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by soreal 9y ago
They're giving you a chance to win $15k and all it takes is delivering a 1000x speedup improvement to software that runs on a 250k CPU cluster? I'll pass, but hopefully someone else can do this as a labor of love.
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by soreal 9y ago
Even if it was, you still pay regular income tax on stocks which are given to you.
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by soreal 9y ago
Agreed. Also most companies won't give you honest feedback on what you did wrong in the interview, especially w.r.t. soft skills. Join an interview prep class or mock interview workshop and try to get someone else to identify what you&
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by soreal 9y ago
I checked the table you linked and: Apple: 38 Banana: 51 Pineapple: 66 Watermelon: 72 vs. Ice Cream (premium): 37 Sponge Cake: 46 Frosted Flakes: 55 Snicker's Bar: 55 Fruits really are very high GI compared to regular snack foods. They
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by soreal 10y ago
For me, coding simple games was extremely valuable. First, you can publish them as apps, which is fantastic for resume building. But also its the best way I've found to practice all the algorithms you'll eventually be asked to imp
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by soreal 10y ago
IANAL and this is not legal advice But yes, generally the terms of a work-for-hire contract specify an exchange of money in return for the work However, most NDAs are completely independent of getting paid. Thus the author's advice to
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by soreal 10y ago
Facebook ads: spent $1000, got 20 clicks and 0 sales Is that for real? Is everyone else's experience with Facebook advertising similar?
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by soreal 10y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the meaning of 'stack' in "full-stack". The 'stack' in full-stack refers to a solution stack. You can read about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by soreal 10y ago
I know it sounds far-fetched, but if someone develops a technology that can rapidly grow a wood-like material out of atmospheric carbon in such a way that entire buildings can be grown in single digit years, we could start seeing countries
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by soreal 10y ago
See, this is the thing about population studies. 1. Millions of people live their life 2. Academics put people into buckets in order to count them 3. Other academics group that data and label those people 4. Even more other academics come a
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by soreal 10y ago
If this is true, I suspect (anecdotally) that it is only true for solving small problems that don't require serious thought, patience or diligence. In that experiment, the problems required 10-15 seconds of thought to solve. Programmin
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by soreal 10y ago
This thread really reinforces my respect for Altman and others like him. Of the 1,000 or so comments in this thread, hardly anyone managed to capture this simple, yet profound concept as well as Sam. If Trump is bad, he's a symptom mor
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by soreal 10y ago
Permanently* *Until we act to start removing CO2 from the atmosphere through various carbon capture methods
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by soreal 10y ago
Well, the assessment in NYC, unlike other places is actually pretty predictable and transparent, but not simple. If you are Class 1, it is 6% of FMV If you are Class 2+ it is 45% of FMV https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance
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by soreal 10y ago
The authors calls out: [Important note: here we are not using the term “confidence” in the technical sense used in statistics, but rather as an informal term for “subjective probability”.] But then goes on to use a very technical, statistic