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by j_baker 13y ago
Well, ok. Sure if you are looking to get acqui-hired, you need people to be acquihired. That's a completely different situation from trying to convince investors though.
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by j_baker 13y ago
No. I mean something more along the lines of "Consultant X wrote this unmaintainable piece of crap a while back, and now we need someone to fix it".
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by j_baker 13y ago
This is an interesting analysis. My biggest concern about hiring consultants is that they don't have "skin in the game". Meaning, the typical consultant isn't going to be around to live with the consequences of their dec
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by j_baker 13y ago
If your primary motivation in hiring is to impress investors, I think you're putting the cart before the horse. You get investors so you can hire employees. You don't hire employees to get investors.
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by j_baker 13y ago
That's still not enough useful info. It tells us that someone has posted a webpage about A New Beginning on php.net, but it doesn't give us enough info to infer that it's a blog post about a new leader taking over PHP. Even w
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by j_baker 13y ago
You know, it seems like the solution here is to be able to distinguish the original title and the submitter's commentary about the title. To borrow from another comment in this post, something like: A new beginning ...could be
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by j_baker 13y ago
You can change an API without removing functionality. Sometimes you want to add functionality. Or sometimes the context around the API changes. Like for example, a python API might not function the same in Python 2.5, Python 2.7, and Python
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by j_baker 13y ago
I see the author giving zero evidence to support his claims. Well, apart from anecdotes about how people are getting hired at higher salaries (which is most likely hiring propaganda).
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by j_baker 13y ago
Well sure the founders define the culture. Who do you think put the few bad managers in the right place?
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by j_baker 13y ago
> A good interviewer wants to get a look into how you think and how you approach a problem. I consider that a red flag. In this case, the interviewer is almost certainly less concerned with whether or not you can do the job than they are
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by j_baker 13y ago
The SAT is the exception rather than the rule. Most standardized and non-standardized tests reward you for guessing.
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by j_baker 13y ago
You'd be surprised. You're basically hearing some version of this when you hear someone talk about "manual curation", which is really little more than a euphemism for this. It's usually PMs that I hear this from. Of
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by j_baker 13y ago
A company that's doing #1 is very easy to recognize. Everyone's always rushing but never getting anything done because they haven't taken the time to clean up the mistakes the last rushed project caused. It's not the wor
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by j_baker 13y ago
The thing is that managers help build a company's culture. Really, a few bad managers in the right place is all you need to kill a company's culture.
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by j_baker 13y ago
You seem to be missing my point. Should those drone detection and capture systems be controlled by humans or algorithms? Just because you remove the word "drone" doesn't make algorithmic warfare any less inevitable.
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by j_baker 13y ago
Erm... Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "advisory-only VC" an oxymoron? If you're not investing capital, you're not a Venture Capital firm.
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by j_baker 13y ago
This isn't surprising. I think the future of warfare will be massive armies of drones controlled by algorithms. If we can remove the pilot from the equation, we can drastically increase the size of our military. That's not to say
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by j_baker 13y ago
It would be nice if this also showed how much money the shutdown has cost, being that it costs $12.5 million/hour. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101078145
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by j_baker 13y ago
If we've sped up the extinction, why can't we speed up the regrowth?
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by j_baker 13y ago
Medicine. "You're going to die in 20 years due to your diabetes."
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by j_baker 13y ago
If adaptability (without simplicity) is the key component, that sounds like somewhat good news for humanity, us being a versatile type, and we can eat a lot of things for food. It's not quite clear to me that survival necessarily impli
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by j_baker 13y ago
They talk about the oxygen content falling by 7% by 2100. This makes me wonder: let's assume the worst and earth is headed for a mass extinction event. How long do these events usually take? Are they slow processes, or does everything
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How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying(wired.com)
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NSA chief admits agency tracked US cellphone locations in secret tests(theguardian.com)
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by j_baker 13y ago
...which makes you wonder, when the media calls something a "rebellion" in another country, what is it really?
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by j_baker 13y ago
All essential government operations (military, intelligence, security) will continue. Non-essential employees (passport processing leaps to mind) will be furloughed.
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by j_baker 13y ago
It sounds like you missed the tongue-in-cheek tone of the article. It's quite interesting to me to see how the media would report on these events if they were happening in another country.
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by j_baker 13y ago
We're talking about robbery rates doubling in two years. As far as crime stats go, that's a huge increase. I wonder what the cause of it is?
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John McAfee reveals details on gadget to thwart NSA(mercurynews.com)
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A CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison(washingtonpost.com)
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