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by ian-g 6y ago
I'd be very interested to hear what Google's done to their perforce server, if anything. I used to do vendor support for a company that does version control for chip design. Basically Perforce + some metadata and applications that
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by ian-g 6y ago
If you want to test somebody's ability to think a problem and not just bullshit 100%, why not ask them questions like "Given two integer variables x and y, write a function to swap their values without using a third variable"
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by ian-g 6y ago
I left twice, both times personal. Once for college, once a bit over a year ago. Tech permeates the area, and the expectations surrounding it can be harsh. The expectations put on kids can be too much, and I hated it. And honestly, I really
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by ian-g 6y ago
Feels like the other thing people do is conflate Silicon Valley the place (in my mind, the Valley of the Heart's Delight) with Silicon Valley the idea, the tech center There are many tech-y people who move there because it's more
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by ian-g 6y ago
That's totally fair, and congrats on that working! I don't want to take away at all from what you've accomplished! It's very interesting looking at how you - a successful newcomer - view silicon valley compared to the wa
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by ian-g 6y ago
I have a lot of thoughts about this. I'm glad he's seen some success! That's great for him! I just don't know that all or even much of what he's learned is transferable > I was able to get a job in SF with a sing
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by ian-g 6y ago
Fund the IRS more and let them loose on drug dealers for their chunk of taxes too?
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by ian-g 6y ago
What would you define as active?
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by ian-g 6y ago
On the plus side, all these people now have boinc installed and some might start computing for Rosetta@home
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by ian-g 6y ago
I feel like sn's biggest issue/strength is the length it lets you customize things. Sure, it can suck so incredibly bad. But it can be really good too, depending on who built it up. But I agree that the URLs are terrible, it'
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by ian-g 6y ago
I just moved and then a few weeks later drove 1600 miles roundtrip to visit family. All total, that's over 90% of the driving I've done since December. The start was definitely weird, I'd definitely lost some of the skills I
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by ian-g 6y ago
I don't think it helps that what works for some people doesn't work for others. I coded very very little before I graduated college but got my first tech-ish job because I knew a guy and I could explain my thought process well des
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by ian-g 6y ago
My last job was supporting some hardware companies' design VC. Absolutely insane. I think it's also a cultural thing. Like you said, lots of your own special secret sauce, and so many issues trying to fix bugs that may have to do
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by ian-g 6y ago
If you want them to look beyond Analysis, would an intro to discrete math maybe be what you're looking at? Discrete Math With Ducks[0] (and the professor that taught from it) is the reason I focused on the discrete side of things. It d
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by ian-g 6y ago
You're not wrong that congress should fix things too. But I don't think they're trying to redefine the word. From the impression I got (and I only read the outline of the decision), the most important part seems to be: > A
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by ian-g 6y ago
I like primary/replica as a base replacement
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US Supreme Court backs protection for LGBT workers(bbc.com)
9 points by ian-g 6y ago|2 comments
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by ian-g 6y ago
That's fair. I'd be ok with forcing two bedrooms of housing for each worker space added. I don't think all the McMansions and condos are good however. I'd rather you force people to add space for lots of people. Otherwis
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by ian-g 6y ago
But they should try something. Maybe degentrification could include a city requirement not to displace people when building new housing. The developer puts the previous occupant up and then guarantees them their same rent for, say, a decade
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by ian-g 6y ago
My favorite MTT moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgzsPoTp2iA High school band nerd me and my friends loved seeing this. Professional musicians have to be so accurate^, especially in orchestras. It's nice to see
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by ian-g 6y ago
A couple friends of mine are professional organizers, and I know their orgs use signal for pretty much anything sensitive. I dunno how much they like it, but it's something they all use regularly
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by ian-g 6y ago
Anecdotally it's more than that among non-tech workers. The bay is beautiful, but right now its best features are the weather and the fact that you can get to mountains, desert, snow, and beach in a day. That's available elsewhere
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by ian-g 6y ago
A good experiment would be - once we have some way of helping create covid19 resistance - massively scaling up public transit and making it convenient. Close lots of streets for people and bikes. Close some arteries for buses. Then incentiv
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by ian-g 6y ago
I'd imagine it's worse now, but I was sweating blood during my AP tests 8 and 9 years ago. If I were told by College Board that they messed up, they couldn't verify what I did, and that I'd have to take the tests again,
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by ian-g 6y ago
In case you haven't read anything else, and for other people here, yes his books are projects. I really liked Seveneves though. And The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. has been good so far!
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by ian-g 6y ago
Right now I'm finally getting back to a chip8 emulator now I've figured out what I want to do for the GUI. After that? I'd like to build up more of my (so far still private) personal website. Good excuse to learn more JS (and
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by ian-g 7y ago
I have used them maybe in a weird way. It might be a really stupid way too, but it made my life way simpler. I had some legacy code that was being repurposed and I couldn't touch the production environment, not even to build again. I c
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by ian-g 8y ago
I wonder if anybody has seen anything happening about PEP 582 for a local packages directory. It's definitely something I'd like to see implemented