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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Really? Where I work we expect knowing how to test code and being careful and incremental in our junior candidates more than anything. It's easier to teach someone how to code better than let them send anything to production with 0 tes
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
It's serfs and masters, and it always has been. Since a few hundred years ago, a creative/merchant/white collar class clawed their way a bit above the serfs, but the gap between all of us and the 1% is still enormous. Sure th
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
I didn't say open sourcing the code was the only important thing. And I don't give a rat's ass about looking serious :)
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
"Cutting-edge cryptography: Benefit from the latest advances in cryptography research with our Patent-pending technology" as your website says, is a scary statement. If you're not using well vetted cryptography, that's a
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Application of calculus to the real world, in its most basic form, is basic physics. The whole point of people who aren't planning on building on calculus with further mathematics taking calculus is to better understand the world and h
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
The basic concepts of calculus (area under a curve, areas inside shapes in 1, 2, 3 dimensions, relationships between forces, etc) don't need anything more than some basic physics experiments and the ability to perceive the world around
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Er, one of the best developers I know is over 50. However, they consciously chose that path instead of tracking into management because they like being a principal engineer where that means they still get to work with code, but also have en
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
It's not crazy when you put it in context of the history of France with war and espionage I think. What are regulations on cryptography and decryption like in other European countries like Italy, Belgium, etc?
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Silly question: does this company retain full-time people, or is their work primarily done by folks employed elsewhere? Maybe I just haven't reached whatever point in life where a salary is no longer necessary, but I was surprised by t
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
If someone wanted to start a company with a definite product (not ads), maybe even a brick and mortar product, how does the process differ with starting a garden-variety startup?
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Don't do the Google search until you're ready to check your answer, and even then don't copy anything you find. It's better for your growth and learning to work the answer out yourself. Not only that, sounds like it&#x27
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
The number of iterations, if I recall correctly, is implementation-specific.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
You can still do that with MIPS and some of the other assemblers only used with embedded chips! A lot of people in my computer organization class five years ago ended up memorizing most of them, since it was sort of a side effect of having
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Pair programming all day, every day I thought I could handle. Turns out, I'm in no state to interface with any other human being, including my SO, at the end of a day of that. I think it's a good fit for a select group of folks wh
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
I'm curious what would happen if they looked at, as separate categories, people who mastered out of a doctoral program, people who did the 5-year BS/MS, and people who obtained a doctoral degree as well as a master's.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Does the author typically write in such a narrative form? I had a hard time finishing this piece and normally very much enjoy descriptive writing. Perhaps it could have been more succinct.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
What if I'm working on a side project, don't want VC funding (or any sort of loans), and just want to build organically? I can find people who can program and can program well in almost any place on the planet. There are a shitloa
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Is it possible that some people are just not cut out to program?
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
This is why I advocate for end to end testing of a whole system's expected behavior to augment a small set of unit tests (the unit tests are for edge cases). Nobody needs division by zero tests if there are already guards in place so t
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
I find Dallas horrifically laid out. Too many suburbs, too many big roads, waste of space. Pittsburgh and all the other cities that boomed during the 'great' periods of America have the same problem, which, notably, San Francisco
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
That sounds wonderful. Just as soon as you pry the car culture and suburbs from the hands of the folks who live in say Kansas and enjoy the status quo...
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
> If your child is gay, the local church youth group is very likely one of the most intense bullying experiences that child will ever experience. Not only that, but if your child isn't of the inclination to be religious, it will als
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Er, pardon my confusion, but I have no idea what that has to do with my comment.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Marry someone who isn't dependent on your income and doesn't want to be. Get a prenup so it stays that way. End of story.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
You can still buy the older years' models. 2014 was a good year for Mac laptops.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
If you go to the Starbucks website the Accept Terms Of Service redirect seems to work fine... that's what I've usually done anyhow (shrug).
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Paris is famous for it, though I've been to several parts of France and didn't have much issue... old people definitely tried to correct my accent but that's fine by me.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Just out of curiosity, why haven't you included any of the classic papers? Is there a prior course which discusses those works?
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Assuming a severe shortage of animal-based sustenance I could see that particular bullet point happening, maybe. As for wealth redistribution, I may be pessimistic, but how likely are you to give up 3/4 of your salary post taxation t
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
> dash/info center Hell no. I'm keeping the tape deck! The rest does sound quite plausible though. At best one would end up with an improperly balanced car from the difference in engine weights alone unless pains were taken to

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