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by psranga 17y ago
Wrt median: Your points seem to support what I am saying. The median general salary is much lower than even the tech industry's supposed depressed wages. Then why aren't people scrambling to become engineers like they did to become realtors
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by psranga 17y ago
I seriously doubt that immigration is driving Americans out of engineering/programming. Let's take a look at some basic numbers. The median household income in the US about $50k, men's medial income is 45K and women's is 35K. If you assume
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by psranga 17y ago
IIRC, Twitter was started as a way to send personal bits of info to people you knew. Why else do they have the tagline "What are you doing?". That idea didn't work. Hence I would definitely agree that a lot of luck resulted in Twitter bei
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by psranga 17y ago
Can you elaborate why you say getting into debt "is the right thing to do"? Why do you think it's unreasonable to reduce spending when tax collection goes down? Personally, I find the parent's commonsensical prescription appealing. The pare
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by psranga 17y ago
Yes, does anybody have data on latency and throughput of EBS "disks"?
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by psranga 17y ago
Protect yourself against lax companies like this with the PwdHash Firefox extension. http://www.pwdhash.com/
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by psranga 17y ago
Just like Microsoft. :)
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by psranga 17y ago
My comments were about "big" self-contained projects for which it's worth it to have their own internal infrastructure and idioms etc. An example would be a compiler or an interpreter or a web server. For smallish programs like what you des
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by psranga 17y ago
If we interpret what cperciva said to mean 100% correct proofs you're correct. But you can do a lot of things in C++ to avoid memory leaks/reading from freed memory etc. Some of them are: 1) are auto-freeing templatized heap object class
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by psranga 17y ago
Very nice. How about if the result appeared inline below the "Lookup" button instead of on a new page?
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by psranga 18y ago
A common mistake people good at something make is to assume that the average person who does that is also as good as them. In this case, they are competing against what seems like an established enterprise software company. It's unlikely su
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by psranga 18y ago
I know of at least one instance of the opposite. This team sold a technology to an established software business for a decent money. If it took these guys three years getting to where they are, it will take at least that much for any comp
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Sobe, the anti-Switch?(curdrice.com)
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by psranga 18y ago
Several points in no particular order why I think this may be a "good" article (i.e., it's good storytelling), but I'm still critical of this article. While writing this reply, I skimmed a couple of food startup companies on Wikipedia. It l
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by psranga 18y ago
I was bothered by the lack of introspection in the article.
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by psranga 18y ago
I bet Google picked Mercurial because it was easier for them to hack on and adapt to their infrastructure. A "libgit" is on lots of people's wish list, but the official developers seem pretty happy with the hodgepodge of binaries.
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by psranga 18y ago
A closer analogy imho is with lawyers. Writing doesn't necessarily involve logical thinking of the type programming involves, and it doesn't seem to involve "hacking" (in the best sense of the term), and it doesn't involve working withing c
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by psranga 18y ago
Maybe I'm dense, but if you go to the wrong room you'll only know you're at the wrong room. How do you know what the correct room is?
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by psranga 18y ago
Usually companies try to evaluate a candidate independently; unless your side project is exactly what the company wants, I'd be surprised if your open source projects are the deciding factor in your getting the job . But your o-s contrib
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by psranga 18y ago
You can do everything you said without contributing to an open source project.
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by psranga 18y ago
Yes. The best developers I know do not contribute to open source projects, and have no interest in doing so. I can understand why. It take a HUGE amount of effort to digest a big codebase; why do it when the most fun in programming is to
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by psranga 18y ago
I'm a little puzzled by the skepticism about Facebook's utility. I don't know about you guys, but losing touch with old friends is something I feel bad about all the time. Facebook let's you keep informed in a shallow way about people who y
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by psranga 18y ago
Walking away doesn't work if all companies are the same (and they are). As soon as you start negotiating, they'll know you got the info from your friend (these HR people are not dummies even though they don't code :)). Don't tell them thoug
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by psranga 18y ago
The book Illusions of Entrepreneurship claims that existing companies create more jobs than new companies. Starts at page 153: Here's the google books link: http://bit.ly/m4vXV
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by psranga 18y ago
Others have said it, but I'll say it again. Maybe in 1989, this would have made sense. But capitalism has had enough converts that most countries have pretty low barriers to high tech startups now. IMHO, people who are already entreprenuria
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by psranga 18y ago
You rank applicants to the visa program by Erdos numbers? Is this the same Erdos number as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number ? Or do you rank investors? In either case, you're ranking people based on WHO they know, not what
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by psranga 18y ago
A quick search shows no mention of Illusions of Entrepreurship. Excellent book, btw. That book claims that existing companies create more jobs than new companies. Starts at page 153: Here's the google books link: http://bit.ly/m4vXV
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by psranga 18y ago
I don't see anything about searching personal email here. Is the original arcticle inaccurate?
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by psranga 18y ago
I bought this book a few years ago (5 IIRC). I started skimming it and got pretty sad about the things one supposedly had to do to make it. Then I lost the book a few days later when I left it on a flight. I took it as a sign; I didn't both
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by psranga 18y ago
Hmm, maybe I'm too retro for this guy, but 16 bytes for an element in a linked list does sound excessive. :)

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