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by rza 13y ago
Voting is not working. As far as the media is concerned, there are always going to be only two candidates, both of which are in bed with corporate lobbyists. Without every voter doing significant research on their own to make meaningful thi
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by rza 13y ago
I won't go into what's right and what's wrong or what the solution should be. I myself am often skeptical about the purpose of a lot of racial discussion, but I don't see anything terrible about black girls trying to com
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by rza 13y ago
You may not be thinking about race, but an outsider looking at the tech industry probably is. Ideally, yes whether everyone is black or white shouldn't really matter, but I'm sure you feel the same way as well when you are in an
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by rza 13y ago
If the metric is merit point per attendance point, than University of Rochester destroyed everyone, and UMD is pretty average.
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by rza 13y ago
Just tried it. It uses https as soon as you login for me.
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by rza 13y ago
If by rap you mean commercial rap, then I don't blame you. But keep in mind rap is a very diverse genre with many hard-working artists, and a large, passionate subculture. You will not hear that on the radio because it doesn't sel
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by rza 13y ago
Have you ever considered that maybe the product you're making is just not that world-changing for any sane developer to work consecutive overtime for? If you asked me to work 80+ hours to cure cancer sure, but to sacrifice my life to
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by rza 13y ago
If the military can use this technology cost-effectively, they will use it. While the "Campaign to Stop Killer Robots" is amusing, I doubt it will have any effect whatsoever. It's reminiscent of Pope Innocent II trying to b
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by rza 13y ago
People leave big companies for smaller companies for a variety of reasons that don't have to do with money: product, culture, team, technology, or just for the sake of working at a smaller company. And for the record, Google is not a p
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by rza 13y ago
Well, for the second bullet it is.
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by rza 13y ago
He most definitely does not have depression. Saying that depression is simply apathy and 'feeling dumb' spits in the face of those who have to deal with actual depression everyday.
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by rza 13y ago
I kept reading expecting a complaint other than the spacing and camel-case, but couldn't find any. I think you many be underestimating the non-programmer's ability to parse English, as I can't imagine it would be too difficul
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by rza 13y ago
That's what I meant. Having Google on your resume opens up doors many doors when you leave - it would be hard NOT to find offers or connections once people know you're an ex-Googler. I don't imagine this to be the case if you
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by rza 13y ago
Would she have the same success if she didn't have Google on her resume? I frequently think about jumping ship, but sometimes I wonder if it won't turn out as well as these kind of stories suggest.
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by rza 13y ago
It's fine if you don't want to create a startup, I'm pretty sure this is article is directed toward people who have a startup idea, but are too afraid to commit to it. As for what arguments against 'You should be more pr
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by rza 13y ago
Just because things are worse in India, that shouldn't mean we should ignore everything else until it's fixed there first. Because for one, it's much easier for US citizens to fix problems in the US, for both legal and practi
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by rza 13y ago
I use caps lock quite often, e.g. for constant variables or acronyms. Then again, I have to remember to turn it off or else my next few key strokes will make vim go crazy.
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by rza 13y ago
In a modern society, you will have complex systems where the individual worker is so abstracted away from the concrete value that they will not be able to see the immediate effect of their actions, but this does not make them pointless. To
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by rza 13y ago
I would love to believe in this product, but there are just so many sketchy statements on the homepage alone that I doubt the ability of the team. People are literally going to entrust their lives to this product and the best third-party as
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by rza 13y ago
Paul Graham wrote on this same subject ( http://paulgraham.com/cities.html ). A bit more anecdotal, but convincing nonetheless.
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by rza 13y ago
"Dogshit developers get paid 50k to start. Good ones are over 100k. You just have to have actual skills." Because how much someone makes determines if they're dogshit or not.
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by rza 13y ago
Heh, Because having a six-figure salary (at a top software company!) automatically proves your superiority in all subjects.
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by rza 13y ago
This may have been true in the Cold War, but that war has long been over. To say that US defense spending now is benefiting anyone in any way now is laughable, except for maybe South Korea and Taiwan. If anything, our meddling has raised se
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by rza 13y ago
As a recent college-grad who'd moved to suburbia, I think the automobile-centric culture in America is what is killing intimacy. If you were not able to make close friends in college/early-life, than once you live on your own in the suburbs
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by rza 13y ago
In the same line as when people over-use the phrase "get shit done"; it just seems like a bunch of try-hard developers trying to appear super edgy. We get it, you're not a "corporate drone" and you can curse, but you're a developer, not a r
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by rza 13y ago
I wouldn't call it a total fail. Tab moves focus to the next input element on almost all web forms, in this case the send button. It allows you to send the message without moving your mouse in a fashion consistent with how we use web form
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by rza 14y ago
College is a good environment to learn theoretical computer science and to be in a research environment. If you intend to go into research either at university or in a big company, college is a must. To be around other bright CS students, p
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by rza 14y ago
Because anything you post that might remotely be labeled as politically incorrect, you know, might get you fired.
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by rza 14y ago
I thought the exact opposite while reading this. If Bezos is constantly thinking about ambitious projects such as this, it's easy to see why "he really does not give a shit about your day."
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by rza 14y ago
Yes, the issue of drones is extraneous. A drone is no different than a gun, the former just has a longer range. It's just fluff around the question of whether the government can kill unarmed and non-threatening citizens.

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