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by kyllo 12y ago
Well here's a great blog post on how to use the @asyncio.coroutine decorator to do asynchronous/non-blocking I/O in this style, as opposed to JS-style callbacks. I think the control flow is a lot clearer with coroutines as op
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by kyllo 12y ago
Lifting an awkward weight or moving around carrying it also brings a much higher risk of injuring your back, compared to lifting weights with proper form. I can deadlift 220 kgs but have hurt my back moving house a few times, carrying awkwa
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by kyllo 12y ago
I know of a non-software industry company that for a brief time seriously considered implementing its own proprietary relational database engine. Thank god that project got killed.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Yes, but they mostly live in the suburbs of cities like Paris, while the inner city remains affluent and white. Do Europeans just do a more effective job of keeping poor people and ethnic minorities from moving into the inner cities in the
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by kyllo 12y ago
I simply give no weight to your assertion that it isn't fake, because I haven't seen any convincing, independently researched evidence of that, and because your livelihood depends on convincing people that it isn't fake. Your
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by kyllo 12y ago
I saw an anecdote on a different thread here yesterday saying that assistant professors are basically becoming managers. Their job is to write grant proposals and have meetings with other faculty and staff all day, and navigate the politica
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by kyllo 12y ago
In Haskell this goes even deeper because the lazy evaluation strategy allows the compiler to optimize the order of evaluation of the expressions within a function and create thunks without you explicitly telling it to. Haskell needs to be p
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by kyllo 12y ago
Advertising companies spend a lot of time and money convincing industry companies that ads work and that their ROI can be measured. In reality you cannot attribute a particular instance of someone seeing an ad to a specific purchase except
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by kyllo 12y ago
Here's a thought experiment: Imagine someone invented "smart" sunglasses that detected billboard ads and filtered them out so the wearer saw only a blank billboard instead of an ad. By driving down the road while wearing them
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by kyllo 12y ago
I work in the online advertising space. They also use AdBlock to basically steal content The whole problem with your industry is that you are still operating under the mistaken belief that "impressions" drive purchasing behavi
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by kyllo 12y ago
"...because that field isn't hiring" would be the punchline.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Be laid-back in a way that projects the "don't worry, I got this" type of calmness, as opposed to the apathetic type. There's a clear difference, and the former will earn you trust from management.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Because if C++ didn't have these problems, Rust wouldn't need to exist in the first place?
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by kyllo 12y ago
You mean only if your employees can convince themselves and others that they're worth $70,000.
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by kyllo 12y ago
University probably doesn't. Technology sure does.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Another way to describe cost centers is that their benefit is very hard to measure but their cost easy to measure By that metric, marketing and advertising must be cost centers! But they somehow always manage to take credit for revenue. H
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by kyllo 12y ago
But... customer support isn't a cost center at Apple. They sell the AppleCare extended warranty, and if you don't purchase that when you buy the product, you have to pay them by the minute for customer support via telephone.
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by kyllo 12y ago
I'd argue that this mentality is a byproduct of the concept of a "cost center" which is itself an arbitrary and toxic concept.
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by kyllo 12y ago
I had organised a day off recently where all my family were visiting me from interstate. Despite this I had agreed to dial in to one conference call as the audience attending was ‘important’. Well it seems Important but disrespectful, as t
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by kyllo 12y ago
Just remember that you're running a marathon, and you're feeling jealous of the people who are ahead of you after only a couple of miles because they started off sprinting. You'll catch up. :)
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by kyllo 12y ago
HN is as good as it needs to be It will be once it gets a decent mobile view akin to viewing reddit on /.compact. Anyway, good point--I've heard people complain that Haskell is hard to learn/understand, but I've never
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by kyllo 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
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by kyllo 12y ago
Suburbs in America are a byproduct of racism. They were invented when sharecroppers (freed African-American slaves and their children who then became indentured servants/laborers) from the south migrated en masse to the cities of the n
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by kyllo 12y ago
I agree that official, legible management structure is usually probably better than the unofficial management structure that will naturally emerge in a supposedly "flat" company. You mention that most companies don't have &qu
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by kyllo 12y ago
Yes but to a lesser extent. If a company controls your paycheck, it's hard enough to leave. If they control both your paycheck and your housing, it's much harder to leave. If you want to leave and you put in your two weeks' n
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by kyllo 12y ago
We have enough mobility in this country that large scale mistreatment would be met with mass exodus and ultimate failure of the employer This is only true when the economy is booming as it is right now. No one was saying this in 2009.
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by kyllo 12y ago
Yeah, that's that "fiduciary duty to the shareholders" lie that always crops up. Best excuse for bad executive behavior ever.
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by kyllo 12y ago
People are only going to leave if they can get an equivalent job at a competitor. If and when the current tech bubble bursts, these companies will all have a hiring freeze at the same time, just as they're all in a hiring frenzy at the
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by kyllo 12y ago
The article mentions those old timey company towns cutting pay but keeping rent and food prices the same. What's to stop a company like Facebook from doing the same? Sure, they have no reason to do that now while the cash is rolling in
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by kyllo 12y ago
Is the military trying to make a profit off servicemen and women?

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