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by hibikir 11y ago
B&N is really suffering from a way bigger problem in the US: The death of retail. Other than a few big cities, the cost of going to a store in the US is far higher than in Europe, just because e have to actively go to a store, instead o
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by hibikir 11y ago
It's not just old managers that dislike negative lines of code: Static analysis tools dislike them too, under the right bureaucracy. At a certain huge company that sells seeds, they decided to start having both a base test coverage tar
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by hibikir 11y ago
What is interesting about this whole thing is precisely the second point: Are interest rates really the best tool to alter monetary policy? What's the real transmission mechanism by which anything the fed does affect the economy. The v
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by hibikir 11y ago
If you want generalists, you won't really be able to test them properly by asking questions at random: All you are hoping for is that they share the same background as you do. The moment it's you asking the question, and they can
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by hibikir 11y ago
Most of those interview questions, don't really have much to do with the way someone actually works. I just went through one of those SV gauntlets at a YC startup, and got a yes, but at no point I thought any of the interviews were any
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by hibikir 11y ago
While I do not want to name names, I have worked for a very large retailer that everyone in the US would know that stored credit card information for quite a long time. They are large enough to do large chunks of their credit card processin
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by hibikir 11y ago
When I was taught by a GM, and the way I teach kids, start a bit different. -Basic moves and tactics -Very simple endings (RR+K, then Q+K, finally R+K). Without this, many games between kids just can never even finish! -Strategy -Basic open
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by hibikir 11y ago
This is a problem in all organizations, not just governments. Few things predict failure better than an environment where criticism and negative feedback are suppressed, often because it's seen as not nice, or uncivilized. I've se
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by hibikir 11y ago
The 2.7 ecoboost is used on pretty large cars by european standards: The ford F-150 pickup truck, the Lincoln Mk6 crossover, and the Ford Edge crossover. It is tuned on each of them to produce over 300 horsepower, so it's probably vehi
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by hibikir 11y ago
I've been programming professionally for 15 years. But I cannot say that I was ever bored programming. My favorite story about this comes from my first job, in 2000. We were working in C++, and we were turning a program designed to run
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by hibikir 11y ago
What interests me is the opposite situation: When a minority imposes itself not because they can force themselves on others, because they are immune to external influence. It's the same principle. We see a lot of that in OSS, and I&#x2
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by hibikir 11y ago
Scala is my favorite language. I use it every day. And yet, the language, and its ecosystem, have big problems nobody wants to tackle. They have nothing to do with the myths people talk about though. For me, the biggest problem is how fract
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by hibikir 11y ago
The problem is not "production code", but library code. I write a lot of business code in Scala, and a large majority of it is very easy to read for the newcomers we have. What is absolutely terrifying is what happens when you loo
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by hibikir 11y ago
Analysis of the H1B visa, and how it really helps big consulting firms, is incomplete without also looking at the perspective of the H1B visa holder. I think I can help, as I used to have one. Why do people get H1B visas? It's rarely b
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by hibikir 11y ago
Yes. Ageism is especially easy to beat if you enter technologies early, but that is something you have to do at home: For most problems, suggesting the shiniest and newest is often a disservice to project deadlines. My latest example of thi
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by hibikir 11y ago
For the most part, any party the NSA might be interested into is going to be running an OS and an application suite that will also be used by Americans a whole lot. Probably even other government agencies. So, every zero day they find and w
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by hibikir 11y ago
Equity, as a VC or a founder, is very important. You also have a good amount of control over where the company goes, your stake only gets diluted on your terms, and the company's behavior can be tweaked to make sure you get a good exit
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by hibikir 11y ago
It already happens, and new names change, or a different region creates their own regional name. Champagne is already limited to a region in Europe, but that hasn't stopped, say, Catalonia from making Cava: their own regional brand for
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by hibikir 11y ago
The problem here is language and what our actual objectives are. When people complain about bias, they are not really talking about mathematical bias, but about something else: Their idea of fairness. They are talking about discrimination.
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by hibikir 11y ago
And yet, Spaniards drink more alcohol per capita than Britons overall: Just look at the statistics anywhere. it's just that there's less binging. A common Spanish practice, new from the last 20 years or so, is called 'botello
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by hibikir 11y ago
In other languages that use Option types more natively, like Scala, anything that isn't optional is assumed to just not be null: The compiler doesn't guarantee it (it's not as if it can, we are dealing with a JVM here) but it
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by hibikir 11y ago
I have no specific knowledge about how this was done, but it seems likely that the new way Windows development is organized led to a change like this happening. I've seen simple problems like this one that have taken forever to fix in
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by hibikir 11y ago
If your argument was correct, we'd see authors make their best work later in their career, when they can ignore editors and publishers, because their name alone will carry their work. I haven't done a big study in this, but it see
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by hibikir 11y ago
Many of us just left, when we saw the difference in salaries between Spain and the alternatives, and the difficulty of marketing products for Spaniards: For instance, I'd not touch the B2B business in Spain, given the way people choose
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by hibikir 11y ago
Joe talked about this in Strange Loop 2014, and it seems to me that the idea is far less crazy than it seems. The more functional programming I do, the more sense it makes. A major reason for modules in OO languages is to manage mutability:
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by hibikir 11y ago
You don't have to use FPTP to distort: There's been plenty of debate in Spain, which uses the D'Hondt method. There have always been more than two healthy parties, but ultimately only two get major representation, just like i
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by hibikir 11y ago
I do not think that games need more project management, but more people who share the lessons we've also learned in business and system programming. For instance, we've had articles here about how beautiful the Quake 2 and Doom 3
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by hibikir 11y ago
Of course it is. You can see the strategy of rapidly iterating on game mechanics first, for theoretically releasable, yet too crappy for the market, in interviews of old school devs: Sid Meier and Peter Molyneux built their first hits this
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by hibikir 11y ago
Monsanto patents are more complicated than that though, as you can see by searching the USPTO. The enzyme is patented, the genes that produce it are patented, the introduction of those genes into a specific cultivar are patented, and crossi
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by hibikir 11y ago
That mechanism wouldn't work very well though, because it's a situation with low risk, where it's hard to prove who caused the harm, and even when you do, the damages are so high, the injury won't be restored: For instan

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