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by stevewepay 12y ago
I'm not sure which specific time period you're referring to with respect to Microsoft, but I've worked for several companies who had paid for Microsoft support contracts, as of the mid-90s, and Microsoft support was always ph
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by stevewepay 12y ago
People use the excuse "it's for the economy" in much the same way that people use the excuse "it's for the children", or "it's to fight terrorism". It's a lazy argument to shut up the oppos
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by stevewepay 12y ago
Put the bare minimum, and do not say anything about compensation, etc. As a3n says, just say you are leaving, and when your last day will be. When it comes to the exit interview, DO NOT SAY ANYTHING EITHER. It all goes into your employmen
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by stevewepay 12y ago
Interesting, thanks for the insight. We are doing something similar to the nonce that you mention, but your argument that at-least-once semantics is more appropriate is very convincing to me, as is your RPC argument. I'm old enough t
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by stevewepay 12y ago
I want a message queue to hold credit card authorization requests. I want to ensure that the authorization requests occur at most once, since having a customer's credit card charged twice is infinitely worse than not charging the card
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by stevewepay 12y ago
Most of the self-taught engineers that I've met struggle with algorithm questions, even relatively straightforward ones. Most also don't have a clear idea of things like algorithmic complexity and how to get an idea of how effici
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by stevewepay 12y ago
No, they did not know it existed. I'm sure they suspected something (no idea why), but they just pulled over her entire family's car, and did a blanket search. She was on H1B, so she lost her job and had to fly back to Asia wi
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by stevewepay 12y ago
They can read through the person's text messages to look for evidence of illegal activities. This happened to one of my friends while trying to enter the US, and she was given a 10 year ban from entering the US because of things writt
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by stevewepay 12y ago
I used to be very big into algorithmic and day trading, and one trader I was introduced to had Martingale'd himself into a record of something like 2 years without suffering a loss. Then he suffered a 300k loss and wiped out all of hi
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by stevewepay 12y ago
That is the point I'm making: start small, make useless programs and see results quickly. If you start from scratch, trying to tackle something big will only frustrate you because there's too many things you need to learn before
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by stevewepay 12y ago
I'm in the process of teaching one of my friends how to program. He's starting off with almost no knowledge, but he's a smart guy, so hopefully it won't be too painful. The #1 thing I told him to do is start by programm
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Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading(queue.acm.org)
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by stevewepay 12y ago
No, this is in the case of fraud, and then unlock it after 3 months. If you want it frozen until you rescind it, it costs $10 per bureau, but there may be an exception for fraud.
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by stevewepay 12y ago
The one bad habit you learn from coding in school is you take a project and then throw it away. So speed does count when it comes to finishing an assignment so you can goof off, go party, etc. And then you never see it again, so who cares
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by stevewepay 12y ago
That's a pretty impressive lineup of investors. With that kind of funding, I imagine that Coinbase isn't just setting themselves up as a Bitcoin company, but they should be able to create infrastructure that processes/handle
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by stevewepay 12y ago
When I first came to Silicon Valley, I had a couple of senior engineers as my mentors. The most important lesson I learned from them is that they were extremely supportive. I had a couple of ideas for new features, and instead of shooting
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by stevewepay 12y ago
This is also not true. A lot of people enjoy playing limit poker, like 3-6, because they can chase big hands much cheaper. It's a completely different strategy than no-limit, where you could potentially risk your entire stack in any
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by stevewepay 12y ago
I play poker in the card rooms around the Bay Area very regularly, and limit poker is absolutely popular at the card rooms that I go to, as well as in Vegas. To say that it is dead is completely untrue.
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by stevewepay 12y ago
Awesome work! How much more/less radiation does this expose a patient to than a traditional CT scan?
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by stevewepay 12y ago
Everything I've read suggests that this doctor is conscientious, selfless and kind. I don't believe he would have exposed others to Ebola if he had any inclination that he was infected. He measured his temperature twice a day as w
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by stevewepay 12y ago
I'm at a YC startup, and our culture is very much to not have late nights, work people to death, etc. The belief here is that working people to the bone does not build a scalable business, and the only way to grow at a sustainable pac
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by stevewepay 12y ago
WePay.com - Palo Alto, CA - Full-time (Relocation assistance provided) WePay is looking for talented and motivated software engineers to join our rapidly expanding team. Our transaction volume has more than tripled year-over-year, and we ne
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by stevewepay 12y ago
WePay.com - Palo Alto, CA - Full-time (Relocation assistance provided) WePay is looking for talented and motivated software engineers to join our rapidly expanding team. Our transaction volume has more than tripled year-over-year, and we ne
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by stevewepay 12y ago
I did this all the time with my iPhone 3, 4 and 5 without any issues which is why it developed into a habit. The fact that I can't do that with the iPhone 6 is a surprise and disappointment.
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by stevewepay 12y ago
I've had the iPhone 6 since Sept 19. In the 10 days since then, I've shattered the screen, when it slipped out of my pocket as I got out of a chair, and bent the phone just yesterday, after putting it in my back pocket and sitting
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by stevewepay 12y ago
Sales 101 is being able to take the conversation away from "price" and change it to "value". 20 years ago, my friend was selling IBM desktops and servers to educational institutes and I learned this from him. There was n
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by stevewepay 12y ago
If you have a USPS PO Box, some allow you to specify the street address as the address, and they can match your box to your name.
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by stevewepay 12y ago
So now what? Now that the canary has disappeared, is there no other information that can be transmitted to us? It feels like it's a binary signal that just got set permanently, so there's no more information we can glean from it
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by stevewepay 12y ago
This is what happened to someone I know. He made a single mistake, hanging around with the wrong crowd, and then even though he was trying to change his life, he kept getting screwed over by "the system". There were lots of issu
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by stevewepay 12y ago
I come from a different generation where people aren't all assumed to be equally smart and equally talented. So I very much subscribe to the idea that some people are clearly smarter and more talented than others. There are definitely

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