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by pfedor 15y ago
In case you wonder what the term "superwealthy" means in practice, the HEART Act of 2008 could offer some help. The act introduces a mark-to-market tax for people who wish to give up their citizenship, as well as long-term Green Card holde
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by pfedor 15y ago
Which framework do you recommend? I know of Unity, Marmalade, Corona and Cocos2d-x. (I once tried porting an SDL application to Android and gave up, after many many hours sunk.)
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by pfedor 15y ago
This is obviously a flawed analogy, since you don't need to be a doctor to locate the ear on a human body.
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by pfedor 15y ago
I think this conclusion is wrong. The fact that FizzBuzz exists actually means that programming interviews are awesome: with most other professions, you would end up hiring a candidate equally as incompetent as the programmer that failed F
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by pfedor 15y ago
One criticism of IQ tests is that they measure the ability to pass IQ tests. Do we have the data to refute the accusation that standardized tests measure only the ability to pass standardized tests? http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/rei
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Modern art was CIA 'weapon'(independent.co.uk)
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by pfedor 15y ago
I generally agree with you, but I felt this one post was much more interesting than your run of the mill "Why I quit ...". He talks about the decision process and how he tried to make a decision in a systematic way. I think that's interes
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by pfedor 15y ago
I don't think I'm going to be a billionaire someday, and if I did I couldn't care less about tax rates. I do think however that maybe I'll be able to retire some day before I die. But the likelihood of this is very much affected by LTCG ra
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by pfedor 15y ago
Yes, you're right. "You can't control what you can't measure" sounds more true. I guess there is an implicit "only" in my version.
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by pfedor 15y ago
After having worked a few years at Google I truly internalized one thing: You can control what you can measure. For example, I talked to my girlfriend who convinced herself for some reason that she needs to lose weight. She mentioned a num
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by pfedor 15y ago
My personal experience: I submitted two personal projects http://kartofel.jfedor.org/ and https://market.android.com/details?id=org.jfedor.frozenbubbl... last year (in July I believe) and both were rejected (i.e., the committee said tha
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by pfedor 15y ago
OTOH if you want to start with something easier, but still with puzzles, Bronze by Emily Short is a good one. If you want a very good game with almost no puzzles, then definitely Photopia .
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by pfedor 15y ago
It is a commonly used argument that the lives of poor people are very hard and unpleasant and that dealing with the hardships sucks out all their energy and brings down their spirits so they can't take advantage of all the opportunities tha
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by pfedor 15y ago
It's not true. I got an employment-based green card a little over a year after I set foot in the country. What is true is that the system is rigged against Indians and Chinese. If you are Indian and don't have a PhD, then yes, you may hav
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Dark Matters (a short cartoon about physics)(phdcomics.com)
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by pfedor 15y ago
When you've learned two subjects with some depth, you start seeing some analogies. Paul Graham thinks that hacking is very much like painting, and this guy thinks that writing code is like writing English, and at one point in my life I bel
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by pfedor 15y ago
Citation needed. Google seems inconclusive, e.g., http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cancer/nutrition/questions/s... http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cancer-causes/CA00085/NSECT... http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/03/do-you-fear-
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by pfedor 15y ago
The existence of the phenomenon of translation proves that all natural languages have the same expressive power. You can translate a text from any language to any other language without losing its meaning, and the translation won't be 10x
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by pfedor 15y ago
I believe this is one of the articles OP mentioned: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2528360 According to one of the comments, it was killed several times.
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by pfedor 15y ago
A story has it that in 1940 Alan Turing buried hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of silver bullion, but then forgot the exact place and couldn't find it. Not sure if the money would have helped him much when they came for him.
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by pfedor 15y ago
Actually, I do remember 10 years ago, that was when I got my first job. I remember that already then I was rather surprised to learn that what they said in the books about database applications was exactly backwards: the often repeated wis
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by pfedor 15y ago
Furthermore, for many year now the compilers have been able to warn you if you use = instead of ==.
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by pfedor 15y ago
In case you missed it, there is an exchange in the comments section between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Greg Egan.
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by pfedor 15y ago
Since you are thinking of German-speaking countries, consider Switzerland. The pay is better than in Silicon Valley, and the taxes (in Zurich at least) are lower.
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by pfedor 15y ago
In the US typically the employer pays for your health insurance and it's not counted towards the salary number. As for retirement, there is social security in the US, although not many people are happy to base their retirement plans on rece
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by pfedor 16y ago
[...] other than a graph is generally an easier way to intuit what a derivative is. Even that is a matter of personal preference. I honestly believe it's easier to get the concept of a derivative by linking it to instantenous velocity.
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by pfedor 16y ago
You could perhaps try to learn calculus the way it was taught three hundred years ago, but I'm pretty sure it would be more difficult, not easier, than the standard presentation. In the early years calculus was considered black magic only
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by pfedor 16y ago
Well if anyone wants to learn more from Jeff Dean than just twelve numbers, here's a talk he gave at Standford about Google's architecture and system building in general: http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=101... The
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by pfedor 16y ago
I've never looked at a project and thought to myself "wow I couldn't make that even after 10 years". "Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in
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by pfedor 16y ago
Why do the houses containing pigs shake ever so slightly at the beginning of each game play sequence? I assumed that it's because the initial positions of the objects in the game are slightly off the equilibrium state, so when the physics

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