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by elevenfist 11y ago
Why has this been downvoted? Remember all the stories we've heard about Google refusing to give earned bonuses to employees who shared their salary information? What about the google exec who was blacklisted for the offhand comment tha
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by elevenfist 11y ago
No, he did and has not. He does charity as a public benefactor through his foundation. And he still controls M$, he fired Balmer early.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
In the event that this helps anyone: I've since realized that a lot of my unhappiness was created when I started reading all this news about how much money people like Zuckerberg were making while fucking up the world. It's great
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by elevenfist 11y ago
The basic analogy is that an api is like the pointy end of a drill bit. Google and Oracle want to help people drill in screws or hex keys. Sun started selling flat screw bits, and google, in order for handymen (developers) to be able to use
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Want the real story? Inside Job - Charles Ferguson
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by elevenfist 11y ago
" no ideal mathematician would say that a proof is simply "an argument that convinces someone who knows the subject." This entire student-mathematician exchange is facetious at best." From your point of view, what would
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by elevenfist 11y ago
OneNote works fairly well on Windows. The main issue I have with it is usability. Performance on Macs and iOS is fairly terrible though, from syncing lag, to input lag, (on an iPhone 6) to long load times.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
I was never even taught this "trick." The language used is shitty. The way I was taught, dividing a fraction by a fraction is equivalent to multiplying the first fraction by the second fraction's reciprocal. It's easy to
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by elevenfist 11y ago
> "I operate on the mindset that the damage done by filling a position with a bad fit is far greater than the damage of not having enough people to do work, and so I believe in optimizing to find the right person for the job."
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by elevenfist 11y ago
And you can make chocolates in your kitchen with ingredients from a grocery store.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
This bears an uncanny resemblance to the great depression, the dust bowl era, and "The Grapes of Wrath." Back then, companies distributed fliers advertising fruit picking temp. jobs. Americans would travel hundreds of miles just
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by elevenfist 11y ago
I think you're missing the point. More and more of the job of programming will be handed over to machines. Meaning that the work will become easier and easier and the skills required will change as time passes. The other issue is the a
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by elevenfist 11y ago
"A great model" Not really, it suffers from the same issues that most STEM competitions do. The rewards go to the children of successful parents who gave their children important aspects of their own research or self-funded them t
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by elevenfist 11y ago
So basically like San Francisco, except with a lower cost of living and possibly with better food
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Fantastic? Treasonous? I feel sad for you--unless you work there. EDIT: I guess the truth of California is you can't get good food here, even for a grand. What you do get is a "great experience." People here don't know w
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Can anyone break down how phoenix compares to meteor? Advantages/Disadvantages? Let's say I'm a CS grad, not a layman.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Their pizza really isn't all that great--it's salty, oily, with a bland crust. Love the cooperative model though.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
Tomatoes are allowed to ripen (instead of being ripened using ethylene gas) in India as well. Most U.S. supermarkets don't sell ripe bell peppers as well, and most veggies are tasteless, when they shouldn't be if they were grown p
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by elevenfist 11y ago
That recommendation from a congressmen/senator is given fairly easily--just leading a high school sports team to win your state's championship is enough. You don't have to even know them personally beforehand.
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by elevenfist 11y ago
The point that's being missed in this discussion is that corporations are abstract entities defined by the state and society, ideally for society's benefit (otherwise why the hell would or should they exist, and also the original
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by elevenfist 11y ago
I have yet to ever interview for, or interact with/work for, an employer in high-tech Silicon Valley who did not obviously (to me) share these beliefs. Could you talk a little more about your experiences?
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by elevenfist 11y ago
This is actually incorrect. When I was digging through old new york times articles from the 1900s and 1930s (using the online search) I stumbled across numerous articles expressing concern about the pollutants being released by factories an
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by elevenfist 11y ago
The author neglects to mention if he every visited any independent bookstores. I have fond memories of buying very unique books on topics from art to philosophy from such stores, stuff that you would never find in Barnes & Noble (or bor
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by elevenfist 11y ago
From talking with hiring managers and upper-level managers & executives across many different startups and big companies, there's an important caveat to "The big picture is not going to change." Application engineering is
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by elevenfist 12y ago
As an artist, I still found the surface pro 3 heats up after using it for longer than 30 minutes, making drawing on the screen uncomfortable. I still have my surface pro 1, and it's usable with a glove, but I generally don't like
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What do you enjoy about the process of your work?
2 points by elevenfist 12y ago|3 comments
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by elevenfist 12y ago
I really enjoyed reading this, although after satirizing how contrived the original harry potter is, in the later chapters the story itself becomes somewhat contrived. [spoilers, sort of] I dropped it after the author effective "fridge
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by elevenfist 12y ago
It may be important to think about what they might do and say if they were no longer rich, and forced to earn their fortune again. Would they do what they did again? Would they behave in the same way?
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by elevenfist 13y ago
Sounds like this would only real be useful for packaged, processed goods. I'd have trouble trusting the quality of perishable items over the internet...
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by elevenfist 13y ago
There are many different kinds of meditation, but some forms of calm meditation have been observed to produce numerous benefits beyond placebo effects, including lowering cortisol levels. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases

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