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by pfedor 16y ago
I work at Google on websearch indexing. I usually arrive to work between 9 and 10am and leave around 7pm. I don't work from home and I have never worked on a weekend. There are many engineers around me who choose to work very long hours a
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by pfedor 16y ago
The false negative rate of the hiring strategy you advocate would be significantly higher that the traditional programming interviews. There certainly is a fraction of otherwise competent programmers who would fail to write the linked lis
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by pfedor 16y ago
In all ways except being supported by the browsers used by the majority of the users.
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by pfedor 16y ago
I don't know man. Everything you say about productivity in science rings equally as true for computer programming. And yet it is possible to be a reasonably happy, reasonably productive software engineer and never work nights or weekends.
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by pfedor 16y ago
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligenc... "Each additional point of IQ increased the odds of virginity by 2.7% for males and 1.7% for females."
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by pfedor 16y ago
Penrose believes that the nature of consciousness is connected to a physical phenomenon which happens in our brains but not in computers, therefore he does not believe a computer can posses consciousness no matter what software you put on i
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by pfedor 16y ago
Sir Roger Penrose has written at length on the topic of consciousness, and his views are very far from yours or Eliezer Yudkowsky's, and you can't deny that he probably also knows a thing or two about Quantum Mechanics. Which is not to say
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by pfedor 16y ago
To spin it the other way: In software engineering the compensation tends to be much more based on skills and less on seniority than in other fields (mostly because the skill is easier to demonstrate and test than in other fields). Therefor
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by pfedor 16y ago
I have a stupid question: for a one-person business, how does purchasing an umbrella insurance compare with setting up an LLC? Say an LLC in California costs $800 a year. I think you can buy umbrella insurance covering you up to a few mil
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by pfedor 16y ago
I believe in California there is something called Cal-COBRA which lasts another 18 months after COBRA expires, that gives you three years total.
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by pfedor 16y ago
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html
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by pfedor 16y ago
A book I would really like which I haven't heard of before.
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RepRap Project(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pfedor 16y ago|0 comments
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by pfedor 16y ago
I think the difference is that, unlike EMTs and firemen, police officers need to be difficult to corrupt.
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Panoramic Quake 3(blog.jfedor.org)
2 points by pfedor 16y ago|0 comments
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by pfedor 16y ago
In a meritocratic society with equal opportunities children from poor households should be able to end up in all income brackets - some in the top, some in the middle, some in the poor etc. The more uniform the distribution the better. Ha
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by pfedor 16y ago
You have only this many five-years projects left to complete in this life. If you really prefer learning a foreign language to learning quantum mechanics, or computer programming, or how to play a piano, by all means don't let me stop you.
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by pfedor 16y ago
One thing you will surely regret at the age of 80 is if you will still have to work part time, not having saved enough for retirement. Starting a startup that fails costs you several hundred grand (which I know from a friend who started a
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by pfedor 16y ago
No idea why anyone would have downvoted you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp7yv67B5Sc
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by pfedor 16y ago
This guy's suffering was real -- it's just that, contrary to what the article implies, it was not caused by the lack of material comforts, but by the low social position relative to others he compared himself against. If he time-traveled t
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by pfedor 16y ago
Learning another language requires so much time and effort that it is almost always an effort misplaced unless the language is English. Learning a language is a few years of hard work. I have a friend who is an assistant professor in Germa
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Google Caffeine Explained(theregister.co.uk)
27 points by pfedor 16y ago|5 comments
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by pfedor 16y ago
Well I can name one place where portions are exactly the right size and it's McDonald's. E.g., cheeseburger plus the Caesar salad w/o chicken, plus french fries plus two apple pies plus a coke is about half the size of a meal in a regular
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by pfedor 16y ago
Regarding "Reading Mathematics is not a linear experience": You have to say, compared with what. I remember that compared with theoretical physics, mathematics seemed emphatically like a linear experience. A friend of mine tried once to e
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by pfedor 16y ago
You should mention the what the old and new urls are, that would make it easier for people to help you. One common mistake is to robot out the 301 source, therefore making it impossible for Google to see that it's a redirect. Are you sure
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by pfedor 16y ago
Oh, but with respect to other aspects of human behavior the things are still the other way around. From the article, another of her questionable beliefs was: She also has affirmed binary male-female gender, with one or the other bei
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by pfedor 16y ago
He also advocates slavery. And proposes a system in which all women are grouped into a pool of common wives, on the basis that when no one knows which child was fathered by whom, every man will have fatherly feelings for every child and ev
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by pfedor 16y ago
Google Code Search was his intern project: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2006/10/search-worlds-public-...
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by pfedor 16y ago
They are illegal in the US, you should know: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_254.html
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by pfedor 16y ago
In the book he says that at some point he started telling women openly up front about the game and him being the pick-up artist etc., just to see what happens, and it didn't have much effect on the outcome.

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