tankerdude

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by tankerdude 10y ago
So my question would be, what's the difference between Rails and other frameworks, especially since we are doing RESTful APIs from the start? It would seem to me that Rails is just not the tool to use going forward for writing APIs for
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by tankerdude 11y ago
Exactly! Or even people who just haven't learned a whole lot in terms of engineering practices. This seems to be especially true in Ruby, where "it works" is good enough to go out into production. There is no programming, r
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by tankerdude 11y ago
I don't think he answered the question about the STEM and H1-B salaries. Also didn't answer contractors like Infosys and others who have shady business practices. Glad to see someone writing about their experiences, but I don&#x2
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by tankerdude 11y ago
That is interesting except that it seems a bit anecdotal in terms of usability. Is anyone doing cognitive tests to ensure that your brain is actually working optimally and answering hard questions?
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by tankerdude 11y ago
Anecdotally, I went to a very liberal university, and tbh, when I was there, there was a total of 1 black person studying computer science back then. The percentage of women is relatively low too, but surprisingly, it was at a higher perc
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by tankerdude 11y ago
Seems pretty rough, as it seems like she's trying to solve NP hard problems. And once it's solved for a small number, just a small adjustment again would render them useless. Anyone who wants the government not to see anything wo
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by tankerdude 11y ago
The pool of unemployed engineers is of decent size, especially people who are over 40. We know that ageism exists in tech, and many are deemed not even worthy of an interview. I will also disagree that these companies "cannot afford i
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by tankerdude 11y ago
So that specific company either doesn't hire, or hires for less compensation, if they can find it. But that doesn't mean that there's a shortage of workers. It means that that company isn't paying the market rate and th
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by tankerdude 11y ago
I have no qualms about removing the cap but one simple condition: Pay rate is at least 90th percentile for the company or the industry as a whole, which ever is greater. The more you hire (and if your company is a consultant company), the
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by tankerdude 11y ago
This topic has been hashed through so many times and it's always the same. H1Bs are used to distort the costs for engineering, not for hiring skilled workers that we cannot find. The engineers are then treated like slaves (Infosys), a
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by tankerdude 11y ago
Don't get it. This whole thing could have been solved in a 5 minute review with folks. Maybe they want more than just that 1 feature? Either way, installing _any_ software, even those that only do a read (how does he even know that t
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by tankerdude 11y ago
An RV is actually quite pricey in many ways. But, an A frame that you can tow with something like a Subaru Outback, would be pretty nice for something $10K or less. Not as nice as an RV, but still much nicer than that truck.
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by tankerdude 11y ago
I think the opacity argument is beginning to shift. I was listening to NPR on my drive home the other day and some people have really started working on this very interesting problem. There are now 3rd party companies that work with insura
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by tankerdude 11y ago
Contextual pricing perhaps? Kind of akin to this: http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/psychology-pricing-produc... Snippet from the classic experiment: For instance, a small popcorn would be $3.50. A medium-sized bucke
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by tankerdude 11y ago
The role of management is not to get every last drop of work out of you. With the risk of being redundant, management is really about management. You need to recognize when to push them and when not to. From the looks of it, it's pu
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by tankerdude 11y ago
Also more anecdotal evidence, but I was talking to a local beekeeper. For fields that they sprayed, the lost over 60% of their bees per year. They got sick and tired of it and decided to place their bees long term in fields that do not sp
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by tankerdude 11y ago
I wonder how much of it is due to scale. If they were to make and sell, say 10% of what their other car models sell, then what is the cost per car? I'd like to see the data points at certain % to see if it's a limited quantity pr
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by tankerdude 12y ago
With something like that, something like the a battery at home could become viable. Even with the lower energy density, it has a few properties that are really great if it proves to be correct: no degradation on cycles, inexpensive and red
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by tankerdude 12y ago
Putting keys in query strings does leak information on the server though. Query strings are usually logged with the request in log files so you have to be sure to filter out the specific query string for the session token. That's the
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by tankerdude 12y ago
What exactly will "Big Data" really do for this situation? Big Data for this seems like not quite the right tact, unless you are shooting to categorize people and hope for the right drug for the many possible mutations for the can
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by tankerdude 12y ago
Perhaps the point really isn't about having an effective cure for all cancer patients, but just this one. One of these days, we can detect the cancer cell, and the specific mutation for that person. The detection would take a day or l
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by tankerdude 12y ago
One of the school kids that is in the same grade as my daughter is autistic (and also absolutely brilliant on the asperger spectrum). He's had a social worker with him every day, in class, attending to him every day of his public scho
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by tankerdude 12y ago
That's part of my annoyance with the announcement. Exactly _how_ did you reduce it and quantify it? So much claim without any real information to back it up.
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by tankerdude 12y ago
The announcement, to me, was way over the top. There was so much noise in the announcement with very little in terms of signal. It reads almost like vaporware, even though it probably was not. Just give us facts, plain and simple. What i
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by tankerdude 12y ago
I would not recommend Ruby over Python, as the core languages and libraries make the Ruby API set much larger than Python to do the simplest things. Example: How many APIs do you need to traverse an Enumerable in Ruby versus a a list in Py
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by tankerdude 12y ago
I still remember my first watching of Grave of the Fireflies. It was gut wrenching, brutal, and to be honest, depressing and demoralizing to the point of wanting to slash your own wrists at the pain and suffering that people went through a
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by tankerdude 12y ago
If he really did agree with me, then why did he point out how X and Y INTERN costs SOOO much money? It is orthogonal to the conversation, and yet he brought it up. It is there for a reason, and that reason is to point out that it is costly
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by tankerdude 12y ago
Time and time again, this type of article pops up. Time and time again, it's about economics, and the solution has ALWAYS been about economics. It's just that the companies that the political machines don't want to talk abou
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by tankerdude 12y ago
The queues of things to do is always extremely long. There are 1000 tickets in your JIRA queue. They then ask you, what can you do in the 2 week (or 1 week) sprint? What do you say? Is it the 10 hour or 40 hour timeframe? That happens al
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by tankerdude 13y ago
Disjoint sets. 1) Each cell in the maze is a set. 2) Randomize walls. Check if wall to be removed are already in the same set. Merge the set if wall is removed. 3) Repeat until entire maze is in one set. DFS seems a bit odd for generation

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