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How did we geeks become experts on macroeconomics?(lbrandy.com)
70 points by lbrandy 18y ago|113 comments
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Abject thievery. As I waste-time on the internet (err, do market research) I bookmark attractive sites. My only scruple is that I try to pick a site that is totally off-topic in a completely different industry. One of my projects recently "
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I was so prepared for this question that I already told you why. Because phrasing an algorithm design question in the form of a guy and his quirky light-bulbs is a much simpler, and clearer, platform for focusing the discussion on the aspec
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I always urge caution when internets fill with the trendy ire at "puzzle" questions in interviews. Yes, some questions are stupid. Yes, some interviews value the wrong things. Yes actual "brain teasers" and "gotcha" questions as an intellig
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by lbrandy 18y ago
This argument is why the entire css/html/javascript client paradigm is broken. Someone fix it, please.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I don't know what's going on with Ruby's 'fasta' implementation, but I'm pretty sure it's not x86 assumptions that cause Ruby to use 231x the RAM.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Instead of alleging a conspiracy, maybe you should just relax. Sometimes good comments get downmodded incorrectly, buried low on the page, and not noticed. Sometimes it fixes itself. Like now. Sometimes it doesn't. It happens, from time to
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I find myself writing like him sometimes. Sometimes you have complicated thoughts and you want to word certain things precisely and it comes out like a bad version of Dennis Miller with qualifiers on top of qualifiers, adjectives and adverb
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by lbrandy 18y ago
"If we could interactively configure our screens to reflect our interests, publish them out via a social graph to our natural affinity and peer groups, and then test content and information flow against advertising models until we find the
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Erm. My strong suspicion is the reason people are selling is because the price is higher than the face value.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Totally worth the price of admission. Every linux dev, especially c/c++ programmers, should be required to read this post. Once a year.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
First, I've reread both your and my posts and I have absolutely no earthly idea how you decided _I_ was the one with the condescending tone. Second, you've created a "counter-point" which doesn't even prove what you claim. You think your Mi
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Somewhere along the lines you got really confused about what the unit of selection in free market economics is. In a theoretically free market, the market doesn't make individual companies better. It makes the bad ones die and get replaced
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Uhm. Maybe 25 years ago. That was when you had to actually check the output from time to time because the compilers were so bugged and often terrible at their job. 10 years ago you needed to learn C to understand how Perl worked. In 10 year
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Ah, except... there is no such thing as an "average case" or or a "typical" case in computational workloads. If you want to quote a number, the best-case is the only one that has any meaning whatsoever. The next best thing is to "cluster" o
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I can. The guy who is always listening for chances to jump in and prove how smart he is, instead of actually hearing what the other person is saying.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
My feeling is related, yet altogether different. It's more along the lines of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M
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by lbrandy 18y ago
The Riemann Hypothesis
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I have the urge to fork this, modify the score coding to give a smoother gradient between total failure and pure success, and then solve the game with a genetic algorithm. Except I'm at work, so I can't do it. So I'll just post my idea on H
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Probably the meanest thing you can say about someone's start-up is something along the lines of "Wow, we are really stretching the definition of a start-up here, huh?"
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by lbrandy 18y ago
For example, this bit: # git stash (all my changes are saved away, and I have a clean tree) # Fix the bug # git commit -a -m "bugfix" # git stash pop (changes are back) This is the type of stuff that make SVN people "get it".
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by lbrandy 18y ago
As already pointed out, you severely underestimate the value of winning the hearts of IT. If you are an IT guy at some company, and they want an internal chat app, they are going to ask you. Even if what you are saying is true, you've misse
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by lbrandy 18y ago
UF Alum.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Here's another question: How do you handle billing?
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by lbrandy 18y ago
If you are writing good, and highly reliable C, that is meant to run for long period of time, there will be no mallocs() and frees() inside the main loop because memory fragmentation can eventually crash your program. You will dynamically a
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by lbrandy 18y ago
> He never said that malloc and free are irrelevant. It would be a good point if it was true. Jeff's basically said as much going as far as calling C an "obsolete" language and saying it is not worth learning. He said he doesn't know C
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by lbrandy 18y ago
> "In the C programming language, you're regularly forced to deal with the painful, dangerous concepts of pointers and explicit memory allocation. " > "I'd wager the majority of programmers alive today have never once worried about
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by lbrandy 18y ago
"Dont worry honey. The reason we fight like this is your are an ISFP which means you are very emotional, and I am an INTJ, which means I've very analytical." Heh, I'm sure that goes over great. Meta-analysis in the middle of a "feelings vs
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Humor is still useful, just less evidently. It helps create a good environment and culture.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Of course they are. Humor is useful. We tracked down a bug in our code the other day to one of the hard-coded internal constants being too high... It had the comment "I sort of just made this up. Probably worth testing." If it had been comm

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