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by freyr 12y ago
If he's a good interviewee, did summer internships, and got decent grades, he should be able to land something in that range. There's some competition, but for the reasons I stated ($100K goes a long way almost everywhere except
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by freyr 12y ago
So you get a small, shared apartment, dinners at work, no car, and $2k/month left to save. Honestly, that's not bad, but I'm guessing you're young. Consider you're slightly older and thinking of starting a family. W
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by freyr 12y ago
You have suggested that Silicon Valley is successful, in part, because workers accept a notion of "long-term compensation" [1]. Long-term compensation, perhaps better called maybe-someday compensation, requires SV software enginee
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by freyr 12y ago
You forgot to include paying $0.99/song as a hard disk negative. Two more possible trade-offs: - Does the average person know how to transfer their music collection to a new computer? - Paying for songs a la carte requires thinking abo
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by freyr 12y ago
> That means for every winner under a new scheme, there will be a loser. No, that doesn't follow. Imagine one artist is receiving all the money, and the other 10,000 artists are receiving none. Spotify could move to another paymen
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by freyr 12y ago
> and would move back to Cleveland in a heartbeat, if the salaries and opportunities were even remotely comparable to Seattle. At some point you might decide you don't need to jump from company to company, or from job to job. You&
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by freyr 12y ago
No! Her job as CEO was to fix Yahoo. If the work-from-home program was a problem at Yahoo, it was her responsibility to address that. You speak as if it's a foregone conclusion that working from home is a good idea, but not everybody a
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by freyr 12y ago
Mayer is no doubt smart and talented, but she was also at perfect place at the perfect time and rode the Google rocket ship straight to the top. So it's hard for outsiders to really separate talent from circumstance. That said, you&#x2
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by freyr 12y ago
> Is it strange that people defend Mayer so much ? I've found just that opposite, that people generally seem critical of her time spent at Yahoo so far. Common targets are her seemingly haphazard app acquisition strategy, or how s
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by freyr 12y ago
It’s very hard to know how close we are to machine intelligence surpassing human intelligence. I feel comfortable stating there is no evidence that the current trajectory of machine intelligence (e.g., developing a set of tools for opti
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by freyr 12y ago
> Yes, but intelligence isn't magic either. What's your point? Nobody said it's magic. The fact that it isn't magic (and that its tremendous complexity far surpasses our current ability to understand it) supports th
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by freyr 12y ago
5. They have $700B, and even they can't they afford more than a "thanks but no thanks."
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by freyr 12y ago
> If a functioning switch has only a single wire feeding into it then it must be reaching ground False dichotomy. You omitted a third option: magic .
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by freyr 12y ago
> but I would never work for a company that does drug testing. I wouldn't drug test employees, but I can understand why some companies might be compelled to do so. I have friends who smoke pot recreationally, and they're fine
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by freyr 12y ago
> postulating a clear and unambiguous definition of a utility function. But the concept of "rationality" is richer than that The word "rationality" may be ambiguous, as most words describing anything complex are, bu
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by freyr 12y ago
SWI-Prolog? DrRacket? This has to be a joke, right? They're obscure enough that a non-programmer wouldn't likely know they exist, yet nobody with a clue would request that of a web developer. The only plausible explanation I can f
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by freyr 12y ago
The linked document by the Edison Electric Institute is titled "Disruptive Challenges" and it identifies distributed power generation (among other things) as a potential disruption in the industry. I assume the point is that if th
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by freyr 12y ago
> You met a person who burned more calories than they consumed, and yet didn't lose weight? No, as I said, I met an overweight person who consistently ate well and exercised (a college roommate). I have no idea how many calories t
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by freyr 12y ago
> * if I am paying for something, I certainly expect not to be the product.* And yet cable exists. Pay $30+/month to watch 15 minutes of commercials an hour.
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by freyr 12y ago
> I've yet to see anyone eat well and exercise and not maintain a healthy weight. Ever. Not once. I too had never, ever met an overweight person who ate well and exercised. Not even once! Until I did meet one. Your anecdotal absen
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by freyr 12y ago
You can't be blamed, they included an image of Google Glass right there on the page. Really, Google?
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by freyr 12y ago
> and consider myself at least average looking There's your problem. Many men on various online forums have compared their response rates when using a photo of an average looking man (or even above average looking man) and when us
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by freyr 12y ago
In a reductionist sense, yes, but this is interesting because the patents are intertwined with an international standard that every participant must conform to. When a patent covers a stand-alone product, you may be able to avoid licensing
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by freyr 12y ago
Qualcomm's IP portfolio is sufficient that the company can demand royalties from virtually any company that wants to produce a cell phone. It had a stranglehold over CDMA technologies, and has a great deal of valuable LTE-related IP. I
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by freyr 12y ago
> Why are people so enthusiastic to give hours away for free to commercial projects? This is a naïve view of the situation. You claim these people are working "for free." In reality, many of these people derive income directl
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by freyr 12y ago
Good point. In those cases, the analogy breaks down. Merriam-Webster offers several definitions for "parallel", though the only definition with a temporal connotation is the definition related to computing: "relating to or b
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by freyr 12y ago
I bought and read the book a few months back. About half the book is about businesses (mainly large corporations), while the other half is about banking and the stock market. I think this disappointed readers who were expecting a directly a
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by freyr 12y ago
> I attribute it to the fact that they were natural experts I agree that professors often choose books poorly, but disagree with the idea of a "natural expert." No human is born with a mathematical understanding of flight dyn
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by freyr 12y ago
Perhaps concurrent could be used in place of parallel , but parallel could not be swapped used in place of concurrent . Parallel lines are non-intersecting lines, i.e. lines traveling in identical directions. This is a nice allusion t
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by freyr 12y ago
Why would I, as an engineer, choose Silicon Valley over Boston? It's a petty reason, perhaps, but tech workers on the west coast enjoy prestige. In Boston, you rub shoulders with a large population of well-heeled management consultants

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