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by kscaldef 17y ago
> I'm really wondering if someone can get by with just having some soda or juice instead. Generally yes. There might be groups that would give you a hard time, but in pretty much every job or social circle I've been a part of, there's
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think the point there is that you need to name a number first, and be very aggressive about the number you pick. If you start with a number that you think is "agreeable", you'll end up with less than you could have gotten.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
You'd be surprised how much weight you can transport on a bike with appropriate gearing and a trailer. I'm not sure what your public transit options are, but unless I've got a straight-shot light-rail route to where I'm going or it's reall
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by kscaldef 17y ago
When I interviewed with Google it was under 2 months from first contact until they sent me an offer letter. I have not interviewed with either MS or Amazon, but I'm quite sure neither one hires senior engineers in a week.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
motorcycle / scooter? Or just a bike with panniers?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
How long does it take to bike? I find that often the issue is the infrequency or inconvenience of public transit routes, not that there's any inherent obstacle to traveling without a car.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
So, you agree that competitors would take part of USPS's business. That's all I claimed.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> You're not even saving any time by going to the dealership and back, plus waiting around. You're certainly not saving any money (I can save $45 changing my oil myself). Actually, even this has gotten a bit debatable. My dealership h
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by kscaldef 17y ago
That information isn't all that useful, since UPS and FedEx don't compete (and are forbidden to compete) in the marketplace for mail (as opposed to package) delivery. Regardless, though, I'm making a very modest claim: competitors would ta
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by kscaldef 17y ago
1 person can only deliver to so many houses in a single day.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Keep in mind that they also have a government-granted monopoly. They probably wouldn't be a big otherwise.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Actually, I think the car industry has this pretty well figured out. The restyling is because (most) people don't want to have the same car as everyone else. Any given model comes in a dozen colors for the same reason, and because there a
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I agree with the general observation, but it's definitely not the case that C++ is the only language where this happens.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Maybe the work was done at two different employers.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
But why would you _need_ to get from one side of New Brooklyn to the other any more frequently than you need to get from one side of the US to the other today?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I agree; my interviews, and interview process, were not painful at all. And, actually, from what I remember, I wasn't really asked any trivial questions. They were generally interesting and challenging without being impossible "a-ha" prob
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by kscaldef 17y ago
As far as I can tell (based on the yearly-or-so "are you sure you still don't want to relocate to work for us?" emails), most of the recruiters at Google are contractors and many of them, in fact, are fired ("contract not renewed").
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by kscaldef 17y ago
... and if you only ever make one request, from one user, over and over and over again. ab -n 10000 -c 1 -C '_redmine_session=9ec759408f1ae3c6f919e50baba5a3dc; path=/' http://127.0.0.1/ Requests per second: 2839.37 [#/sec] (mea
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It actually seems to be more like a quadruple-negative. Let's try to simplify. "No serious market observer disputes the claim that volatility would not be higher without the liquidity provided by high frequency traders." "[serious market ob
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by kscaldef 17y ago
You've completely ignored my points. I don't care that the ads are served by a new technology. I care that I have complete control over who I am receiving communications from and when I view those communications.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It might be advertising, but it's advertising where: 1) I opt-in, and can opt-out 2) I pick exactly who I want to get advertising from 3) The "advertiser" can get feedback on how many people are following them, how many new, how many lost,
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by kscaldef 17y ago
"The engagement just isn't there. I know someone mentioned the whole 90/10 ratio, but that's different here. Imagine if only 74% of Facebook users posted something or updated their profile. That's really really bad" I'd be curious to know t
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Sometimes people who are not your friends have interesting things to say.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I read the article as saying almost exactly that: thunks are sort of like closures, but not entirely. I have the advantage of having a good understanding of both thunks and closures already, but I don't think most reasonable readers would
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Wait, so, an animated kid's movie about animals that talk and do kung-fu has unrealistic plot elements? Say it ain't so!
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by kscaldef 17y ago
And, as far as I'm concerned, in this case you're the one being intellectually lazy by making a knee-jerk rejection of the article on purely superficial grounds. I don't completely buy the argument being put forward here (it certainly doesn
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Except that pipelining, multiple cores, and hyperthreading then bring it back up. So, let's not get overly pedantic here.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
My feeling is exactly the opposite. Sustainable is coming up with business models where you provide something of value that people are willing to pay for. OTOH, steadily cranking up the quantity of advertising (already at the point where
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by kscaldef 17y ago
"[memcached] can no longer return data fast enough for our needs, due to the way it interacts with BDb (its underlying data store)." Does anyone know what the specific issue being alluded to here is?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
The pattern match error can be detected at compile time. The NPE is not.

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