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by rafiki6 8y ago
More evidence as to why tipping culture needs to die. Tipping fundamentally takes away the responsibility of paying someone for their work from the employer to the customer. In what other business context do I pay an employee of a company I
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Maybe they are a person who's second language is English. I'm not sure if you're trying to convey some ironic sentiment in your comment but "losing your patience" at this honest and easy mistake for a person who&#x2
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I've learned that there are certain skills that separate good developers from mediocre ones, and that's 3 main things 1) curiosity 2) Grit 3) Patience Curiosity is having a problem and caring about finding out why it isn't wo
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by rafiki6 8y ago
You're experience is so common that there are sites like " https://css-tricks.com/" . I feel the problem here is that when they were making the standards, they for whatever reason separated the content from the
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Fundamentally this individual took a risk and it worked out. There was an equal chance that the new product he was working on could have floundered and he might not have gotten promoted. Survivorship bias is present here. Same as saying &qu
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I don't see an issue with having a data collection and data engineering function that operates separately from those scientists who are creating hypotheses and then they can search data catalogs and libraries to serve their hypotheses
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The biggest missing point in this article is that the companies who actually succeed at automation are few and far between, and generally speaking entire industries need to be upended for automation to actually take hold. I don't agree
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I love how they always lump words like AI, automation, ML, Deep Learning together. They make it seem like there already exists an army of robots just as capable as humans ready to take over. Sure, many companies have managed to automate lot
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I don't see why my comment was down voted. I made a valid argument that the expectation of the broker not being privy to the conversation is a bit unreasonable and we should further explore P2P.
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Well obviously make sure that it's the appropriate solution. I just find that many times the solution tends to favour a data structure which allows for constant time access. It really depends obviously on the interviewer.
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I guess it's fair to assume that when we say "the conversation's participants" we explicitly mean everyone except the broker. I think it's important in this day and age to accept that the broker is now a conversatio
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Ask HN: Coping with working in a disorganized company
2 points by rafiki6 8y ago|0 comments
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You are right, these questions are generally a terribly signal towards your capabilities or intelligence. They require a disproportionate amount of effort on your part. Now that we got the complaining out of the way, if you are interested i
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I generally avoid MSFT stuff, but honestly you can't beat their documentation. https://www.asp.net/learn
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Ask HN: What's the next big challenge in software?
4 points by rafiki6 8y ago|4 comments
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I never understood the desire to work on games. Is it because many people get their introduction to software via games (legitimate question)? I remember many of my classmates in my college days were really about entering the gaming industry
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Separate your 5% stake (i.e. your ownership in the company) from your salary as an employee of the company (the amount of money your labor is worth). Calculate how much that labor is worth on the market and see if the 5% stake is making up
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by rafiki6 8y ago
In practical terms, math is a language, i.e. a medium of communication, which helps us model physical and real phenomena. There are certainly theories in math, but most of the "math" that matters is pretty matter of fact. It may n
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I'd argue that domination requires agency. We want to dominate the earth and are doing it. Bacteria maybe more prevalent, but they haven't wiped us out yet. We on the other hand have wiped out several strains of bacteria.
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Autonomous cars, as with any technology we develop, will likely find it's killer application where it makes the most economical sense. They might start out as busses or even truck, and rather than having a driver behind the wheel, you
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Funny that you raise that very valid point. Maybe we should be asking our selves why there's such a large concentration of the population on these overloaded cities, when the US has arguably enough land to distribute more effectively..
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I wonder...do the makers of MacOS use old macs? Do the makers of Windows use old ibm pc clones? You can learn to empathize with your user by testing on a range of hardware that would simulate their environment. Your own development hardware
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Correct, it seems much better to create a test bed environment emulating this, rather than artificially constraining a person own development environment due to some poorly thought out policy which is actually likely a way to save money.
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I see...so your shop with a great policy seems not to have learned about these things called test environments eh?
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Agreed, sensationalist and inaccurate title. I find that when publications or blogs with massive readership do this, it reflects poorly on their potentially valid argument and editorship. A better title might be "Oracle purposely under
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So he's talking about the Web not the Internet. Counter argument, the web was never that great to begin with and maybe let's stop pretending that some large companies we all don't like for whatever reason are responsible? Soc
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Sure, I'm not sure anyone actually denies this. College education was something only upper class folks could receive (especially a liberal arts degree with dubious value in society) due to it's expense. With the emergence of thing
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No the commenter is saying that having completed a degree in chemical engineering serves as a signal to your productivity. It does not in fact determine how productive you actually are.
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This is good and all, and many of the comments here explore the nuances. Something all of it seems to miss is that one persons "senior" engineer is not another persons "senior" engineer. This designation is meaningless a
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It matters tremendously. Think about the economics of bird flight vs. plane flight. Why is it that flight has been around for almost 100 years now and yet we still aren't flying everywhere? The reality is we can always come up with sub

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