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by sethev 10y ago
patio11's comment reads more like a method for evaluating answers. You present the candidate with a boiled down description of a real problem and then evaluate what they say against the rubric. All that to say you answer the questions
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by sethev 10y ago
I thought he was advocating never introducing breaking changes.
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by sethev 10y ago
I'll throw another anecdote in there. The small consulting company I worked for up until 2014 switched over to reimbursing us for a portion of what we paid for an ACA plan. Before that we had a (very small) group policy that was incred
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by sethev 10y ago
The current system sucks but I have trouble picturing your alternative. If a person has abdominal pain it could be caused any number of things - some of which could have no cure at all and some of which will just go away on their own. What
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by sethev 10y ago
The problem with this thinking is you don't know what services you'll require (apart from routine checkups and specific treatments for already diagnosed problems). It does me no good to have a list of all the thousands of possible
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by sethev 10y ago
A post that devoted equal time to all the boring stuff wouldn't be much of a read. I think where people get thrown is when he talks about the _technical_ skills required which he downplays. As software developers I think it's easy
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by sethev 10y ago
What are you implying? He said in the post he paid off most of his creditors after closing. If the final price was $215k it certainly seems possible to pay off most of $120k with that.
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by sethev 10y ago
This post is about 2016. Did you miss the part where he was spending all his time on not-consulting?
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by sethev 10y ago
Six weeks of billing per year != six weeks of work. I believe when he was consulting he also travelled quite a lot (both for engagements and to drum up business) - having a family makes that less attractive.
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by sethev 10y ago
Stubs == seams, IMO. Self calls are certainly not a problem, as you pointed out, but in that case recur is a pretty elegant way of supporting that while not making Clojure appear to support something it doesn't. EDIT: Also what you sug
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by sethev 10y ago
It's not that dishonest. If the JVM supported TCO natively then it would be a no-brainer for Clojure. The alternative is to give up on seamless interop between Clojure and Java libraries.
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by sethev 10y ago
I thought of that same exchange when I read this post but remembered it more as a lament that JSON doesn't support namespaces - so JSON is always context dependent.
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by sethev 10y ago
The Disruptor is an example of solid engineering - the fact that there's nothing "new" is a point in its favor. Its creators acknowledge that similar approaches are common in network switches, etc. I would say these technique
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by sethev 10y ago
If that's true this blog post is just whining. He knows that Clojure core made a decision he disagrees with and he's just really upset that after 7 years they still haven't changed their opinion to match his.
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by sethev 10y ago
I think you may have misread it - he's pretty clear that he considers these bugs that clojure core chooses to ignore because they either a) don't understand them b) want to do cool new stuff
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by sethev 10y ago
It seems disingenuous (in the blog post) to act as if Rich was saying that the results of applying union to a list were correct when he was clearly saying that the fact that it produced any value at all was an implementation detail.
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What's in a Name? Fast Fuzzy String Matching [video](youtube.com)
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by sethev 10y ago
Only he knows for sure but it seems a lot more likely from reading his annual letters that he's betting on the quality of their management team and their continued ability to produce profits. It would be very out of character for him t
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by sethev 11y ago
Treating workers like children and treating children like workers -- that's how I read it.
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by sethev 11y ago
It's a bit shocking to see Catch-22 mentioned in the same sentence as Atlas Shrugged. One of them is among the most engaging and humorous books ever written that manages to tackle real issues and the other is Atlas Shrugged.
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by sethev 11y ago
I think what it boils down to is that Searle believes consciousness is a real thing that exists in the universe. A simulation of a thing isn't the same as the thing itself, no matter how accurate the outputs. The Chinese Room argument
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Fast fuzzy string matching [video](youtube.com)
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by sethev 11y ago
"Embarrassingly parallel" isn't a term that they invented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
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“Eve” by Chris Granger [video](youtube.com)
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by sethev 11y ago
The title on this question is a bit dramatic. After all, this couple does earn more than double Cupertino's median household income of $160k. The median home price in Cupertino is $1.74M so it seems like a better response than the whin
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by sethev 11y ago
Ok, that makes sense. I think I misread your original comment as referring to commingling personal funds with the corporate funds - which on rereading your OP is not what you said at all.
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by sethev 11y ago
You don't think it was unprincipled to commingle funds?
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by sethev 11y ago
In Buffet's example foreign investment is caused by the trade deficit, not the other way around. The investments are made to protect the transfer of wealth that already took place. In other words, people in other countries are buying U
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by sethev 11y ago
There seems to be some confusion about this in the comment so far: a trade deficit is different from a budget deficit and the two aren't really connected. A trade deficit means that the people of the United States, in aggregate, import
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by sethev 11y ago
How would you name books in the Library of Babel? Giving each book a unique name would require as much information as the contents of the library itself. Unless you could re-arrange the library and bring the useful volumes together, you wou

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