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by kafkaesq 9y ago
For example, can he suggest what sensors would be good for a Lego robot that would knock a tennis ball off the ping pong table without itself falling off? Right off the bat, this is very muddled question to ask. For one, "sensors&quo
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
2. What happens between you typing a URL into your browser address bar, hitting enter and seeing a web page? "What happens when I'm asked a question like X? I spout a mutated form of some canned response I cribbed from a list I
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Is it possible the training is not as necessary as presumed? Yes, but if so then that's something for the localities (through their democratic process) to decide. Not you or I. And it's certainly not for Uber to decide, on it
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Ha! As it they would allow kids these days to even so much as look at a book that's not specifically designed to help them pass their standardized tests.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I think I get where you're coming from. But I didn't see the piece as 'vitriol', and I don't see HuffPo (while often annoying) as being anything like Breitbart (which puts out nothing but pure drivel and propaganda
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The idea that public rights shouldn't be sold on the private market That's not what the article is saying. And you know that's not what the article is saying. Right?
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
They think their NoSQL datastore with 10 million records and a single page frontend is the like putting someone on the moon. And that they need to interview you, accordingly.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
OK, thanks for clarifying. I read that line a bit too fast. As to the core of what you're saying -- between the lines, the value proposition seems to come down to this: "Yeah, everyone knows by know those whiteboard sessions are
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French chef asks to be stripped of three Michelin stars(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Whether they're necessary (or even useful) or not is one of those things you'll find a variety of viewpoints on, to say the least. Leaving aside the whole issue of whether actually done properly (or even reasonably).
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Facebook bans Rohingya group's posts as minority faces 'ethnic cleansing'(theguardian.com)
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There's no merit to this biased pile of shit. You may no particularly like the author's point of view -- but you looked carefully, you might have noticed it was placed in he "Perspective" section, which as the name imp
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The original title was way better. It may have sounded a bit splashy - it wasn't out of line with the overall narrative of the article. And there's certainly no need to soft-peddle Harvard's moral and intellectual cowardice,
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
If you're willing to put up with whiteboard tech interviews you have access to companies that enforce them but will pay very highly, Unfortunately one does not, in general, get a job simply by being "willing to put up with"
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
So the government gave Coke the permits, Coke used under 80% of the agreed amount, and now it's a crisis? No - it's how these permits are allocated -- and who pulls the strings on those making these "decisions" -- th
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Otherwise, fuck off. I'm too old to play "dance monkey". Good strategy. The "game" has gone on for so long, now -- and become such absurd caricature of itself (apparently without the participants being aware of t
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Like "building" with WordPress templates, and the like? That's just a variant of the video / landing page, basically. Something that looks like a product (and may in fact even offer some partial functionality). But i
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Proponents of sex trafficking bill urge Silicon Valley to drop opposition(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I get what the poster is saying about "gauging market interest" and all that. And about how videos and landing pages can do a lot to help you do that, and much lower cost, etc. But if they think that such activities are somehow a
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Said to apply also to how Assange runs his own operations internally, according to a variety of accounts. Ironically enough.
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How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food(nytimes.com)
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Mexican teacher barred from traveling to US to collect Internet Society award(theguardian.com)
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Harry Dean Stanton has died(nytimes.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
You may be right - that post does come off trolly-y, in retrospect.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It isn't "gone", by any stretch. Its images and the research directions it spawned will live on far longer than anything most of us will hope to every be able to bring into the world, or otherwise accomplish.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
> How can you be sure? Don't go down this route. Which "route"? The "asking questions" route?
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Downward spiral: how Venezuela’s symbol of progress became a political prison(theguardian.com)
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Indeed, practically a guru of sorts.
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"Fraud"? Like he's one to talk: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/07/jp-morgan-b... https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/19/business/dealbook&#x
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How the female Viking warrior was written out of history(theguardian.com)
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