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by smithsmith 9y ago
> Burden of proof belongs to those who want to change the system. This is only true if the existing system does not keep on worsening. As the technology progresses human working hours has become more and more. How is this even fair when
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by smithsmith 9y ago
In an economy where at the early 30's people are too afraid of being unemployed this is the stupid advice. Without financial independence everything is a luxury.
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by smithsmith 9y ago
The company policy to speak to another department without managers approval seems great in theory. The problem with this approach is that managers will favor good ratings and promotions to those who take permission before speaking with othe
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by smithsmith 9y ago
How to define a nonscientific problem. There is none. All sociology problems are related to psychology that is related to biology which is related to chemistry which is related to physics which is related to math. https://xkcd.co
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by smithsmith 9y ago
This specialization contains 5 courses. Does this mean one has to pay 245 dollars(49 * 5) + 49 dollars for the first month.
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by smithsmith 9y ago
After the google diversity memo issue, i have started thinking about using DDG all the time. The reason being what if google decides to censor the information when it is negative about it. It looks so obvious but never hit me so hard after
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by smithsmith 9y ago
> But I see no evil whatsoever in someone making a software tool and selling only the binaries to someone who is happy to use said binaries under the terms the seller and buyer agree upon. Same thing can be said about slavery. Some very
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by smithsmith 9y ago
Exactly what is being marketed ?
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by smithsmith 9y ago
Can the certificate be received by completing the course in audit mode and then paying at the end of the course.
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by smithsmith 9y ago
> If this is not the case he should apologize for it. Even if your understanding is correct for which of the 3 points he should apologize for. My opinion is none.
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by smithsmith 9y ago
The author has a point. One suggestion to hire people without bias is to make the interview online for the most part and then conduct very few face to face interview with multiple rounds and getting an averaged feed back of the interviewee
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by smithsmith 9y ago
This point has been already made by Eric Raymond in his article "Women in computing: first, get the problem right" http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2118
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by smithsmith 9y ago
Like it or not, only the founder cares about the company. So the founders attitude should be forced to change and not change the founder itself. If Uber brings Meg Whitman then she will do the same what she did to HP. Split in to multiple p
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by smithsmith 9y ago
hckrnews is awesome. Before i found hckrnews i had no idea at what point to stop scrolling for more news if i missed looking hacker news a day later. The problem was since the feed is not linear with time and the newer articles can go beyon
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by smithsmith 9y ago
You may have a good reason to not disclose your identity, but how do you plan to get paid. Do you want to get paid anonymously in bitcoins or you just want to provide your identity to the future employer only which does not make sense to di
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Intuition behind permutations and combinations (2016)(buildingvts.com)
74 points by smithsmith 9y ago|3 comments
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by smithsmith 9y ago
The best way is for the company to tell in a few lines that this is all they can do due to market pressure and any possible helps they can offer over mail. Its pointless to call in to a room and deliver through hr which creates unease to bo
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by smithsmith 9y ago
Do they still use mysql for storing the usernames. What is their software stack as of now ?
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by smithsmith 9y ago
How old is Andrej Karpathy ? Unable to find on google.
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by smithsmith 9y ago
I hate oracle because in the past you need to register to download jvm. I am glad android moved to open jdk.
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by smithsmith 9y ago
try skytorrents.in does something similar.
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by smithsmith 9y ago
We have limited attention span in 21st century. The teaching content better be interesting with low cognitive load required to understand using animations to get the material in to the brain. This is the right direction.
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RMS covered in psychologytoday(psychologytoday.com)
2 points by smithsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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by smithsmith 9y ago
Now i am realizing this. Once you accept that the only way to remain in the industry is to work after work you just get used to it, although it still sucks :) .
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by smithsmith 9y ago
Not just 10x, just infinite. I am fairly a decent programmer but still i think i will be not able to write a kernel from scratch in a decade.
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by smithsmith 9y ago
I concur. This concept is just annoying to the employer as high wage should be paid, when all the developer are almost the same.
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by smithsmith 9y ago
Looks like https://n-o-d-e.net is written using org-mode. Also who is the author, i am not able to find any about link.