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by hibikir 11y ago
The game suffers from the fact that its first hour or two can be solved without looking at the island at all, but there are MANY puzzles that aren't really about the panel: The panel is just where you enter the answer that you got from
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by hibikir 11y ago
There are two major kinds of puzzles: 1)Puzzles about getting a solution that follows a set of rules, which can be deduced, and are reused from puzzle to puzzle. The game just checks that the rules are followed, so there is more than one va
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by hibikir 11y ago
I hail originally from Spain, a country with extremely cheap college education compared to the US. Did free college provide better outcomes? Only to a point. Spain is a country with over 20% unemployment. The country is full of people with
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by hibikir 11y ago
The purpose is neither to punish, nor to rehabilitate: A perfect criminal justice system is one that prevents future crime, while at the same time minimizing how many people aren't doing something useful with their lives. Imprison or k
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by hibikir 11y ago
But corporate US taxes are on profits, so if the US only taxed inside the country, you can lower your US taxes by engineering your organization such that you can claim US operations pay your business unit that resides in a different count
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by hibikir 11y ago
It's well known that companies quickly turn south around bad manager, if just because they can't retain good talent. But that doesn't make all managers bad: Good ones are rare, and their people know it. For instance, I just l
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by hibikir 11y ago
Banks would never do that, if just because they'd risk losing business in places where there's no local branches. Many of the national banks that offer the best conditions have no presence in a lot of metro areas. And even if you
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by hibikir 11y ago
Optional typing like the one we see here is not uncommon in other dynamic languages: For instance, Clojure has core.typed and prismatic schema, which approach the problem in ways related to what the article shows. However, while optional ty
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by hibikir 11y ago
You are right: Scala is a wonderful language crushed by its culture. Not only the DSL love. And then there's the in-language tribalism. You find people that work/worked in Twitter, that tell you that anything that Typesafe, the co
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by hibikir 11y ago
Because all markets are really related in some ways, and you can't judge performance without looking at alternatives. Sometimes, a sector goes down, or up, by itself, and then we can expect that the reason for the price change has some
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by hibikir 11y ago
$150/hr for a contract that will last 5 hours is terrible, because of all your overhead costs. If the contract lasts 8 months, is likely to be renewed, and you are expected to bill around 40 hours a week, the overhead is pretty much go
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by hibikir 11y ago
Yes, there's not a big black community in San Francisco. There's an unusually large southeast asian community though, which is uncommon in many other parts of the US. Still, even smaller divides can be stark. I am white and I live
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by hibikir 11y ago
Even working directly for a large company is a gamble for someone with a visa. It's one of the little secrets of H1Bs, Green Cards and consulting: Go though a consulting firm, and you get hit by less incidental layoffs (since you are j
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by hibikir 11y ago
The security problem in a Bitcoin world is real though: The "instant" settlement is equally instantaneous, and equally non reversible, when someone has access to a private key. At the same time, if I lose the key, the coins are go
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by hibikir 11y ago
A product doesn't win in the market by not being offensive in some way, but by providing something people want. Google+ didn't commit many of the sins of Facebook, but it also didn't have a compelling use case other than &quo
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by hibikir 11y ago
Actually, middle management are the ones that tend to be in trouble: Few companies hire middle managers, as they prefer to promote vs hire. This is one of the reasons you see so much company loyalty in middle management: More ICs than manag
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by hibikir 11y ago
If you prove you are actually any good, yes. This is also true if you worked at a place that is small, but not a startup. The best decision I made in my career was to ride the 2003 recession in a small catalog company that wrote its own cod
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by hibikir 11y ago
A big difficulty of building a new city in the US is that, in the age of the car, we'd not build anything dense enough to feel like a city. I live in a metro area that has a bit over a million people, but in no way does it feel anythin
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by hibikir 11y ago
Hopefully that will be a good lesson that will hit the next group of young and bright eyed developers. It's not as if equity is necessarily bad, but unless you are a founder, you have ZERO control over what is going to happen to your e
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by hibikir 11y ago
Everyone is calibrated differently, which makes drugs have pretty different effects on people. I, for instance, feel in every respect worse after two drinks than 100% sober. Every effect is negative: All the things people like you talk abou
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by hibikir 11y ago
This sounds like the classic Postgres problems on large, insert-only tables. The default settings for statistics gathering just aren't tuned for tables like this. Now, normally the problem is not full table scans, but using extremely i
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by hibikir 11y ago
One interesting thing about watching companies implode in the rear view mirror is that often one person leaving is enough to start a chain reaction. In one example in my career, a big employer was trying to change its culture, and set up a
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by hibikir 11y ago
One thing is networking, and another is to do onsite visits that are clear recruiting pitches. I have a friend that, since she's become relatively well known and travels a lot, gets a lot of those recruiting pitches. Has that made her
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by hibikir 11y ago
0.0029% for injuries that require an emergency room visit, not injuries at all. Let's go for a conservative, 100:1 ratio of minor cuts vs injuries that make you want to spend a bunch of money on doctors, and we see that it's prett
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by hibikir 11y ago
The world changes, so we are not really adapting to the same conditions that our ancestors did. Let's go for a fake example. Imagine that there is a mutation that hands a human 20 points of IQ, but then makes said human extremely near
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by hibikir 11y ago
The big problem with the EMH is how easy it is to miss what it actually means: That human behavior, when combined, is aggregating all publicly known information. So a market can have a price that is a terrible estimate in hindsight, but tha
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by hibikir 11y ago
There aren't many alternatives in this case, as every place that has covered this news is very right wing media. They have links to the sources though, and while I do not agree with their spin at all (I think this is a wonderful thing)
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by hibikir 11y ago
It's a gamble, but one that makes a lot of sense, in a very selfish way: Building a career in one place without trying to take shots upwards is not good: Programmers get more pay by changing jobs, not by being very patient and hoping t
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by hibikir 11y ago
There's many reasons to want to avoid writing custom software, but for those that aren't actively living in it, it's easy to forget the dismal results of buying enterprise software. People buying it start with the impression
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by hibikir 11y ago
A big problem of many tools out there, and of cloud formation in general, is that validation is a mess. And the bigger the template, the bigger the problem, even with existing tools. There are validation problems even within specific tools:

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