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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It's also a myth that devs choose NoSQL over SQL because "SQL is too hard." What I see more of is situations where the developers "know" SQL but still just don't want to sit down and figure out their data mod
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Don’t ask me why, but one afternoon I had the desire to prototype a vehicle-mounted license plate scanner that would automatically notify you if a vehicle had been stolen or was unregistered. Don't ask me why, but something tells me
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The New Off-Court Play for NBA Stars Is Startup Equity(bloomberg.com)
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Do We All See the Man Holding an iPhone in This 1937 Painting?(vice.com)
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Electrons flowing like liquid in graphene start a new wave of physics(phys.org)
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MTA to modify subway tiles that kinda, sorta look like the Confederate flag(therealdeal.com)
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How San Francisco's bike-share scheme became a symbol of gentrification(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Agreed - these questions are definitely more appropriate for research oriented positions. And actually, way more interesting in their own right than most programmer interview questions. What rubs me the wrong way is when, applying for more
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The point isn't to answer the question correctly. It's to show how you think through the problem. That's what people always say. Like, as if they actually tell from 1 or 2 of these goofy whiteboarding sessions. It seems
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Fair point - it's very tricky to measure.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
How long before the elites decide the unemployed underclass shouldn’t have the right to vote? It's really hard to justify the time investment in reading a piece that starts off with an implausible scare tactic like this. One can only
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
We have so many datasets available now that it's so easy to graph things against each other and notice things that may be coincidentally related, or even causally related, and then tell some kind of story about where the relationship
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Nothing 'strange' about this at all; to a first-order approximation, it's the inevitable byproduct of the transformative shift in the society's governing ideology over the same timespan: https://www.theguardia
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It cuts both ways. A lot of position writeups clearly have way too many bullet points (with arbitrary numbers of years of experience required in each - as if years of experience in X actually means anything), often in trivially learnable a
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Blue Apron is stuck in a dangerous cycle that has nothing to do with Amazon(recode.net)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
When the horror in Charlottesville shocked the country, citizens instinctively looked to their president for moral leadership. The president instead provided a generic law and order statement. No. He dissembled, and attempted to obfuscat
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'Self-loathing plutocrat' with 6 homes wants to help those with none(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The most costly inefficiencies I've seen are companies / organizations that are wrongly constituted to begin with. For example, when you have a division of larger company that really should be its own company. But, no one's
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US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Today, the eagles. Tomorrow, us.
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Eagles Destroy Corporate Drones, Cost Mining Company More Than $100,000(thenativepeople.net)
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Partner at private equity firm denies being jogger who pushed woman into bus(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
A French company, during our interview, told me that they ran hundreds of resumes through their algorithm and mine miraculously landed on top. That's the problem - these AI companies... believe their own hype a bit too much.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Can someone explain how he ever hoped to win this? One could say it's because the guy's basically a nutjob of sorts. But that's be oversimplifying (if ever so slightly). The more nuanced explanation is that -- like a lot o
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I don't think he was ever technically fighting that law, it was the access to that public beach through his property that he blocked off. Yet there's a near universal consensus that "the law" (i.e. the founding statute
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
IANAL, but is it really a "taking" if the state wants him to maintain the existing level of access that the previous owner provided? No, of course not. And that's the whole point that's been finally upheld by the Cour
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I think Khosla is actually right on the Constitutional point--if the State does make him keep the existing beach access (parking and all) that's a taking. That said, Khosla had full notice of what the State wanted before he bought the
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Google cancels staff meeting after Gamergate-style attack on employees(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Sounds like we're talking past each other, then. The point I'm trying to make is that, thanks in a large part of very some "boom" you and I riding on, a lot of people not only can't afford to live in SF (or other pr
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
But people who will basically never be able to make that kind of money don't have that dilemma. And the "game" for them is simply to survive .

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