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by ogennadi 5y ago
I, too, would like to read an article on how to facilitate pair programming
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by ogennadi 5y ago
I have a similar experience with a twist. I rarely even get called for jobs I apply for, but by setting my LinkedIn profile to the equivalent of "Actively hunting," I get lots of calls by recruiters. Again, they call about positio
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by ogennadi 5y ago
Was there anything surprising to you? Any viewpoints more common than you previously thought?
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by ogennadi 5y ago
Direct link to the podcast episode of the Nortel story: https://malicious.life/episode/episode-113/
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Ask for a third-party audit of your cryopreservation(lesswrong.com)
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by ogennadi 5y ago
From the conclusion, "Writing social software is hard. And, as I said, the act of writing social software is more like the work of an economist or a political scientist. And the act of hosting social software... is more like a relation
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by ogennadi 5y ago
"It has to be hard to do at least some things on the system for some users, or the core group will not have the tools that they need to defend themselves. Now, this pulls against the cardinal virtue of ease of use. But ease of use is w
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by ogennadi 5y ago
OP here, if you've got any pull at Google/Youtube and can help get our nonprofit's channel (with all our original content) back, we'd be most grateful. (we've learned our lesson and will be backing up all content fr
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Hey YouTube, our carboncopiesorg channel was taken down without any warning(twitter.com)
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by ogennadi 5y ago
> That’s the power of good names. It allows you to take a bunch of complexity [36 lines of code] and pacakge it up into a dense little box [a method name]. > I’m the type of person who likes to sit for a few minutes and brainstorm the
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Bad names make you open the box(greaterwrong.com)
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by ogennadi 5y ago
> Across our studies, individuals formed similarly favorable impressions of partners who asked non-sensitive (e.g., “Are you a morning person?”) and sensitive (e.g., “What are your views on abortion?”) questions, despite askers’ reticenc
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by ogennadi 5y ago
From the conversation on this article over on lobste.rs [1] > This is exactly why I left my last job. First day on the job, I was told I was senior, look for work. Second (or at most maybe third?) day on the job, literally, I was told th
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The room where it happens: How Rails gets made(schneems.com)
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How pair programming works (2010) [pdf](cs.wellesley.edu)
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by ogennadi 5y ago
I use the HN frontpage link which only updates stories about once a day. https://news.ycombinator.com/front
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by ogennadi 6y ago
This. I'm glad my employer has hack weeks twice a year when I can play, or grind out useful-but-low pricey tasks.
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by ogennadi 6y ago
Thank you for such a concise description. Now I understand what NLP is. Just created a laugh-out-loud image of one of my most painful job rejections.
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by ogennadi 6y ago
The problem is that deep-linked media (e.g. pictures and videos) are still publicly available
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Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess(arxiv.org)
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by ogennadi 6y ago
Typo on the front page: "be we can't" -> "but we can't"
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by ogennadi 6y ago
And for a fictional treatment of realistic space battles, read "Through Struggle, the Stars" by John Lumpkin. I skipped lots of the story sections so I could get to the space fights
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by ogennadi 6y ago
The blocker now is getting brain preservation equipment in every hospital; we already have techniques that will preserve brains for centuries until uploading tech is perfected. See the BPF's article [1] or video series [2] if you prefe
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by ogennadi 6y ago
Hi @russfink. That can't be the case since, as mentioned in the debate, there are medical procedures [1] where a person's neural activity ceases and the patients recover their (long-term) memories [1] https://www.scienc
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The Hayworth-Miller 2019 Debate About Brain Preservation(brainslab.wordpress.com)
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The Ecosocialist Green New Deal Budget(howiehawkins.us)
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It is a moral imperative to offer brain preservation to terminal patients(twitter.com)
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by ogennadi 6y ago
And even if anti-aging tech doesn't come quickly enough, preservation a person for centuries in a restorable manner is technically here today: https://www.brainpreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02.
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by ogennadi 6y ago
Author here. I posted the article since I've found few examples of techies detailing their work life (e.g [1]). Interested to know how others work. [1] https://www.quora.com/What-does-a-typical-day-of-a-quant-tra...
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A Year in the Life of a Software Consultant(docs.google.com)
1 points by ogennadi 6y ago|1 comments

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