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by lj3 10y ago
Oh yeah, he was a total quack! The stuff he worked on toward his death was so useless that the federal government decided to immediately classify all of his papers as being sensitive to national security and locked them away. O_O
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by lj3 10y ago
It used to work for laundromats too, until the feds started measuring water usage. In fact, I think it would be trivial to set up on a restaurant and be able to do fairly close calculations about how many tables a restaurant does per night
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by lj3 10y ago
That's actually pretty common. Every community has at least one or two businesses that don't look very busy, but the owners have managed to hang on for 10+ years. Could they be laundering money? Sure. They could also just be opera
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by lj3 10y ago
This is another problem with switching to linux. When somebody makes a perfectly cogent complaint that hundreds of other people have also experienced, the popular refrain among linux zealots is "It works for me. You must be doing it wr
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by lj3 10y ago
> How do you update all the software to the newest version? Same way you do on Linux: MANUALLY. Unless you're running a rolling distribution like arch, most of the software you run is out of date. Sometimes you can find a PPA with t
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by lj3 10y ago
There's codingame[0]. It teaches video game programming through "programming games". They're pretty fun, too. [0]: https://www.codingame.com
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by lj3 10y ago
Not necessarily. There's a growing trend of finding "mastermind" groups to have group skype chats with once or twice a week. They're great because you're not limited by geography. They're terrible because even
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by lj3 10y ago
I've been thinking of starting something similar here in the states (recruiting as a service), but there's always one problem: small companies don't trust anything labeled 'recruiting' or 'hr' to gauge tec
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by lj3 10y ago
How people perceive value is a weird thing. Large raises suddenly makes some employers re-evaluate what they're getting for their money's worth. In their eyes, they're paying more money (sometimes a LOT more money) for essent
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by lj3 10y ago
Thank you! I'm very newbish on this stuff, but I'm trying to learn.
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by lj3 10y ago
It's not just CS degree students who are applying. Code camps are pumping out junior programmers who are applying to every job listing they can find. It used to be you sifted through 10 resumes before finding 1 good one. I'm told
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by lj3 10y ago
Funny you should mention that. Are you aware with how Matasano interviews[0][1]? It sounds like they pretty much figured out a 'moneyball' strategy. But, like any other type of system, it took time to develop. Unfortunately, I don
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by lj3 10y ago
I'm not sure arrogance factors in. If you compare interviews now with just five years ago it's like night and day. It used to be a short phone interview then an onsite. That's it. It was relatively quick and easy on both side
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by lj3 10y ago
Do you have any opinions on Cap'n Proto vs Extprot[0]? [0]: https://github.com/mfp/extprot
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by lj3 10y ago
That's because they're game developers. Game developers are young. They haven't burnt out yet. :) Seriously though, there are lots of people who decided to take their act on the road in a similar fashion as these kids. One of
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by lj3 10y ago
> the political class needs an enemy to unite the populace against. Bingo. It's a distraction. They hope if we're focused on Russia we won't notice or remember the crimes being committed by our own government and the EU. T
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How the Alt-Right Prevented a Potential Hate Crime(derekthewolf.com)
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by lj3 10y ago
This. Building is easy. Maintenance is the nightmare. Take a look at Curitiba, Brazil for a great example of what happens when you can't maintain what you've built. http://www.citylab.com/commute/2012/06&
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by lj3 10y ago
> How does a study with a non-significant result which can't be replicated become "seminal"? How does anything become "seminal"? People we trust told us so. Whenever something like this happens, you should be ask
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by lj3 10y ago
Agreed. My current theory is college changed everything. In my father's generation, most people formed friendships, marriages and strong bonds to their communities in their teenage years. Those bonds held throughout adulthood. Now, jus
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by lj3 10y ago
> Am I the only one who thinks that a shrinking population might also result in large-scale technological growth? The problem is the only population that's shrinking is well educated white liberals. Ironically, they're the only
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by lj3 10y ago
Brush fires.
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by lj3 10y ago
Damn, that's cool. :)
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by lj3 10y ago
Open source doesn't mean free. Lots of people pay for open source software licences. Games do this a lot to encourage modding communities[0]. I'd like to see desktop software release their code more often. Then we could see for ou
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by lj3 10y ago
Some have PS4s. That's plenty beefy enough. They might even pay for the VR equipment too if it's cheap enough and becomes a multiplayer experience. Think mario party for the wii, but with VR instead.
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by lj3 10y ago
> I work in a short-project part of the industry I remember at one point you were talking about becoming a CTO for hire. Is that what you're doing now?
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by lj3 10y ago
I wish that were true. Too many conversations on HN essentially drill down to 'my experience contradicts your experience/theory/proof'. It never hurts to know if the person asserting his experience actually has any exper
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by lj3 10y ago
Precisely why I've started buying technical books from ages past. I'm working my way through Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Niklaus Wirth , Constructing user interfaces with statecharts by Ian Horrocks and Practica
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by lj3 10y ago
Easier might not be the right word. 'tools that allow them to be lazier' might be more accurate. Gluing together pieces somebody else wrote and trying to get them all to work with as little effort as possible and are surprised whe
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by lj3 10y ago
It should give anyone with a better grip on core technologies a competitive edge. The Valley is ripe for disruption. ;)

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