lackbeard

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by lackbeard 6y ago
I don't see how Uber's relationship with the passenger has any bearing on a driver's relationship with Uber. If instead, my analogy were that I was a general contractor who built water slides and a water park put out a bid on
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by lackbeard 6y ago
Seems like it maps to me. Google and Apple are hiring me to do work, then they are selling the output of that work to someone else (indirectly, in this case, but I don't see how that matters.)
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by lackbeard 6y ago
> They are employees in that they cannot negotiate rates. Hmm... How is an Uber driver different from a plumber here? Let's say Google needs some pipes fixed at one of its offices and they tell me how much they'll pay, refusing
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by lackbeard 6y ago
Join your school's ACM Programming Contest or ICPC team. It will prepare you well for whiteboard coding interviews. Also try to do at least two internships; they'll teach you a lot about what professional work is really like and o
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by lackbeard 6y ago
Or maybe it succeeded in spite of the name, color, and small controllers and would've been even more successful if the Americans got their way. I guess we'll never know.
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by lackbeard 7y ago
I took a year off once and strongly considered trying to get a job as a bartender for fun because I enjoy making cocktails.
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by lackbeard 7y ago
Some contend that gold is money. The historically most important one and the second most popular right now behind the dollar.
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by lackbeard 7y ago
Right. To me, Neuromancer and Snow Crash are the epitome of cyberpunk.
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by lackbeard 7y ago
I would be happy if the New York Times was banned from this site. An awful lot of low quality and off topic content from there seems to constantly make it to the front page here.
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by lackbeard 7y ago
I graduated from college and entered the industry just post-bust (early 2002.) I went to work for a company that had, 6 months prior, laid everyone off and decided to pivot with the remaining VC cash. I think it took them 3 or 4 months to f
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by lackbeard 7y ago
This is the first I’ve heard this hypothesis. Do you have links to any data?
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by lackbeard 7y ago
Jeremy Lin is American.
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by lackbeard 7y ago
It's been a while since I looked at Elixir but the different syntax for invoking named functions vs lambdas really left a bad taste in my mouth... Also I remember trying to do something with the pipe operator that I couldn't get w
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by lackbeard 7y ago
I think the key with shallow work you can't avoid is to schedule your day thoroughly. Batch the shallow work together into a single 30 minute to 1 hour block, as much as possible.
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by lackbeard 7y ago
https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Main
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by lackbeard 8y ago
> You wouldn't say that a drunk who walked into a nice restaurant yelling hateful things was being censored when they are asked to leave. This seems like a bad analogy to me. No loud drunks are forcing anyone to listen to them on Yo
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by lackbeard 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the "hatred" towards vegans and vegetarians isn't actually hatred, but defensiveness. I think most meat-eaters wouldn't care about veganism and vegetarianism at all if there weren't so many vega
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by lackbeard 8y ago
> The teachers union in Massachusetts made all the teachers sign liability waivers and arbitration waivers if a lawsuit happens. What does this mean exactly?
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by lackbeard 8y ago
The two things I really appreciated about Whole Foods were the faster checkouts and the fact that they didn't constantly bug you about a club card. I don't really go out of my way to shop there any more...
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by lackbeard 8y ago
Which 4 videos?
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by lackbeard 8y ago
My guess as to what's going on here is that what the founder actually wants is for you to be the expert on the deployment environment & related tools to help ship things faster (in the short-run) and fix things when they break. On
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by lackbeard 8y ago
And earlier is better for most parents of early elementary students?
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by lackbeard 8y ago
> "Best" is a combination of... - minimizing cost to the district (number of buses, etc) No. The paragraph I quoted implies that the parents have some notion of "best" start times that has nothing to do with the distr
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by lackbeard 8y ago
I think something important is being glossed over by this article: "...distributing the best school start times more evenly..." Can someone explain to me what makes a start time "best"? There was a section describing par
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by lackbeard 8y ago
I guess what I'm getting at is that in any non-trivial program with many external dependencies and cross-cutting concerns, almost all of your code is the "shell", so either I'm missing something, or this is stating the o
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by lackbeard 8y ago
Know of any good open-source examples?
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by lackbeard 8y ago
Does anyone know of an example of a non-trivial codebase written in this style? How do you do this cleanly when, e.g., you need to make a network call and then based on what the result returned to you is, either do something with a local da
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by lackbeard 8y ago
Or worse, you need to change some behavior and it it only gets changed in one of those places...
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by lackbeard 8y ago
I'll have to re-read this series, as it's been a while but I remember feeling dissastified after finishing it the first time. I think the conclusion was basically: yup, programming is hard, no matter what you do you're going
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by lackbeard 8y ago
PewDiePie viewers aren't profitable to advertisers?

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