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by nissimk 9y ago
Neal Stephenson writes about this in my favorite "the diamond age," he calls it honer and forger. The type of engineer that is better at improving an existing thing vs. creating something new. There's a need for all types.
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by nissimk 9y ago
There are many methods of debugging as you can see sprinkled through these comments: Using the interactive debugger Reading log files and adding more logging/trace. Writing unit tests Making some sort of test program or script to exer
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by nissimk 9y ago
Always opt for Intel hardware. They have Linux device driver developers on staff. Sometimes the newest chips are not supported, but they always release something within a few months.
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by nissimk 10y ago
Yeah, but you can look them up.
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by nissimk 10y ago
Bullsh*t. Seriously, these questions are all tricks. If you memorize the tricks you can win the game. Even the "really easy" questions like reverse a string involve a trick -- swapping from the ends and stopping in the middle. The
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by nissimk 10y ago
That's true only up to a point. Look at baseball players, they frequently outperform in the last year of their first (lower value) contract, but then underperform after getting the longer high value second contract. People are motivate
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by nissimk 10y ago
thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HozBKiWGsQ
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by nissimk 10y ago
Is this insiders and private market investors hedging their restricted stock by shorting the common?
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Signs of Brisk Demand from Snap Shorts as Stock Falls Again(bloomberg.com)
2 points by nissimk 10y ago|1 comments
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by nissimk 10y ago
Exactly. So many of the proponents of the whiteboard algorithm question industry are thoroughly convinced that they are eliminating people who will fail on the job. Of course it's impossible to verify this. The only thing you can verif
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by nissimk 10y ago
It's not just survivorship bias, it's also confirmation bias. These folks fail to acknowledge the adverse selections made by their process. What about the people on your team that didn't work out? What about the net-negative
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by nissimk 10y ago
OK, but I got this question: http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/given-n-appointments-find-confl... It requires the simple comparison you mentioned, but is far more complex to come up with an efficient algorithm. Needless to say,
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by nissimk 10y ago
It says you can connect 10 devices to the car's AP via wifi. So all 5 passengers including the driver can have one wifi device in each hand!
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by nissimk 10y ago
I keep being reminded of something I read recently that made me feel uneasy about google's cloud spanner [1]: the most important one is that Spanner runs on Google’s private network. Unlike most wide-area networks, and especially the
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by nissimk 10y ago
I think the point is that the 10x programmer has those other skills. That is the differentiating factor. It's not about typing 10x faster or generating 10x the lines of code. It's about creating 10x the value. That requires identi
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by nissimk 10y ago
I'm curious to hear other people's opinions about this. I feel like the smartphone security model provides security for the OS developers, the app developers and their advertising customers at the expense of usability for the user
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by nissimk 10y ago
This generation of AR is going to be like the last generation of VR -- a cool gimmick with great promise of things to come, but not really advanced enough to deliver on that promise. Even the virtualboy was pretty cool at the time, but it t
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by nissimk 10y ago
Does this mean I can expect improvements in the mobile web app? It has so many issues that I won't click the links on my phone. No, I don't want the android app. Stop asking me. Stop directing me to my home page when I clicked a l
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by nissimk 10y ago
Part of it is the cereal business model. You introduce more flavors not because they are going to sell well or to increase volume, but just to take shelf space at the supermarket away from your competitors. In this case the shelf space is m
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Shamoon 2: Return of the Disttrack Wiper(researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com)
1 points by nissimk 10y ago|0 comments
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by nissimk 10y ago
Yes, but there are also the taxis and local delivery using trucks and cars. Are my children going to ever need to learn how to drive?
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by nissimk 10y ago
Are there going to be any jobs left? It seems like there are a lot of jobs that involve driving. This technology has the potential to displace a very large number of workers.
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by nissimk 10y ago
http://bgr.com/2016/02/10/snapdragon-820-vs-apple-a9-iphone-...
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The IBMer Who Decoded Bernie Madoff's RPG(itjungle.com)
2 points by nissimk 10y ago|1 comments
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by nissimk 10y ago
The entire solar city enterprise is based on "sophisticated financial engineeriing." They push solar lease and PPA deals on customers which are then securitized and sold to investors. Both sides of these deals (solar customers and
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by nissimk 10y ago
Block chains are one solution to this problem. They are open source data repositories. Currently, most block chain data is transactional in nature, covering transfers of currency from one account to another. As more distributed applications
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by nissimk 10y ago
Here is a simple heuristic that's worked well for me: look at all of the job ads online for similar roles in the same city. Most will not name numbers. Find the highest listed number (top of range) in all of those ads and add 20%. That
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by nissimk 10y ago
Very well said. I don't find it necessary to maximized my result in a negotiation. I'd like to feel that I did well, but maxing out is not necessary. I've done very well for myself with this strategy so it really can work. I&
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by nissimk 10y ago
Yes, they're frequently just looking for butts to put in chairs. Getting the numbers out of the way first helps to avoid wastes of time. But the other side is true also for more junior or underpaid developers. They need to use tactics
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by nissimk 10y ago
It sounded to me like a euphemism for hanging out on the roof waiting for your non compete agreement term to run out.

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