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by rm999 14y ago
The mentality that lying is one of the worst things you can do in the workplace is either there or it's not. If I learn a candidate is casually dishonest in just an hour, the red flags are too obvious. Sure, it's a proxy for his character,
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by rm999 14y ago
It's not just that he may have lied about other stuff on his resume - he could lie on the job, which can be very destructive.
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by rm999 14y ago
Great question, that's something I specifically thought about. We probably would have interviewed him if he had said "some knowledge of" etc for those bullet points (which would have been truthful). He actually had quite an impressive resum
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by rm999 14y ago
Recently I interviewed a candidate for a fairly niche but high demand field. I generally liked him - he had skills that would have been useful to the team, and he was a very bright person. But a couple of us felt he exaggerated aspects of h
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by rm999 14y ago
I think this debate does sadly just come down to semantics, and I tend to side with Kahn on that merit. Once I got past a certain point in my math education (first half of intro of calculus 1) "slope" wasn't used anymore. We moved to deriva
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by rm999 14y ago
"slope is defined as ∆x/∆y" Do you mean ∆y/∆x?
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by rm999 14y ago
This is exactly my take on it. They are talking about AI in different contexts, and therefore aren't really arguing with each other as much as past each other. Anyone who has any interesting in building something today would take a Norvig a
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by rm999 14y ago
I've been in machine learning/AI for ten years now - from undergraduate research, to graduate school, to industry - and I find debate like this fascinating. My take on it is that our understanding of what we will be able to do in the future
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by rm999 15y ago
"positions I am wildly unqualitified for" Is the way you misspelled 'unqualified' supposed to be ironic?
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by rm999 15y ago
Families live in the outer boroughs. A 3 bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens will run you about 2000 dollars a month and you are still within a 30 minute commute to most of Manhattan.
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by rm999 15y ago
High deductible insurance is about 600-1000 dollars a year, and the deductible is 2500-10000 dollars (meaning the first 2500-10000 dollars of your expenses are out of pocket, and then after that everything is covered).
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by rm999 18y ago
"Then why are you here?" Well, I did remove the hackernews rss feed from my homepage today. I generally like this site, but I find the comments to be on the verge of elitist. I think it's sad that you guys think I'm part of the "riff raff"
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by rm999 18y ago
"keep this site from turning into just another reddit" Why, because reddit has a wide variety of interesting links on its front page instead of a page full of Erlang links?
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by rm999 18y ago
I think you are referring to how short term capital gains are taxed, but I am referring to long-term gains (most investors stick with long-term gains to lower their taxes). Long term gains are taxed at a flat rate. If you make N dollars in
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by rm999 18y ago
Notice that I'm talking about capital gains, not income. They are taxed differently. A family making 190,000 dollars a year in normal income and 50,000 dollars a year in long-term capital gains will pay the normal taxes on 190,000 dollars (
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by rm999 18y ago
Ah, I see - thanks for the explanation.
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by rm999 18y ago
Facebook and youtube/hulu/pirated TV shows are worlds apart to me. Facebook is something you actively take part in, you contribute to. This has almost nothing in common with the passive entertainment of TV that people enjoy. I didn't cancel
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by rm999 18y ago
"Facebook killed TV" Can someone explain that line to me? I don't see facebook mentioned anywhere else. I generally consider myself pretty on top of ways to watch TV on my computer (I've been doing the RSS bit torrent thing pretty much sinc
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by rm999 18y ago
I'm surprised no one has picked up on this yet: families who make $249,999 may actually pay far fewer taxes than families making $250,000. Why? Capital gains taxes, which Bush set to 15%. Obama will increase this tax to 20% for families mak
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by rm999 18y ago
Of course it's true, but why would joe six pack user care? It's not user friendly.
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by rm999 18y ago
This article seems like an excuse to criticize IE. "Instapaper is severely degraded in this browser" is fine. "... because IE does not support basic web standards" comes off as catty. I understand the frustration that IE isn't fully com
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by rm999 18y ago
You are right, I don't know why you were modded down.
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by rm999 18y ago
Actually, that's one of the main reasons why I go to the gym (keeps the mind sharp), and one reason I feel justified going during working hours. But I still don't "bill" for those hours - i.e. I don't consider these working hours. Think of
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by rm999 18y ago
Here's one way of normalizing it: what hours can you unambiguously ethically charge to a client/employer as "work?" If you work for yourself or your own business, assume you are doing a custom project for a client. If you work a 9-5 job, ob
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by rm999 18y ago
I agree. As a 9 to 5er, I find this concept of "I'm always working" very alien. Also, it does seem like the question has been skirted a bit. While going to the gym or taking a nap may benefit one's work, it clearly goes under the category o
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by rm999 18y ago
It was clearly said in jest - think of it as a sarcastic "No easy route that is legal."
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by rm999 18y ago
In the chart I linked to, "public debt" is US govt debt. My comment still stands. I won't argue with you that the situation doesn't suck (of course it does), but I will argue that the situation is not dire - the chart I linked to shows that
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by rm999 18y ago
The Chinese produce goods because people buy them for cash, not because we "send" them debt (which is another way of saying that they buy US treasury securities). As long as US consumers purchase 100s of billions of dollars in Chinese goods
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by rm999 18y ago
The "bubble" has only been building since Jan 2001 (guess what happened then?) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png . It's clear that if Clinton's policies were extended, the public debt would have gone close to ~0. US debt is
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by rm999 18y ago
"My understanding is that normal software product develop counts as R&D for tax purposes." Ah, that would explain a lot... I guess that's the D in R&D ;)

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