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by s1t5 6y ago
It's difficult to have a win-win situation when one of the three sides is getting paid a massive cut continuously without contributing anything. Next time give your friend a one-off finder's fee upfront and deal exclusively with t
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by s1t5 6y ago
Answering this question directly is a such an obvious trap, I'm surprised they fell for it.
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by s1t5 6y ago
CS50 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjqgP9dpD1k&list=PLhQjrBD2T3...
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by s1t5 6y ago
> But fails to mention the the moral reasons to choose oat milk over cow's milk. This is kind a red herring. Cow's milk should be irrelevant because you don't have to choose between the two. You can leave both out if you h
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by s1t5 6y ago
Strides - https://www.stridesapp.com/
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by s1t5 6y ago
Really? Who actually views Zuckerberg positively?
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by s1t5 6y ago
> I am the team--everything before was done quite manually with spreadsheets. In that case I would pick between Python and R. R might even win out slightly over Python for your use case. Definitely not Clojure, Scala or even Julia.
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by s1t5 6y ago
> What's the point of staying in big cities if most people are now working from home WFH won't be permanent for most people. Cities won't be attractive for the next 6-12 months but eventually people's incentives to li
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by s1t5 6y ago
It's not that there's anything specific to disagree with in your statement. The point is that when the question is "Is there evidence...?" an answer like "This is what makes sense to me..." is almost irrelevant
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by s1t5 6y ago
> but I'm pretty sure RedHat knew exactly what they were doing when they decided to let IBM in the door. Call me cynical but isn't it possible that the people who were responsible for the acquisition on RedHat's side were
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by s1t5 6y ago
Not really. If that was true, stocks would be tanking but they're also at a high. There's just a lot money around and low interest rates so all assets increase in price. I just wonder how long that can last for and how it will end
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by s1t5 6y ago
This is the high quality content and discussion that I come to HN for.
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by s1t5 6y ago
Having to deal directly with the business stakeholders can backfire so easily though. I wonder what the difference is between the companies that can handle this kind of re-org and the ones that will completely collapse after it.
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by s1t5 6y ago
I'm not a web developer so I really have no idea about this - is WebAssembly a viable solution or have I just absorbed some hype without understanding the problems with JS?
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by s1t5 6y ago
No, there isn't and that's a good thing. I can't imagine a group of people collectively having the thought "Hmm how can we be more like accountants?".
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by s1t5 6y ago
Isn't it way more risky to buy their first gen ARM computer than to buy something that will definitely work reliably (Intel)?
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by s1t5 6y ago
> Do I need to make that distinction explicit? Yes. > Companies are usually more interested in hearing what the employee can do for them rather than what the employee wants out of their career. That's true and is in line with wha
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by s1t5 6y ago
You have several years of software development experience. If that's true, you aren't really starting your career now, you're just looking for a more stable position. I think that the distinction is important especially in in
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by s1t5 6y ago
Just because they're still working in the UK that doesn't mean that they haven't been affected at all.
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by s1t5 6y ago
I too would like whichever group I happen to fall in to get an yearly bonus.
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by s1t5 6y ago
> I think the solution is to pay for everything with donations and crowdfunding. Good will doesn't scale up enough to cover the entirety of the internet. And ultimately that leads to more paywalls being put up.
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by s1t5 6y ago
I mean of course it isn't - no single aspect of your life will guarantee happiness or a good life.
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by s1t5 6y ago
Personality and public image play a big part too. Zuckerberg has the charisma of a head of lettuce on his best days.
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by s1t5 6y ago
> Mr Pichai’s foremost challenge is to prevent Alphabet from becoming what Mr Brin and Mr Page were so bent on avoiding—a “conventional company” that dies a slow death from lack of innovation and declining growth. I don't think that
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by s1t5 6y ago
You need mainly probability, statistics, multivariable calculus and linear algebra. It's a lot of material to cover and it takes years. I would suggest to pick a mathematics course/book that's just above your current level (w
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by s1t5 6y ago
Global population growth is already slowing down and the global population will likely peak withing the next 100 years and then slowly decline.
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by s1t5 6y ago
Also, the economy is bad which means that Americans have little hope for the future.
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by s1t5 6y ago
Not being facetious here, I'm genuinely asking - does it matter at all? What difference does it make if something will be used in 20 years?
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by s1t5 6y ago
What's the incentive for an employer to do this? That incentive needs to be massive in order to overcome the downside of giving company property away for free to people who you might never see again, who you might not be on good terms
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by s1t5 6y ago
As you're reading those papers, take into account the probabilities of different outcomes instead of assuming that the worst case applies across the board.

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