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by marcell 8y ago
That’s not true. If you have ten years experience with Python, but don’t know about, say, @property decorators or how variable scoping works, that raises some red flags.
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by marcell 8y ago
I assume this was posted in response to Microsoft passing Apple as the most valuable tech company. Ironically, In 2007 Microsoft’s market cap was more than twice that of Apple’s ($270B vs $100B). That company’s staying power is truly amazin
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by marcell 8y ago
Yea, it’s a bit ambiguous, especially in Sillicon Valley where the whole place is built on immigrants. At the places I’ve worked easily over two thirds of my teammates were immigrants born in other countries. I do see that apparently the cr
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by marcell 8y ago
Is Vue.JS actually "Chinese made"? I checked out their team section and it seems very international, I couldn't see how you'd claim the team is based in any particular country.
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by marcell 8y ago
Sure but issues signify actual usage. You open an issue because you’re using the project and ran into a problem, possibly an edge case. A star can be just a low comittmwnt upvote. I’d almost consider open issue to be a good sign.
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by marcell 8y ago
Isn't more open issues just a sign of a older and/or more widely used library? It's not necessarily a bad thing.
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by marcell 8y ago
I don’t mean this the wrong way, but maybe the issue is something with you? If you’re having trouble getting interviews, it’s possible your resume is not great, or you are applying to jobs that have a bad fit. If you’re getting rejected aft
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by marcell 8y ago
From end user perspective, what’s the benefit of a decentralized exchange over something like Coinbase Pro?
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by marcell 8y ago
Article from 2016
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by marcell 8y ago
Can you give one or two examples of where prolog would be more effective than other tools? I was exposed to it in college but never used it beyond that.
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by marcell 8y ago
It’s usually a bit more ambituois than knowing specific languages or having specific defined skills. A lot of the benefits of having more senior engineers is good judgement, which is hard to define or quantify or identify. However good judg
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by marcell 8y ago
I'd look at it from a different perspective. A low-level SWE salary might be $120k, and the all-in cost of employment might be $160k (benefits, taxes, office space, lunches, etc.). For a senior person, the base salary might be $200k, a
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by marcell 8y ago
Since when is a bunch of nerds “techbros”? I really hate this term. If I like programming and computers and databases, am I a techbro? Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
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by marcell 8y ago
A sidebar on this is why parents put their kids in front of a screen in the first place. Depending on your child and your childcare arrangements, sometimes the easiest and cheapest way to get your kids to stop bugging you is to plop them in
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by marcell 8y ago
I think all the carbon removal solutions assume some sort of carbon tax for them to be viable. Otherwise carbon removal is a process with some cost and zero benefit for the individual. So to answer your question, the popularity of carbon re
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by marcell 8y ago
I think when companies give feedback it is a recruiter or HR person doing it, and they are more aware of what could be lawsuit bait. I think companies want to avoid having engineers give the feedback, but are ok having HR do it.
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by marcell 8y ago
I'm seeing more companies do this, actually. For example Dropbox gave me very specific and helpful rejection feedback. I'm sure they have guidelines in place to make sure they don't invite lawsuit. It was all strictly about m
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by marcell 8y ago
I've seen this, but I'm skeptical of the approach. I don't think there is a lot of political appetite in DC to help tech companies in general. Both parties would rather use tech companies as a industry to bash, rather than an
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by marcell 8y ago
> As someone who moved halfway across the world and left family/friends to move to the Bay Area, it makes me sad to see how it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to move here. I believe this is the biggest thread to S
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by marcell 8y ago
> 2-million-barrels of oil a day In case anyone's looking for context on this, daily demand for oil is currently around 99-million-barrels a day, so this would be a 2% drop: https://www.statista.com/statistics/2
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by marcell 8y ago
The lot is a it over 4K square feet, FWIW
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by marcell 8y ago
I'm not a sociologist but this is a fairly common distinction in sociology. Countries like Russia or China are considered to be more collectivist. For example in China they are very OK with using eminent domain to seize individual prop
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by marcell 8y ago
Disagree. There may be a short term bump, but long term it would be damaging. Tech workers are value creators. Having a hub of talent like SV increases value and salaries for everyone here because it attracts companies here, increasing dema
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by marcell 8y ago
What do you think is the benefit of your service over Heroku?
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by marcell 8y ago
> there is on average no academic benefit What? This sounds BS. If you don’t practice what you learn in school, how will you ever master it? Eg. How will you learn integration if you don’t do some practice problems?
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by marcell 8y ago
Well the positive side is lots and lots of people get to enjoy Disney movies. Welcome to capitalism, enjoy your stay :).
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by marcell 8y ago
> The purpose of a UBI is income redistribution, not insurance against misfortune. If you want insurance you take your money and buy insurance with it. While this approach sounds good on paper it wouldn't work in real life. Another
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by marcell 8y ago
This is dodging the question. For one thing, The price you pay for health insurance is not the same as it’s cost. The price of insurance is lower than the price of care because people who are healthy buy insurance. Moreover, the general poi
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by marcell 8y ago
It’s a terrible way to solve the problem. If someone has $20k/yr of benefits from Medicaid what are they going to do on $10k/yr of UBI?
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by marcell 8y ago
> Chinese innovation should outpace the United States in the coming years This may be true but it’s not an inevitability, or at least it wasn’t always. Innovation is not just a function of population. Policy also makes a big difference.

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