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by irq11 8y ago
It looks like a case of the flu when it first presents. Unless you have a specific reason to suspect Ebola, you wouldn’t suspect it.
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by irq11 8y ago
For every Magit, there are ten other projects that receive an unending shitstorm of criticism, and no support. If you are one of the fortunate few who can thread that needle, congratulations, for you too can now revel in the financial secur
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by irq11 8y ago
If we enter an economic correction strong enough to drop housing prices by 20% nationwide, AirBnB activity will tank . Travel is a discretionary expense, and people cut back on those in a downturn. If you need a frame of reference, check w
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by irq11 8y ago
I find it somewhat unsurprising that if you follow individuals over time, you would see that poor people gain more than rich people on a percentage basis. The question is, what percentage of people are gaining? One success story can signi
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by irq11 8y ago
That is not the TLDR. The post is about cross-cohort vs. same-cohort comparisons. The argument is that if you follow the same people over time, the poor make the biggest percentage gains. Nothing in this is about inflation or prices of cons
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by irq11 8y ago
GOF is one of the most useful books I’ve read in my software career (now spanning over 20 years), and I’d recommend it to any beginning developer. Design patterns did not “fail”; they’re ubiquitous in software. At worst, you can say that th
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by irq11 8y ago
You’re not rebutting the parent comment. I’ve built tools in this space. The bar for “insanely good” is very high, and the market size is quite small. It’s a crappy business from an investor perspective, and legions of nerds have washed up
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by irq11 8y ago
Self-driving cars will also kill a lot of people. We just don’t know how many yet.
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by irq11 8y ago
Again, nobody said “don’t test if a candidate can code”. You should do a minimal test, then move on to more important things, rather than beating the same horse. ”In my experience these types of exercises are also more random” Well, “your
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by irq11 8y ago
You’re remembering it incorrectly.
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by irq11 8y ago
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do a coding exercise. I’m saying that coding exercises are overrated and far too difficult. Programmers today think that TopCoder questions are “FizzBuzz” tests. That’s idiotic. Joel Sposky wrote that blog
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by irq11 8y ago
This is the only correct response. I’ve been doing this a long time, and it’s demotivating to see every new generation of noob developer turn their nose up at the work of the generations before. It’s not as if Rails has stagnated - it keeps
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by irq11 8y ago
”Why are "juniors" interviewing candidates?” I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but the average age of programmers these days is just slightly above “right out of undergrad”. If you wait for the senior people to interview ever
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by irq11 8y ago
”I've seen candidates with anything between 1 and 15 years of full time coding work on their resumes fail to answer basic fizz-buzz level coding questions.” I haven’t seen this. I have, however, seen lots of junior interviewers ask i
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by irq11 8y ago
This is correct. My most complete advice would be to focus exclusively on the language you’re learning and don’t futz around with half-measures, but who am I to tell you what to study? If you’ve gotta satisfy the itch, then sure, you might
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by irq11 8y ago
To be honest, I think you’d be better off just studying words. Studying kanji really doesn’t help you.
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by irq11 8y ago
Someone who fails. The usual pattern is: new learner goes all-in on RtK, makes it a month or two, then gives up after realizing that they’re making no discernible progress, even though they “know” lots of kanji. There are useful parts of Rt
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by irq11 8y ago
Take my advice, as a somewhat advanced learner: don’t do this. RTK is this weird honeypot for beginning learners, but it’s nearly always a mistake. The “discouraged RTK user” is almost a comic meme in Japanese language study. You will spend
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by irq11 8y ago
The OP is making stereotypes, and they aren’t universally true (as is usually true for stereotypes). Japan is a big place. There are all kinds of people, and plenty of innovative organizations. It’s frankly embarrassing, the amount of nonse
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by irq11 8y ago
”In experimental fields, one just pulls data out of thin air or one just discards observations that are contrary to the hypothesis being tested. This attitude is so rampant in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and disciplines that use st
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by irq11 8y ago
No. Nobody ever reproduces papers exactly, because you can’t. There are too many variables, and even though you try to control as many as possible, you can still be blindsided by the random variate that you didn’t anticipate. Scientific res
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by irq11 8y ago
Self-driving people talk about this because, even if the tech worked, the costs of the hardware involved is currently so prohibitively high (~$100,000s per car) that a taxi model is the only one that makes sense.
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by irq11 8y ago
The original comment regarding “bonding” was equally anecdotal - you just agree with it, and therefore perceive it to be an argument. Rationally, there’s no inherent reason that free lunches promote “bonding”, and no inherent reason that te
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by irq11 8y ago
Good. Encouraging tech to diversify locations is a very effective solution to the demand-driven real-estate bubble that has been caused by the tech industry.
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by irq11 8y ago
I work at a company that doesn’t provide lunch, and we still manage to go out together and “bond”. Miracles do happen.
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by irq11 8y ago
Because you can, and it’s better to eat than to not eat. If someone is willing to pay you to explore idea space on reasonable terms, you’re a fool not to do it.
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by irq11 8y ago
That’s especially true when rich ideologues attempt to defund or block every project that comes along. In Seattle’s case for ST1, at least half of the problem was that every plan was litigated to near-death by opponents whose only goal was
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by irq11 8y ago
Also, interest rates are much higher for cash advances, belying their higher risk profile. Honestly, the responses in this thread from bitcoin people...it’s like they’re just now realizing that banks have intelligent employees working for
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by irq11 8y ago
Same. Also, every one of my stays since ~2013 has required customer service interventions, or otherwise had an incident that screwed me somehow. I’m at the point where I simply will not use AirBnB for travel in an area I don’t already kno
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by irq11 8y ago
They’ve taken a big pile of VC funding, so the answer to your first question is yes. Meanwhile, the biggest player (by far) in the market just abandoned dreams of an IPO. Gitlab is a distant third place in that market, and has a revenue mod

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