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by dschobel 17y ago
I've had the opposite experience with C#. MS' adding of lambdas and deferred list operations in 3.5 has delayed my switching to F# for all of my heavy number crunching work (For those who have yet to try ruby, python, scala, c# et al-- bein
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by dschobel 17y ago
I was going to ask whether annual expenditure has ever decreased year over year but I found the answer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt Looks like it's not unprecedented but debt over GDP hasn't decreased year-ove
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think your analysis is right on and I think this case is very much a matter of principles vs pragmatics. The symptom is plainly that people and groups of people (corporations) with very deep pockets have vast access to and influence on al
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think a two-dimensional attack should, if anything, increase his efficiency since defenses can't cheat and load the box with eight guys every down.
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Lawrence Lessig and Change Congress start constitutional convention movement(callaconvention.org)
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by dschobel 17y ago
Apparently they have a PHP ide due out shortly as well: http://www.jetbrains.com/webide/ Can't help but wonder whether a single IDE with a Netbeans-esque idea of "Views" would be better than fracturing everything into specialized products
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by dschobel 17y ago
Yes, had I had the hindsight gained after a year at the megacorp when I accepted the offer. But thanks for the sincere and insightful question.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think a big reason why it comes up so often is that it's rarely worth the mental real-estate to become proficient in both since they are so similar in design and problem domain. There is significant diminished utility in learning python a
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by dschobel 17y ago
Not necessarily. I went from a smallish (40 person) company to a huge fortune 100 megacorp which has hip new offices and wins awards for being a great place to work and they flat out told me I was outside their pay range for the position so
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by dschobel 17y ago
I don't know about that, breaking the API entirely is pretty damned brazen and not very enterprise friendly.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I've used homebrew a bunch (and even contributed a few formulae) after I heard Al3x tweet about it. There is so much less friction than using macports or fink that I dropped them immediately. Definitely check it out.
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's not just comments but every modern communication channel (twitter, fb, etc etc) which is totally overrun.
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by dschobel 17y ago
'A little longer' is being very generous. I thought the meandering conversational tone with all of the asides was flat out tedious. Which is a shame because it is a very important topic.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Interesting, thanks! I'd still like to someday understand what makes Google qualitatively different from other companies. Because I don't think 20k smart engineers necessarily yields a functional company nor is immediate access to the top l
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by dschobel 17y ago
Again... why worry about converting to/from a figure most people are skeptical of as representative of anything meaningful?
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by dschobel 17y ago
Alright, I'll bite. We've all worked with really bright individuals before. What magically transformative thing happens when they become the average that would be so incredible and unbelievable to non-googlers? I would describe CS grad scho
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by dschobel 17y ago
This leads to another point of interest. How astoundingly complex the company is. I believe that organizations naturally evolve until they are as complex as the people in them can handle. Well Google is tackling really big, complex problem
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by dschobel 17y ago
Agreed. I don't doubt that it's an amazing place to work, but every job has its honeymoon phase and the author is definitely in that. I'd be eager to hear an honest assessment from him after a year though. There has to be a reason why brill
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by dschobel 17y ago
from the bcrypt page: the other [bit of terrible advice] recommends reversible encryption, which is rarely needed and should only be used as a last resort. Why is reversible encryption a terrible idea for passwords?
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by dschobel 17y ago
Jokes almost always get down-voted unless they're phenomenally clever (probably a reaction to the legacy of the +5 Funny from slashdot). We're a humorless bunch here :)
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by dschobel 17y ago
Fine, so then take GOOG which by all traditional metric (EPS, etc) would be grossly over-valued. You guys really get tripped up in irrelevant minutiae...
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by dschobel 17y ago
Except that dividends are announced well in advance so if the price did drop automatically on the day the cash is paid out, it would be trivial to short the position. The fact is, there is nothing predictable in the stock market. edit: as B
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by dschobel 17y ago
We are 1% of 1% of the people he cares about.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Calacanis is obviously a smart guy and a master of controlling the perception. He may get away with the ignorance alibi just yet because the SEO aspect is technically nuanced enough that most people won't understand it.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Huh? share price is determined by one thing and one thing only, market demand. As twitter has shown, valuation does not need to correlate to any traditional financial metric whatsoever. Twitter is worth 1 Bn becomes someone decided to pay f
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by dschobel 17y ago
I agree but it seems clear that HN could use some way of letting its like-minded visitors connect. pg has built a singular and impressive user base, one which benefits from talking to and meeting each other. I do agree a traditional jobs
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by dschobel 17y ago
That's a very one-dimensional view of investing though. The Bogle (the founder of Vanguard) school of investing says that investing in the hopes the price will go up or down is nothing but speculation on the same level as investing in commo
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by dschobel 17y ago
As does MSFT (as the article points out). The question is why do they retain a larger proportion of their earnings relative to non-tech companies.
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by dschobel 17y ago
This is true. Most companies are structured so that there exists a preferred share class with greater voting rights so to pass anything you'd have to get buy in from the board members who are the ones who typically own this share class.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Agreed but I imagine there are some talented guys and girls out there who missed the traditional recruiting cycle. The post was inspired by http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089455

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