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by josh_fyi 6y ago
Alumni have edu addresses too, and there are always more alumni than students; and the alumni need professional tools more than students. So, these discounts might be going mostly to alumni. The discounts are not a chance to get a stude
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
What looks like y^2 (or superscript 2) is an abbreviation for "the".
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
Recruiters for remote-working companies: for your attention!
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Safely tidy up the expensive mess in a Google Cloud project(github.com)
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
School is a place where, 80% of the time, children are explicitly forbidden to socialize.
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
The earliest parts were written in a early form of Hebrew which existed roughly at the same time as Ugaritic, a closely related language. However, this early Hebrew was not Ugaritic, which had sounds, words, and grammar that was quite di
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
Nice API. Still, it's a little like a Shakespeare API that supports only Portuguese and Chinese. It would be great to include the original languages.
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
RPython is relevant. He does mention PyPy, which uses RPython, but I am surprised that he does not mention RPython itself -- a restricted subset of the Python language used for similar purposes to the ones that he describes.
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
My point is that executives want the tech ladder to be taken seriously. So, mention it in the interview. Whether it actually should be taken seriously depends on the company.
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
Preferably research that in advance. But even if a company has not established an official technical ladder, managers appreciate an engineer with a clear desire to advance technically who does not want to be a manager.
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
Choose a job title on the "technical ladder" at the far end of realistic, and say that you are aiming for that. "I want to be a Principal Engineer." Given your preferences and job history, don't say that you want t
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Serving China with a Webapp(blog.doit-intl.com)
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
Github has a "Report abuse" button. I really need to press it :-)
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
The reason for rejection, for better or worse, is that this is a functional element, like a button, rather than part of running text.
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by josh_fyi 6y ago
Or possibly New Coke was a huge boost, through the attention that the controversy aroused. After the New Coke fiasco wrapped up, Coca Cola sales soared.
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Kalzumeus (HN patio11) posts early suspicions of an epidemic in Japan(marginalrevolution.com)
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
You can request a refund though the app; Bird Support tells me that they will make this refund. This is especially important given that they require an up-front minimum payment rather than accepting payment as needed.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
I don't understand the 99% statistic. It is hard to imagine that any measurement, where errors and odd cases are inevitable, is almost exactly 100%
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
Typo: "Worst Journey..."
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Using experience to earn cloud certifications(blog.doit-intl.com)
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
The legal phrase “Out of an abundance of caution” has a technical meaning: “The fact that I am dealing with this problem should not be taken to imply that I agree that there is any real legal problem or that I am taking any responsibility
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
The problem is not the professionals, who work hard, but those in control who may have other motives like short-term stock market performance.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
Is this based on the plug-in by iamadamdev?
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
I think he is wrong on handling code as input and visible output (for sites like StackOverflow). No need to filter such input. Escaping your strings will handle that as well. The code <tag/> , for example, will be escaped to &am
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
Python has idiomatic ways of implementing something like overloading. - Default parameters, so variable numbers of arguments can be passed. - Run-time type identification. Though not generally recommended, you can use it for slightly diffe
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
- Part of the Dead Sea coast was in pre-1967 Israel. - This comment, imputing a very negative motivation of sheer spitefulness, is offensive.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
SlateStarCodex "The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project" https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
I don't believe that profits are more important than ethics, just that it is impossible to satisfy various opinions on what ethics is, while maximizing profit
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
Certainly, that will make it hard to make a profit. A company can do well financially when they have political and (what they consider to be) ethical mindfulness, as Hobby Lobby or Ben and Jerry's, to take opposite examples. What happe
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
If the leadership adopts favored positions as part of their values, the company can still thrive financially, for example Chick-Fil-A and Ben and Jerry's But if they give in to multiple pressures, they will be distracted from the busin

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