mateo411

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   by mateo411 12y ago

   Hmmm, I bet this survey didn't control for location of employment.
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   by mateo411 12y ago

   The US government's total debt is around 18 trillion. The federal deficit is around 500 billion and falling.
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   by mateo411 12y ago

   I didn't realize that UCSD was in LA.
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   by mateo411 12y ago

   I think the demand for taxi services has gone up since Uber entered the marketplace. Uber made it easier to call a cab and see when the cab would show up. Since the product was easier and better, more people wanted to use it. I don't h
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   by mateo411 12y ago

   One of the fundamental tenets of the Agile Manifesto is People over Process. Interestingly, that point was lost on those managers. Next, they are going to want to talk to you about your flair.
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   by mateo411 12y ago

   C is weakly typed, because you can cast or set any variable to be a void *. Since C is weakly typed, then you can write a C++ program that is also weakly typed.
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   by mateo411 12y ago

   What programming languages do you know and like? 1.Figure out what language or community you are interested in and go to a Meetup? Usually there are people who are hiring. 2. Find a side project and put it on github. This might take a littl
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   by mateo411 12y ago

   Also the majority of the people won't move. Even moving an office from the South Bay to the City will cause a lot of people to quit. Source -- I work for a company that moved it's office from the South Bay to the City and a lot of
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   by mateo411 12y ago

   This is the best article I've found this year regarding housing in SF. http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
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    by mateo411 12y ago

    Have a team meeting. Tell everyone what they did, how their efforts and contributions helped deliver the MVP, and give them a spot bonus. The spot bonus doesn't have to be large, I would say 100 to 500 dollars. The recognition and the
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    by mateo411 12y ago

    This is known as the Dead Sea effect.
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    Yes.
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    You should have come to us when you were 25. :) You already know how to program and you have degree. You just have to break into the industry. A side project where you build a web app, put it on the internet, will be very helpful in getting
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    Do you mean Silicon Valley or Sorrento Valley?
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    "I guess we are going to end this on a petty note." -- Me in an alternate universe
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    http://bit.ly/1cPqDiE
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    Neustar's Monitoring and Intelligent alerting provides a push interface to process events. The events are processed by a small javascript program which has a restricted set of APIs. Disclaimer: I wrote it. https://home.wpm.n
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    This is good advice, from a straight shooter who has upper management written all over him.
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    What unique aspects of your browser? The User-Agent header will tell you the kind of browser you have. However, it's unlikely that you are using a browser that's very unique. They can use cookies to identify you. But you have to k
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    I interview a lot of people. My experience is that people with degrees are better are a little better at algorithms and they know big-O complexity. People without degrees hate it when I ask big-O complexity problems. However, I think the pr
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    This article is 3 years old. The 6 year old in me, fervently believes it to be incorrect.
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    First, find another job, then talk to upper management. The negative consequence of talking to upper management is that it would be difficult for you to work with the incompetent project manager in the future. Oh well. Help your coworkers f
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    If they live in the Penisula, lower middle class. They could still get a nice apartment east of El Camino.
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    I disagree with the premise that writing multi-threaded programs is too difficult for a commodity programmer.
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    True, you would have to write or use a Python extension written in C or C++.
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    And then there is the GIL. So if you want to squeeze more performance out of your CPU bound task. You need to use the multiprocess module, because Python threading does not work well for CPU bound tasks.
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    In this passage the author is using satire. Of course it wouldn't be that bad, but describing literally how it would be, wouldn't be that funny.
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    Tim Kreider is an excellent writer and enjoyable to read. He is adept at weaving philosophy, humor, and personal anecdotes together into a great essay. If you like this, keep reading his work.
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    I wouldn't say that ALTER TABLE is never useful in production, but you should try to avoid it, especially if you have large tables. Many implementations of ALTER TABLE, lock the table, which means that no process can write to the table
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    by mateo411 13y ago

    It could be a simple majority, but not an absolute majority.