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by dripton 11y ago
Our school system does this. I haven't heard any complaints about it. (And we have a lot of entitled parents who complain about everything else.) I'm surprised that more schools aren't switching.
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by dripton 11y ago
Link to the actual paper: http://julian.togelius.com/Justesen2016Online.pdf I've written an AI for a similar game, where you can't always even iterate over all your moves for this turn, let alone do a multi-ply tr
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by dripton 11y ago
Young Buffett didn't buy GEICO, the company. He just bought some of its stock. So he didn't get any extra liquidity. Older Buffett bought the company.
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by dripton 11y ago
I'd agree with you if the SAT had harder math on it. If I had to do calculus now, after not using it for 20 years, I'd get a lot of questions wrong. But the SAT doesn't really go beyond basic algebra, and after getting an en
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by dripton 11y ago
I work at a big famous company that strongly believes in devops. I'm on call about one week in 6. (About 12 people in the rotation, with two on-call at a time.) When on call, the ticket queue is supposed to have priority, but managers
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by dripton 11y ago
I liked it a lot. I read all three books but only did a small fraction of the exercises. I had read quite a few easier algorithms books, but had never seen a good treatment of less trendy things like external sorting algorithms or random
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by dripton 11y ago
I did that on purpose. Options in company A are completely different than options in company B, and assuming that more is better is just silly. 3000 out of 100000 is 3%; 5000 out of 500000 is 1%. But you can't just compare percentag
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by dripton 11y ago
I've had ISOs in a couple of startup employers, non-qualified options in a startup customer, and RSUs in a couple of public employers. The only book I've read on stock options is _Consider Your Options_ by Kaye Thomas, which I tho
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by dripton 11y ago
GUIs are more discoverable than command lines. Text files are easier to save in version control. So it's common to have a system where the GUI hooks new users, but they eventually have enough configuration in it that the GUI is no lo
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by dripton 11y ago
And consider installing the Amazon Smile Redirect browser extension.
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by dripton 11y ago
It's up to the seller. If they insist on a signature then the delivery won't happen without one. But that doesn't happen much in my (nice, suburban, US) neighborhood. I guess package theft is rare enough that the extra cos
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by dripton 11y ago
They could. But one of the bad side effects of "free" delivery is a race to the bottom in quality. My neighborhood UPS guy is awesome -- he rings the doorbell, if it's raining he puts a bag around each box, if a box is heavy
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by dripton 11y ago
I walked to kindergarten alone at age 5, in the US. In the 1970s, when there was much more crime than there is today. I mostly blame cable news for helicopter parenting. The data shows that there is much less violent crime than there was
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by dripton 11y ago
That is impressive. Though I suspect soon enough the Northwest Passage will be clear for enough of the year that most freighters will just sail through the Arctic. Perhaps both Panama's government and North America's railroads sh
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by dripton 11y ago
We do. Big highways without enough pedestrian bridges have a horrible effect on pedestrians and bikes, basically cutting towns and cities in half. I currently work just north of a 6-lane toll road, and it's a reasonable bike commute.
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by dripton 11y ago
A fun read. Does anyone know of a practical use for a very fast, parallelizable shuffle algorithm that uses few random bits? All the shuffling I've done has used small enough N that Fisher-Yates was just fine.
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by dripton 11y ago
I agree that versions should be named rather than numbered. Well, I guess that's an implementation detail. What really matters is having the equivalent of branches in a version control system. That way the main branch can use migrat
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by dripton 11y ago
Not many, but the effort is parallelizable. If you find a security problem and report it in public, others can verify it, and still others can benefit from the fix even if they never would have bothered to look for themselves.
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by dripton 11y ago
I live in the suburbs. I ride my bike to work. It's safe enough. People are just scared.
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by dripton 11y ago
I think of pre-IPO options as worth just more than zero. (I'd rather have them than not have them, but not by enough to give up significant salary). The possibility of dilution in most option agreements, combined with the time until v
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by dripton 11y ago
UI is subjective. I get mildly annoyed whenever I use a Mac. Little things like having to click on a window to give it focus, or having to use command instead of control in many programs, break my flow. I'd probably get used to thos
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by dripton 11y ago
Yet Steve Jobs was able to run Apple and Pixar simultaneously.
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by dripton 11y ago
I really liked Unity of Command. Operational-level, Eastern Front, WW2. Available for Linux.
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by dripton 11y ago
You need to boundaries to be created by a well-known, impartial algorithm rather than a person. And you pay a committee of academic programmers from other countries, with no political ties to the country where it's intended to be used,
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by dripton 11y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network Tier 1 means you're so central (at least in most of the world -- countries with local telco monopolies might be exceptions) that there is nobody upstream of you; ev
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by dripton 12y ago
Bikes that are rarely ridden don't need a lot of maintenance, as long as they're stored indoors. You mostly just have to pump up the tires. Solid tires are available, but the reason you rarely see them is that they ride like bric
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by dripton 12y ago
All my laptops run Linux. Two of them came with Linux preinstalled. Two of them came with Windows preinstalled. All four had the preinstalled OS overwritten by my Linux distro of choice. So what they came with isn't really that imp
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by dripton 12y ago
Understood. I know that at least my second example was a phone screen: if that interviewer didn't like me, the interviewing process would have ended. I don't know how you avoid that. If you have 1000 candidates per open position
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by dripton 12y ago
Yes, I recently had two productive phone screens, as a candidate. The first one taught me a bit about the company and team, and gave me a good impression of the interviewer (the hiring manager), which then led to me doing a work sample. (W
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by dripton 12y ago
I don't think that has anything to do with mentorship. I think it's just that most companies don't give most young programmers big enough raises to reflect their increased value on the open market. Lots of companies don&#x27

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