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by lgieron 11y ago
Thoreau abandoned his cabin after 2 years.
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by lgieron 11y ago
JavaScript is running on drones?
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by lgieron 12y ago
> The principal of territorial integrity was upheld. The strategic aims were upheld. Let's be honest, the US cares about those only in there's oil or other goodies involved (see the lack of response to the current situation in
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by lgieron 12y ago
Move to London and start contracting, established companies have deep pockets (ex. 600 pounds per day for a right skill set) while the projects can still be very technically challenging.
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by lgieron 12y ago
In Eastern Europe education is free.
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by lgieron 12y ago
(4) sounds interesting, can anyone contribute some details?
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by lgieron 12y ago
> The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair. I'd probably be sick all the time with all that wind.
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by lgieron 12y ago
Note that this might not work in the google-style whiteboard coding questions. In these, you're usually judged on the output you manage to produce within the duration of the interview, and being chatty or even thoroughly explaining you
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by lgieron 12y ago
I think the logic behind hiring contractors is that he's available to start working immediately and, in the meantime, a company can look for a good permanent employee (which is usually much cheaper as well, at least in London) to repla
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by lgieron 12y ago
It's common in London in areas which have a shortage of good candidates.
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by lgieron 12y ago
> My impression is that nobody, later in life, says they wished they spent less time with their kids. I think it's just a strong taboo to say those things.
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by lgieron 12y ago
> 1. Realize that reading political/world news probably won't have any direct impact on your life. Don't watch TV news. Instead, spend time diving very deep into a particular subject areas by reading books about these area
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by lgieron 12y ago
If the AI is making money via trading on various markets, effectively eradicating 99.9% of the population would make the markets (and thus the profits) much smaller, which would impact AI's bottom line.
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by lgieron 12y ago
AFAIR Jonny Greenwood (from Radiohead) said in an interview that he himself wrote a lot of the synthetizers that the band uses.
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by lgieron 12y ago
Does that mean that the Amazon rainforest is carbon neutral?
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by lgieron 12y ago
YESSS!!! I hate iTunes, as well as the general idea of hiding the filesystem on mobile device from the user.
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by lgieron 12y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but that kid might still have the rights to this website (code, design etc.) - since it wasn't passed via a contractual agreement. At least that's how it works in my country (Poland).
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by lgieron 12y ago
Same for me, same for most people (I think). I don't get where this notion of traveling being awesome for everyone comes from.
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by lgieron 12y ago
It depends on how much risk averse you are - I know that, for me, trying out psychedelics is not worth the 1% risk of going into psychotic breakdown, being admitted to psychiatric ward or even messing myself up permanently. For others it m
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by lgieron 12y ago
My friend's mental health was seriously and irreversibly damaged by a one time adventure with psychedelics... Apparenty, non-negligible (over 1%?) portion of the population reacts this way.
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by lgieron 12y ago
How is that not evil?
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by lgieron 12y ago
> Instead of really solving the problem at hand, you have to work on quirks and idiosyncrasies. FWIW, I work in Big Data and feel the same way :)
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by lgieron 12y ago
Wow, really? Do you have a source for that?
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by lgieron 12y ago
> 1. Customer is an EU and VAT-registered business: no VAT if proof of business provided in the form of a VAT number. I wish it worked that way in practice BTW. When asking about it at Apple Store in London (I have a business registere
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by lgieron 12y ago
> If you're a pro performing well enough to be invited for an entire season, you technically only have to play four one-week events per year. Being physical and physically social is a factor. Yeah, but only technically - in practic
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by lgieron 12y ago
The world needs more people like you.
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by lgieron 12y ago
I didn't know you could do that in CL, thanks!
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by lgieron 12y ago
I understand that, internally, everything is of some type. What Lisp is lacking though is type declarations for variables, method parameters and returned values. These make codebases immensely more readable.
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by lgieron 12y ago
> It's determined by the difficulty of the job. The more difficult the job, the less people are able to do it, the smaller the supply of labor for that position, the higher the paycheck. It's that simple. I wish the world worke
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by lgieron 12y ago
> Perhaps this is why the have "invested" in Go. I'm not sure how widely Go is being chosen (over say Java) for new projects inside Google. Maybe some Googler could clue us in? > btw, Common Lisp is a "strong typed

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