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by scscsc 17y ago
Triple negation in the last sentence really helps with understanding. That being said, you should probably keep embarrassing personal details to yourself (and maybe your friends). Why would you want the company to know the embarrassing th
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by scscsc 17y ago
The hiring process is a negotiation between two sides. The more information you have, the better you'll do. It's not fair for an employer to look in your private life; any more than it is fair for the potential employee to look at confiden
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Ask HN: How do you decide if you buy insurance on goods?
4 points by scscsc 17y ago|3 comments
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by scscsc 17y ago
Google publishes techtalks. They always save "delicate details" for the question break, which is not recorded.
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by scscsc 17y ago
The damage has already been done. It is not reversible. Apologies do not mean much usually. They probably mean less than nothing coming from a government.
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by scscsc 17y ago
Can anyone confirm this article by Atwood is worth looking at?
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by scscsc 17y ago
You should use old style "dating^H^H^H^H^H^Hmatrimonial".
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by scscsc 17y ago
Basically, after everyone on Earth buys all available books , the only way to make extra money on books is: a) to create new books b) to create new people Option b) would not work very well for a number of reasons and option a), well, it
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by scscsc 17y ago
Highly unlikely to happen, since the upper bound corresponds to a well-known lower bound.
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by scscsc 17y ago
>> Dirt can absorb a LOT of heat. If you had to put out a fire, and you didn't have any water, you'd throw some dirt on it, right? We are all standing on a big ball of fire, anyway. << The fire is extinguished by throwing di
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by scscsc 17y ago
Get it? Lower your expectations! Do not want to get rich! Want to work for the same amount as people from undeveloped economies! Then maybe you can find a place in the organization of this top CEO, if you're lucky enough.
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by scscsc 17y ago
I see two issues here: * the policy of the appstore obviously sucks for both developers and end-users * developers miscalculate the risk that their application will be rejected and therefore engage mindlessly into the implementation phase T
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by scscsc 17y ago
Are you saying my definition of 'good' isn't?
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by scscsc 17y ago
That is obvious. What is less obvious is how much memory you can waste for the internal representation. I would expect that the memory footprint of a well-designed browser should be dominated roughly by the download size (w/out taking int
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by scscsc 17y ago
Negative. It is intuitive (and wrong). It is not mathematically sound. He does understand statistics. The point he's making is that the author of the article chose the metrics after the act. There are tons of such metrics to use; if you
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by scscsc 17y ago
I don't get why you are modded down. Mathematically, the article is a piece of junk (which doesn't mean the elections were fair -- I don't think there's anyone in the democratic parts of Earth who thinks they were fair). You are of course
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by scscsc 17y ago
For what it's worth, we've already got wikipedia which does math pretty well. Even though it doesn't have the fancy-sounding zoomable user interface (which imho suck w.r.t. usability), it does offer plain old, get this, hypertext, which al
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by scscsc 17y ago
I doubt the beta comes with debug information (not your beta, theirs). I don't use Windows -- it should be easily checkable by someone who does.
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by scscsc 17y ago
Do you have any strong data stating that the final release of some software is in general more memory friendly as opposed to the beta version? I don't have data for the counterpoint either, but I'm willing to bet the developers have other
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by scscsc 17y ago
I also want my browser to be fast and responsive, but the current trend goes in the other direction. How on Earth can you occupy GBs of memory? How much time does it even take to download a gigabyte of data?
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by scscsc 17y ago
Probably the ratio is to stay, since the other platforms are treated with the same indifference by the developers.
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by scscsc 17y ago
You get to choose which details to ignore. Making the wrong choice will of course lead to invalid results. No model is perfect, but some models are useful.
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by scscsc 17y ago
How is it any better?
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by scscsc 17y ago
Having called support in my life very few times, and having received the answers I did, I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time to even consider calling. I have a hard time imagining what people see in tech support and how
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by scscsc 17y ago
I think the percentage should be bigger. Besides the obvious powerusers, most companies do their IT in-house...
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by scscsc 17y ago
For a long time now, people have complained about Big Oh notation. The problem is not the notation, it's the people. The notation is absolutely brilliant. People do not understand how to use it and complain that "in practice" it breaks.
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by scscsc 17y ago
I think you ought to be able to write your own resume. People hiring you would expect at least that much. Why in the world would you want to work for another company if you already have your own (and it's running well)?
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by scscsc 17y ago
:D I figured out as much. Which ones?
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by scscsc 17y ago
I think most people would not bother to give feedback when something goes wrong. I know that I certainly do not. I have tried in the past and you always run into some sort of problem with the feedback mechanism or they simply do not care ab
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Where is USENET?
21 points by scscsc 17y ago|17 comments

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