rongenre

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   by rongenre 8y ago

   I left an engineering job at a finance startup in the mid 90's to take a "dream job" at a video game startup. It was.. awful: all the fun and creativity was being done by on the production/game design part, and the engin
2. 182.▲
   by rongenre 8y ago

   Underwriters insist on a lockup period for a reason. Everyone asks about short selling and options, and the answer is always no.
3. 183.▲
   by rongenre 8y ago

   Choosing to implement this system clearly reflects racial bias.
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   by rongenre 8y ago

   Often the price isn't published because it's very low (like $0 low). Most of the staff gets to keep their jobs, and founders get to claim a "successful exit".
5. 185.▲
   by rongenre 8y ago

   I've done [tech] interviews for engineers out of Oracle and haven't been super impressed.
6. 186.▲
   by rongenre 8y ago

   Watching downloaded video on an iPad has made cross-country plane trips nearly tolerable.
7. 187.▲
   by rongenre 8y ago

   And that's why I do my taxes using Credit Karma.
8. 188.▲
   by rongenre 8y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
9. 189.▲
   by rongenre 8y ago

   Yeah, my sense is that tech in NYC is tech as an enabler of finance.
10. 190.▲
    by rongenre 8y ago

    I'm reasonably sure that the self-aggrandizement that he does is probably why Mathematica is pretty much a niche product, even compared to Matlab, and certainly numpy/pandas.
11. 191.▲
    by rongenre 8y ago

    'meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins in 'The Selfish Gene' in the 70's.
12. 192.▲
    by rongenre 8y ago

    $40 million with 100 employees? Sounds like a face-saving "successful exit"
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    This seems like a pretty typical pattern: Back when I did games (mid 90's), it was pretty essential to come up with a tight game engine with components that could be driver from a script: That way someone in design/production co
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    This is interesting (along with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18854170 ). I have a Math BS, but I really wish I'd learned the material more comprehensively (I learned enough to get through problem sets and exams,
15. 195.▲
    by rongenre 8y ago

    People motivated by money will figure out how to get people to give them money. That doesn't necessarily imply making a better product.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Usually it's because we let TDD lapse, and suddenly the rebuilding the scaffolding to properly do TDD for a feature is more work than the feature itself.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Wish they'd link to what a theory of patches is, but it looks like the same one which darcs: http://darcs.net/ used. Except they tried to keep all the algorithm runtime to O(ln h) with h being length of history.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    Not remotely the same as race.
19. 199.▲
    by rongenre 8y ago

    Because it's well-documented.
20. 200.▲
    by rongenre 8y ago

    The genocide in Myanmar was awful. Like Cambodia or Rwanda awful. And Facebook had a role in it. https://www.npr.org/2018/12/03/673022562/u-s-investigators-c...
21. 201.▲
    by rongenre 8y ago

    Mississippi just elected a US Senator who thought "Public Hanging" jokes were funny. Why would anyone with a choice want to move there?
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    They stole the idea from the US: https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/
23. 203.▲
    by rongenre 8y ago

    Google has refused and insisted "It's too hard" to release this data.
24. 204.▲
    by rongenre 8y ago

    Consider reading the article before commenting.
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    I cancelled this weekend: surcharge for a two-week old not-exactly-blockbuster was annoying, but meh. On Saturday, the app listed a theater showing something I wanted to see, I drove there, and then... couldn't check in and was no long
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    by rongenre 8y ago

    I'm surprised I don't see mention of the oursourced payroll companies: trinet/insperity, etc. I've used them at multiple startups.
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    by rongenre 9y ago

    Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes (With experience) Willing to relocate: Not right now Technologies: Java, Spark, AWS, Groovy/Grails, Python, Git, MySQL, Impala LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rbagchi
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    by rongenre 9y ago

    I'm 47. I use larger fonts than I used to. While I have increasingly important-sounding titles, I still occupy close to a 100% developer role. I'm pretty much instinctively drawn to the "new hotness" -- although it'
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    by rongenre 9y ago

    The lack of a substantial spec bump (all I really wanted was more memory and CPU) made me ditch my work Macbook Pro for a linux laptop.
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    by rongenre 9y ago

    Invite local friends to work in your space?