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811.
by sbov 10y ago
Even if I made more than that in the private sector, I would be willing to take a minor pay cut for this sort of position. If you think about it, you're helping put taxpayer dollars to more efficient use, which includes your own.
812.
by sbov 10y ago
Well, sure, I mean you can say the same thing about almost anything a country holds against another country. But this isn't what people mean when they use these terms.
813.
by sbov 10y ago
You are saying something I highly doubt you want to be saying. My "problem" is an online store. It is about 75,000 lines of code. It needs all 75,000 to solve the problem. What you are saying is that it would be "somewhat&
814.
by sbov 10y ago
> I am beginning to reject that there is a "one true answer." There are basically no guidelines that always apply. Novices should stick to them, and people with more experience can recognize when they don't apply.
815.
by sbov 10y ago
Note that fatalities can include both drivers and passengers. I'm also not sure where you got 80M active drivers from, I know there are around 200M licensed drivers but couldn't find any stats on active drivers. On a yearly basis,
816.
by sbov 10y ago
There are not enough Teslas on the road to know if their autopilot is safer or not. But if you want to make a premature conclusion, it would not be that they are safer. Beyond that, tesla is not an autonomous vehicle. From what I can tell
817.
by sbov 10y ago
Even ignoring the whole "IQ = smart" thing, you can have a lower IQ and still have a high IQ.
818.
by sbov 10y ago
Some like to say that you should never write clever code. But clever to who? Some people lambdas, map, reduce, and even polymorphism are clever. So in a vacuum the statement is meaningless. Whenever you're writing code you need to k
819.
by sbov 10y ago
Use context. If you can't, refactor so you can. If you can't, well, you're SOL and stuck with timeOfTenPercentHeightOnTheFallingEdge. Edit: e.g. if all of your variables are "timeOfTenPercentHeight...", cut that p
820.
by sbov 10y ago
I'm not sure if this really answers the question though. There are plenty of languages that do more work than C does that are not as slow as python. Do they do less work than python? Maybe, but they certainly do more work than C. Th
821.
by sbov 10y ago
You mostly have a reverse dress code in Silicon Valley. Just start showing up to your job as a Software Engineer at an SV startup in a suit and tie and see how people react. People are quick to judge, even in SV.
822.
by sbov 10y ago
A petition isn't the best way to go about it, but, a lot of the comments in the OP about this imply a workplace that employees aren't able to bring their concerns up to management. Of course, this was just a dress code, but that
823.
by sbov 10y ago
This isn't new though, and is one of the most basic forms of team based card counting - it's how the MIT blackjack team did things. IIRC the "naive and careful" player is called the "spotter" and the "wil
824.
by sbov 10y ago
Yes we do, because everyone will die anyways. The reason why 9/11 was possible was because it had never happened. They could have added zero security measures, not even locking the cockpit door, and 9/11 still would probably not
825.
by sbov 10y ago
Your guess is probably wrong. My wife had a black friend in a small town (~5k) without many black people. There weren't enough to have a "black part" of town but her friend was still constantly pulled over by the police. D
826.
by sbov 10y ago
I would love to give all my income minus expenses. I could easily make it so I have zero after my expenses. But that's not how things work for individuals... and that's a large part of the difference.
827.
by sbov 10y ago
At the same time, an UBI will make it so people still don't care to perform certain below-current-minimum-wage jobs. E.g. if I were on UBI, and I effectively earned $15/hour through it, I still wouldn't bother looking at job
828.
by sbov 10y ago
No, all you need are cheap robots to get past that local maxima. The point of UBI is to ensure people don't become destitute when we reach that point.
829.
by sbov 10y ago
What sort of hypothetical situations that would apply to an insignificant fraction of the work force will we attempt to accommodate to the benefit of corporations and the neglect of the VAST VAST majority of workers? If your scenario were w
830.
by sbov 10y ago
I think it's a familiarity problem. I felt the same at one time, but once I became more familiar with the operations, I found the stream API much easier to scan. I was asked at work to explain why I prefer the stream library - other d
831.
by sbov 10y ago
Business value is great because whoever is using the term gets to define it. So the term only means what the speaker wants it to mean.
832.
by sbov 10y ago
Sure, but then my browser with native procrastination protection will beat the pants off both: when you type in a url it just renders "get back to work, maggot." It even works without a network connection.
833.
by sbov 10y ago
The question is, is it feasible to build enough supply for this to happen? I mean, if SF ever hit "affordable" on a median family income, the population would probably be tens of millions. Keep in mind that tearing down old housin
834.
by sbov 10y ago
I disagree, the type of whiteboard questions you get can completely get taught, and practicing helps. Intellect certainly helps, but it helps in every activity. If I wanted to put a negative spin on it: Google is filtering for people with
835.
by sbov 10y ago
Is it just me, or would this going to court would be the worst case scenario for Ethereum? I mean, if the "hacker" wins, then it shows how impractically dangerous "code as contract" can be - you better be damn sure it&#x
836.
by sbov 10y ago
I think the point is that learning Haskell takes time and effort outside of standardized courses, so people who learn it are, as a percent of the population that knows the language, more determined than those who use more mainstream languag
837.
by sbov 10y ago
Yes, unless there is something legally binding, even in the face of bankruptcy, to keep a patent defensive, all justification of patents as defensive is BS. Every company eventually goes out of business. When that happens, they tend to sel
838.
by sbov 10y ago
It's somewhat circular reasoning, but my view would be: if you're so inexperienced such that you will blindly follow her advice then you should blindly follow her advice. If you aren't so inexperienced such that you don&#x27
839.
by sbov 10y ago
I'm destined to be a "dungeon master" on a recent project, and would love to restart with an MVP. I had to fight tooth and nail to leave out features no one was going to use - some of which weren't cut. Project manag
840.
by sbov 10y ago
Architecture can heavily affect how serial your process is. By randomly throwing agents at a single ref you can easily turn parts of the process that can be done in parallel into a serial process. Beyond that, throwing massive concurrency

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