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by endtime 11y ago
Ironic to see a particular kind of freedom we'll likely never see in the US in a country which is less free in so many other ways.
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by endtime 11y ago
I don't think this is even slightly true of the protagonists of the two most popular examples of the genre (Worm and HPMoR).
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by endtime 11y ago
FYI, http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/ might explain why people are objecting to your comment.
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by endtime 11y ago
I learned a lot from reading the Django codebase. I didn't read it like a book, I read parts of it as I tried to figure out how to do things in Django, but I never felt like the code was bad. This was around 5 years ago so it's
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by endtime 11y ago
I had the underlying files deleted - 1-2 songs missing from what used to be a full album, and iTunes' XML index still had references to the files. This was several years ago, long enough that I don't remember what the iTunes vers
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by endtime 11y ago
iTunes also used to randomly delete music on updates. And they deliberately deleted non-iTunes Store music at one point (which AFAICT was a separate thing).
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by endtime 11y ago
I know it's beside the point, but Pocket is actually a great product and I actively use it in Chrome and Android.
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by endtime 11y ago
Living in Manhattan is not a right. I don't see anything wrong with a shorter commute being more expensive. I would very happily pay more for services that get more expensive because workers demand higher wages for their longer commut
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by endtime 11y ago
> People have previously mentioned hallway discussions at Google routinely devolve into bragging about SAT scores and GPAs. I've been at Google for 3.5 years (in the NY office) and have never heard this. I don't think I&#x27
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by endtime 11y ago
> I don't accept that competitive, winner-take-all behavior is at all "natural" You don't have to accept that the sky is blue either, but we are all the descendants of those who obtained the most resources for themsel
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by endtime 11y ago
The scale of the diagram, though obviously a diagram of that scale can only be drawn for an organization with operations at that scale - so kind of both. I've mostly done backend/data stuff at Google, so I can't speak to trad
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by endtime 11y ago
I think it's a matter of scale, rather than quality - we obviously use languages and frameworks and patterns at Google.
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by endtime 11y ago
Sometimes you don't know a kid's interests, and their gender is the best heuristic available (and a pretty good one at that). Obviously if it's e.g. my daughter and I know she likes trains she's going to get trains, but
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by endtime 12y ago
> It's boring, unfulfilling, tedious and people don't respect you for doing it. People would still go to college to get jobs that have those things. Ha, they'd give up on years of income and pay tuition for that? Nope, I
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by endtime 12y ago
Plenty of folks would be perfectly happy flipping burgers instead of going to college, so there would be fewer qualified folks for the positions which currently pay 70k, so those salaries would go up (since supply would be going down), so s
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by endtime 12y ago
I dunno, maybe I'm unusual but I felt that instinct when I got married (actually, when I knew I was going to). Having kids only strengthened it.
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by endtime 12y ago
I think Windows updates my video driver for me. If I ever had to do anything manual, it was long enough ago that I don't remember it.
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by endtime 12y ago
I don't think I've ever had to install a driver manually on Windows 7.
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by endtime 12y ago
My team mostly works similar hours to me (1-9, as I said elsewhere) but my previous team was more nine-to-fivey. We just had meetings after lunch, it wasn't a big deal. A couple folks on the team had kids and left every day at 5:00,
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by endtime 12y ago
I normally work 1:00 to 9:00, at Google NYC.
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by endtime 12y ago
> disqualifying half of the candidates for cheating was tiring. That actually sounds awesome. You could reduce your interview evaluation overhead by nearly 50%!
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by endtime 12y ago
I think most Americans would agree with you.
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by endtime 12y ago
I hate Apple design, but I just don't use their products. All Apple products have a good alternative...not necessarily true for Google, Facebook, Linkedin, etc.
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by endtime 12y ago
I really liked The Last Christmas and The Metropolitan Man (A Bluer Shade of White felt a little cliched/predictable) and second the recommendation.
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by endtime 12y ago
If supply goes up and demand is fixed, prices go down.
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by endtime 12y ago
I'm seriously unsurprised to find the token why-does-anyone-like-Yudkowsky-he-doesn't-have-a-PhD-and-hasn't-even-saved-the-world-yet criticism in a thread about his Harry Potter fan fiction. He's a great writer, and that
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by endtime 12y ago
>Whose the terrible engineer? Me with a patent and 25 years of innovation in key major products like the playstation network? Or the guy who interviewed me who gave me a thumbs down for being "terrible"? Possibly neither, possi
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by endtime 12y ago
My Dad (early 50's) has made more than I'm ever likely to (late 20's). He was always very circumspect about it, as it sounds like you are, but as I just became a father (and for some other reasons as well) he recently decide
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by endtime 12y ago
Why do you say that? I've been at Google for three years, and the only strong negative feeling I've observed towards MSFT was over the Mark Penn campaigns. Even then the response was mostly that the campus store should start sel
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by endtime 12y ago
One possible answer to that question, presumably not the one you're thinking of, is that those jobs are largely mechanical and require less creativity or generalized problem-solving ability than software engineering. Edit: I don'

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