jwatte

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by jwatte 11y ago
I don't play the lottery for expected value, I play it for variance. No other "investment" comes even close. So, spending $1 of investment on that buys a lot of potential upside.
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by jwatte 11y ago
Another way to deal with large branching spaces is MCMC.
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by jwatte 11y ago
I'm all for solid negotiating tactics, but if you consider telling an untruth, you are not welcome on my team. You may still find other teams in the world that you can dupe, but in the end, I expect lies to hurt your overall prospects
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by jwatte 11y ago
You're suggesting less than 100 for iOS Dev, and above you someone is suggesting 150+ for devops/sysadmin. That ratio seems quite skewed compared to other sources of data on the web. Are you very junior, or talking about a non-pri
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by jwatte 11y ago
By federal law, an employer cannot discriminate or retaliate against employees for discussing compensation. One of the good things that unions made happen in the past before they made themselves their own worst enemies. Some companies treat
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by jwatte 11y ago
Copyright infringement is in the criminal code. They actually downloaded and modified the files. That's not just server fees!
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by jwatte 11y ago
Almost...
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by jwatte 11y ago
If they actually downloaded and republished your dikes, then that is clear copyright infringement. Which is both a crime, as well as cause for civil action. You could report them to the DA (or whatever is the equivalent where you or they li
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by jwatte 11y ago
I grew up in the North. As a kid, parents took me hiking on snowstorm mountains. I've shoveled a fair share of snow. Whenever a series gets to the inevitable slog through frozen sleet, I tune out. There is nothing interesting there.
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by jwatte 11y ago
There is nothing on the web able to even enter the same ballpark as Photoshop. Separately, when on travel, a web connection for your photos may be very hard to find and/or expensive. Separately, again, Google photos downscales my photo
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by jwatte 11y ago
Having less crap in by default reduces the attack surface area. Having a smaller libc makes it easier to audit. (It still needs to actually be audited of course)
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by jwatte 11y ago
The whole point is: Do not run with glibc! If you need something that's not available, build it.
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by jwatte 11y ago
The rest of the civilized world has known that rehab (and social/mental support) is cheaper and more effective than prison for > 30 years. But the "tough, not supportive" meme in US policy keeps warring people, time, and m
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by jwatte 11y ago
"Defensive Programming is a well-regarded technique in software engineering." No. No, it's not. Fail early, fail fast, crash loudly, and then react. That, plus deep validation testing, is how you build robust systems. Trying
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by jwatte 11y ago
While Atmel MCUs are nice and robust (especially avr-gcc and avr-libc are great advantages) they seen like quite high cost. Cheaper ARMs probably are eating their lunch. Meanwhile, I've never been friends with the microchip Dev tools.
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by jwatte 11y ago
How about "stop pumping out thoughtless unresearched crap, and create valuable content that lasts and people will pay for?" (Or is the number of people who value their time so they pay for quality just too low?)
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by jwatte 11y ago
The Greece/Germany discounting of causation should work both ways, no?
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by jwatte 11y ago
Oh, no, not again! Anyway: how do I resolve merge conflicts in version control?
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by jwatte 11y ago
Interestingly, the first "extreme programming" project was a Smalltalk project (internal at Chrysler)
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by jwatte 11y ago
You can hang a /lot/ of diffusors and add bass traps and the interior soundscape will change and feel more intimate (and your TV/stereo will magically sound better!) But that doesn't change exterior noise transmission.
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by jwatte 11y ago
"Expensive" is in the eye of the payer. Do you think a few thousand is expensive? A developer absolutely does. Also, it takes more space, so doing it after the fact may lower your ceiling more than you're comfortable with (as
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by jwatte 11y ago
The problem is not architects. They know. The problem is buyers, who don't want to pay for good sound management. And when public services in the US (NY subway, say) buy from the cheapest bidder, guess what's been compromised to l
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by jwatte 11y ago
From wheat I read, police have been pulling people over, and if there is cash in the car, "suspected" it might be used for drugs (even though the accused claims it's for other reasonable purchases) and then the person doesn&#
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by jwatte 11y ago
Then the question is, what is property rights? What safety in my property and protection against seizure thereof do I have from the constitution?
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by jwatte 11y ago
The role of the legal system (and government) is to keep those worth the most, safe. As a consequence, it may sometimes also protect regular people because that makes the society that feeds and supports them safer. But make no mistake, 1 th
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by jwatte 11y ago
What I don't understand is how courts can assume it's used in a crime before a crime has been proven in court. Presumably, if I can prove I earned/bought something, and am not convicted of a crime, turf the government seizure
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by jwatte 11y ago
Nice! I just put eight meters of dotstars in my tree, but that's only 480 rgb LEDs. And indoors :-) Did you consider DC/DC regulators for stabilizing 12V? 10A per bus could be done with inexpensive boards?
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by jwatte 11y ago
Bias against negative results are a problem. Frequentist "p values" are another, especially when samples are small and biased ("20 undergraduate students") and 0.05 is considered "significant." Now, the system
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by jwatte 11y ago
Another common source is delay and procrastination up front. First, a dev estimate is given of six months. Plan is made to ship in six months. Then, stakeholders bicker for four months on whether, how, and when to actually do it. Then, dev
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by jwatte 11y ago
What kind of job requires novelty? How about reviewer/writer of new technology? How about testing of new products? May not pay as much as software engineering, but you seem to not actually be successful at doing that anyway. Also, if y

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