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by goodgoblin 10y ago
I've also used ECS for a production system, and have found it to be an excellent runtime for docker containers.
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by goodgoblin 10y ago
I just finished reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quantum_Thief , and it was amazing. Best sci-fi book I've read since Neuromancer.
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by goodgoblin 10y ago
It doesn't seem like he was saying that we _are_ living in a simulation, but that at some point in the future we will be living in a simulation since virtual reality technology will be so good.
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by goodgoblin 11y ago
The limiting factor in whether someone becomes a manager or stays a coder is that there aren't very many manager roles available relative to programmer positions. Almost perversely because these roles are scarce, they pay more, but ar
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The Gene Hackers(newyorker.com)
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by goodgoblin 11y ago
If at all possible don't do a startup with people you don't really like. My advice to Bobby would be to stay connected with the developers he bonded with over the event and see if there is another idea they could work together on
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" has always stuck with me. I read it during my lunch break for about 6 months. The book animates the ideas that brought about the modern world.
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
At HMH labs we are looking for a Principal Software Engineer. Competitive salary and benefits. Telecommute is ok, though if you are in Boston or nearby that would be better. http://careers.hmhco.com/jobsearch/job-detail
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
HMH Labs - Boston ----------------- Our mission is to empower a revolution in publishing and education. Are you a talented engineer interested in building something great? Multiple software engineering positions open: Principal Engineer -
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
Web Objects was the first web framework I worked in, back in 2001, and I didn't really understand it at the time, but it already had built and running in production many of the features that I subsequently came into contact with via su
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
Did whoever voted me down even read this? I wish I could delete it now, you people don't deserve this comment.
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
The article does well by pointing out that Uber isn't the only company to do these kinds of things, and in fact almost every corporation engages in some variation of these tactics. Everyone knows that corporations have the same psycho
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
We are going to need to build an even better mousetrap.
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
In the spirit of "any advice" :) How did you fund the initial 5 months? The reason I ask is, if you don't have a ton of people to support at this point, you might want to move into "hibernation mode" and get a job t
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
Clearly what Whisper was doing was newsworthy, but at the same time I can understand why other journalists would want to debate the issue since it could impact one of their profession's building blocks ( on-the-record v.s. off-the-reco
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
Did anyone else see the headline at the bottom of the page claiming that 'Amazon Workers are Today's Coal Miners'? I haven't read the article, but given the amount of death and human suffering coal miners overcame, I can
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
props to any CEO who references Rilke in his rally-the-company-speech-that-gets-forwarded-to-the-world: 'Rainer Maria Rilke's words say it best: "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it h
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
As we get older it gets harder and harder for our brains to learn new things, but it also gets harder for our bodies to do a lot of things. Rebounding from injury or a night of heavy drinking is much tougher. Staying in shape becomes an a
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
Liquidity refers to the fact that when you want to sell a stock, you can sell it immediately. The more liquid something is, the closer it is to cash. Think about your car -- if there was a public price for your car and you could decide at a
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
HFT provides liquidity, and extracts a price for providing that value. HFT seems like stealing only because they are using advanced technology methods to make money, whereas in the 1980s and before market makers routinely manipulated the sp
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by goodgoblin 12y ago
Just in case you need to check on something like this in the future -- github commits are separated by branch, so there is a chance he was working on a branch for which you didn't get a report. It is also possible he didn't push
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by goodgoblin 13y ago
I wasn't making a jingoistic point, but you can take the opposite side of 'never' quite easily. China already has fallen, the communist revolution took place in 1949. Iran recently (from a historic perspective) had free ele
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by goodgoblin 13y ago
I saw that -- it was an amazing reversal. Apparently those limits have stood for almost 50 years, surviving a challenge in 1979 even on the grounds that campaign contributions can quickly turn into legalized bribery. It does seem like some
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by goodgoblin 13y ago
Yes, there always is the possibility of "full fail", but look at how difficult it is for autocratic regimes of the world today to suppress human curiosity. My faith is in the endless reaching and searching embedded in the human D
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by goodgoblin 13y ago
True -- though the Republic lasted over 500 years and embodied a conscious understanding of the dangers of power concentration. Roman Senators demanded that foreign kings pay deference to them, and no self styled absolute ruler was allowed
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by goodgoblin 13y ago
Yes history is full of monarchs but our current configurations of government in the West are also reactions to them. We are programmed from birth to revolt at the notion of an American King, and safeguards exist to prevent concentrations o
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by goodgoblin 13y ago
The math does seem really appealing, getting 4 extra hours of sleep (assume up to 8), and planning out 2 hours of whitespace during the day (both ideas I would love to try, don't get me wrong) leaves 14 hours to work. Assume that reali
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by goodgoblin 13y ago
Does anyone know if 94. is standard practice or not?
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by goodgoblin 14y ago
If you were looking for harder problems, I would suggest buying one of the books recommended on the home page. Kleinberg & Tardos Algorithm Design for example was used in an algorithms class I took, and the questions after each chapter
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by goodgoblin 15y ago
One more general question to pile onto this -- what is a 'normal' junior developer salary, for someone fresh out with a bachelor's degree? I'm thinking $60k plus options(for a startup).

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