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by joelgrus 13y ago
I don't know where you work, but at every company I've worked at they do fire bad coders (as well as good coders who are hurting the team for some other reason).
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Yeah, I can't get the article to load, but my reaction was pretty much the same.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Very cute.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
This is pretty funny, although they ruined it with their "HEY GUYS THIS WAS A JOKE" at the end.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
In a former life I was an economics grad student, spent a few weeks at the Santa Fe Institute, and returned to school full of zeal for simulation and complexity. At which point it was subtly suggested to me by senior faculty members that --
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by joelgrus 13y ago
This is a great way to understand Git, thanks!
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by joelgrus 13y ago
"Quality geographic data helps empower killing drones ... I mean, organizations and communities!"
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Why Programming Language X Is Unambiguously Better than Programming Language Y(joelgrus.com)
81 points by joelgrus 13y ago|30 comments
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by joelgrus 13y ago
computer science != a CS degree
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by joelgrus 13y ago
It varies, the "national security Republicans" are all for the surveillance, e.g. http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/12/mike-rog... whereas the "libertarian Republicans"
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Buried in the paragraphs of treacle is an important point about supposed "meritocracy": "Having been a good student, no matter how good the reputation of the school—and most of the good schools, we are coming to learn, are go
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Hey, I backed that guy's Kickstarter! And now that I read his post I just cancelled my pledge.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Right, if he really thinks this then he's not a very good Ayn Rand disciple.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
I feel the opposite regarding Clojure and Scala -- Clojure just makes sense to me, whereas Scala gives me a headache. As an aside, insofar as you have some sort of willingness toward C#, you should check out F#, which is functional with r
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Very cool, although it seems like it might be simpler to just learn OCaml.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
This is a really nice overview of Clojure, thanks.
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Upworthy Generator - Instantly create Upworthy-style articles(upworthygenerator.com)
3 points by joelgrus 13y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 13y ago
"Why would you ever buy an Android phone?" He doesn't even mention the most important reason -- so that you never have to use iTunes again!
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by joelgrus 13y ago
It would never in a million years occur to me to think of my Github account as "unpaid labor", any more than it would occur to me to think of my blog or my Twitter as unpaid labor. I like to build cool stuff, and Github is a way t
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by joelgrus 13y ago
My life would be better if someone built some kind of revenue-per-advertisement optimization system. I'm just saying.
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College researchers eye using dead trees as biofuels(komonews.com)
1 points by joelgrus 13y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 13y ago
This is why I make sure that I also say in real life all of the terrible things I say on Twitter, Hacker News, and so on.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
"43 Things That Are Colossally Stupid But That We've Gussied Up With Click-Bait Headlines To Trick You Into Viewing Them"
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by joelgrus 13y ago
You had me at "Left Buzzfeed".
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by joelgrus 13y ago
I can see how the lack of Internet is awesome for preventing you from checking Facebook / Twitter / HN all day. At the same time, I'm not sure how productive I could be without near-constant access to StackOverflow. :)
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by joelgrus 13y ago
By reading the comments? ;)
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USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information”(weblaws.org)
188 points by joelgrus 13y ago|138 comments
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by joelgrus 13y ago
My #1 tip would be: Just Ask. I work at an early-stage startup, and this year we got exactly one internship request. We weren't even looking for an intern, but we liked him and so we gave him a job for the summer.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
"We've found that when people feel valued for who they are, they have the comfort and confidence to create a monstrosity like iTunes."
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Doing Data Science: What’s it all about?(andrewgelman.com)
1 points by joelgrus 13y ago|0 comments

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