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by nkassis 11y ago
It seems that the average age of startup founders is actually 40 according to this article: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235357 I can see why, by then you get some financial stability and kids get older, a good
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by nkassis 11y ago
There was an article I read somewhere (maybe here?) a couple weeks ago that mentioned that employee happiness and autonomy are correlated. That could be the issue with turning passions into a job. You lose the autonomy you had before.
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I had the same reaction until I read the article. I think it's the type of objects and the small room that looks a lot like the ones used in rendering demos that gave me that same impression. Just waiting for them to put a glass of wat
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by nkassis 11y ago
It's even funnier that it seems someone hooked up the account to a social game and is playing with it broadcasting their score ;p
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I was thinking about this earlier and I have a question about inflation. Could increasing the interest rate cause inflation to rise a bit in the near term? My reasoning for this is that given that banks were borrowing at near zero, could th
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by nkassis 11y ago
yeah I get those, "You have 98 updates", ok great. It's probably a pain to try to turn that stuff down. The most interaction I have is with their SMS. I sometimes press 1 to wish people happy birthday.
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Happy to see I'm not alone. My wife is also the facebook person. I do have an account and all but I feel no need to use it. Every once in a while I'll log in when she tells me to go do something like like a post or respond to a me
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"Calling for mass murder isn't a valid case of free speech." To be pedantic, yes it is, free speech isn't conditional on the message. Your second statement is true, 1st amendment applies only to the government ability to
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Can you just add the reason in the response? Don't need a super specific error code for this. Could also be a 400 since users should not be asking for information on people they are not friends with, that seems like something is wrong
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"There are many research institutions and workplaces where the cost of the tool isn't really thought about at all. In fact, the cost of Matlab and toolbox fees is a small fraction of a senior scientist/engineer's total c
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I'd personally look to find what language fills the gap that the current set of languages I know don't fill. Clojure is my filler for lisp language and language with good macros support. I use Ruby in the slot that many have Pytho
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I think he meant in the sense of low-level because of the language primitives offered versus what is possible with clojure (which lets you define your own essentially). Edit: I see others have offered more thorough answer while I was readin
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Unfortunately that might be the most effective way to fight this type of thing. Massive incident that would show the foolishness of the move.
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I was following your argument until this part: "All the anti-safe-space discussion on Hacker News lately is truly, horribly, fucking disgustingly indicative of the inherent sexism and flat-out hatred that worms its way through develope
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I don't think legally but more politically and PR wise. There a difference between firing someone for making donations to pro-X groups and firing someone for being X. In this hypothetical scenario, Eich would have to prove he was fired
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They are definitively designed to crack as that's a core way for it to absorb the energy of the hit. Similar to how a car crumbles in an accident. Otherwise it's just transferring the kinetic energy straight to your head. This is
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I think (and have seen from personal experience) that some of those groups are more just individual teams that have adopted clojure on their own but are relatively niche and isolated from the larger companies. I don't think it's m
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It's hard for cleaners to make a company more competitive and profitable by cleaning harder but it's not hard to see how better software can do so.
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But his comment refers to the new OS changes I believe thus it's going to be a pain going forward.
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Could the fact that lower emission was a possible selling point and may have affected customer choice have an impact here? Some customer did feel cheated by this fraud since they bought the car in part for it's lower emission and fuel
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Yeah that's pretty accurate from my experience too. It changes from city to city. Pacific north west cities like Portland and Seattle have a much more balanced view of cycling but on the east coast where I am now it's pretty much
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Parking can be an issue but I would hope that most large tech companies now offer interior protected bike storage. Seems like a cheap perk that keep employee healthy.
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"It seems people in the US fetishize road bikes with drop bars and skinny tires as the 'best and fastest' kind of bike" I don't think that true. The general opinion I've seen where I live is that bikes are toys
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I assume you had to have good time management habits to pull it off?
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Is there similar data for longer periods of time? Seems like it be interesting to see that correlation in periods that include some recessions or am I completely off the mark?
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I think this kind of obsolete information may also hinder them when they try to hire. Good engineer may have a bad perception about how it is to work there and overlook them. They could change that perception with being more open about how
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Hopefully the important data is also not stored on the system in clear text and the key to decrypt it is stored on a different server only held in a secure area of memory while the process is working. Password have value beyond one system t
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Maybe we can designate this week as Lisp week every year where we revive our collective love for the language. Sure beats shark week in value.
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I wouldn't call the manager lazy. It's more of lacking clear information that they need to make properly informed staffing decisions. I bet they have incentives tied to cost more than wait time. Instead of optimizing for cost an
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That part of the game (game rule logic) usually works (with some bugs) but the UI suffers from extremely poor UX and is unresponsive. This is endemic throughout the game including area where game rules aren`t being evaluated. Add on poor se

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