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by ilyanep 13y ago
There's a huge difference between "all wrong" and "has some fundamental assumptions that could lead to non-optimal results if you wanted to push the results even further". The former implies, upon initial reading of
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by ilyanep 13y ago
What are the other ramifications of being classified as a common carrier?
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I'm not convinced they're as much jokes as real concerns by people who have already been burned by this (see: YouTube -- I'm not going to argue about whether or not G+ integration has made these products better, but it's
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I think you're missing his/her point. The problem nostromo has is not proprietary formats but social networks. I think the worry is updates like "John Doe turned the temperature in his house to 75!" (and while that fear
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I'm not a hardware person; could you explain to me why a watch battery wouldn't work in this case. Is it just too low power?
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by ilyanep 13y ago
It sounds like he found the names on the company website and only used Facebook to get their FB IDs. Is that still against the TOS?
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by ilyanep 13y ago
This is a reddit-level shitty comment. Unless you agree that the CIA has no right to exist (and you'd be insane [one of the nicest words I can think to put here] to think so), I fail to see why it's bad that the government would c
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by ilyanep 13y ago
You make it sound like one has to give up the money aspect of a CS job to get the "cool environment with cool people." I would argue that a good developer or sysadmin should be able to land a job with both. I certainly have one wi
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by ilyanep 13y ago
The online problem sets for the Caltech course aren't what you get in real life when the course is being actively offered, and also it was a pretty basic/easy course. That's not to say there aren't other hard classes onl
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I don't see how firing underperformers and other dead weight is evidence of a lack of long-term strategy. To me that sounds like a good first step in a long-term solution of making Yahoo! once again a place that talented people work.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I'm honestly surprised they didn't learn their lesson with the whole Buzz fiasco. Didn't they get sued over basically forced social connections?
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Even better is that some people just use the password as the password hint.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Furthermore, my name is very hard to remember the spelling of in English. This is why I go of a shortened version of my fullname, but Google isn't okay with this <_<
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by ilyanep 13y ago
It says "the people"
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Not to speak toward the validity of your comment, more to nitpick, but Larry Page was born in Michigan, so there was no "moving to the US" :)
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Any amount of paranoid ridiculousness can be justified after the fact by some sort of big incident. It's how we justify the PATRIOT act after 9/11 and how one might justify Stallman's actions after the NSA leaks. That doesn&#
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by ilyanep 13y ago
> It seems that the devs available to build these projects for the government aren't the best ones. The best ones must be at Facebook refactoring the Poke code. There are lots of companies on Silicon Valley writing great code that a
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Nope, and (to contradict your point a little bit) I pretty much refuse to do development tasks on Windows because it's the one remaining OS on which I find it impossible to be productive. Have you ever tried working in a Windows comman
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by ilyanep 13y ago
In my experience, PhDs in EECS are actually worse at day-to-day computer operation than many other people (Source: All my profs who couldn't get their laptops connected to projectors) :P But yeah, your point is valid. I just couldn&#x2
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I don't think the problem is that we can't get anything that big to be precise, but rather that we just don't have any mass experiments that are precise enough period. If you look at the definition of a second, you can see th
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I've had one as part of a brain science study at my undregrad school and aside from the loud noises (which can mostly be muffled enough by some good earphones), it's pretty okay. In fact, with the muffled MRI noises, I honestly ne
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I guess that's fair enough. I'm just personally squeamish about sharing most interview details this publicly, but perhaps you're right.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I doubt that you were rejected (even if you were, which it seems like you don't know) based on needing to be prompted about select, and getting syntax wrong, especially for a non-dev position and in a phone screen. If I were doing a ph
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I believe that's called a butterfly. I don't know how common they are but I've certainly heard of people doing this on stocks they believe will be volatile.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
When the gold rush happens, sell shovels!
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by ilyanep 13y ago
In the college dorm I lived in, there was one networked system for the entire building (which was four ~80-bed dorms). It was so ridiculous that most people just stopped leaving when a fire alarm went off (the buildings are made of concrete
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Thanks, that's quite enlightening. I hadn't considered how much electrification could make things more efficient and thus easier to make more convenient.
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by ilyanep 13y ago
Would electrifying Caltrain make it run faster? I'm not very well-versed in trains. The other issues with Caltrain that I have include: The last Northbound train on Sundays being at 9pm and the last Northbound train on other days being
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I could never understand why people cared <_<
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by ilyanep 13y ago
I would love to have the BART go all the way around the Bay. It's just so much faster / more trains / more convenient than the Caltrain in my experience (although both are pretty good as far as US public transit goes).

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