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by slumdev 7y ago
I don't want to work for those people. I'll keep negotiating to win when it comes to salary.
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by slumdev 7y ago
I completely misread that table. Whoops.
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by slumdev 7y ago
Removed - I misread the table.
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by slumdev 7y ago
> 3. Don't try to win. (The extra 1-5% you might gain in most cases is outweighed by the negativity of the event. If you're negotiating with a future employer, vendor, or potential client, then the value of having them actually
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by slumdev 7y ago
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth
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by slumdev 7y ago
James Comey's "A Higher Loyalty" touches on the mafia briefly. It's interesting.
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by slumdev 7y ago
I think most people would be less toxic if their posts and comments were both (1) public and (2) linked to their real name. Someone posting anonymously or under a pseudonym has nothing to lose. He might not intend to offend, but he has no
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by slumdev 7y ago
This is bizarre. I understand that not all keyboards are made the same, but why would a technical person not have a keyboard with square brackets? Perhaps one keyboard for writing volumes of text in his native language and another keyboar
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by slumdev 7y ago
I think it's a matter of having the right tool for the job. If someone wanted to write a modern website in C++, I'd probably gripe about that. But Java, with either J2EE or Spring? No complaints here. VB just isn't appropria
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by slumdev 7y ago
It would make sense that risk is lower before symptoms appear, but it's still there. Everybody sneezes occasionally, coughs to clear their throat, etc. Smokers more so.
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by slumdev 7y ago
Hygiene practices can prevent the spread of diseases like this. Wash your hands, don't touch your face, etc. Wear a surgical mask and limit interactions with others if you're sick. But this virus spreads via droplet transmission
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by slumdev 7y ago
Nobody makes this complaint about C++ (which is older) or Java (which is almost as old.)
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by slumdev 7y ago
> Buying a 100 megapixel digital camera would cost me ten thousand dollars minimum. Hasselblad makes some nice ones. https://www.hasselblad.com/h-system/
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by slumdev 7y ago
> Python is a super-pragmatic language that sacrifices intellectual elegance to allow people (even, but not necessarily) without a CS/Math background to "get stuff done" Is this its elegance? That it exposes general purpo
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by slumdev 7y ago
It's been about 15 years since I did any OLAP work, so "big" back then was a source database measured in gigabytes with queries that took minutes to run even with a lot of optimization.
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by slumdev 7y ago
If your needs are well-defined in advance, you are fine with a materialized view. What I mean by "needs" is, "What questions are you trying to answer?" OLAP's strength is that the platforms that implement it can pr
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by slumdev 7y ago
They are also culpable. It might take them longer to find similar employment elsewhere, though, so I'd suggest that their increased earning power is offset by the potential for longer periods of unemployment.
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by slumdev 7y ago
People in our line of work have a much greater ability to walk than others do. A software engineer with only a few years of experience can leave and have a $100k+ job lined up in a matter of days or weeks. $150k+ if you're in NYC and
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by slumdev 7y ago
OLAP: Online Analytical Processing. Cranking through large amounts of data with a focus on aggregations like sums, averages, medians, etc. Measures (numbers) are defined by dimensions (attributes with usually discrete domains). Aggregat
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by slumdev 7y ago
I've seen the movie and not read the book, and I took away two things: 1. Derivatives can be riskier than the underlying asset. 2. Ratings agencies will lie if it makes a big client happy. I don't think either 1 or 2 is controvers
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by slumdev 7y ago
I can appreciate this, but the fund decay actually has nothing to do with leverage. All "leveraged" ETFs (to the best of my knowledge) are synthetic - they achieve their "leverage" using derivatives, not by borrowing. T
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by slumdev 7y ago
Yes, this is called "decay", and it's why you don't want to hold a leveraged fund over any long period.
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by slumdev 7y ago
> If someone is going on there and listing thousands of dollars of gift cards that should be a huge red flag. There are legitimate reasons for doing this. Buying gift cards using a rewards-earning credit card and reselling them online i
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by slumdev 7y ago
> We haven't made much progress stemming growth. Birth rates in the United States are already below replacement rate. Population growth is a result of immigration. Americans lowering their birth rates further won't do much.
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by slumdev 7y ago
Deontological ethics can look perverse if you're only interested in the outcome and not the means. If the means to an end must be just, you'll make a lot of decisions that can look suboptimal to someone who doesn't share you
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by slumdev 7y ago
> And since this always has to be pointed out: That is adjusted for inflation. I must point out a concern about your out point. Is this using CPI? PPI? Currency supply? Something else? Education, housing, and many other expenses have
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by slumdev 7y ago
> I grew up (UK) in a house that had an outside toilet and no bath Were you born in 1800? Joking aside, what decade was this? And is this common?
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by slumdev 7y ago
> In the nuclear realm, national leaders have ended or undermined several major arms control treaties and negotiations during the last year > US-Russia cooperation on arms control and disarmament is all but nonexistent Moving the cloc
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by slumdev 7y ago
> Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract – or JEDI I've been living under a rock, apparently. Is there some requirement that when a right-wing celebrity gets elected President, they have to use Star Wars codenames?
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by slumdev 7y ago
Given that tech is especially linked to universities and the West Coast, it is especially affected by ideologies that should never have escaped universities and the West Coast.

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