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by rongenre 7y ago
Standard software advice (including the famous Netflix document) is to interview every couple years. It also give you data points on your market worth, which is highly valuable even if you don't switch jobs.
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by rongenre 7y ago
A lot of startups (especially really young ones with no hiring process) don't know how to do those.
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by rongenre 7y ago
They want to know you weren't in jail. That's it.
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by rongenre 7y ago
In the 80's, I put a Z80 card in my Apple 2, just so I could run CP/M and Turbo Pascal. This.. wasn't that unusual.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Raw threads are really hard to program correctly, however sinking parallel code into an executor or queuing framework tends to really reduce complexity and in a lot of cases get all the cores working.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Non-paywalled link?
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by rongenre 7y ago
Khan Academy, not Institute. Topical because a big push of academic libraries lately is information literacy.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Pets can get treatments that aren't yet approved for humans - if you've got the budget, there are vets who can do.. whatever. On the other hand, I had a vet tech friend who said that most people would opt out of treatments that co
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by rongenre 7y ago
A powered-off Apple 2 or C64 could be operational in seconds. We're nowhere close to that now.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Nope. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1856...
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by rongenre 7y ago
That does it, I'll bring my own toilet to work.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Well, more to the point - bugs / LOC is remarkably constant in real code across coding languages, so one of the best things you can do is reduce LOC.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Regular checkups and lab work at a minimum. It doesn't nullify, but it mitigates and it can give an early warning when one's habits are becoming a health problem. This should be available to everyone and it's a tragedy it is
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by rongenre 7y ago
Autonomous vehicles in cities aren't even close. And if they exist, then all the capital and operational expenses of ownership - which they've been fooling drivers into paying -- are theirs.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Visit a lawyer. It'll be a couple hundred $. Ask them to explain what your rights are - it's not just what's in the contract, it's how it'd be interpreted under applicable law, and you have to do a cost/ben
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by rongenre 7y ago
If I believed in god, I'd say that mathematics is indeed a gift from the all-powerful.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Good applications tend to get the database right first - since you can always re-write the mid-tier code relatively easily. It's pretty much essential to any developer. Further it's a ridiculous superpower if you're not a de
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by rongenre 7y ago
Probably want to add 2001 to the title.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Yeah log(n) would be the space to hold the digits of the counter. Presumably (unless things got super-silly), this would be dominated by the buffer size for the line being read.
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by rongenre 7y ago
My understanding of Google is that they're ok with false negatives because they consider false positives to be far far worse.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Trader proverb: "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
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by rongenre 7y ago
Everything is a string including the comments -- commenting code actually degrades performance!
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by rongenre 7y ago
That's how child support works: completely independently of marital status.
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by rongenre 7y ago
This is something I'd pursue once I hit my retirement targets.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Perl has a well-deserved reputation as a "write-only language".
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by rongenre 7y ago
Clearly the university business is ripe for disruption.
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by rongenre 7y ago
With driverless cars (if it happens) they're suddenly in the business of massive capex.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Seems reasonable you could devolve Uber and Lyft into 1) Market makers matching drivers and riders with an open API 2) Multiple apps for drivers and riders which handle maps and payments
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by rongenre 7y ago
There's almost no barrier to entry to become a recruiter.
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by rongenre 7y ago
At a certain level, having the returns be uncorrelated is a lot more valuable than total returns.

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