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by jdale27 10y ago
Agreed. I think "a better society for myself, my family and for everyone else" is what a lot of people want. (I would have said it's what most people want, except for the part about also wanting it "for everyone else&q
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I think in general people just want more stability as they get older, including protecting the wealth and status they've accumulated. Rightly or wrongly, this might encourage them to support the "conservative" side, which pur
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by jdale27 10y ago
I second the recommendation of CLRS. Another good source of applied examples is the bioinformatics literature. It may be a little tough if you don't have much background in genetics, but a lot of the basic algorithms in computational b
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Uh, I wasn't familiar with that little tidbit of culture... Rather, it was a reference to the fact that in the last few years, any time someone suggests that we might be in another tech bubble, there's always someone waiting to po
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by jdale27 10y ago
Not sure how it happened at 18F, but in my experience working with "serious" designers, this is not surprising. They will spend weeks interviewing "stakeholders" and customers, iterating on "visual languages" a
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Well, as they say: "This time it's different!"
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You two seem to have completely opposite impressions of the same city. Is it really that big? Or just subjective?
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Right. It's not that beer is available at 10am -- obviously you can walk into any corner liquor store in the US at 10am, buy a beer, and drink it from a can hidden in a paper bag like your fellow sidewalk winos -- it's the fact
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by jdale27 10y ago
"Worse is Better" triumphs again...
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by jdale27 10y ago
You may be technically correct regarding the common usage of the word "average". However, "average" is most commonly used to refer to the arithmetic mean. Using the word "average" to refer to the median is bad
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The author addresses this in the second and third paragraphs of the article.
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Underground People of Beijing(projects.aljazeera.com)
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It's hard to imagine why anyone outside Palo Alto would care about the food scene in Palo Alto. As far as food goes, Palo Alto is a provincial backwater that just happens to have a few decent restaurants due to the unlikely concentrati
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David Foster Wallace, my teacher(theguardian.com)
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On Finding Our Calling in Life(susanjfowler.com)
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What do you mean?
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Good point.
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1 and 3, however, are in conflict. As Tony Hoare said, there are two ways to write software: one is to make it so simple that there are obviously no bugs; the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious bugs. Clearly the fo
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by jdale27 10y ago
Can someone point me to an actual, real, significant, practical outcome that has been achieved via so-called "systems thinking" or "systems theory"? It seems to make intuitive sense. Yet ultimately it feels like a sort o
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by jdale27 10y ago
That may be a great attitude to have, but unfortunately it's not the attitude that most humans have.
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What a great comment. I went through a period in my life where I hardly traveled at all, and more recently I've been traveling frequently for work. I still feel the same childish joy every time I feel the plane leave the ground -- we&#
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These are not null-terminated strings; it's not necessary to read the whole string to find its length.
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Good point. It's the same dynamic as with burnout, where it's common to assume that it's the burned-out employee that is sick/weak, rather than the company.
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Yes, in about 4 months. Winters in San Jose tend to be pretty mild though.
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If you listen to tech CEOs, there's this huge "shortage of software engineers". There is no shortage of software engineers. What there is, in the eyes of those CEOs, is a shortage of H1-B visas -- i.e., cheap labor from abr
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by jdale27 10y ago
> This is one of the better discussions about this: https://antiblog.quora.com/The-One-Piece-Puzzle-Chapter-2 ... I don't get this. What does the author mean by "pie-slicing"?
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No more so than athletes or musical performers (I wouldn't go so far as to say "musicians" -- thinking of people like Britney and Justin Bieber). Or doctors, for that matter, in the more non-celebrity world. In fact I wonder
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by jdale27 11y ago
Astounding! Yet another example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy !
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by jdale27 11y ago
I apologize for my snark. I would genuinely like to hear about your grad school experience. Maybe I'm the outlier.
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by jdale27 11y ago
Absolutely. Very sketchy to try to draw any meaningful conclusions from this data. Also, what about the people who invent/innovate on a smaller scale, which doesn't get recognized as much as these inventions but is in aggregate pe

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