rifung

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by rifung 10y ago
> Using your definition of diversity, yes. I think that part of the point in making is that people maintain diversity as the ultimate goal. If it's directly harmful to the more characteristic goals of your grad program or company, i
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by rifung 10y ago
> I've attempted to learn Rust a few times, and it always feel like I'm moving uphill. Isn't this also because it's actually quite a bit different from other languages? I think how difficult something is to learn is l
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by rifung 10y ago
Not that I disagree with you as I haven't ever interviewed there so I wouldn't know, but you can't tell how hard it is to get into a company based on the questions. Two companies could ask the exact same questions but have di
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by rifung 10y ago
> Speaking personally, I found that work environments with lots of new or unamericanized immigrants had little collaboration, little in-office comraderie, and no socialization outside of work (e.g. pub nights). It was boring and I pined
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by rifung 10y ago
It's not as though the company is purposely discriminating though. People naturally discriminate and it takes conscious effort to stop yourself from doing so. At least that's what I was told at the talk about diversity and inclusi
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by rifung 10y ago
Do you have a source for this? Or can people chime in? I could see this for Google or FB which are known to pay pretty well, but is this really "typical"? And even for Google or FB, I imagine $200k would require that you include a
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by rifung 10y ago
> We shifted the burden of healthcare from lower class and sick to middle class. Where are you getting this from? I thought we shifted the burden from.. sick people to non sick people > But the fundamental problem is high cost of heal
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by rifung 10y ago
> Not only are the costs outlandish, there are no high deductible plans available for people who are generally healthy. All of the plans, gold, silver and bronze, are geared toward heavy users or highly risk-averse users. Isn't this
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by rifung 10y ago
> Don't professional software developers feel the same way about crafting a masterful function, only to find their feature had already been implemented years ago? Although I find it weird to call myself a professional, I don't
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by rifung 10y ago
I didn't manage to land any interviews at "top" companies when I was in college, but I think that was largely because I applied way too late (apparently for companies like Google,FB, etc, you need to apply by like November of
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by rifung 10y ago
> The work was actually interesting, but I knew I could just go back to private industry and make 5-10x as much doing the same type of work. Don't you have much more freedom in academia on what you want to pursue though since it doe
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by rifung 10y ago
Palm detection is pretty terrible still though (on Linux at least). Tap to click is unusable for me for this reason.
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by rifung 10y ago
This well beyond what I understand so excuse me if I'm misunderstanding but doesn't this imply that they'd need to guess what k transforms might be used? This just seems like a cat and mouse type ordeal which I can only assum
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by rifung 10y ago
One thing I think you will notice both with him and others who are successful was that they never were interested in fame or success. He seems to do mathematics merely because he enjoys it. What I'm trying to say is that perhaps you sh
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by rifung 10y ago
It's centered relative to the keyboard (the middle of the trackpad is below the 'g' and 'h' keys)
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by rifung 10y ago
I have a 4th gen X1 Carbon with Ubuntu and everything has worked fine. Even the functional buttons like screen brightness and volume work for me. On the other hand, the palm detection does not work or is just terrible because I find myself
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by rifung 10y ago
Wow thank you for the detailed response. Seems like you are much smarter than I am! How do you know this would perform any better than what they are currently doing though? Do you think this would catch the cases which currently pass their
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by rifung 10y ago
Haha oops. But thanks for the reference. I figured they were already checking the videos somehow, but it seems to not catch videos that are mirror imaged or have other modifications. What I was trying to say was that it's much easier a
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by rifung 10y ago
Care to explain how you would do that?
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by rifung 10y ago
> Either google is willfully ignorant or they aren't as great at 'searching' for pirated content as they'd like us to believe. I think the former is much more likely. Disclaimer: I work for Google (but not YouTube). O
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by rifung 10y ago
> I think we are talking about different kinds of diversities. I don't think we are actually because I was also referring to timbre. But yes I suppose I would agree that by the nature of being limited to certain instruments, you are
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by rifung 10y ago
> When you listen popular music on a timeline (70s, 80s, ...), you can at the same time see to the evolution of synthesizers and music production software. I wonder how much of this is just due to taste or lack of familiarity? Not that y
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by rifung 10y ago
I'm not a maintainer, but if it's a showstopper, then it seems like you should just get a developer to write a patch no? You could probably ask the maintainer whether they can help do this, but if not, just ask for (potentially pa
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by rifung 10y ago
> some dumbass hospitalist read my chart wrong But couldn't this also be explained by said person lacking enough sleep?
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by rifung 10y ago
I don't know anything about it being a slogan, but it's in the Code of Conduct still. I just started at Google and had to sign it.
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by rifung 10y ago
> that dynamism is precisely why I use Ruby Could you elaborate? I've never felt like I really needed a dynamic language but that might be because among dynamic languages I only know Python and a little Javascript. I still use them,
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by rifung 10y ago
> Why save a salary, when you can create a business, create value, and scale to the entire Internet and give people some benefit? Every hacker should start one or several businesses. While it may not exactly be a moral obligation, this b
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by rifung 10y ago
They only talk about neurogenesis here but here's an article that says it's not as good for neurogenesis. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/which-type-of-exerc... I could find being forced to
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by rifung 10y ago
Haha! I didn't feel it was relevant to the comment but thank you! I'd rather be a math genius though! Maybe one day I'll be able to at least study some more math
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by rifung 10y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but can you really argue that someone senior who doesn't know a language and its associated frameworks is equivalent to someone who does know those things or deserves to be paid the same

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