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by etjossem 10y ago
I'd like you to read this. https://medium.com/tech-diversity-files/if-you-think-women-i... The gender gap in the workforce is wider than the gender gap in computer science as a major. Particularly at senior and ma
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Then you did what you could. My comment was more directed towards those who don't even raise the point at all. Whether you're successful depends on the company, your state laws surrounding noncompetes, whether you're in a goo
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Yeah, that's just for the chilling effect on people who don't realize it's unenforceable. A California noncompete is not something you'd want to take to court as a plaintiff.
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I personally think California made the right call banning them outright. The rest of the country would do well to follow suit. I'm talking about short-term, individual ways to solve your own noncompete problem.
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Because the opportunism of the company's legal department (or laziness of them using RocketLawyer boilerplate) doesn't correlate one bit with whether you'd want to work as an engineer there. Other signals matter way more.
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When an employer sends you their boilerplate agreement and you see "Employee will not work for a competing business", you're not looking at the only employment agreement they've ever signed. You're looking at the ve
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Agreed - seems like more of an effort to get more businesses to move to the downtown corridor, which wasn't doing too well.
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San Francisco's currently seeing a strange political alliance between homeowners - who want their valuable property in the Bay Area to appreciate - and well-meaning progressive activists earnestly trying to alleviate poverty. Superviso
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Agreed. I don't look at this and think "mediocre success", as they described it. I see failure.
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There 'aint no such thing as a free lunch.
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Exactly. It's the same situation as high fashion leaving fur behind. Even wealthy buyers decided fur was a dirty industry, and they readily moved to high-quality alternatives.
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They did. > Users can look up these three-word locations, which have been translated into Mongolian, for free on the What3Words website or app.
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When I was growing up, my parents drew up a circular calendar with the months of the year (so my sister and I could learn them) and put it on the fridge with magnets. December and January were at 6 o'clock, like you mentioned. I recent
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by etjossem 10y ago
From an outsider's perspective, bad collaboration between engineering and ops (or even among engineers, frontend v. backend) might sound like that. They're joking about the "looks good in staging" trope [1] [1] https:&#
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I don't think DF can be accused of being too easy early-game, but maybe that's just me.
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If you didn't like the way Dwarf Fortress looked and handled, but you love the idea of a "roguelike colony builder" with a lot of potential for random happenstance and failure, this might be a more enjoyable choice: Rimworld
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by etjossem 10y ago
US Cellular expanded in the Midwest (starting in their home market of Chicago) while other networks focused on the coasts. They still do partnership agreements though - so although I'm a US Cellular customer, I get roaming coverage in
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For another good Duskers series, try EnterElysium's playthrough. It's surprisingly fun to watch someone puzzle through it (and consider how you'd do it, in each situation).
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Because they don't want to waste their time on someone their client won't agree to hire. It's a numbers game, and from a time perspective, meeting you for coffee and shopping your resume around isn't completely free. Yea
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10x engineer: a developer who incurs technical debt so fast he appears more productive than the ten developers tasked with cleaning his mess up. [1] [1] http://10x.engineer
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Wait, you clicked the link?
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The carefully crafted (non-random) sequence above tries to fake out the script and succeeds every time. It reveals the script's own predictability, and why you shouldn't rely on it too much as a yardstick for testing your brain&#x
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by etjossem 10y ago
I feel like it sometimes just wastes questions near the end when it's already narrowed the possibilities down. Maybe that's even on purpose, for showy effect. After all, it's pretty impressive when it appears to correctly get
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Right! Someone please get dang to retitle this submission, so we can all finally stop equating free will with unpredictability.
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Also, Determinism (philosophy) != deterministic (computing) The former is the metaphysical idea that all events are causally linked, a belief which we can never confirm or refute. The latter describes something's observable degree of p
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You had free will anyway. More to the point, you used it to behave unpredictably.
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If anything, this demo shows: 1. Unpredictability is possible even when the user doesn't have any choice about input (type keys based on a PRNG) 2. Predictability is possible even when the user can choose from both available options (h
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If I had to guess? I'd say most people believe they are capable of choosing their actions - but they would also admit to a reasonably predictable set of habits.
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Right. It tries to measure how random your brain's PRNG is, which has nothing to do with free will. A simple computer has no free will at all, but after being instructed to type randomly, it will score close to 0.5 without fail. The &q
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