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by mason55 10y ago
It depends but frequently in a tech company the CTO is the main product owner/"person with the vision". Execution is handled by a VP of Engineering (or lots of them when you're as big as MS)
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by mason55 10y ago
That's the cost of 0.5-1 FTE. To come up with a better solution it would have to be enough cheaper to reduce the engineering hours of design and build and then take zero extra people to maintain. Feels unlikely.
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by mason55 10y ago
It's pretty common advice that you want to be the last founder and not the first employee for this exact reason.
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by mason55 10y ago
It's a great idea but in reality most third-party tools are going to work slightly differently and the abstractions will leak (unless they were developed against an existing interface, in which case you don't need to create the wr
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by mason55 10y ago
The "micro-dose thingy" is LSD, so yes you could theoretically get arrested. If you had a small personal amount you probably wouldn't do any time. As for getting some, if you don't already have connections then the easi
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by mason55 10y ago
> the crackdown in insider trading Which, in reality, was the SEC and Preet Bharara trying to say that large investors aren't allowed to have meetings with the execs and investor relations people at the companies that they were l
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by mason55 10y ago
Getting older doesn't guarantee that you will grow out of your social awkwardness
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by mason55 10y ago
> If you have even more than just 1 deployment of a thing and scale to 2 (or N), you now also have to manage the software level of those N containers (without multi-tenancy) vs. just 1 deployment for everywhere. Sometimes this is a fea
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by mason55 10y ago
And the idea here is that you have a large parallelizeable problem but you don't need the Hadoop ecosystem? To put it another way, why not just use EMR?
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by mason55 10y ago
Interestingly, in the new CBA which was agreed to last night, they have removed this.
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by mason55 10y ago
Theoretically you could try to shift it so that fund N was based on the exits from fund N-2. That way you don't have to the cohort in N-1 to exit so fast. The only difficulty would be the first couple funds where you'd have to pu
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by mason55 10y ago
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7047/full/436150a...
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by mason55 10y ago
Right, so if you're not going to accept the full RFC then where do you draw the line? Your arbitrary line will assuredly be different from someone else's.
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by mason55 10y ago
> Building an opt-out system that no one in their right mind would ever opt into just reeks of anti-consumer behavior trying to hide behind a polite face. What system are you referring to? If the system is "opt in to being tracke
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by mason55 10y ago
Well I think it's an interesting meta-question. Humans are good at figuring out why something works then creating a higher level abstraction that can be applied in lots of different situations. This saves us time because we don't
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by mason55 10y ago
I suppose it's ambiguous but generally I feel like "senior" means "responsible for more pieces or higher level pieces" not just "faster at the simple stuff".
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by mason55 10y ago
You might be able to follow the steps that the computer takes but you won't necessarily know why. Why is that the magic constant is chose, what is the purpose of those branches, etc. And likely, if it's necessary, the AI can con
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by mason55 10y ago
It is compiled to intermediate byte code but not machine code. You still need the JVM to JIT the byte code to something the CPU can deal with.
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by mason55 10y ago
Doesn't the Peter Principle come into play here? What if we do the same job but I do it twice as fast? That doesn't mean I'd be a good fit for the next level up, it might just mean I'm really good at doing this specifi
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by mason55 10y ago
Maybe they think spinning it out will cost more money than they'll be able to sell it for? It only existed as a standalone service for a few months, at this point it might not be possible to unravel it from the internal Twitter infras
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by mason55 10y ago
> Not only does Hong Kong have a subway terminating inside the main terminal, it runs separate from their MTR line, takes 30 mins to get into Central and makes a handful of stops at major MTR junctions along the way. It felt like public
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by mason55 10y ago
There are all kinds of interesting thought experiments. What happens when a classifier innocently discovers that the best classification is by race? Do we care? How about if we remove race but it happens to discover that four features wh
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by mason55 10y ago
> e.g. a diner visiting with his wife instead of his usual mistress They do stress to the servers if a VIP who has been in before will be visiting with his wife for the first time. I don't know if anyone's actually made the
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by mason55 10y ago
> The idea is to know someone's celebrity status in order to ingratiate them to the club. Restaurants at least don't have a problem with this right now. High-end restaurants will have pre-service meetings where they discuss
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by mason55 10y ago
My girlfriend works in fine dining in NYC and we were just talking about this. Apparently her restaurant group tried a similar service a couple years ago. The big problems were getting everything integrated (POS, OpenTable, everything els
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by mason55 10y ago
The difference is that fixing up Penn Station is mostly just a matter of throwing money at the problem. Things like CBTC and increased capacity require sensitive negotiations with unions and local businesses.
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by mason55 10y ago
Go find the post on the history of dict in Python from the other day to see how they move away from chaining.
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by mason55 10y ago
The number of collisions is only loosely based on the hash function, it's much more closely tied to the fill factor. If you keep your hash table 1% full then you're unlikely to run into a collision no matter how bad your hash func
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by mason55 10y ago
I think the idea is that if all cars are automated then the street capacity grows. Imagine if all the cars on the road are talking to each other with swarming algorithms. Now you don't need stop lights, you don't have people cut
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by mason55 10y ago
I think that only parts can be sharded by city. Anything having to do with users has to be global (because I can visit different cities). I suppose you could try to "move" users from shard to shard but you'd still want a gl

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