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by rm999 14y ago
Oh, I see, that makes a lot of sense - thanks!
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by rm999 14y ago
I have a good applied math background, including linear algebra and gaussian elimination. First part I don't totally understand is: Prasad’s work is for solving linear systems over finite fields, specifically F_p, with p prime.
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by rm999 14y ago
I never took abstract algebra, can someone explain what is going on? I read about half the article before realizing I have no idea what they mean.
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by rm999 14y ago
EA, his former employer, is suing Zynga for copying their games and specifically named him in the suit. Surprised the article doesn't mention this.
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by rm999 14y ago
I believe most design firms offer some kind of prototype as a first step, which is what they did. They weren't commissioned to do anything, and there is no go-to person at Wikipedia for them to work with; an iterative process would have req
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by rm999 14y ago
> Should Microsoft not act in it's self-interest Only if it benefits them or their users, which it almost certainly won't. Hurting your competitor is not the same thing as competing with them.
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by rm999 14y ago
>When you're a near monopoly, as MSFT was a decade ago, there might be some muster to your argument. I never made an argument that depends on their market position. Either way, I don't think your comparison is apt. Competition isn't al
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by rm999 14y ago
>It is not classy to drag someone else's brand through the dirt Wikipedia is fairly democratic, they're open to redesign decisions if they work for the site and are free. See this response to the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by rm999 14y ago
Microsoft is being overly aggressive and has ulterior motives that don't align with their users. Very typical of their short-term Machiavellian style of thinking. Tactically they are making a questionable decision. They are trying to break
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by rm999 14y ago
Very little about the economy is zero sum. A good employee can help grow a company to the point where more people need to be hired.
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by rm999 14y ago
Those are conglomerates, which are quite controversial in the investing world. They're usually stable businesses, but often come with a "conglomerate discount" that leads to lower investor returns. This is due to increased overhead, murkier
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by rm999 14y ago
When you have a company with 15000 engineers and maybe 15 solid products, I imagine there's a lot of mindless work going on :) But, if you're going to do mindless work I can't think of a better place than Google to be. Every single person I
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by rm999 14y ago
The way he put it it's not possible for him to switch projects, and it's not simple to take on a second project because he's supposed to be fulltime on the transition. But I don't know the details, I'm not clear how Google's project managem
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by rm999 14y ago
I was recently talking to someone who worked for a company that was acquired by google. He seemed to think the setup was bittersweet. On one hand all he had to do was stay for 1.5-3 years (I forget exactly how long) and his 500K in google s
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by rm999 14y ago
I may misunderstand what you mean, but isn't unmapping standard commands bad for portable scripting? Not everyone will have the same aliases as you; for something like git commit this may not matter, but it seems like a bad habit to me. And
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by rm999 14y ago
I was wondering the same thing. I've never sent one after interviewing someone, and no one has ever sent me one. I honestly don't think it could help, I've usually made up my opinion before they have a chance to do anything. Also, something
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by rm999 14y ago
Who still uses e-mail newsletters?
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by rm999 14y ago
I think the Curiosity team would object to your answer. They've been working on the project for almost a decade, have spent thousands (millions?) of man-hours on it, and have written 500,000 lines of code to control it. The dollar amount th
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by rm999 14y ago
I've interviewed several people for machine learning/data science positions and I've found when people don't get the math behind machine learning they don't get the machine learning. Math, specifically linear algebra, is the language that l
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by rm999 14y ago
>So, Knight didn't destroy wealth Sure it did, it destroyed its own wealth. Inefficient redistributions of money almost always destroy some wealth. The obvious way to see that in this case is that a 440M dollar loss took out 600M dollar
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by rm999 14y ago
The article isn't quite promoting anything. It's saying "I like this product", not "buy this product".
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by rm999 14y ago
Reddit has some decent subreddits devoted to questions/answers, but the really good ones, like askscience, only allow objective answers. On second thought, that's probably why those ones are good.
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by rm999 14y ago
>Is there some moral or legal obligation that a service's price must tie directly to its immediate costs? No, but in a competitive market we would expect it to because competitors will lower their prices in line with their costs to stay
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by rm999 14y ago
At my last job I had two exit interviews. In the first HR sent me the typical forms, which I'm sure went straight to the garbage. In the second my VP sat me down and asked me why I was leaving. I could tell he would have been fine with my B
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by rm999 14y ago
Can't you say the same thing about top-of-the-line android phones, e.g. Galaxy S3? Of course the newest stuff will have the best hardware.
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by rm999 14y ago
Decent point, but the records were a liability for him, their value to him was probably ~0. From that context the revenue was almost pure profit.
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm amazed my position is even remotely controversial here. Many people here, including yourself, are framing the debate from the perspective of their own experiences as candidates, which is a biased way to look at the perspective of an int
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by rm999 14y ago
There's a big difference between trading and investing. All laypeople should be investing in the market, but you are talking about trading taken to an extreme. A computer trader may get in and grab 1000 shares, then resell it right away for
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by rm999 14y ago
I guess I'll start with a rebuttal. The stock market is a great place to invest if you understand a couple things: * The market is high risk, people have lost half their life savings in it. You should know how to balance that risk with your
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm sorry that happened to you, I've dealt with the same kinds of things. It sucks when bad interviewers block good candidates. In my case I assure you that's not what happened though. When the candidate realized he was faltering on too man

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