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by lgieron 13y ago
Seamless Scala - Eclipse - Maven integration
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by lgieron 13y ago
I wholeheartedly recommend tournament-level magic:the gathering (available online as magic online). The game has mind-blowing depth while not being a clickfest. It's similar to deep board games like chess and go, but the random element
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by lgieron 13y ago
It's hard to function in the world without some rudimentary knowledge of it. As for practical scenario, imagine your boss wants to send you to a conference in Paris, and you answer back with "Where?".
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Two points: 1. If your "default face" is being super pissed off all the time, it means you're probably having larger problems on top of social anxiety. Apart from genetics (some people are just less/more cheerful than ot
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> Doing nothing is the most draining task there is. Not only it is really boring and mind numbing, but you pretty much have to pretend like you are doing something, which is way harder than actually doing it Also, if you actually do some
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Originally I did just that, but ultimately decided to move to Hadoop. When combined with Amazon EMR, launching arbitrarily large cluster is just a few clicks. You can then monitor progress, have robust cluser-wide error handling, and your d
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The article focuses on data sizes and completely ignores per-row computations time requirements. In my case, our dataset is just 1-2 tb, but we need hundreds of cores to process it within reasonable timeframe - hence hadoop.
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Yeah probably, but also a lot of the stuff that is acclaimed is just really good. Luck plays a factor, but I'd be surprised if there were guys who make music as good as say Radiohead's, who are toiling away in obscurity because th
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So you're saying that their music isn't actually outstanding, they just got lucky? If so, I'd be grateful for a list of artists who makes as good stuff as Daft Punk or Prodigy does, but who didn't make it because of &quo
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I don't get it - if the best places are available only for minutes, shouldn't the landlords adjust (raise) the prices? The demand is obviously there.
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I guess what stops most people from pursuing that road is the risk that, after "a decade or two", it turns out that your intuitions were wrong and you've got very little to show for the years of toiling. It's essentially
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I'd work on redefining the dream. Dreaming of being one-in-a-milllion person can, in the long term, lead to frustration.
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99% jobs are meant to at least kinda suck - that's why compensation is necessary. Being paid to do interesting stuff is possible only if your definition of "interesting" differs greatly from the society's (so there'
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by lgieron 13y ago
A few dozens of years of physical labor can wreck your body harder than being sedentary - think about the accumulated damage to the back, joints etc. from the unnatural, repetetive and prolonged strain. Also, in many (most?) climates workin
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The difference is that (presumably) the villagers won't kick you out of the house they built for you once you become ill/disabled and thus unable to repay the debt.
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FWIW, Europe is larger than the US (10.1m vs 9.2m km^2).
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I think that anything in particular can be done about companies caring about profit and little else. What can be done is changing the world for the better via (smart) state policies, some of them incentivising companies to do good (or at le
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Isn't that the norm? I'd be interested in examples of profitable companies which put well-being of people over making money.
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What you're describing is not integrity (or perhaps integrity limited to business-customer interactions only). The more challenging part of integrity is how you treat your business partners, workers (paying peanuts to workers who manuf
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I think it's because it's not a hipster language, but a language for pragmatic programmers - ie. people who don't want to be forced into single programming paradigm (like in Haskell, Closure), who want easy interaction with t
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by lgieron 13y ago
I answered a few of posts the in "Who's hiring?" thread, and found a startup that's been employing me since. It helped that I had a specific niche experience they we're interested in though.
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In my engineering school in Poland everyone was given a different assignment, so copying off other students was not possible. Other pathology occured though - since most of the tasks were group assignments (with the usual group being 2-3 pe
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by lgieron 13y ago
You can create a virtual machine with arbitrarily large resolutions (VMWare supports it) and test there - The vm's screen will be rendered into a window with scroll bars.
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Not sure about the affordable housing. From what I've read, in many parts of Europe (for example in Germany), life-long renting is very common. In many other places (where the rental market isn't as developed or where people believe that th
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In my case, being recommended by a Googler was enough to get the interview.
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The problem is, if you manage to create the next Facebook, your former employer's lawyers might come up with a claim that your company is based on IP they own...
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>Reactions that involve essentially trying to pretend that technology doesn't exist or can be suppressed will never and have never worked. It's not a matter of availability of technology, but essentially of values - for example, a techn
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I share the sentiment - I have a social life outside of work so having it at work (with people I did not get to choose) is not crucial. When I go to coffeeshops I'm mostly looking to mix up my routine with the stimuli that coffee shop provi
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I've been doing that for the most of the last 5 years. It didn't happen immediately, but eventually the lack of social interactions and the general sterility of working alone became a nuissance. For me, it's easily fixed by just working fro
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> A mediocre programmer that the company trusts is worth $500,000++ per year I disagree with that number as an absolute statement. Most companies just aren't as insanely profitable as Google, Microsoft etc. (for whom this number might v

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