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by santoriv 9y ago
> Keeping things 'DRY' and having reusable code rather than constantly repeating yourself is generally considered a good practice in software development. It enables fixes and changes to occur in one place, rather than having t
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by santoriv 9y ago
I worked remotely in Vietnam for about a year. It was pretty great. Fun and super cheap. I wasn't in a big city so I could literally pay my monthly rent with one hour of work.
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by santoriv 9y ago
My understanding is that the statistics you provided do not apply to federal court . As I understand it, this Marcus going to be tried in federal court . In any case, the United States has the second highest incarceration rate in the worl
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by santoriv 9y ago
In Japan, for example, one is guilty until proven innocent. They have a 99% conviction rate. Over course, in America, where things are much better and one is innocent until proven guilty, they only have a 99.8% conviction rate in federal co
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by santoriv 9y ago
This article interviews Geoffrey Miller. He wrote an article around the same time here: https://www.edge.org/responses/q2013 Here is a response to that article: https://eastasiastudent.net/china/e
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by santoriv 9y ago
"The reason is that mathematics creates its own universe of concepts and ideas" This also applies to reading music and understanding music theory. Written music is a map of events/time - which is totally different than any ot
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by santoriv 9y ago
I use Arch but if you are starting out I would recommend Ubuntu. It's probably got the most youtube videos, online articles, troubleshooting questions online. This make things a bit easier. For example, you mention i3 - probably the be
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by santoriv 9y ago
I did a short term contract once at the same time as my main remote job. I never lied about my hours or got overpaid though. I won't ever do it again as it was a hellish amount of work for a few months. For me the cost of context switc
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by santoriv 9y ago
I think you are generally correct but there are also some exceptions. You can get authentic "international" food if you know where to go. The most authentic and best tasting Vietnamese restaurant in my area is also incidentally th
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by santoriv 10y ago
Another thing that is only tangentially mentioned is that more affluent children can afford to take the achievement tests multiple times. When I took the ACT the second time in high school, my composite score went up 4 points without any ex
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by santoriv 10y ago
Here's a question that's tangentially related to the article in that it deals with property based testing. I'm curious what the software veterans thing about this: Should you write property based tests of a third party custom
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by santoriv 10y ago
Hmmmm.... So if you were immortal and wanted to ditch Earth, it would be best to go to a supercool dwarf with only 1 planet? Otherwise you might get pulverized before the end of the dwarf's lifecycle?
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by santoriv 10y ago
My brother-in-law (who is from Delhi) had a friend from who went to Brown and had troubles with his H1-B after he graduated. He went back to India and created a healthcare startup which now has nearly 100 employees. If the US was operating
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by santoriv 10y ago
I think it depends. My sister went to Hack Reactor in SF and got a position doing front-end development paying $115K per year. She also had a degree in oceanography from UC Berkeley, so that probably helped. I doubt she would have been able
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by santoriv 10y ago
I have the same level of skepticism towards Assange that I do for the US intelligence community, but for different reasons. If Assange received a email dump from a source, how could he possibly know with absolute certainty that the Russian
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by santoriv 10y ago
> The intelligence community will never be able to release enough information to satisfy people. The information will either be so non-specific as to be useless ("we had spies who told us" - would anyone here believe that anymo
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by santoriv 10y ago
Yeah I bought a pretty expensive Macbook Pro earlier this year and recently ended up switching from OSX to Ubuntu after I got tired of dealing with all sorts of random Docker issues. To my surprise, I've found Linux to feel faster and
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by santoriv 10y ago
I've gotten two remote jobs off the HN "Who's hiring?" thread. It can be a bit frustrating. I applied to every single remote posting on the thread for 2 months in a row. So I guess that's one job per month (maybe I
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by santoriv 10y ago
I imagine if you asked Dick Cheney about the Iraq War, Wall Street executives about the 2008 financial crisis, or the heads at the NSA about the Snowden revelations, they would give you a similar response. Even when you are caught lying, fa
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by santoriv 10y ago
I apologize. I was unaware of that rule. I won't do it again.
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by santoriv 10y ago
I used Typescript on the front end a couple of years ago but not on the back end yet. I imagine that it would be better than es6 since there would be some typing. I'd still rather go with C# and not have to deal with callback/pr
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by santoriv 10y ago
I imagine I'll get downvoted for participating in the language flame wars but.... I've been working on a NodeJS backend at my main gig for the last two years. For two years before that I was working on an backend application writt
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by santoriv 10y ago
> This is a 'want' not a 'need'. You are absolutely correct. Strictly speaking, he doesn't need a monitor at all. He has a new Macbook Pro. It's got a monitor attached which is just dandy. As an overly pri
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by santoriv 10y ago
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889356... Samsung 40inch 4k - it was going for $300 on Black Friday but it's a bit pricier now. Purportedly you can get (3840x2160@60Hz 4:4:4) I have a Samsung
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by santoriv 10y ago
My mother has this issue (and so do I). Her doctor told her that the problem was a cognitive issue. Apparently some brains have a hard time filtering all of the noise into something we can understand. Have no idea if it's true but seem
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by santoriv 10y ago
I don't know how anyone could answer this question accurately unless they've gone through the process of applying for jobs in many different cities when they had no work experience. In San Francisco I was able to break into the ma
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by santoriv 10y ago
Well I suppose that extremism is in the eye of the beholder. The Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
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by santoriv 10y ago
Hmmmm.. 4 pro surveillance comments in this thread so far from a user account created 13 minutes ago... Astroturf much?
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by santoriv 10y ago
My sister graduated from Hack Reactor with no previous programming experience and a degree in Oceanography from UC Berkeley. Her salary is 115K. She spent a couple of months applying for jobs. I think it's basically a function of the d
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by santoriv 10y ago
> Sadly true. If you haven't been practicing since before puberty, you will never be a professional classical performer. This is correct about 99.999% of the time. The exception is when extreme levels of talent and interest are simu

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