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by jonex 8y ago
While automation is removing some jobs, we are far from a fully automated society. I obviously don't know about the specific job markets where your data centers are, but in general, the ones having the hardest time finding a job aren&#
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by jonex 8y ago
Someone who knows how to program and is at least superficially aware of different data structures and algorithms would not need six months of preparation to pass the interview. That's very exaggerated and it might discourage people who
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by jonex 8y ago
What I saw in that episode was people being assholes to each other, the fact that they also happened to have a tool to prove things wasn't really the major factor. Especially the final point was a bit off to me, sure, it happens that w
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by jonex 8y ago
On point 1: That's often one of the big selling points of new (and therefore patented and more expensive) medications. It is much easier to convince doctors to prescribe medications that doesn't risk causing addiction, which in tu
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by jonex 8y ago
I thought they were talking about preparing engineers for starting companies. In that analysis I think it makes sense that risk aversion is a factor, although, considering the odds of 90% failure* that are often reported, I'm not sure
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by jonex 8y ago
Codecs used by real time video systems are able to adjust the bitrate on the fly. There's not a keyframe request every time that happens unless resolution is changed. How quickly they adjust might vary, software implementations general
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by jonex 9y ago
The article isn't mainly about the subject in the title, it's more of a general review of the hearing. However, regarding the question in the title: It is hard to understand anything if you don't try. The article mentions tha
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by jonex 9y ago
My impression of the big 4 interview process I went trough for my current position wasn't at all that it was all about having done a lot of preparation in the form of hackerrank problems etc. On the one question that most closely looke
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by jonex 9y ago
What are the poisons of today that we allow? I general, from what I've gathered, we have been replacing substances that accumulates in nature with substances that breaks down over time. So for instance, we still do allow ozone but also
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by jonex 9y ago
The problem with the concept of psychiatric diagnoses having advantages is that they generally are defined by their disadvantages. So if having ADHD has advantages, it must be directly caused by the disadvantages, because you can't hav
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APL in the eyes of a Python programmer(medium.com)
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by jonex 9y ago
Upvoted to compensate down-votes. While this is an opinion that tends to be repeated in APL threads and can seem ignorant. It it also the initial reaction many of us have had. Presenting it with a reasonable follow up question like this giv
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by jonex 9y ago
To me, this thinking seems like a sure way to get an unmaintanable mess. Now, just polishing a codebase forever without adding any features obviously isn't a valuable way to spend time. But the difference between changing one value in
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by jonex 9y ago
I would trust my manager to not abuse that power. If he would start using it, I'd first try to change team or, if not possible, just change employer. Hopefully, for the sake of the organisation, people quitting would reflect badly on t
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by jonex 9y ago
Mood disorders might have underlying causes, but the diagnosis and definition is entirely based on the symptoms. Comparing it to having a cold is a bit misleading. It's more like having a couch, or itchy throat, that may be caused by c
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by jonex 9y ago
For writing a non-fiction book, you should probably use Word or something similar. Just make sure to avoid any formatting tools, only use semantic markup. Word is a pretty decent authoring tool. The end result can then be imported to a type
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by jonex 9y ago
Have you visited the privacy checkup page lately? https://myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup I'm not sure why people keep saying that Google and Facebook is selling user data. Does that mean that if those companies st
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by jonex 9y ago
TDWTF started modifying their stories significantly to avoid people getting in trouble due to telling the stories. Sadly this was used as an opportunity to significantly embellish the stories to the extent that often the major weird thing t
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by jonex 9y ago
On a scale from x to ListOfSinglePeopleWhoHasADogButNoCar I'd say that "self documenting" code tend to be quite a lot more so than some of the alternatives I've seen. However, if someone claims to write self documenting
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by jonex 9y ago
I like the idea, making good bikes cheap. At $999 for a fully equipped bike with disc brakes, is it really that cheap? It seems that the belt drive is major advantage they offer at their price point. Is the chain really such a big problem f
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by jonex 9y ago
From that comment it seems that the down votes are about expressing anger that people like me have the opinion that build systems are a second order priority. I can't see how the comment itself should not be allowed as part of a discus
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by jonex 9y ago
Ok, just wondering, why would I get down-voted for this? I must have misunderstood the idea about down-voting, to me it looks like people are just expressing disagreement, I thought it was about discouraging impolite discussion?
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by jonex 9y ago
This was a pretty clever idea. I haven't heard about it before. It gets some of the benefits from making an MVP in a really cheap way.
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by jonex 9y ago
You do realise that it's quite a request to make? Getting a specific book and going trough it, until you reach enlightenment? Personally I'd say that any build system requiring me to read a full book to understand it has already f
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by jonex 9y ago
"good: adjective, 2. having the required qualities; of a high standard." I don't see "rare" being a part of the definition.
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by jonex 9y ago
The problem with the observational approach is generally that it's really hard to decorrelate the results. In your proposed experiment you control only for the project itself. What if good developers generally prefer modern programming
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by jonex 9y ago
Spending $1k/mo on personal training is _not_ extravagant? I realise I must be living a much poorer life than I thought...
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by jonex 9y ago
The difference is in trust. if you don't trust the stability of BTC, you don't want to put all your money into it. It just means that BTC would not make a good currency to replace other currencies, even if people would trust it.
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by jonex 9y ago
You buy stake in _future_ dividends. For companies that don't have any dividend currently you just have to compensate for the time delay when calculating the value. If everyone would race to sell Google stocks for no reason, the price
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by jonex 9y ago
This is actually similar to what we have in sweden. The workers union negotiate with the employers, usually represented by an industry organisation. It works fine in the sense that it means that we don't need minimum wage laws and the

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