joshsegall

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by joshsegall 15y ago
Reminds me of the kink springs in Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Wind-Up Girl.
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by joshsegall 15y ago
The title doesn't do the article justice. As an interviewer myself I think it's terrible advice. Certainly if you think it'll make or break your interview go ahead and ask to write on paper, but thinking through problems and expressing them
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by joshsegall 15y ago
Well it certainly seems you have a bias as well. Let me share mine: all this "debate" is irrelevant and only serves as a distraction from our real problem, which is prosperity not deficits. In no sense is America broke. We easily find trill
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by joshsegall 15y ago
I was surprised how much some of those shots resemble the effects you see in video games physics simulations and online "toy" physics sandboxes. I figured the real world would be more noisy but these results are quite uniform and beautiful.
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by joshsegall 15y ago
This post is rife with bad assumptions. Here are some big ones: 1. Dexterity is NOT the "last mile" gap to having robots in minimum wage jobs. I don't care if the robot can flip a burger, can it recognize a grease fire (and put it out, and
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by joshsegall 15y ago
This is a silly argument and a misinterpretation of the purpose of orthogonality. Orthogonality is not a goal in itself, nor is it's purpose to eliminate redundancy. It's a tool to reduce entanglement of features. It helps simplify designs
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by joshsegall 15y ago
What are the odds that the new process comes out before Java 7?
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by joshsegall 15y ago
I agree that both static and dynamic type systems have their place, but I think this article misses the biggest con of Scala to me: the push towards stronger typing, such as that of Haskell. I estimate fewer than 5% of programmers I've work
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by joshsegall 15y ago
Semantic understanding (including the Semantic Web) will always be alluring, but it's just not going to happen. We can't agree on semantics in real life except in small groups or in very shallow ways. Computers just aren't going to be any b
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by joshsegall 16y ago
I've never heard of KeePass before. I use Password Safe, which is very effective and has been around for almost a decade as open source. http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
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by joshsegall 16y ago
It seems fairly obvious that a pure tech interview doesn't screen for cultural fit, and that you need to have some form of behavioral/cultural assessment as part of the interview process. Depending on how much time you have to interview (an
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by joshsegall 16y ago
If you're looking for songs about pi, I love this one by Hard n Phirm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDu351QNoZE The video (by Keith Schofield) is also awesome.
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Math Becomes Music: What Pi Sounds Like(good.is)
43 points by joshsegall 16y ago|25 comments
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by joshsegall 16y ago
Well this needs a better title. I almost didn't read it because I thought it was about the background image feature on the google homepage.
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by joshsegall 16y ago
With electronic resumes the number of pages is less relevant, but I agree that you should limit the content to what's relevant and can be read quickly. I review a lot of resumes and two is about my limit before I give up. If I can't tell by
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by joshsegall 16y ago
I'm with henrikschroder and call bullshit on semantic web being a big thing, let alone the next big thing. It's an attractive idea, but flawed. There are some niches where structured semantic data will flourish (see examples in other comm
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by joshsegall 16y ago
My favorite was always Fubini's theorem in 3D calculus the result of which is basically "meh, it doesn't matter which order you integrate"