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by theprop 9y ago
Thanks! Yes, exactly what I meant. "The best" is according to your organization's criteria in terms of skills, attitude, etc. for your team. In my experience, when we've started lowering the bar (after interviewing um
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by theprop 9y ago
The single most important thing in engineering management is hiring only the best. The best have two key characteristics: strong technical skills primarily in aptitude but also in technical knowledge, and a great ego-less attitude. It&#x
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by theprop 9y ago
I would still recommend going after a brand new product category. While it may not sound "ambitious", but more like you're building a toy (say a drone or an AI machine), it's most likely that the next gigantic company i
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by theprop 9y ago
For students reading this, Germany offers absolutely free college & university education to everyone...even Americans coming there and most classes are in English.
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by theprop 9y ago
This is terrible, but it happens to better-paid workers as well. My brother was paid a relatively high hourly salary by a firm who then sent him to work at their client, but they didn't pay him overtime. He complained multiple times
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by theprop 9y ago
It would be much better to send those defaulters to prison where the annual cost is typically more than the most expensive colleges in the country...oh wait, maybe we should just send them to college and pay for it, that might save even mor
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by theprop 9y ago
I always suspected Mozilla pushed Do Not Track to undermine online privacy. It was a doomed idea from the start -- all DNT does is politely ask a website not to track you. Setting their browser to DNT on did give tens of millions of Firef
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by theprop 9y ago
This isn't an accurate assessment or headline. The accurate headline or assessment is "Equity Crowdfunding sites fail to attract legitimate, investment-worthy startups"! I've seen the startups posted at the crowdfunding
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by theprop 9y ago
We've been using LetsEncrypt on dozens of our servers for several months now and it's worked flawlessly both in set-up and in operation!! Set up was quite easy thanks to A LOT of work by the team there. To make HTTPS simple and f
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by theprop 9y ago
Yes exactly!
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by theprop 9y ago
While I think this is a terrible idea, there's not that much to worry about for us as ordinary internet users. There's not going to be a slow & fast lane, at least not anytime soon. ISPs want net neutrality banned so they ca
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by theprop 9y ago
Everything "bad" eventually becomes "good" for you. 150 years ago Scientific American bemoaned the "chess phenomenon" that was spreading quickly across the country. They wrote that chess was a trivial game tha
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by theprop 9y ago
I think I found a new interview question: write an algorithm that outperformed the market for the past ten years...you have 35 minutes...
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by theprop 9y ago
Thank you so much -- this is really fantastic!! There's something quite smooth about this performance or this organ's sound...I usually find organ music harder to get into but not this piece...I just finished listening to this fo
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by theprop 9y ago
Most of the fruits & vegetables we eat today have been significantly modified from their origins...often to the detriment of our health e.g. most fruits have been bred to be sweet and often nutrient-wise less rich...some such as corn ar
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by theprop 9y ago
Nice. I still prefer the Partitas for solo violin...
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by theprop 9y ago
This means that I can host my own Firebase-built web application myself? It'll be just as fast as if it ran on Google's infrastructure (assuming machines are the same)? Is this kind of an insinuation that Google plans to drop Fir
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by theprop 9y ago
This page has fantastic data: http://www.usdebtclock.org/# Another stunning data point is that in the wealthiest, most productive society that's ever existed, over 40 million people are on food stamps!
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by theprop 9y ago
Yes, the student debt growth is unsustainable. It's up 10x in a bit over 10 years. Unbelievable!! There are only three things whose relative cost has gone up in the past 40 years: education, health care, and housing. It's also
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by theprop 9y ago
Who is Louie Louie? Is it the guy's girlfriend? Or is a guy friend who the guy wants to go with him to the ship to go see his girl? I'm sorry if this is really obvious and I'm missing something...
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by theprop 9y ago
If Google's AI is so great, why is it that Google search results seem to get worse and worse every year? So many searches I do are so "SEO'ed", I feel like it's 1999 again.
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by theprop 9y ago
This is FANTASTIC! It's important to understand how massive the Earth is (even though it's a pinprick when compared to the sun). You can EASILY go 3-D or deep. The deepest mines in the world are around 12,000 feet deep. This is
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by theprop 9y ago
I'd like the authors to try Vipassana's 10 day retreats -- it's free and for ten days you meditate, don't speak, and don't use any electronic devices. Not sure if there's any more focus than that! You'll
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by theprop 9y ago
How many people does it take to make a photograph disappear? 2360 if you're Snapchat!
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by theprop 9y ago
This is one of the ugliest financial statements I've ever seen. The multi-billion dollar loss is due mostly to stock compensation, but still their COGS or cost of revenues sold was greater than their revenues. That's probably th
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by theprop 9y ago
Reborn?! What! Opera is now a combination of the Epic Privacy Browser and the Vivaldi Browser. They copied Epic's privacy features and in-built VPN/proxy and Vivaldi's social networking sidebars (which incidentally Opera pi
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by theprop 9y ago
What the article talks about is not a typical hedge fund trader, but a kind of portfolio manager, that's what a prop trader is more like. A trader in a hedge fund is someone who usually earns $200k plus or minus something...but is mor
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by theprop 9y ago
"6.7 million people under correctional supervision in 2015...more than were enslaved in antebellum America and more than resided in the Gulag Archipelago at the height of Stalin’s misrule" Woah. How many thanks to the for-profit
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by theprop 9y ago
Hehe, well Snapchat is kind of private in theory...at least people use it because they think it's private!
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by theprop 9y ago
I wonder if this drives people to Costco? I've felt a major reason people pay to be a member is that if you buy all your gas there, you save in a year roughly the cost of your membership.

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