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by pjscott 10y ago
The link you cited is talking specifically about "unstructured interviews", the sort where you're judged based on handshake firmness and questions like "What is your greatest weakness?" It shouldn't be too surp
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by pjscott 10y ago
I don't think you're wrong, but I predict that this will be a complete non-problem: by the time people's skills have atrophied significantly, self-driving car technology will have improved to the point where it won't mat
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by pjscott 10y ago
Are you sure that's a real question? The answer is probably just that the words you're using don't quite fit the underlying reality.
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by pjscott 10y ago
That just means that being on-call for your own code results in good code, a love for automated testing, and a seething grudge against EC2 and its tendency to have multi-zone outages at 3 AM. It doesn't matter what time zone you&#x27
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by pjscott 10y ago
It says that you have not exhausted the wonders of this world, and that good times are ahead of you.
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by pjscott 10y ago
SpaceX has raised quite a bit of money from private investors with long time horizons, so that option definitely hasn't escaped their notice.
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by pjscott 10y ago
CloudFlare is saying all the right things in this relevant blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-free-speech/ I'm fairly optimistic that they mean it -- and that if they don't, playing censor
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by pjscott 10y ago
You should halt if and only if you know you'll never halt.
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by pjscott 10y ago
If I had to make a list of people whose lives would be most improved by some extra money, engineers in Silicon Valley would probably not be at the very top of the page.
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by pjscott 10y ago
SAT preparation is not very effective. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Derek_Briggs/publicatio...
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by pjscott 10y ago
I wish them all the best, and will probably be reading something else.
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by pjscott 10y ago
That's a very comforting idea. There's a scarier idea: school is not there for anything. It's not meant to teach you to conform, or to avoid conformity, or to remember who Douglas McArthur was, or to make you forget; it&#x2
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by pjscott 10y ago
In the same vein, sure, but an order of magnitude more grim. And more beautiful. I'll recommend this article until the sun burns out. Or until the educational system gets its act together -- but I repeat myself.
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The best jokes in software usually have running code. The best of the best are practical.
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by pjscott 10y ago
It's all about what someone could plausibly imagine someone else finding arousing. Never mind intent, and never mind content; is there someone, hypothetical or real, who could get off on it? Can pedophiles enjoy it? This policy is not
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by pjscott 10y ago
Prosecuting those "maybe's and could-be's" will definitely harm adults. How sure are you of your reasoning?
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Accepting lower reliability of rockets doesn't buy you as much cost reduction as you might expect. Payloads are usually very expensive, so even a moderately increased risk of losing one can be pricy. What SpaceX is doing is accepting w
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by pjscott 10y ago
If rocket failures were a Poisson process with a low rate, you'd expect to see some clustering by random chance. And if they're being watched by the media, you should expect to see people making much of it, whether or not there&#x
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by pjscott 10y ago
> [...] try teaching programming to a bunch of math majors and a bunch of sociology majors, see how learns more easily. That doesn't necessarily mean that teaching math to people makes them better at programming. It could also mean
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As far as I can tell, that's the usual way to do it these days: make the API HTTPS-only, and stick the auth token in each request. Using secure connections isn't expensive anymore.
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by pjscott 10y ago
How long does it require? And might the answer, perhaps, be higher than 78.8 years? Or maybe higher than 200? How about 1000?
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by pjscott 10y ago
Let's assume you're right -- we still have decades before anybody even reaches that age. We've dealt with bigger shocks in shorter spans of time.
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I have it filed under "problems to ponder, and possibly angst about, at great length. If time permits."
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by pjscott 10y ago
> simplified memory architecture (no cache?) No automatic cache hierarchy. There is local memory, which you manage explicitly. More info here: https://www.nervanasys.com/nervana-engine-delivers-deep-lear...
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by pjscott 10y ago
Almost all discussions of whether something is or is not a disease could be usefully replaced by a link to that article.
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> She: I've heard that the main thing is to avoid relativism. But I'm a physicist, and that presents a real difficulty. Without relativity there'd be no possibility of making measurements and we'd each be prisoners, t
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It looks like the "tech" category reported on those graphs is including technicians, which make up very different percentages of the workforce at the two companies -- about 1% of Google's employees and 22% of Apple's, ac
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The candidates applying to those jobs are overwhelmingly male, with few blacks and hispanics. Imagine an unbiased hiring process: how would its results look different from what you see now?
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by pjscott 10y ago
Here was a fun surprise: when he said "I'm proud to be gay," the crowd cheered. At the Republican National Convention.
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by pjscott 10y ago
Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVHoGiSCfmU This is what an attempt to change a party's rhetoric from the inside looks like. Kind of fun to watch, really.

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