festivusr

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by festivusr 9y ago
What is the skillset they're looking for that would be proven out by having worked remote before?
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by festivusr 10y ago
They weren't kicked out from the normal White House press briefing. I'm sure you know that from reading the article.
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by festivusr 11y ago
Now's your opportunity to learn, then. China isn't exactly some tiny country at the end of the world.
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by festivusr 12y ago
Agriculture needs to go where, exactly?
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by festivusr 12y ago
They're a for-profit company.
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by festivusr 12y ago
They are not good guys. They might be good guys in their personal life, but hiring someone from outside the country, letting them cut ties, and then laying them off immediately is not something a "good guy" does.
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Scrum and the Gollwitzer Effect
1 points by festivusr 12y ago|0 comments
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by festivusr 12y ago
The ops people you work with are also developers? That sounds great but has never been the case at anywhere I've been.
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by festivusr 13y ago
Pardoning only Turing isn't enough, but it would be a start.
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by festivusr 13y ago
Sticking Fact: in front of something doesn't make it true. Living your best life, and achieving your own goals, doesn't mean ignoring everyone else in the world's well-being (for most values of "your own goals" and "your best life").
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by festivusr 14y ago
No, actually, it's a TIE Advanced x1. An Interceptor has characteristic dagger-shaped solar panels.
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by festivusr 14y ago
There was an interesting talk that mentioned CAPTCHA by one of its creators, Luis von Ahn, at the AAAI-12 conference on AI and robotics this past week. In ReCAPTCHA, the two-word CAPTCHA version, one of the two words is taken from a scanned
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by festivusr 15y ago
It may be an imperfect analogy, but to call it "rude" seems like a stretch.
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by festivusr 15y ago
I'd posit that your real point is exactly that which you say you don't want to argue. It's a strong statement and worthy of discussion. Much more interesting to discuss that than how clear Buffett's argument is. (Which is quite clear, in my
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by festivusr 15y ago
Let's say I have a buddy, Bill, and we go out for dinner every so often. He doesn't make as much as me, but he fights me for the bill every time. I end up paying less than he does most of the time. I tell my wife, "You know what, it's not f
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by festivusr 15y ago
He posits that people making over a certain amount should be ponying up more in taxes. A reasonable assumption to make is that taxes would be raised in such a way that those people would be taxed more, and people who make less, wouldn't be.
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by festivusr 15y ago
You said "I understand that people want higher taxes on the rich. I think it's stupid, but I'm not going to argue about it." This is not a question, it's a statement, and a provocative one at that. Saying you're not going to argue about it
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by festivusr 15y ago
"But for those making more than $1 million -- there were 236,883 such households in 2009 -- I would raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including, of course, dividends and capital gains. And for those who make
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by festivusr 15y ago
Buffett isn't suggesting punitive rates, just rates in line with the income taxes that an average working person pays.
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by festivusr 15y ago
I generally put his articles firmly into the "derp" category. And before we say "hey, we all have to be polite here on HN," his articles consistently take shots at anyone and everyone he disagrees with in a disrespectful manner. Terms like
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by festivusr 16y ago
Has any study been done about the likelihood of people to check-in with one of these social apps? If someone checks-in at the gym on Monday, are they going to be less likely to check in again on Tuesday? People I know seem to check-in when
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by festivusr 16y ago
Somewhat bizarre that they say pro cheerleader-turned-NASA engineer. It's really the opposite. She started as an engineer and became a pro cheerleader on the side, according to her profile on the Texans website. http://www.houstontexans.co
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by festivusr 17y ago
For the inattentive meeting-attenders: Do they want to be there? Is it a mandatory meeting? You might be seeing passive resistance to the meeting itself.
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by festivusr 18y ago
I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, but wow - not using one way hashes is an absolutely terrible security hole.
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by festivusr 18y ago
Giving developers sub-par machines for "incentive" purposes is... well, crazy. Intentionally slowing down your write-compile-test cycle makes no sense. For web software, you indeed want your test environment to be no faster than production,
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by festivusr 18y ago
Aside from the inflammatory headline, what the article seems to be saying is "teach more about concurrent programming during early software programming courses," which seems reasonable enough. Like pointers, concurrent programming concepts
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Budgeting for new team members(getrealordie.com)
25 points by festivusr 18y ago|32 comments
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by festivusr 18y ago
Granted, this guy's cover letter is not going to win him the job. But "Send us your resume! We'll post it on our web site and make fun of it! And your grammar, even though ours is not completely correct either!" is not going to win this com
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by festivusr 18y ago
I enjoyed thinking about the scenario, but I must be missing something. By not revealing the conversations between the gatekeeper and Yudkowsky, the test seems less like a simulation and discussion of a possible future and more like a magic
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by festivusr 18y ago
I guess we've lost each other, then. In my opinion the ideas in the manifesto are the best part of anything that has had the agile label slapped on it. I guess you don't get anything out of them, but I'm not sure why not. If you want to try

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