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by mc3 7y ago
Why are Microsoft doing this? One explanation is morality - they are doing it for the greater good. Another explaination is branding - they want to look like the new "no evil company" which ties in with their open source initiativ
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by mc3 7y ago
And Facebook had something like a college dorm, and did get traction.
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by mc3 7y ago
I played for a bit, and I noticed as the game progresses the invaders seem to cluster together - making it easier to win (less movements between shots). Maybe the algorithm makes them all play the same eventually? As a team of invaders they
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by mc3 7y ago
Sydney radio loves comparing it to Beijing. Then reminding us that we've just got that for a day.
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by mc3 7y ago
Dropping into the conversation late, to say that this is right - but - the danger is that Google controls the defacto browser and defacto web standards as well as search, and yes a large chunk of email, the biggest video hosting service and
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by mc3 7y ago
I don't think so. `Correlation => Causation` is used all the time - this is the bread and butter of clickbait headlines and articles "new study shows that...", but `Correlation => ^Causation` requires some sophisticatio
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by mc3 7y ago
Sydney is having a bad day :-( https://aqicn.org/city/sydney/
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by mc3 7y ago
??? Who ever said correlation => not causation.
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by mc3 7y ago
Yes using the 'city' analogy - the 'city' might be the entire of the AWS stack, where as the 'building' might be what is produced by the 2-pizza team. And the code produce by that team (like the building) shoul
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by mc3 7y ago
And now, without a boss!
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by mc3 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/1364/
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by mc3 7y ago
1. Make It Work 2. Ah it doesn't work 3. Make It Right 4. Big refactor, better rewrite it. Ah no time. 5. Make it Work, but without it being Right, what is the bug level we can get away with shipping? 6. Make it Fast, scale up the VMs!
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by mc3 7y ago
This is not "Uber" but an employee of Uber who has worked other places too.
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by mc3 7y ago
It is worse than that, the incumbent politicians don't want to be seen as 'lefties', and there is a lot of people with money with a vested interest in burning more oil and coal. I think individuals changing behaviour is hopel
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by mc3 7y ago
https://outline.com/BX3pHp
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by mc3 7y ago
Thanks for the offer. I'm OK not to know the answer, but thought I would give you feedback. The problem with these kind of puzzles is they reward luck to some extent. If you happen to try the thing that cracks the code you win. Otherwi
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by mc3 7y ago
I have never worked in a 2-4 office and certainly not a 1-office, but I find about 10 in an office is manageable if they are all quiet non-phone-calling people. I worked a place with 400 people in open plan close proximity, where your works
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by mc3 7y ago
The biggest falsehood I believed is that companies care about writing quality code, and you will get to apply the rigor on the job that you learn at uni. On the whole, they don't really care, with some exceptions.
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by mc3 7y ago
I'm stuck on the first one. The "obvious" thing to do didn't work :-). Now I have no idea how to decode it. I guess that is the point? - do you need to be from a security background and crack the code, might require some
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by mc3 7y ago
Good reply. My view of Haskell is if I had to do it 40 hours a week in a team for 50 weeks, I'd get use to it and would see the benefits and get itchy using any language without them. I'd have wiser colleagues to help me learn and
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by mc3 7y ago
I feel that to get accurate estimates you need the same people using the same tech stacks producing roughly the same solutions week in and week out. I imagine something like making slightly interactive marketing sites using Ruby on Rails ev
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by mc3 7y ago
This is why learning Elm has been valuable for me. Without the convoluted type system of Haskell, you have to do this more, and it is a lot simpler to understand and maintain. You are never going to be able to use the type system to guarant
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by mc3 7y ago
Yeah some of use are just writing enterprise apps in .NET. I found a bug in the .NET framework years ago, but I don't think I can make a big story about it, or remember the exact details, just vaguely. Never had production JIT problems
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by mc3 7y ago
If so, it might be a code smell to consider defining a separate function.
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by mc3 7y ago
I hate questions like "What's the hardest bug you've ever debugged?". It means as I work I need to keep a scrapbook of "will what I did today make a great interview answer in 5 years time". I'd rather just
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by mc3 7y ago
Maybe. But, that doesn't address the parent comment's meaning. I interpret it as saying that both spying and non-spying foreign tech workers might be affected by the same brush tar.
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by mc3 7y ago
"[op] is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm" It's also an odd move. If you have that level of credential, then you definitely don't want to be doing that!
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by mc3 7y ago
It's not really like that. And if it is, try a different city or even country. My theory is, if you are not desperate for money and the job market is reasonably good - go into the later interview with specific probing questions about t
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by mc3 7y ago
When the rules are stupid, play by the rules. Set up a PC at home, logged into slack that keeps the status as available. They didn't say anything about actually responding to messages, right? Alternatively I'm sure there is a law
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by mc3 7y ago
You might know running that job board - do 30 hour jobs pay as good an hourly rate as regular 40 hour jobs?

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