jakebasile

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   by jakebasile 10y ago

   You're correct, not all Trump supporters are racist, sexist, or bigoted. This means that Thiel, as a Trump supporter, is not necessarily racist, sexist, or bigoted; so there is no need to remove him to promote inclusivity. This kind of
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   by jakebasile 10y ago

   This is the kind of AI that matters to me as a gamer, not yet another chat bot :)
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   by jakebasile 10y ago

   Dropbox's pricing is indeed frustrating, on both ends of the spectrum. Small time users pay a lot more than competitors so they can store a reasonable amount, and if you want to store a lot of stuff you're shit out of luck as the
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   by jakebasile 10y ago

   The reason is they make little to no revenue from desktop, and no profit. As a cost center they subsidize it to bolster their server and hopefully mobile offerings by a network effect - people using Ubuntu server may want to develop on Ubun
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   by jakebasile 10y ago

   Having used both iPhones and Nexus phones with fingerprint sensors the back position is much better for me. My index finger rests there naturally when holding the phone while the home button placement is awkward.
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   by jakebasile 10y ago

   I had just been evaluating Horizon for a new project using React. It looked very promising but we decided to use Firebase instead, in spite of Firebase being closed source and subject to vendor lock in. We simply couldn't justify forgo
7. 727.▲
   by jakebasile 10y ago

   Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes, and I've worked remotely before Willing to relocate: Yes, easier to move to Northeast Ohio (Cleveland, Westlake, Akron) Technologies: Clojure, Go, Python, JavaScript, ES6, React Resume: https:/&#
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   by jakebasile 10y ago

   I haven't seen this! Thanks, it looks interesting.
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   by jakebasile 10y ago

   True. I'd be ok with concept art and notes, anything really. The world and story were fascinating to me and it just stopped with no closure.
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    Since HL3 is probably never going to be released, I'd love it if Valve released any script or story notes they had for it. I want to see what would/could have happened.
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    I don't understand why we should want to placate censorious governments, let alone by giving them even a modicum of power over something this important. Furthermore, if the transition of ICANN won't be a cause for censorship, then
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    I don't really care who is doing it or why - I want to know why this change is so necessary if it is ostensibly such a minor change.
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    So a previous change occurred and that means that any further changes cannot be scrutinized? I have no love for my junior Senator but that doesn't mean I cannot be concerned about why this particular change is happening.
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    Yeah, Apps accounts have much different privacy terms and this is likely the reason for some of their exclusions such as Google Now email cards but it cannot logically explain why other things don't work like Play Music family plans. S
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    That's my beef with it, I can't figure out a concrete reason why this is important. Any change around something as important as DNS deserves scrutiny but this one has mostly been handwaved away. I am particularly concerned that
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    Whatever you do, do not buy a Google Apps (sorry, G Suite) account for personal use. I made this mistake years ago and it bites me constantly. You get locked in to paying per month just so you get access to the things you bought through it
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    Probably never going to happen. https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-go...
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    I used to half joke like this, but recently I've been doing some React work in ES6 with Flowtype annotations. It's actually not that bad.
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    I have no idea why I am being compared to Donald Trump. > Being old is not an indicator of success. I didn't say it was. A history of success is an indicator of being successful though. > You seriously seem to live in some wonder
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    The difficulty of identifying poor hires scales with their impact. If they are hard to identify, they are minimally harmful. At a big company, poor hires are diluted by size and revenue. At a small company, it is easier to identify poor hir
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    They make money by selling the snake oil that are these tests and interviews. They need interviewers to believe they are useful and diagnostic, and they need interviewees to put up with them and think it's acceptable to be put through
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    A hiring process that can be gamed by reading a book sold by the process giver is especially flawed and morally corrupt. A hiring process that acts as if years of experience mean nothing and which reduces your career to a score on a web pag
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    What is the end game for this hypothetical professional bullshitter? Let's say you hire someone who can successfully bluff past your interview. They come in on the first day, do all the HR forms, get their computer and start setting it
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    In my experience over the past year, programmer interviews are almost all the way towards the "preparation" (learning to interview, not learning to do the job) end of the scale, with a unhealthy doses of sadism and elitism. I&#x27
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    > It's worth noting that on HackerRank, candidates can see how they're performing against the test cases. You can see how you do against test cases in aggregate. You are given a few examples, the rest are hidden from you. A com
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    I have begun doing this. The RoI just isn't there for me. I've been looking for full time employment for over 6 months now, doing contracting to make ends meet and to stay involved in the industry. I started out doing the tests, p
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    > There are a ton of new college grads who are better software engineers (or would be, with 6 months) than people with 20 years of experience. Citation? How does having fresh recollection of algorithms that you will rarely if ever use ou
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    > led ... by the very company that's administering your weeder tests? I actually didn't even notice this conflict of interest. It would line up exactly with how such an awful class of product has gotten so popular. I've be
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    If there are separate tutorials for how to "Crack the Coding Interview", maybe coding interviews do not accurately select for coding skill.
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    by jakebasile 10y ago

    And of course it is impossible to find other avenues of treatment if one doesn't work for the patient.