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by jldugger 5y ago
> many people who said they wanted an iPhone mini, and were super excited about the rumors at the time, and said they would get one. Not a single person I know, directly or not, bought an iPhone mini. I would have bought a 12 mini, excep
902.
by jldugger 5y ago
I'm guessing this is for those "our key contact went on vacation / died / quit years ago" scenarios. Unfortunate that you can't bypass it by acknowledging that risk.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> they will contact buddies at your current or former place of work even without your consent and you have no chance to fight or dispute that (and it is also illegal, not that they care) is it actually illegal?
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Anyway, in nearly 15 years in this industry, I think that I've maybe had 1 company I was interviewing with ask me for my references and I can't even recall if they used them. Background checks wont even always ask your permis
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by jldugger 5y ago
It's kinda weird how this blog is basically https://www.manager-tools.com/2009/04/handling-exit-intervie... with the serial numbers filed off
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Be honest every day, and do your work well. > Also important; don't be a dick. There's a difference between telling the truth to constructive ends, and being a whiny critical negative contrarian In that spirit of honesty:
907.
by jldugger 5y ago
Probably the better faith argument is that it should impact both genders equally, but it's a lot harder problem to solve, with multiple layers of interaction in a dynamic system.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> serious Bob Martin Sudoku Solver energy to it You mean Ron Jeffries?
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by jldugger 5y ago
The trick is to not speak for seven years first tho.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Aren't they known as the big tech company with the "writing culture"? Are they? I thought that was Amazon.
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by jldugger 5y ago
Dropbox was famously leading the SWE comp charts[1]. In particular, they focused on equity grants both pre- and post-IPO. Well, live by the equity sword, die by the equity sword: SP500 is up 16 percent in the past year, DBX is down 10 perce
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Tf-Idf: A Single-Page Tutorial(tfidf.com)
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by jldugger 5y ago
Yea, it seems the author is aware of it, covers it in the book[1], but decided against mentioning it in this article. [1]: https://www.splitthepiebook.com/resources-2-1
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by jldugger 5y ago
Keep in mind this article is basically a Yale professor pitching their new book in an alumni magazine; not a great place for scholarly citations. Browsing the table of contents, the book itself has an entire chapter on this.
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by jldugger 5y ago
Plenty of examples of massive speedups in repairs: 1: https://www.enr.com/articles/51917-caltrans-shaves-months-of... 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TKjwblp1XI It's not that we can't &qu
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Inflation is almost 100% caused by "too much money" chasing "too few goods". I find it baffling that the "always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" crowd never inspects velocity.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> To get concrete, we submitted an application for an apartment let. It's so hard to hire good help these days. And in the case of apartment building management, it sounds like they're renting out just fine despite the bugs and
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by jldugger 5y ago
> I don’t agree with the notion that frontend is easier or that women shouldn’t pursue frontend. If the comparison is between teaching "CSS, HTML, and Javascript" and "writing CRUD apps in Python," sure, they're
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by jldugger 5y ago
> I'm sorry you feel that way. He is certainly as relevant as Camus, Proust, Kafka, Hemingway, Beckett, Sartre, Solzhenitsyn, and many others. I think the point is that the author has nothing to do with the re-emergence of the Sovie
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by jldugger 5y ago
Which rocketbook? Wave (microwaveable)?
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by jldugger 5y ago
Yes. Or tip a can of compressed air upside down and the cold air that comes out can unerase
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by jldugger 5y ago
Well, I use them with a rocketbook. The intended use case is to record the note digitally when the notebook is full, and then intentionally heat wipe and reuse. Realistically, most of my notes are low value after weeks let alone years, but
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by jldugger 5y ago
I knew cold would reactivate "erased" ink but legit didn't think about freezing the pen itself.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> What happens when you dont have tables? IDK, what does R do?
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by jldugger 5y ago
this one: https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/
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by jldugger 5y ago
> My strong opinion as someone who majored in math is that, at least within the US, the standard calculus requirement should be replaced with statistics. So much more useful and so much more important as an adult. Strong agree, but engin
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by jldugger 5y ago
Not that you shouldn't write blogs, but bear in mind for folks trying to split SWE & blogging, your manager will see your split priorities as a risk. Every slipped team deadline paints a bullseye on the hobbist blogger who has to s
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by jldugger 5y ago
The US is a net exporter of oil I think, in the post fracking era. As a commodity, for the most part there is one global price, modulo delivery location. What happened last week is that the normal buyers don't want to transact with Rus
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by jldugger 5y ago
Mebbe something about whatever diseases you had leaking into the water table?
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Isn't oil price increasing good for Russia though? Yes. From Putin's POV: two mehs and one thumbs way up

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