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by dougabug 13y ago
I don't know that it's worth as much as a few grand to drive a few miles with the dealer sitting next to me in the car. For a few hundred bucks I could rent a car for several days and base my impression on that experience.
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by dougabug 13y ago
If you test one person at random, the odds of that person being the President equals the probability of a true positive divided by the probability that the test provides a Positive result (i.e. the sum of the probabilities for True and Fals
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by dougabug 13y ago
The parent poster is wrong, for the reason you surmise.
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by dougabug 13y ago
Why would anyone with career options choose to work for AOL? He might as well have posted a billboard declaring, "Top talent not wanted."
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by dougabug 13y ago
There are other ways to encourage innovation besides creating legal weaponry which are suppressive to individuals and small companies, and provide wide motes against competition to giant corporations. The Nobel Prize, Pulitzer, Fields Medal
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by dougabug 13y ago
Lehman Bros collapsed because their computer models excluded the possibility of a major decline in real estate prices. Investor confidence is a contrary indicator.
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by dougabug 13y ago
As a condo owner and resident, the last thing I want is to find myself living in a boarding house. My personal belongings, safety, privacy, the quality of the grounds, and the value of my property all seem to me to be threatened by AirBnB&#
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by dougabug 13y ago
It's not an optimum ordering algorithm, it's a top-k problem. The overall order is not requisite, nor is the order of the top-k elements. The problem is that it provides no useful insight into whether the candidate will be a capab
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by dougabug 13y ago
Pretty easy puzzle, if they were looking to hire a puzzle solver instead of say a PHP programmer. Some people hang their intellectual self esteem hat on simple trick logic puzzles, a skill which doesn't require a great deal of intellig
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by dougabug 13y ago
Presumably by 5% utilization you mean by time. But the main depreciation factor on owning your car, aside from driving off the lot, is miles driven. If your car were driven 50% of the time with the kind of street/highway blend of milea
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by dougabug 13y ago
Unless you can rent from someone who undercharges for the cost of the wear and tear due to the high usage. People can be hard on rentals.
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by dougabug 13y ago
Maybe like an eBay for rentals. Reputation is everything. Also some kind of micro-insurance to protect against loss or theft. Rapid distribution centers w/ pre- and post- checkout inspection, optional door to door service (aggregate in
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by dougabug 13y ago
Google services are free the way the food for the rabbits was free in "Watership Down."
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by dougabug 13y ago
One of the most liberating things I ever did was quit my job and go travel for a couple years. I'd do it again, but I'd like to keep my home on the Peninsula. Thiel should pay people to quit their jobs. The creative energy would b
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by dougabug 13y ago
Oracle is case sensitive by default.
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by dougabug 13y ago
I've known H1Bs whose salaries were laughably below the median salary for a top SW Engineer in SV. A hard salary floor would be analogous to the AMT for income tax, ensuring that actual salaries reached a minimum acceptable level. The desir
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by dougabug 13y ago
Richard Feynman's account of his experience teaching in Brazil speaks to your first point. Focusing purely on test scores, fact regurgitation, and formulaic problem solving misses far more important abilities such as grasping underlying fun
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by dougabug 13y ago
That seems indicate a flaw in the O visa process, in terms of its ability to recognize outstanding talent, rather than the need to expand a lottery based system not designed to bring the "best and brightest." A best and brightest program sh
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by dougabug 13y ago
Anti-poaching agreements between top tech giants notably Steve Jobs' Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Pixar, etc. clearly showed that the industry was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to prevent/minimize bidding wars against one another.
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by dougabug 14y ago
Welcome to the post-VC era.
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by dougabug 14y ago
Zynga appears to be a serial copycat: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/24/tiny-tower-developers-call-...
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by dougabug 14y ago
Sad that the march to abandon reason has reached this far, where even the most rudimentary mathematical knowledge is scorned. Maybe degrees should be given out based on attendence and self esteem. Without algebra, people could not evaluate
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by dougabug 14y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking. How long before they disbar this clown for abusing the legal system with frivolous, vindictive lawsuits?
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by dougabug 14y ago
I agree that the controller abstraction is a bit ambiguous, certainly to the degree that MVC means different things to different people. I thought that the article would be pure flamebait, but actually it does seem to be more precise in its
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by dougabug 14y ago
"They’re all designed and engineered in-house [...]" Isn't the Nexus 7 hardware designed by Asus?
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by dougabug 14y ago
Exactly. The whole conception of Microsoft is atavistic. Wishing for the return of Microsoft reminds me of older disillusioned Russians after the Cold War fondly reminiscing about the Soviet Union. Or Hobbits hoping that if only Morgoth wou
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by dougabug 14y ago
How would you get in and out of the upper (or even middle) floors of a 3000 story building? Atmospherics would be a serious concern at 10 miles up. Sounds like the kind of project the North Koreans would start and then abandon when they ran
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by dougabug 14y ago
Am I the only one who cringes at the notion of buying anything from Microsoft? In the 90's, if you mentioned the "Evil Empire," everyone knew who you were talking about. Today, Microsoft is, to quote Steve Jobs, "Largely irrelevant." The Su
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by dougabug 14y ago
From Google: dif·fi·cult/ˈdifiˌkəlt/ Adjective: 1. Needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand. 2. Characterized by or causing hardships or problems. I don't see lack of spaceships causing hardship, so that's
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by dougabug 14y ago
Pretty much.

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