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by rifung 10y ago
> If inflation is 20%, and you're earning 3% interest, your losing purchasing power. Yes but I think the point the person you're replying to is trying to make is that it doesn't matter because the inflation rate is not dep
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by rifung 10y ago
> Said companies then hire the top students in the classes. The classes work as a sort of technical screening. Do you have any sources for this? I see that a lot of companies sponsor courses and nanodegrees, but I still haven't seen
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by rifung 10y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted for asking a question.. I care about CPU performance for compiling large projects. If I ever end up having time outside of work, I would like to try my hand at GHC development. I have made an attempt
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by rifung 10y ago
Hi, I apologize if this is off topic but I just thought you should know the site does not display properly in my browser. Maybe this is just an unsupported use case but I think it's because the browser window isn't wide enough so
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by rifung 10y ago
I mean it's still there, it's just not a physical key right? And you can use ctrl [ instead which is closer to the home row anyway.
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by rifung 10y ago
> If you're any good at your job, you should avoid these open companies like the plague I think you mean if you're any good at negotiating salary since doing a good job does not equate with higher pay in most companies. Also, e
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by rifung 10y ago
> Unless you really love the Google bubble with AI and data collection. I know this might come as a surprise but some people prefer Android to iOS. The Pixel seems to fare well compared to other Android phones, especially when you don&#x
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by rifung 10y ago
I wouldn't really equate Google Glass with Heads up Display glasses as most people imagine them. I'm not sure if you've used it, but it sounded super cool until I tried it. You don't see the image on Glass on the lenses
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by rifung 10y ago
They talked about this in the article "But it is beginning to seem that the problem isn’t that the kind of people who wind up on the pleasant side of inequality suffer from some moral disability that gives them a market edge. The probl
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by rifung 10y ago
> This is why companies have stock buy-backs, in order to pump up the share price. Why does this matter to them? Stocks are very strange to me.. when I think of owning a business, I'd hope to get some share of the profits, which as
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by rifung 10y ago
My understanding was that downvoting was for comments which do not contribute to the conversation. I'm both surprised and sad to hear that the downvote button's intended purpose is disagreement. This seems like it would discourage
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by rifung 10y ago
The downvote button isn't a disagree or dislike button. If I disagree (and care enough), I use the other button, reply, to try to understand their point of view and try to get them to understand mine.
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by rifung 10y ago
> You've just wasted that bandwidth on the local tower (which matters if you're in urban areas). But with tiered data plans, we paid for that anyway. I would understand if they offer this as a service we can enable to lower how
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by rifung 10y ago
Well, first of all if they disclosed it they would likely be sued for violating an NDA. Secondly, this would set a bad precedent because now who would ever trust Mozilla with a vulnerability that's behind an NDA?
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by rifung 10y ago
Sorry since I know you're exhausted already but can you share why you think not all bits are created equally? I always thought it was bizarre how companies charge for tethering, especially after data caps were introduced. Aren't t
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by rifung 10y ago
> What? How does a better screen make the camera better It doesn't, it makes the photos you take from said camera look better than if you also looked at the photos from a crappy screen. Not trying to step on any toes; I just wanted
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by rifung 10y ago
Are you implying all European companies are boring? That seems like a strange assumption..
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by rifung 10y ago
Why do you consider this an overvaluation? I imagine it takes a lot of practice to reach a high level of cooking. Sure, you can probably make an ice cream decently enough in after a few tries, but I imagine to be a good chef you should know
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by rifung 10y ago
> but not one test on knowledge of languages, architecture, design, or actual real-world problem solving Maybe they fail to do so but I do believe the goal is to test real world problem solving. However, I think they stray from specific
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by rifung 10y ago
I realize this is a long shot, but seeing as you're actually in a pretty high position, could you try having the recruiter screen changed to be multiple choice? It's simpler when having a non technical person asking the questions
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by rifung 10y ago
Ah I agree on the dependency part. I suppose it was easy enough for me to just pull in the jars but I suspect my projects had rather simple dependency needs. Sounds like what you were doing was much more involved! I appreciate the reply
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by rifung 10y ago
> The only thing worse than gradle is ANT, which it replaced. What's wrong with ant? I liked it.. It was simple to understand for the most part. It also made it easy to develop without an IDE, although I'll admit I don't k
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by rifung 10y ago
> You're not punishing them just because they're female; you are rationally incorporating the increased risk of them being indisposed due to pregnancy into your calculations. Perhaps the latter is the intention but as far as I
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by rifung 10y ago
> I see both sides of the argument, and I see why protecting the convenience of reproduction is important from a practical genetic/memetic standpoint, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it "ethical". Hey I appreciate
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by rifung 10y ago
> I mean, a lot of mental illnesses actually have a legitimate negative effect on one's ability to be a productive worker. Yes I completely agree. However, if a mentally ill person can perform their duties with reasonable accommodat
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by rifung 10y ago
The person I was replying to mentioned that some other countries don't have an accreditation board. I was trying to imply that I approve of its existence, not that there isn't one. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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by rifung 10y ago
Ah interesting the article didn't mention that. Do you have a source that their research was limited to managers?
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by rifung 10y ago
I have a friend in med school and his experience doesn't sound like tech hiring at all. From what I can tell, med school isn't hard because of rent seeking, but because there is frankly just a very large amount of things you have
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by rifung 10y ago
> . Fortunately, others are speaking up as well. In online magazines and on NPR, medical students who have lived through suicide attempts, depression and other mental-health issues are standing up against this stigma. Medical schools are
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by rifung 10y ago
The interesting thing is that Google found that behavioral interviews better predict employee performance. I'm not sure why they didn't change their interviews after that internal study.. Source: https://www.google.com&

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