from the status quo to shock people into large scale action/donation. Trump's actions are, and
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by dieterrams 10y ago
They do to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's a bit puffed up in the obtuse humanities style, but I do get its meaning.
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by dieterrams 10y ago
I think the problem is when such administrative work interrupts the intellectually productive work.
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by dieterrams 10y ago
Agree. That is far too strong a conclusion from the information provided, though a good potential scenario to be on watch for.
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by dieterrams 11y ago
It would surprise me if there wasn't already an AI that could handle that class of question. Or, at least, I'd imagine it being relatively straightforward (non-trivial, but straightforward) to develop an AI that could handle it.
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by dieterrams 11y ago
You have to make this sort of thing effortless (symbolic rewards lose their appeal over time). E.g, use background location or iBeacon so users are checked in without having to pull out their phone. The first time they enter a club, they ge
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by dieterrams 11y ago
This is actually a pointless distinction to make, as evidenced by the fact that (1) nobody is actually confused by one's meaning if they use 'less' where they were supposed to use 'fewer', and (2) there is no equiva

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