jogjayr

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by jogjayr 8y ago
> I don’t know what the difference between the normal struggle associated with coding is and the sort of struggle that means it’s just not for me. Everyone struggles as they strain to reach the next level. Do you enjoy the struggle or it
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> Personally I feel the best method is using lots of small repos, one for each service or library, that get stitched together by the build system. But then your teams have to manage dependencies - or your release team has to do it for th
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Having worked in both git and SVN shops, SVN is adequate as a server-side VCS. Most of the time you don't need branches on the server side. However, using only SVN client-side is absolute misery - no interactive rebasing, local commits
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I think they meant cooking as a life skill. Over a lifetime you'll save more money on eating out, if you know how to cook, than you would on locksmith services, if you know how to pick locks. Unless you're ridiculously careless wi
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Or if low-density zoning didn't hold sway everywhere, that person could sell up to a condo developer, get a condo in the new building + some cash. Win-win.
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> What next, psychometric screening? I actually did one during the interview process for a Toronto-based startup.
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> Where are they supposed to live? If zoning allows for building more densely (which in the US, it often does not) existing residents can trade their single-family homes for a condo in the same location + some cash. It comes down to a zo
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by jogjayr 8y ago
In SF current residents are blocking new construction and driving up the cost of housing. I assume that Aspen can't grow denser even if its rich residents wanted it, because of its location on a mountain. But that's largely not tr
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> It’s just common sense to compare like with like. I guess we should agree to disagree :-). I think you should adapt your lifestyle to the area you live in. Here's an analogy: let's say I love fresh sushi. If I live near the
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> Job growth is a good thing only if it benefits the people who live in a place before said growth occurs Why so? Even if high-paid populations are being shifted around, it's better for the region as a whole to have more highly-paid
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by jogjayr 8y ago
That reminds me of the apocryphal story of the drowning man who sued his rescuer for breaking his arm during the rescue. The tech industry is doing what it's supposed to - building their business and making money. Along the way it&#x27
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Having a higher income and higher gross savings allows you to invest more in: 1. Rental properties 2. Securities - stocks, bonds, derivatives, REITs etc. 3. Investment opportunities not available to others. The $250k-earning employee (sorry
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by jogjayr 8y ago
This keeps being brought up but I'm sorry, no. The IBMer maybe has a larger house that they own rather than rent. In basically every other respect, the $240k-earning employee comes out ahead. The latter earns more, can save _way_ more,
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by jogjayr 8y ago
a) Why is that a bad thing? It's bad for the people themselves but arguably it's not terrible for society as a whole. Better than those people going out and getting into trouble, for instance. b) I imagine that in a world without
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by jogjayr 8y ago
You mean like a search engine? :-) I believe ML is used in search engines nowadays.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
An alternative view to all the naysayers here who say that the loosey-goosey way football does time is part of the charm of the game. On football fan sites lots of people bring up the idea of more precise timekeeping - 35 minute halves with
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Who said anything about the SV lifestyle? I was only talking about the high salaries in SV and the financial opportunities resulting from them. What I meant was you can't have the same lifestyle in SV as you would in a low CoL area - n
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by jogjayr 8y ago
You can save a lot more money, in absolute dollar terms. 20% of 200k is more than 40% of 80k. People talk about "cost-of-living" like it's some non-negotiable tax that you have to pay to the world. It's true you can&#x2
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by jogjayr 8y ago
What is DMV? Web search wasn't much help
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But they're not paying any of the price of that. They benefit from quickly rising house prices but thanks to prop 13 don't hurt from it. And they're using government to disallow other land owners from doing what they like wit
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I'm sorry I don't think I understood. I didn't mention race anywhere in my comment. You're saying that students from certain regions in Russia do better on tests and are therefore overrepresented in colleges?
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I think you're being overly modest; #2 in your class is by definition not "very average" :-). Unless you're saying that the average applicant at your school was #2 in their class and had a 1500 SAT score. Which again wou
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Interesting. Thanks for providing that additional viewpoint. My impression, based on my experience navigating the American grad school admissions process, was that the undergrad process was the same thing turned up to 11. I read about perso
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I think optimizing for the lowest total unfairness in the system is a worthwhile goal. Fairness is the ideal that we strive for in every other part of society. The second part of your question is pretty vague so I don't know how to ans
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Most Indian technical and medical colleges have common entrance exams administered at the state or national level. Other specialized degrees - film & TV, fashion design, advertising & journalism - have their own entrance procedures
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I'm genuinely curious to know if scores-only admission would deliver a more economically-diverse student population. I don't know how you'd investigate that though. My hypothesis is, if there's no benefit to doing expens
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Thanks for providing that information. I respect that the admissions office at Harvard have a tough job and they've made it tougher, for the worthwhile goal of increasing diversity of student life experiences, for themselves by taking
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Multi-gate protocols increase amount of gate-deception investment required, making it harder only for economically- or socially-disadvantaged students to subvert them. With a single-gate protocol gate-deception investments have diminishing
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I wasn't a "high-performer" though. My high school marks were top 20%, my entrance exam scores were maybe 70th percentile if I'm generous with myself (I honestly don't remember). I was academically good, but not a s
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Unlike in American colleges, students in India apply to both a college and a major at that college. So competition for desirable majors in the top schools is cutthroat. If you don't get enough marks you don't get to study that m

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