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by gerner 13y ago
It's great to see some research that shows a college education is still worth it. And I certainly believe that, although I'm admittedly part of the academically trained elite. That said, the work to "democratize post-secondar
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by gerner 13y ago
I'm really glad to hear someone talk about the development/debug advantages of static typing. I work in a mixed java/ruby/python shop and issues with typing come up all the time. We catch so many bugs during java compila
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by gerner 13y ago
you're not the first person to suggest that to me :) although I haven't thought about using ZFS for this. You're not the only one to suggest ZFS. Why that and not compression in btrfs (or something else entirely)? _hopefully_ the mmap inter
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by gerner 13y ago
have you (or anyone else) done this and have some experience to share?
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by gerner 13y ago
That sounds great if you've got large fields with lots of redundancy. In fact, we do this. But small fields won't compress so well on their own. Often there's a lot of redundancy across records for the same fields which is great for compres
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by gerner 15y ago
I don't know if that's always true (at least, not for founders I want to work for). I worked at a startup where the founder totally ruined his personal credit, and was paid a small portion of what everyone else was making until well into pr
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by gerner 15y ago
If you want to make a good living with little risk, be a dev, a designer or something like that. Given that most startups fail, and of the ones that don't, most are only modestly successful, you'll probably be better off (from a purely econ
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by gerner 15y ago
But that brings up the non-deterministic point the author makes. You can't know when the object will be garbage collected. It could be a long time from now, or never if you get an unexpected deadlock.
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by gerner 15y ago
There is a ton of casual tech stuff going on in Seattle. check out http://www.seattletechcalendar.com , or (disclosure: my blog) http://fourthirtysix.com/tech-sci/ We're not lacking the meetups, the events (Seattle 2.0 awards tonight!) W
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by gerner 15y ago
It's great to hear these stories of success. And yes, it seems like a positive attitude is critical to success, rather than looking for reasons not to do something. However, this kind of over the shoulder throw at "what it takes to succeed"
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by gerner 15y ago
Thank you for making this point. To my great dismay I see more and more people think that you need concurrent threads in one process in order to scale. It seems as if many programmers believe this as scripture and subsequently have difficul
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by gerner 15y ago
I was on one of these academic integrity hearing boards as a student representative at Cornell. In my experience the board was strongly in favor of failing students outright and adding a notation to their academic record. It's not as bad as
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by gerner 15y ago
tl;dr build your personal brand via social media, blogging, Q&A sites, and open-source. Communicate what problems and technologies you're interested. Get other people (recruiters, blog readers, followers) to look for new opportunities y
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by gerner 16y ago
To help fuel a (I hope helpful) discussion (but seriously, I'm looking for advice/opinions here): I think it's unenforceable. Ultimately LinkedIn can shut off your access, but that's really the only recourse they've got if they don't like w
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by gerner 16y ago
does point 1.8 in their API TOS seem strange to anyone else? "1.8 Monitoring. You agree to provide us with access to your Application and/or other materials related to your use...If, following the foregoing, LinkedIn is not satisfied that
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by gerner 16y ago
I've worked lots of smart engineers who use these sort of "just-for-fun" tools, or simple hacks. At the time I often think exactly as you do, "why do I need a whole dependency..." And often I leave feeling the same way. But more than once-a
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by gerner 16y ago
sorry, here's the page that holds three surveys: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/gritscale.htm
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by gerner 16y ago
I've been at four startups. Of the ventures, one of the two with investment is successful, the rest are not. I can't know if the secret ingredient is having a VC. But having someone whose interests are aligned, has experience in the industr
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by gerner 16y ago
and the survey measuring how gritty you are is here: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/17-item%2520Grit%2...
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by gerner 16y ago
a great related article at Wired: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/what-is-success-tr... what PG calls determination I think Wired (quoting Angela Duckworth) calls "grit"
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by gerner 16y ago
That's an interesting thought, but do you have evidence supporting this? Another interesting tidbit about society favoring families with children is the tax implication. In particular, you can claim kids as dependents (which, of course, the
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by gerner 16y ago
I especially agree with point 3: white labeling is not so important. but being able to choose from some designs, or letting me provide my own seems important. And having it say "User Voice" with the logo is either a non-issue, or is a plus