rdouble

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by rdouble 13y ago
Cal Henderson, the guy who made Flickr, doesn't seem to own a pair of long pants. Also when I met Paul Graham, he was in shorts. So, yeah, I'd trust a software developer in shorts.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I felt the same way as the OP right before the dot com bust. Then all the startups went out of business and the only way to get a decent job was to know a recruiter for a big company.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I quit LinkedIn and now receive almost no recruiter spam. Recruiters seem to only exist on LinkedIn now, so if you really want to avoid them just delete your account.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Murakami's solution is to start jogging. edit: to answer your question, I suggest The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Murakami is overrated. Once you've read that one, you've essentially read them all.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Your comments don't make any sense if you weren't talking about the USA.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Rosaria The Housekeeper consistently votes for scary people every time who then do abominable things. Neither the Rosarias or Hipsters in this country vote much at all, and when they do it's for the same guy.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I've found that cheap hotels are usually cheaper than AirBNB if I want the whole place to myself.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Kick them out for breaking the terms of the lease and raise the rent up to current market rate for the next tenant.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Crime actually went up slightly in suburban and rural areas during 2000-2010. The suburban homicide rate actually increased by about the same percentage as the urban rate went down.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Every opening of another satellite office that exploits the large salary gap... I was under the impression that the satellite offices aren't just to exploit the wage gap, it's also to set up a pipeline to get more foreign engine
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by rdouble 13y ago
It would be cool if the Silicon Valley area could somehow be replicated without the tech industry. I wouldn't mind living in the Atherton of the 1950s.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Anyway, I can't imagine anyone under 45 willingly living in "Silicon Valley" In my experience, a large percentage of engineers of any age have suburban tendencies. There are way more "nerd's nerds" down in th
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by rdouble 13y ago
What tptacek, rdouble and james_madison said is accurate. Hmm? I love being accurate but I didn't post anything to this thread.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I vastly prefer magic, so long as it works.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Is that really true, though? It seems like you'd be healthier eating healthy salads and a donut, rather than never eating a donut, but never eating a salad, either.
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by rdouble 13y ago
If you say "how old is they?" or "they is adorable" it will sound cooler, like you're speaking some sort of patois.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Peer pressure works. I had some chili dried grasshoppers in Mexico. My sister forced me to eat them. They weren't that great, but weren't bad, either. Sort of like eating sunflower seeds. I'll admit I don't know how one
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by rdouble 13y ago
Intuitively I want to agree with you, as I've had similar thoughts , but is it really the case that younger people don't do as much programming? I'm around your age and almost nobody did programming when I was a kid, or even
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by rdouble 13y ago
It's because of "American Exceptionalism." Single payer health care was not invented in America, therefore it could not possibly work in America. Education is similar. There are always at least 20 countries ranked ahead of th
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by rdouble 13y ago
I've been to the doctor in Australia and Germany, and you do have to pay but the price was less than what I had to pay in the USA with insurance.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The PDF doesn't actually go into detail about how the author made over $200K in 19 days. In fact, the rest of the story doesn't mention anything else about that claim at all. It's a discussion between a fictional "Steve&
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by rdouble 13y ago
The linked PDF would have been more interesting if it actually got into detail about that claim.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Sports are what he did before politics. He's returning to his specialty. Sports and gambling are very typical inspirations for career statisticians.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It doesn't cost that much, really. The salary of the guy running the lab is the largest expense by far. At a startup I worked at a few years ago, they had a lab running 40 hours a week. It would have cost about 10 times as much to have
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by rdouble 13y ago
More likely state troopers would be making $300K a year.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I deleted my anecdote because I didn't feel it was appropriate to leave details up about my friend's company as he's still my friend and they still need to fill the position. I guess I don't get what you're saying.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I'm not sure what I said contradicts what you're saying. I've been involved with hiring over 100 people in Boston, San Francisco and NYC. Everyone does not really know everyone but that's a different story. Contract to h
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by rdouble 13y ago
That's the issue. A job explicitly labeled "contract to hire" is never done right. No good developer is going to do contract to hire at 1/52 of the salary, because they already either make an equivalent salary or far mor
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by rdouble 13y ago
You must have had a very atypical childhood and never interact with kids because there are tons of art supplies, picture books and "count the apples" type arithmetic books that are only for kids.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I majored in math and had pretty good ACT and SAT scores but I still find Calculus and related math very difficult. My unscientific observation is that some people find the analytical/continuous parts of math difficult but can still do

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