jleader

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by jleader 13y ago
Note that he didn't say "go to school". If you don't know much about startups, dropping out to do one (as Gates did) might be considered an investment in your education. So might reading widely, or taking online courses,
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But some assholes do claim to care. It's a clever way of avoiding blame, by saying "I don't _want_ people to get angry, so it's not my fault when they get angry at the horrible things I say or do."
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by jleader 13y ago
The statement is "my skills are more important than how I look".
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by jleader 13y ago
How long does a work-sample test take? I'm typically hiring people to work on on-going projects over a period of months or years; the fact that candidate A does better on a 2-hour or 2-day task than candidate B may not give me that muc
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by jleader 13y ago
When things are messy enough that I want to rebase a branch, I generally create a new branch and new PR, and close the old PR with a comment linking to the new PR. I also put a link to the old PR in the description of the new one, so people
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by jleader 13y ago
You can even buy a fire-resistant safe with USB connectivity, so you can leave an external hard drive in the safe and still back up to it regularly. The ones I've seen are still pretty pricey (~$500), but they avoid the potential for &
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by jleader 13y ago
Reorgs of cubes are a couple hours IF you are using exactly the same numbers of each component (unlikely), or IF you can get additional parts compatible with the cubes you have. Every place I've worked that tried to reconfigure their c
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by jleader 13y ago
Not all linguistic nuance is syntactic. For example, the semantics of object models can contain a lot of nuances, as can the lifetimes of variables, visibility of identifiers, etc. While there are ways of encoding semantics (denotational, a
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by jleader 13y ago
That reminds me of Gordon Moore in a commencement address (at Caltech in 2001?) quoting the number of transistors the industry was producing annually per resident of the US (and how that number was growing), and telling the graduating engin
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by jleader 13y ago
No hat-tip to Stan Kelly-Bootle's "Devil's DP Dictionary"?
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by jleader 13y ago
Honeypot? They say each job posting has its own email address. Email the ninja address, and either you comply with their requirements, or at least enter into the spirit of the joke, or they blacklist you. It's a good way to compile a l
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by jleader 13y ago
Except I had the impression that restarting shelved projects, catching up after delays, etc. is going to end up costing more money than the shutdown saves. Not to mention the effect on the economy if it goes on for too long, which will affe
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by jleader 13y ago
Chrome is a web browser created (largely) by Google. Google makes their money (largely) from web advertising. Web advertising is far more effective if you can use things like cookies to decide what ads to show to people. So the claim is tha
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by jleader 13y ago
If you choose your employees at random from the pool of applicants, and the applicants' abilities are normally distributed, then you're right that the employees' performance will be normally distributed. But I would expect an
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by jleader 13y ago
Sometimes the "bad edge" effect is cumulative over time. This can lead to a new entrant to the market suddenly gaining a lot of market share, because so many people have gotten fed up with the dominant player. So maybe the dark pa
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by jleader 13y ago
Agreed, data not stored is more secure than data that's stored, but I stand by my point that data stored in such a way as to provide the minimal necessary access can be substantially more secure than data stored in such a way as to pro
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by jleader 13y ago
That's not entirely true. Take for example, passwords. If your requirement is "store passwords securely, so they can only be used to check logins", then you implement that as salted, one-way encryption. But if you add the sha
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by jleader 13y ago
I am far from a tax expert, but my impression was that excess sales tax paid in another state can be claimed on your California state income tax return? It sounds like the customer can talk to the repair place, it's just that the repai
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by jleader 13y ago
Probably similar to the reasons Apple introduced the Apple Stores. As explained in the article, Tesla feel that typical dealerships aren't set up or motivated to do the education necessary to sell all-electric cars, so they want to do
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by jleader 13y ago
According to http://openstates.org/tx/bills/83/HB3351/ and http://openstates.org/tx/bills/83/SB1659/ , the bills haven't progressed any further since then, I don&
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by jleader 13y ago
The last time I got my hands dirty at this level was almost 20 years ago, optimizing a software renderer's texture mapping code for the original Pentium, so I don't know much about the details these days, but it sounds like the MO
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by jleader 13y ago
My impression was that "Author Solutions" wasn't about "transitioning print-to-digital", it was about scamming people with aspirations to be authors, by charging them ridiculously large up-front fees for various &qu
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by jleader 13y ago
That's technically true in many US states as well, but I've never heard of it being enforced outside of the fields where many practitioners are licensed (mostly Civil Engineering, to a much lesser extent Electrical and Mechanical
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by jleader 13y ago
There's debate about whether increased availability of abortion really accounts for the decline in crime; one alternative hypothesis is that reduced rates of childhood exposure to lead (mostly from leaded gasoline and the resultant exh
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by jleader 13y ago
Apparently a "database administrator" is a kind of registry of spectrum and location, keeping track of what devices are using which frequencies in which places, and so ensuring no overlaps? Based on this description of the proposa
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by jleader 13y ago
I worked at Yahoo from 2002 to 2008 (admittedly, not at headquarters in Sunnyvale), and the only one of those services I've ever heard of is Alta Vista.
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by jleader 13y ago
"As technology advances, both of these problems will reduce more and more." For the first problem (that algorithms' results will be wrong), you're assuming that the technology to avoid false positives will progress faste
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by jleader 13y ago
"No, he's an employee" ... who likely has access to all his bosses' communications.
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by jleader 13y ago
But the advance of technology also inevitably advances the capabilities of murderers, rapists, and parking meter scofflaws. The question is, does it advance their capabilities more than it advances the capabilities of those who oppose them?
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by jleader 13y ago
Why exactly do we still need nuclear subs? I'm not trying to be a troll, or funny. What threat is currently best dealt with by deploying ICBMs in nuclear subs? And why is the money better spent on that than on any other alternative use

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