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by jowiar 13y ago
The past few years' trend of "data science" positions make for an awesome landing ground for people who are trained in science but don't want to do science anymore. The programming/statistics/analysis/visu
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by jowiar 13y ago
One standard "undo" mechanism is to store a stack of actions (per user), with each action having a method to undo itself.
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Spending money to get others to publicize a position for you? That's a funny way to "never publicize it".
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Here are the differences: I don't care who Bill Clinton chooses to spend the night with. I do care who Bill Clinton campaigns to have the right to marry (and have definitely criticized him re: DOMA). I don't care who Brendan Eich
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by jowiar 13y ago
He was too chicken to open his own mouth. Instead, he paid others $1000 to get the state of California to call my friends f----ts for him. That's enough of a public position for me.
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by jowiar 13y ago
I'm not guessing as to how Eich might treat people. I'm saying how, with his cash, he has stated how the state of California should treat people. If he believes otherwise, he should say/fund otherwise.
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There's a big difference between "cause I don't agree with" and "cause that believes some people are more equal than others". In particular, this donation calls into question his ability to be fair and accepti
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by jowiar 13y ago
As a policy, no. But when they've taken a public position that implies they consider some employees to be less equal than others, yes. Anything should of "I was wrong" implies he is not fit to lead a diverse organization.
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by jowiar 13y ago
One thing worth considering is that this could, potentially, open up Mozilla to a wrongful termination/hiring discrimination/harassment lawsuit in the future. Mozilla's CEO is on the record expressing a belief that gay people
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by jowiar 13y ago
My parents worked a long time at IBM - Dad from about '70-'00, give or take a couple years, and Mom from '77-'86, then again in the late '90s for a few years. I don't think it was an ageism culture per se in te
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by jowiar 13y ago
One of the biggest indirect causes of ageism I've seen is the traditional career path forced many engineers out of engineering - there is/was an attitude at places like IBM of: "If you want to make bank, you need to go into m
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by jowiar 13y ago
So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1929... Most US Financial regulation stemmed from Depression-era screwups. Thankfully, people-who-say-fiat are in their own little world that I can mostly ignore, but in the real, we're no
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by jowiar 13y ago
I would imagine most people would hedge at least one round earlier. A perfect bracket going into the elite 8 would have an expected value of ~1M after tax. Nobody would ride it past then. Of course, you end up running a 1/128 chance of
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by jowiar 13y ago
Who is this "we" you're talking about. Well-designed, well-constructed equipment that makes me more productive and lasts a lifetime is worth it.
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Well, for one, a decent number of prominent American universities have set up satellite campuses in Doha.
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The job title gets thrown around as "data scientist" sort of evolved out of a mix of "Professional Programmer/Amateur Statistician" and "Professional Statistician/Amateur Programmer" types. Anyway, fo
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by jowiar 13y ago
Regardless of the details, that things escalated to the extent they did can almost entirely be attributed to it being nobody's job to resolve this earlier. Engineers get paid for shipping code. Executives ensure that the company is mov
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by jowiar 13y ago
Is the market saying that? There were higher starting salaries coming out of my CS undergrad than my management masters. That was 5 years ago, and I don't think things have shifted away from engineers since. Look at the acquihire price
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by jowiar 13y ago
As far as I can tell, it's reasonably sustainable for company size of n < (something). At some point (low-mid 2 digits?), you end up with too many lines of communication.
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by jowiar 13y ago
To me, Github's structure is largely an overreaction to the culture flaws elsewhere. Belief that managers are more valuable than doers, and thus paid more. Belief that engineers are infinitely replaceable. Belief that one should be pai
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by jowiar 13y ago
Taskpaper is as much a plaintext file format as it is a piece of software. As an example, here's a plugin for Sublime that supports it: https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks - and here are assorted plugins for other
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by jowiar 13y ago
> things have changed especially in the past few years In one word: Retina.
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by jowiar 13y ago
They're offering a pretty decent chunk of change if someone wants to fix it: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/363324500
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by jowiar 13y ago
At some point, after a series of raises for doing excellent work, your employer may reevaluate the situation and come to the conclusion that, while you're excellent, you might not be worth what you're getting paid. (This can get p
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by jowiar 13y ago
> That said, obviously they should have brought in the campaign website team... That's called cronyism, and, for the most part, it's either against the law, or will get you destroyed in the media. One of the biggest challenges
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by jowiar 13y ago
It really depends on what your trying to do - you might be overthinking it. I think rounding all inputs to the nearest minute or two of latitude and longitude is probably sufficient for most cases... Basically, treating the world as a grid
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by jowiar 13y ago
It would be pretty sweet if they have some process of linking duplicate questions between the two, or if bilingual folks could ask questions in multiple languages. Translating questions and/or answers could be as valuable as answering
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by jowiar 13y ago
We still listen to and perform the music of 300 years ago (Bach), read and perform literature of 400 years ago (Shakespeare), and the look at the paintings of 500 years ago (Leonardo, Botticelli, etc.). Sure, a bunch of the games produced t
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by jowiar 13y ago
That sounds an awful lot like "we don't have enough time to test our code"

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