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by gspetr 8y ago
There's also the infamous Brew developer and Google's interview for a counterexample. But that's more of a devil's advocate thing. I think your point still stands, but instead of Linus I'd use the more relevant Mike
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The "Stripe Delaware LLC" scheme comes with quite a few pitfalls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870886
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> which is the only site I know of where people sell or barter side projects. I'm a bit surprised you haven't heard about this one: https://flippa.com
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by gspetr 8y ago
Is there also a list for Docker failure stories?
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by gspetr 8y ago
Sadly, this isn't true. You can use google translate to read this: https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/10/22/78289-povar-... TL;DR version: Small time regional bloggers disappear and the &quot
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I doubt that in practice an average person would be able to (reasonably) accurately differentiate between 4 miles and 5 miles or 6km and 8km without external measurement tools in an unfamiliar environment. The heuristics at play that the hu
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In Russian you still have people using colloquialisms and idioms with units that were put out of use almost a century ago, yet everyone here gets the meaning (or at least the intent, which is what matters in the contexts they are used in) s
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by gspetr 8y ago
Excellent point. 100 -> 90 is 10% decrease. 212 -> 194 is ~8.5% decrease (and I had to go out of my way to count that).
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The incentives are already in place and it's never been easier to learn on your own than it is now. I've read elsewhere that even if people want something and have someone in reach that has it, 2% will ask for advice and 2% of tho
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The problem I have with this, is that if you don't get to use your new shiny tech in your job, over the years you tend to forget the knowledge, at least that's the case for me. Does everyone else have eidetic memory? I found mysel
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> Then what the hell is their job!? Their job is to let people do their job without interference from an "application architecture group" and pointy-haired bosses, as Joel Spolsky once pointed out: https://www.joelon
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by gspetr 8y ago
This is the article I link to when I see people making statements about racist algorithms: https://blog.chewxy.com/2015/08/04/algorithms-are-chaotic-ne... Basically, algorithms are the wrong layer to work in
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by gspetr 8y ago
This anecdote further exacerbates the problem with the original article. The lessons learned should not be: "CEOs need to do this, this, and that" and neither should it be "For employees, how you handle change will affect the
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by gspetr 8y ago
Facebook iOS app was 400 MB last time I checked. And it also wants to get updates.
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Is it that bold or novel? patio11 wrote about it back in 2011: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
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by gspetr 8y ago
Michael O. Church has interesting meta posts on engineer careers dealing with politics at big orgs: https://web.archive.org/web/20160113210613/https://michaeloc...
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by gspetr 8y ago
The risk of dying in your 30s in an accident is minuscule, while IIRC 87% of women have kids. Also, companies can get insurance on an employee death (although limited to X% of highest paid employees): https://dealbook.nytimes.com
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by gspetr 8y ago
I remember the story. The bank's CEO (the guy is a billionaire of considerable notoriety in Russia) threatened to put the story's protagonist in jail for fraud for 4 years. The protagonist took the threat very seriously (as he sho
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by gspetr 8y ago
> humans were created along with the rest of the universe, but many don't believe that they were designed in any useful sense of the word. Genesis 1-27: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
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> b) they aren't designed It does seem like a reasonable statement, but when you take a bit of time to think about it, billions of people disagree with it. A sobering thought. > so there's no expectation that they should m
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by gspetr 8y ago
Sorry for the late reply, I was away from civilization. I think that depends on how your hiring process looks like in general. You might, for example do a benevolent (from a certain POV) discrimination and simply start filtering applicants
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4. Try to look for a different (one you might understand better) explanation of the same concept in different sources. These can be youtube videos, other books, math.stackexchange.com, math forums, etc.
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by gspetr 8y ago
You never made an argument about requiring one in the first place. Where there's a will, there's a way.
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by gspetr 8y ago
Another corollary should immediately follow: If an average woman in the industry is that much better than an average man, where are all the female-only companies? Does nobody want money in a capitalist society?
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by gspetr 8y ago
> Back in the day most people didn't go to uni and had a much smaller choice of positions. Not the parent and I wasn't around either, but I think accessibility of education counters your point, not supports it. More egalitarian
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And then you take your experience, connections and expertise to leave and start your own company where none of this happens. But is that what we see in real life? I don't have data or sources at hand, but I'd bet top dollar that F
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The "google truck engineer" story proves otherwise: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-tru...
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by gspetr 8y ago
This post barely scratches the tip of the iceberg. For a more comprehensive discussion of unicode issues and how to solve them in Python, "Let’s talk about usernames" does this issue more justice than I could write in a comment:
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This should clarify: https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/95w128/ysk_t...
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Why is it framed as a problem in the first place? If you're running a convenience store and your customers purchase 65/35 apples/oranges, how would you solve a "problem" of getting them to buy 50/50? Nowhere in

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