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by pbh101 9y ago
>Most of the time, outside the utopian heaven that is Silicon Valley, tech pros are employed "at will" The contract I signed is one of at-will employment. I don't consider the terms mutually exclusive. I don't work in
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by pbh101 9y ago
Most of the time, employers are savvy enough to write employment contracts which cover this eventuality and lay broad claim to all work products and require the employee to do any sort of work. My guess is that most programmers are employed
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by pbh101 9y ago
Your scenario introduce 'translation' as an additional task. I wouldn't be surprised if that ends up being the bottleneck, rather than anything specific to either the input or output language processing.
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by pbh101 9y ago
NYC is not mild compared to Amsterdam. According to this source (admittedly just the first I Googled), Amsterdam is on average 13F cooler in the summer, which IMO makes a huge difference when relying on it for your daily commute. [1] http:
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by pbh101 9y ago
I think it needs to be mild, flat, and dense . And then AFAIK the government made a concerted effort to exploit those traits by building good cycling infrastructure.
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by pbh101 9y ago
Most of the time I've seen people refer to code as a liability, they aren't referring to the 'cost-center' mentality, but rather recognizing code is the liability you incur in order to get the business value [1], and thu
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by pbh101 9y ago
Step on a scale daily at the same time in your routine, preferably one that tracks your weight. I have a year of daily data now, which I think is helpful for me to see progress.
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by pbh101 9y ago
Agreed on both points. Either I missed your note about isolation on the first read or you edited.
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d) Deploy them directly to the same bare-metal non-virtual machine, without a VM or container. Yes, you can get cross-app deployment conflicts (packaging, etc), and limits your cloud deployment options, but it is definitely another option a
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by pbh101 10y ago
Also, many more tasks are now economically feasible whereas before, the high fixed upfront cost of programming would have made them never done. In other words, we're making more programs now to do more more-trivial things because the c
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by pbh101 10y ago
I think what you are suggesting is a classic recipe for office politics. It frequently can be more difficult for a supervisor to get an accurate assessment of a direct report's skill level than a peer, both because they have many other
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by pbh101 10y ago
In one of their financial earnings calls, Google made veiled reference to the fact that the incentive structure for the self-driving venture was wildly out of whack and they were taking steps to correct it. This looks like definitely one in
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by pbh101 10y ago
>I'd go learn FPGA dev then if there were things that needed accelerating and were personally lucrative to me HFT
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by pbh101 10y ago
Believe me, I would love a simpler system, if not only for my own life but because the rent-seeking of Intuit et al is infuriating. Though I think almost any tax increase would dwarf the marginal reduction of filing process price (and proba
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by pbh101 10y ago
>since taxpayers might end up paying taxes already on the books that they might have previously unintentionally evaded. To take the charitable explanation of this position: studies have shown that prices go up when the payer gets more se
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by pbh101 10y ago
In addition to the good points by the sibling comments, one more I'll add: I frequently take trips in parts of Chicago that I know extremely well, and thus can vet the sanity of the routes posted, as well as sanity-check the route whil
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by pbh101 10y ago
For one, I think the intent of the requirement can be satisfied by alternate means. For example, like the google map that is recorded and displayed to me of every Uber trip I've taken.
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by pbh101 10y ago
Linus Torvalds answered exactly this question [0]. Not that that means you should unblinkingly take it on authority, but the original reasoning is: the renderer doesn't alway know when a line should be wrapped. Examples: a stack trace,
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by pbh101 10y ago
IMC | Chicago, IL | Full-time, INTERNS | ONSITE | Software Engineer, FPGA Engineer We are actively hiring talented engineers to grow our trading operations across the world. Entry-level, junior, and experienced. For intern/entry-level
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by pbh101 10y ago
What I have expressed is that any system I must use at work (HR, expense reporting, JIRA/Teamcity) should be usable on mobile. But the state of the art in many areas is applications that are barely usable on desktop: Workday's ap
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by pbh101 10y ago
(I didn't read the article yet, but): There is a difference between proponents and critics describing the same activity in different terms and noting that different companies treat the system differently and that it is roughly bimodal:
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by pbh101 10y ago
There isn't an alternative inasmuch as there isn't a drop-in replacement. Thus, there are switching costs, which thus represent financial (and counterparty!) risks. Compare this situation to Dell v. Lenovo v. HP commodity x86 serv
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by pbh101 10y ago
Good point... I forgot they'll eat just about anything, including eggs. You don't want to feed them brunch scraps, otherwise they may start poking at unharvested eggs sitting around.
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I don't know. But I don't think too many other omnivores were usually eaten: cows, chickens, sheep, even horses are all herbivores. To a larger point, the imprecision of the rule would have been dictated both by customs and limita
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by pbh101 10y ago
PG wrote about how he considers many religions to have a culturally-evolutionarily useful bit ('don't eat tainted pork' over time will increase your economic growth) and a viral one, which perpetuates and reinforces the belie
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by pbh101 10y ago
IMC | Chicago, IL | Full-time, INTERNS | ONSITE | Software Engineer, FPGA Engineer We are actively hiring talented engineers to grow our trading operations across the world. Entry-level, junior, and experienced. For intern/entry-level
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by pbh101 10y ago
Your examples are interesting: Lottos: are known to give each ticket a fair chance based on a published set of rules. I think if that existed for hiring then many of the issues we see here would be gone. Unfortunately for many jobs it is di
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by pbh101 10y ago
Not sure if it is aberrant for the NYT, but many British publications' style guides (The Economist, for one) dictate using this form for acronyms which are pronounced as words, as opposed to initialisms. So 'FBI' vs. 'Na
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by pbh101 10y ago
A couple things I haven't seen mentioned yet but may be useful for you: - consider web/iOS consulting companies: with a targeted skill set they may be better able to properly assess your skills. Pivotal, Thoughtworks, etc. - consi
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by pbh101 10y ago
I always give this interactive cheatsheet [1] to git newbies to help them conceptualize the state transfer. [1] http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html

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