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The last interview I gave for a senior dev I tried making up some custom discussion questions to give after the basic tell me about yourself stuff. The questions boiled down to: 1. Junior developer code review where a save method included
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In the original Sim City my brothers and I eventually figured out the solution to ALL traffic problems was to simply never build roads and only use rail lines. Apparently sims were much happier waiting for hours or even days for a train to
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It amazes and depresses me that it takes bad behavior on a level that is easily explainable (i.e. help terrorist launder money) for people to get upset at how untouchable large international financial institutions have become. The LIBOR sca
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Wouldn't the bad tails of random routing be an unpredictably long length of time since long running requests times are unpredictable? Even if you work on narrowing the fat tails, shouldn't you still need to be upfront and clear about how ad
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Same, but on the Apple II version. I remember making Rube Goldberg like pinball layouts where the ball would be guided through all sorts of paths and down to where you'd only have to hit it with the flipper every once in awhile. Pinball Co
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It's quite possible that there's a scaling factor (e.g. 0.3) applied to upvotes to stories submitted from reddit. Although the following linked pg comment is several years old, it does give insight into pg's goal to reduce the ease with wh
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I'm willing to bet that APIs will eventually expose searching the text of posts, not just "Likes". Sure, it'll be introduced with examples of better ways to find people with common interests, but inevitably it'll expose even privacy protec
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For those interested in philosophy, Albert Camus famously said "There is only one really serious philosophical problem and that is suicide" [1]. Basically Camus asked the question why shouldn't he commit suicide and then worked on finding
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I worked on a browser based full fledged EMR (i.e. Charting, Billing, Scheduling, etc). Besides being an enormously complicated software system in general, there were many factors related to consumers' usability of the product in a real ti
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As I recall it was discussed in the DVD extras on The New World. I remember that scene in the movie, but it's been years since I've watched it.
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>Starting with The New World, Malick has instituted “rules” in his filmmaking, including using only natural light, no cranes, no big rigs, and handheld cameras only [1]. You might want to checkout New World if natural lighting interest
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Anecdotal evidence: I had never messed with Instragram until I got a girlfriend whose peer group used that exclusively over Facebook. These are all in the 28-32 age range. It seems they were all eager to use a system that just focused on
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the harsh truth of being a eurozone member is that the country's taxpayers are not necessarily intended to be involved in a decision to default on debts. Case in point, there was swift and sound backlash when the former Greek prime ministe
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> 2. Good enough is not good enough I don't think this really sinks in until you work in the industry. As an example, I knew of a developer who accidentally forget to make a list page scrollable and it got through QA that way. I hear
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by mcphilip 14y ago
TLDR: Mining big data collected on users won't boost the ability of companies to sell products to the degree big data proponents claim. This article is garbage since it totally discounts all the other uses of big data. I, for one, work in
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My theory is that Kickstarter expects there to be a high profile (e.g. $million+ light bulb pre order[1]) failure to deliver in the near future and is being especially hard on any new hardware campaigns. Some legitimate campaigns will be
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DoS Algo's Effect on Trades(nanex.net)
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Jan 15, 2002 email from Bill Gates to all MSFT staff [1]. Includes some real gems, like; >So now, when we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security. Our products should emphasize se
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Religion co-opted meditation? Now that's an interesting take... How then did meditation originate if not in the context of the religions that originally incorporated it?
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>That sounds boring but manageable. 'Thinking about nothing' seems impossible and stupid at the same time; people who do the disservice of saying that should be slapped. Sounds like you could use some time meditating about your hostile
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Terry Pratchett (wildly successful author of the Discworld series) once quipped that fantasy is just scifi without the nuts and bolts. I take that as indicating that fantansy and scifi are related in that they both create narratives around
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This article sort of rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. I understand the problems with PayPal and the benefit of companies like Stripe competing, but an article gushing over a bootstrap-esque button on a payment popup? Comes across
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>Indeed HFTs provide the benefit that during times of crisis they provide plenty of sell side liquidity... Any proof to that claim? Liquidity evaporated during the flash crash. The SLPs have no obligation to provide liquidity and can
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Excellent write up, I was hoping Nanex had some info on this. Tangentially related, The Rise of the HFT Machines is another great Nanex article that argues how it's not so much HF trading that threatens market stability, it's the HF quotin
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I just finished Carl Jung's The Undiscovered Self whilst comparing and contrasting his thoughts on spirituality to Nietzsche's scathing criticism of christianity's moral code leading to a slave mentality. Oh, and I hit level 60 on my Monk
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The only conspiracy theory here that I can dream up is that this is both a fitting tribute to Jobs and a not-so-subtle plea for consumers to associate any new iProducts in the future as ultimately coming some Jobsian level of genious.
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I would consider myself much more aware of international events than most and still believe that there is realistically no chance of defending my rights in this age of a two party system where both are equally interested in seeing the night
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I flagged this submission for its incorrect and misleading title, but Tesla does basically say they will default if terms are not renegotiated and/or their follow on stock sale doesn't raise enough money. FTA: Based on our current financial
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Cynically, I wonder if this policy change was not prompted by Kickstarter's own doubts about the lifx team being able to deliver. After all, this is the same team that couldn't meet demand for their custom cardboard box project. I wonder i
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The change in terminology would seem to imply that Kickstarter is now wising up to the fact that there will inevitably be a high profile failure to deliver in the near future and is now trying to preempt criticism against Kickstarter not la

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