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by mcguire 4y ago
How do you know a prospective employee is worth hiring without testing?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Given the test-driven nature of modern education in the US, having 1000 kids that can just read at grade level is better than having 985 kids at grade level, 5 below, and 10 above. Any resources spent on the latter would be better spent on
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by mcguire 4y ago
The cynical among us might suspect the real reason to be budget.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Two questions: 1. Does this survey include or correct for homosexuals? 2. How correct is it to say there is a "growing indifference" when the levels seem to mostly be approaching their value in the 1980s-90s?
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by mcguire 4y ago
I have a 1995 BMW R1100GS. You could do almost anything to that motorcycle using the toolkit that lives under the seat. The one exception is checking the valve clearances; that requires feeler gauges that weirdly aren't included (alt
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by mcguire 4y ago
I wouldn't say "completely separate"; they're doing the same things, but only on Apple's combined hardware/software. That apparently makes the situation very different.
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by mcguire 4y ago
...unless you accept contributions from other people, who then own those contributions.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" People have various answers for open source business models. E.g. "consulting" or the vague “support”. I always wonder if such people ever tried selling consulting? Or maybe “support”. " Oddly enough, that's been
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by mcguire 4y ago
On the other hand, to the point of the article, you can't get a deep understanding of a concept without remembering the concept, other concepts that it relates to, and how.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Always get out before you have to answer hard questions about what you did six months or a year ago.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Never stay in a job that you love.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" Once you have a few years under your belt then you can go after the big money and switch around every 12-18 months. " Always switch jobs before your project goes live and becomes legacy. (Legacy, at best. At worst, it goes liv
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by mcguire 4y ago
False dichotomy. Android also only takes up 3-4GB.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" Apple is not forcing its OEM partners to exclude 3rd party browsers. " Apple has OEM partners? :-) Seriously, the lawsuit against Microsoft involved anti-competitive behavior, not anti-consumer behavior. In this case, other busi
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by mcguire 4y ago
Imagine Microsoft making that argument back in 2000...
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by mcguire 4y ago
Ah, memories! ;-) When AIX went multiprocessor around v.3.[45], they used a single kernel lock. Version 4 was a near complete rewrite to get rid of the single lock. I missed that fun, as I was no longer working for IBM, but I was sysadminin
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by mcguire 4y ago
SMIT :-)
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by mcguire 4y ago
Nobody said it wouldn't suck. The only question is whether it sucks less than the alternatives.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Well, PG did just say out loud that founders were YC's users. And, as a user, if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product...
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by mcguire 4y ago
Is YC still an investor?
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by mcguire 4y ago
https://images.app.goo.gl/kYh4i5pcJupVpacR8 Gold scams have been around for a significant number of decades. Bitcoin has been hyped to death for its entire existence, in spite of the "properties" it shares with go
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by mcguire 4y ago
Further, subterfuge, misdirection, and psychological techniques have always been a part of high-level competition, as listeners to the 1984 musical "Chess" can attest. (Yeah, the ref is listing actual rules in that one song.)
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by mcguire 4y ago
A degree from MIT is exactly the same as one from the University of Phoenix?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Well, it doesn't ask.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Neither Google nor Meta are tech companies, either. They're advertising companies.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Sounds fine, if you don't use Wikipedia either.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Is requesting donations better or worse than selling advertising?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Sundar Pichai gets ~$250M. Parag Agrawal gets something like $30M.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Google had a 2021 operating cash flow of $92B, and they've decided to spend money on lots of things that aren't "serving ads". And yet nobody complains.
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by mcguire 4y ago
It's an exclusive 'or'.

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