planet-and-halo

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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Yeah the stability thing is huge. Businesses and workers are at complete odds on this, because workers want to have a steady income and stop worrying about it, while businesses want the ability to adjust their labor costs on the fly. Worker
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Ah got it, thanks.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Doesn't this only affect inserts and deletes though? I mean I get your point, but on a read you can assume that a binary tree is balanced (by definition). Or am I missing something?
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
I had a less dramatic one where someone argued with me that the lookup time on a binary tree was O(H), the height of the tree, not O(log2n). I was so baffled by the argument that I didn't realize until after the interview that I should
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Thanks, appreciate the suggestion.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
This is something I've been interested in for a while. Do you think it's worth getting an MBA or some other financial degree if you're already in the workforce, or can you learn enough on the fly?
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
The machines
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Ideally that'd be true, but many economists are prescriptive and help make policy. (I also don't mean to pick on economists especially; many other intellectual enclaves have contributed to current management philosophies and natio
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
I suspect we are all the prisoners of long-dead economists. Their ideas of people as atomic resources were useful abstractions in some ways (I agree with the point below that their work has led to great material prosperity), but they have a
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
I haven't written about it before, but happy to share. The way I made the crossover work is that normal text was all lower case alphanumeric. This is similar to Teeline shorthand, from which I borrowed ideas heavily. Because all symbol
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
This is one of those things I wish more people understood. Second-order effects can be hard to predict, but if it's a rule and it involves human beings, then you can be pretty sure the second-order effect will be "people try to ga
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
I read a tiny bit about shorthand and invented my own using some of the principles other systems were designed on during a long weekend. Great investment, lots of fun. I specifically designed notation that could be common across digital and
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
My general impression is that there are only three broad ways to be happy in life: 1. Genetically (i.e. your brain just works that way) 2. Luck into it 3. Iterate towards it (continuously) The whole concept of "get job X and now I&#x27
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
As they say in The Wire, "The whole world shines shit and calls it gold."
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
It's unpopular with some people, but pair programming can work very well for this, even remote. I'm a hands-on manager, and through spontaneous conversations during pairing sessions, my team has learned about things like Agile dev
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Here's an extreme example to make the point: we pay soldiers to kill people and destroy property. At the level of our "business" (our country) this may increase "value" (our security), while at the level of "so
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
You see this argument in discussions of the finance industry a lot. What percentage of financial trading is useful allocation of capital, and how much is just shifting ownership of the things other people make?
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
It's largely in the execution. Coding exercises are probably the best thing you can do, but many interviewers use them to ask bizarre trivia and look down on people who don't have it memorized.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Morally? No. But I think they'd fear the legal repercussions of high-level company officers making public statements that they aren't doing it. I also think one of the many privacy researchers doing traffic sniffing probably would
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
That's geolocation. They knew your friend got a dog, they knew you were in the same location, now they assume you might be interested in dogs too. I still think it's super creepy and invasive, but I think most likely they aren&#x2
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
This is also a philosophical problem. What exactly are you optimizing? Which optimizations are most important? I could become the most dedicated worker on earth, but I might destroy my personal life to the point I have a breakdown and can n
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
This is sort of the obvious "opiate of the masses" counter, which I think is a reasonable consideration.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
I think maybe the point of the comment is that there were countervailing forces in society at one point, e.g. the dictates of certain religions. That aspect of society is substantially weakened in our time (ethical codes of living are broad
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
How did you get into scientific computing? This is something I've been interested in but not sure what paths look like.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
I can't be sure, but I think it was "Slack" by Demarco.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
I read a book by a consultant who said he could immediately gauge how well a factory was operating by looking at how relaxed the average workers were. The most efficient factories almost looked like nothing was happening, because they had a
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
This reminds me of the research showing some tiny percentage of Twitter users, like 3%-4%, are responsible for the vast majority of flamewars. The asymmetry of the internet gives these people the ability to crowd reasonable people out of th
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
This is pretty much why I've checked out. I used to love discussions with people who made me see something in a different way, but these rage-driven shouting matches are illiberal (in the classical sense) and toxic. It's politics
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
It's awesome. Nature is the original distributed system.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
I wonder if some degree might be self-medicating. I've seen it suggested developers have a higher-than-usual rate of ADHD and the like, and it wouldn't surprise me if that's true and caffeine use is an instinctual coping mech

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