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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, the root problem is everybody wants to move where everybody already is. Big cities have large immigrant communities because cities are walkable or transit-able and have, at the edges, cheap housing stock, so you don't need a car
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by seiji 11y ago
> They also communicate lots of incidental information that can be false-bias flags. That's the entire point in most cases. Don't want to hire a nerd when you need a bro. Also: relevance! If you're hiring for a Linux-heav
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by seiji 11y ago
> Actually, a resume just shows you can craft a resume. It also conveys communication skills. What good is a programmer who can write code but can't write a document describing their own work history? The world isn't programme
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by seiji 11y ago
> We'd love to hear any ideas for more experiments we could run. As much as possible, persist the interview results per-candidate and make them reusable so people don't have to re-do the same work over and over and over again.
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by seiji 11y ago
> But a resume also shows age and status. ...and accomplishments, leadership, responsibility (assuming no grossly fabricated lies). > That's part of why we do blind phone interviews. Phone calls still reveal a lot. Gender, age,
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by seiji 11y ago
group/novelty/non-personal accounts are frowned upon around here.
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by seiji 11y ago
Actual practical thoughts: https://web.archive.org/web/20130721062525/http://suicidesca...
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by seiji 12y ago
Probably: efficient message sizes (small/compressed/optimized for high latency networks), very eager retry rates upon failure, and maybe even http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201373
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by seiji 12y ago
GNC used to have (still has?) two entirely different wrappers on their store-brand protein shakes. One bottle proclaimed "lose weight! get lean!" (light colors, blue/white) and the other boasted "build muscle! grow bi
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by seiji 12y ago
Don't start with an idea, start with a problem. Work on fixing the problem. Grow from there.
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by seiji 12y ago
the bazaar seems healthier financially than it's ever been. Well, it's the difference between getting paid (salary, fixed, no logical incentive to grow/improve) versus getting paid (percentages of benefit, the more benefi
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by seiji 12y ago
Open source software succeeds because there's no friction for trying new things. So, initial cost will always be zero. People love seeing their software used for new things, so nobody wants to prevent adoption. At the same time, nob
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by seiji 12y ago
In other words, the whole point of OSS is that exactly the thing you say never happens, happens all the time. It's a matter of project scale too. Nobody cares about exploiting Hadoop because it's millions of lines of low qualit
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by seiji 12y ago
can give back in many ways The standard way society compensates persons for useful goods and services is by exchanging currency, not by bartering favors or by saying "look! we made a billion dollars using your software, here, have t
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by seiji 12y ago
Please, step into my parlor of unsolicited advice for a moment... will eventually be an open source project. Lean Software people are right about one thing — you've gotta get software in front of users as quickly as possible. If the
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by seiji 12y ago
Maybe we should turn our open source projects into businesses? At least make it clear we're open to taking money for extra features and/or support? In the past few years, that's become the stable way of generating returns o
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by seiji 12y ago
I've visited a couple of 1% for the planet[1] companies and been really inspired by what I've seen. In short, these companies pledge 1% of revenue to environmental causes. Interesting approach, but I bet those companies also are
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by seiji 12y ago
Yeah, that's a great point, but due to the unique "sponsorship" arrangement of Redis, Redis isn't actually allowed to accept money from anybody else for anything. It's a tradeoff between "stable" income an
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by seiji 12y ago
Sam, please don't make up a new acronym. Seconded. I see people using it here in replies and it's a new unnecessary acronym burden. Plus, if anything, it should be NBI (non-biological intelligence). At least that can be fun t
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by seiji 12y ago
PG proposed during a talk at PyCon 2012 That was a great talk. Everybody should re-watch it. Even if just for the one off question "why does HN violate the HTTP spec by sending invalid line endings?" (Answer: "because it
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by seiji 12y ago
Reasoning based on concrete examples is easier to convey to other human meat brains for understanding and retention. If you start off with "big picture" or "vision" you're already into meaningless buzzword territor
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by seiji 12y ago
The 0th version of facebook was literally "illegal stalking as a service." Outgrowth from that, and from ignoring the "we're accessing your systems illegally and you can't stop us" part, grew the horrible mons
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by seiji 12y ago
There's a very fine line between AI futurist and best-guess scifi writer. Most "AI thought leaders" are scifi writers, not technical researchers. They take preconditions, generate a story, think how it could happen given pl
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by seiji 12y ago
The red flag here is the mention of a fitness function. True AI and fitness functions have nothing in common. What's the fitness function of yourself as an intelligence? True AI is as fractured and contradictory as a human brain, jus
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by seiji 12y ago
why don't you do a memmove() instead of a realloc() on inserts Oh, it's actually worse than that because when inserting we do a realloc (which could require automatically copying the entire memory block), then (if inserting to
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by seiji 12y ago
This reply is golden. It starts off completely dismissive with "this isn't news" and it ends completely dismissive with "end of story." I am quite sorry my free internet post failed to meet your quality guidelin
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by seiji 12y ago
but struggle when a lot of inserts and updates need to happen. I ran across this with Redis recently. Redis has an internal data structure called ziplist that's a doubly linked list with no pointers. It just uses byte offsets to th
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by seiji 12y ago
Best comment in this entire thread. Infinite ownership of land and "I got here first, screw you" mentality doesn't work when everybody wants to live in the same place.
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by seiji 12y ago
The point you're missing on this website: it's frequented by a disproportionate number of millionaires, millionaires who are carefully investing their money to become billionaires within 10 years, and even present-day billionaires
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by seiji 12y ago
economic misunderstanding and xenophobia. Something tells me that if the rich buyers were all from Colorado, people wouldn't have quite so much to say about it. It's not kind and successful foreign Tim Cooks who just want a plac

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