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by jboggan 10y ago
This might be what's needed to really fire up the tech industry in Los Angeles. Hopefully a critical mass of the newly rich Snapchat employees stick around in Venice and the westside to seed future growth. Then again, there goes the ne
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by jboggan 10y ago
The way I like to think of it is that Google has a wondrous faucet that constantly exudes liquid gold, about a cubic centimeter every second. It is our job to keep the faucet open. Occasionally we also do other cool stuff. (19.32 gr/cm
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Don't answer.
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My friend is a Ferrari mechanic and he says the panel gap and fitment is atrocious, he claims that part of the construction is mostly done by unskilled labor. The money, time, and care go into the design, suspension, engine, interior, etc.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Not exactly, Neanderthal admixture of 1-4% of the genome is present in all populations except sub-Saharan Africans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_human_admixture_with_m...
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Sadly video games seem to be the only source of agency for a great number of people. Our lives seem to be more and more constrained without any authentic choice available to us and in response we retreat to artificial environments.
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Years ago I built an options and futures trading platform for Bitcoin but we were strangled by regulatory compliance and I shut it down. There are always a few around but the problem with the market is that no major holder of Bitcoin wants
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Especially since the hard work of increasing the screen resolution has already been done. Also, bravo on including the stupid little bugs that gave you trouble. It always sustains me working on a hard project to know that a self-driving vid
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Back when Google Wave came out I got my lab to use it and they really liked it for awhile. Alas.
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After perusing his Twitter I'd say he has escaped basic software development.
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None of this will show up in your interview, but: - Strongly typed everything. I get it now, I really do, but I was resistant to compiled and strongly typed Javascript at first and didn't like writing JSDOCs all the time, I'd say
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Started my "dream job" at Google in January and fought through a very steep learning curve towards being a fullstack engineer there. I learned our team's frontend in AngularJS (despite no frontend experience nor any idea how
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Escape velocity of ~ 500 m/s, that's slower than most rifle bullets travel!
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Came here and read this while 115,508 packages complied. So, no.
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Figures here in free preview: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjop.12208/epdf?r...
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I recall reading a journal paper about 10 years ago where they finally got accurate balloon instrumentation to the level of the stratosphere where the ozone-depleting reaction supposedly occurred . . . the actual degradation rate was way of
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by jboggan 10y ago
I remember reading this article when it came out and found it fascinating but didn't have the knowledge to refute its more amazing claims, I wonder if anyone around here might be able to chime in?
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by jboggan 10y ago
Honestly everyone is pulling back a tad from the beach itself in Venice/Santa Monica so it's probably better to call it Silicon del Rey.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Yes, my first real engineering job at Factual. I applied as a data scientist (not actually really knowing what that entailed) and was re-routed to be a data/software engineer, which ended up being a great fit. Once I was at Factual I k
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Because hardly any of them know how to cook.
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Speaking as a native Atlantan who moved to California 4 years for a job in the tech industry: I don't miss it and I wouldn't want to move back, even to leverage a better cost of living. I miss the weather, the environment, the peo
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by jboggan 10y ago
Bitpay and other payment processors exist to buy and hold Bitcoin in the event of mainstream adoption and price explosion; that is their entire investment thesis. They also happen to spend a little time performing activities that purport to
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by jboggan 10y ago
"Multiple withdrawal when only one was instructed" - I believe this was because they were using MongoDB in the early days for financial transactions.
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by jboggan 10y ago
Facilities for re-supply are so close and economical there is no incentive to make them self-sustaining. But it could be done.
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The problem with current approaches is that they are trying to parameterize higher order functions of highly evolved organisms. But real intelligence is an emergent property of self-replicating organisms, so you aren't going to have tr
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It's digital Charlie Work [0], that's why. I really enjoy that kind of work but it is difficult to articulate your business value in that environment. The best thing is working closely with a data scientist/front-end dev who
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by jboggan 10y ago
Santa Monica resident here. Last year my commuting motorcycle was stolen. During the insurance and replacement process I rented a car for 3 months. About 6 months later my new bike was damaged and out for repairs for almost as long, but tha
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by jboggan 10y ago
This stood out as well. I'd wager that those 9 Chinese employees might be misled about their legal status.
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I'm not using it outside of Google but I will start for some personal projects with this announcement. I can say that it is one of the best parts of our tech stack and one of the great things about building systems here.
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So everyone loses 36% of their account value?

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