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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Had to deal with Windows/Skype/Office login issues for a senior. It is insane that people who pirate have an easier time than paying customers.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
Any recs for classes in the Bay area? I've heard of interview cake and was considering getting it. But it seems not as useful as a class.
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by tostitos1979 9y ago
I agree with the parent. I think you are selling yourself short. Who says every dev needs to be deep? A lot of us get to very senior positions by being very broad. I suck at interviewing but have always managed to find amazing jobs where pe
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
As a relatively young scientist, I feel I lack the "argue reasonably" skill. How does one get better at this?
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
Your "seed corn" argument is not obvious to me, especially since we are talking about corporate taxes. Care to elaborate? I think one of the unintended effects of the loose monetary policy at home and abroad is the extreme rise in
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley (MSR-SVC) used to be like PARC of old. Too bad it was shut down a few years ago. I don't know if any place comes close. To be fair, there are pockets of awesomeness at places like IBM T.J. Watson and M
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
I watched the videos and this lighting system seems very nice. Why does the gateway need an a internet connection though? For firmware updates and supporting the mobile app? Since it says local only, I assume the mobile device has to be on
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
That's how I read it. Clarify OP?
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
What is the nature of the debt? Housing? As an aside, I once saw a homeless man in a Scandinavian country. Someone actually stopped their car to check on them. As a tourist from NA, my mind was blown. Was impressed by that but not having to
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
Yup! That was it!!
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
In NYC, there was a hackathon I attended a few years ago where everyone got the same problems (forget what it was called - comedy hackathon maybe?). It was about who could solve it fastest (or at all). Each problem was time-boxed, to be don
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
We paid off huge student loans first, instead of getting into housing. Housing doubled. We're priced out of our local city. Also .. I highly suggest that if you want to buy a place, do it before the baby arrives. After the baby, you ar
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
>who can but the houses? Rich people from other countries. Especially places where money isn't made cleanly?
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
You are missing the point. The problem is prices have doubled since 2012. People who didn't time it right are hosed. And there was no obvious reason why prices should go up so much so fast.
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
Why are tech salaries so bloody low in Canada? It is really disheartening that many union jobs that don't require the same level of skill end up getting far more compensation. I once had a a good CS student tell me he was getting a tru
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
Meh .. I think Paxos is easier than raft. A lot of Raft's complexity is in leader election, getting rid of old leaders, etc. Sad that I have failed Google's whiteboard interview soooo many times that I don't bother returning
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
I went through the FPGA book with Oreilly. It is not great but bad. If you know zero about FPGAs and are not super technical (more of a hobbyist), this could be a very good book. It has a bunch of chapters, each is a project with a particul
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
The students were complaining that they saw very little permanent, full-time employment opportunities in their countries.
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
I've met quite a few grad student interns from Europe. Was very surprised when they told me. Quite an unintended consequence of a well-meaning policy.
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
What does this bode for Openstack? Especially, given what happened at HP? :'(
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
I've been doing software dev since I was a kid. In my mid-30s now. I spent almost a month with Rust about a year ago. I was very disappointed. The borrowing rules seem to have changed as the language had evolved. I found the Internet d
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
Some languages make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot with nifty. I found Perl and Scala to be in that camp.
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
Not sure what example you want. If you are talking about code, take a look at the torch source code. It is pretty accessible.
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
Ha .. not unexplained. I am part of a few "deals" websites. People inexplicably want to collect all of them! They have predictions on what Amibos will sell out, so people can buy 'em sooner rather than later. Lots of crazy st
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
I bought an Apple case at a retailer in my country (sort of like Radioshack). While the case was Apple priced, I have a bad feeling it was a fake (case has minor blemishes). What is bad is I have no good way of verifying if it is real or fa
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
Very cool stuff! Some boards, like the beaglebone, have specialized hw like PRUs or I2C pins. Is it possible to access these with Docker containers? Also, what is the minimum memory footprint? i.e. how many containers can I fit within say 1
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
I really enjoyed their talk ... but wish I could ask the question ... how does a van explode like that??
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
Pieter: I don't know if you are reading Hacker News at this point or not. Most likely not. I respect your rights and understand the challenge you are faced with. We don't know each other but your work has touched me profoundly as
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
I spent most of my career in offices with doors, and was excited about being in an open office. It is definitely more social but it is ridiculously disruptive. When someone is happy or sad (e.g. when someone leaves, even from a different gr
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by tostitos1979 10y ago
You mention a bunch of random companies .. what is the common thread?

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