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by kcorbitt 9y ago
> - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. I respectfully disagree. Recruiters and hiring managers, and even individual interviewers take me far more seriously after having "Google" on my resume th
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This may sound contrarian, but I'm happy that airlines are shrinking seats, and adding a few rows of "Economy Plus" for people that need/want their space back. Flight prices have been falling for the last decade, in part
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Actually, big-O complexity by definition is determined based on the worst case. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3230122/big-oh-vs-big-th...
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Top-50 universities, reaching out to engineers with reasonable resumes directly and leveraging the networks of their employees with referral bonuses. Plus way more inbound interest than they can easily vet.
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> Although the harm suffered on each trade is minuscule — fractions of a cent per share — the aggregate kickbacks amount to billions of dollars a year. That's the money quote. 99% of retail investors should be buying stock infrequen
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That may well be true, although it seems like an over-generalization. But there are plenty of people in Europe with rich families as well, and yet from my own experience (living in the UK and Spain) it feels like folks are generally more ri
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Sam Altman presents a political vision for California and the U.S(techcrunch.com)
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This is a great step for ClojureScript. It's extremely difficult for a compile-to-JS language to bootstrap a large enough ecosystem to stand alone. A good interop story neatly sidesteps that issue.
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I live in the Bay Area, although I work for a big tech company at the moment not a startup. It does feel a bit like we're coming down from a high, but not really like a bursting bubble. I've noticed a couple of anecdotal symptoms
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> HTTPS + HSTS would prevent the author from spoofing the DNS of that those sites and sending them to a server over HTTP thus avoiding the certificate errors I'm not sure that's true. From a CA's perspective the attacker w
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A ReasonReact Tutorial(jaredforsyth.com)
161 points by kcorbitt 9y ago|28 comments
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> Selling heads of lettuce for $3 each yields around $6000/yr in gross revenue per container per year. > This was $17k net less $720 in labor, $6k in equipment, $3k in real estate and $1k in electricity. Lots of room for optimiza
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Diversity definitely makes implementing generous social programs more difficult politically. The average working-class voter in any country will be much more supportive of eg. universal healthcare if he feels like the benefits are going to
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> The document, dated April 11, 2016, references “Pre-Signing Bad Acts,” which covers behavior including fraud and trade-secrets theft, as well as “Post-Signing Specified Bad Acts.” Misconduct in the latter time period wouldn’t be indemn
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Get acquired by a big player for low hundreds of millions in 6 months?
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> Try not to give your candidate any cause to suspect your company is selective or picky, especially when it comes to really good talent going to waste. The best candidates will actively seek out places that are selective, because that&#
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This is perhaps the most important claim made by Waymo since the initial filing. Waymo had already built up a preponderance of evidence that Levandowski knowingly and intentionally stole their information. There's no way he's danc
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
Same question. AFAIK in the first-world countries I've flown into the line you're put in depends entirely on the passport you hold, and sometimes traveler-specific preregistration programs (e.g. Global Entry in the USA). Are you a
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> For others, who have no useful connections, it's possible to make these connections by cold-messaging people on LinkedIn, especially alumni from your school. This. If the job you're applying to pays >= 50k/year, you o
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Most 401(k)s have at least one S&P 500 or US total market fund with low expense ratios. If anyone out there reading this doesn't know what that looks like, feel free to email me with the options your company provides and I can help
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Cool, sounds very similar to what I was thinking! Glad to find out that someone has implemented it. > as a left-winger who's lived in Texas for a number of years, I don't get to say this that frequently Governance would be so m
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I'm not convinced that Prop 13 is the best or only solution to the "we don't want to kick senior citizens out of their communities" issue. Prop 13 only helps you if your property has appreciated in value anyway. So by de
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While there may be some countries that disallow private healthcare entirely, the international situation is far more nuanced than your comment implies. For example, I lived in Spain, where most people use the highly functional public health
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I don't think a 7% interest rate is unreasonable. One of the advantages of planning on early retirement means that you can take on a lot more risk with your investments, eg. putting everything into stocks (which isn't really &quot
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Sure, there are people in the FI crowd trying get by on $15k a year. Not my cup of tea, but if they're happy that way I say more power to them. But the community is a spectrum -- there's also a fairly large contingent (composed ma
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There isn't a large cost to switching brokerages and keeping the same funds (although it's a pain and some places do claw back $50 or so on the way out the door), but there could be a major cost to switching funds within your br
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Has anybody published an estimate of what Uber's cash reserves might look like, or how long they can remain solvent at these insane burn levels? Losses of $3B/year seem like they would put almost anybody out of business.
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Expecting Washington to determine who is a serious candidate (and then policing their use of federal funds) is a major conflict of interest, because policymakers will almost certainly set standards that benefit the two entrenched parties. I
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The hardest part of combining two languages through a foreign function interface (eg Ruby/C using libffi) is making their garbage collectors work together. You basically have to either use a single garbage collector across the language
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I think Ford's case is substantially different than that of Google and Facebook though, because in the tech companies' cases if the shares are ever transferred from the original founders they automatically lose their super-voting

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