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by vbtemp 10y ago
I used to spend the vast amount of my time debugging. Fast forward a few years - Experience, good programming habits, and the gratuitous use of assertions. Now I spend a negligible amount of time debugging, and it never ceases to amaze me h
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by vbtemp 11y ago
Beautiful comment
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The funny thing is, writing good code takes no longer than writing crappy code. For anything non-trivial, writing good code takes less effort, less time, minimizes aggravation, and saves you so much more time to work on other things that ar
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by vbtemp 11y ago
> One of the important lessons you need to learn is that code is a liability not an asset I cannot upvote this enough.
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by vbtemp 11y ago
Quite honestly, it creates a class of "tokens". They nominally have jobs, but their real job (for the sake of the company being awarded the contract) is to simply be a token. Certain minorities count for more than others.
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by vbtemp 11y ago
> "fill as many seats with bodies as you can, win the contract, and charge by the hour" THIS MAN knows what he's talking about. I wish more people would be aware of this. What's even more perverse? When contracts are
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by vbtemp 13y ago
Are you part of a pool or flying solo?
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What is the name of that startup to hire locals?
1 points by vbtemp 13y ago|1 comments
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by vbtemp 13y ago
> in practice it tends to work out more like 'total honesty' does with your spouse. Which is to say, not always all that great. Spoken like a true wise man.
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Both
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Champions of human rights don't go to russia for "asylum" - it's where defecting spies go. So let's just call it like it is: he's defecting. Less and less, at this point, are his actions about government accoun
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by vbtemp 13y ago
Just remember being in a "habitable zone" is but one, small necessary (and by itself absolutely insufficient) condition for actually being "habitable" or sustaining life. Recall that the earth is gifted with an active pl
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by vbtemp 13y ago
> about why so many Americans are in prison in the first place, IMO. You are right and the prison situation in the USA is not ok . But that said, just as this situation could be called f--ked up , also keep in mind that many parts of
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by vbtemp 13y ago
From the first paragraph of the first chapter: > But fundamentally, computer science is a science of abstraction — creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. To
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by vbtemp 13y ago
No, the thing is, I actually did appreciate your response. Maybe you are one of those people that have a hard time accepting that other people can have different opinions and be quite valid. Anyway, I do appreciate the continued response. Y
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3. Edward Snowden doesn't really care about government behaving ethically or respecting human rights (as evidenced by accepting largess of such countries). 4. Edward Snowden has crossed the line from being a wistleblower and activist,
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by vbtemp 13y ago
I do appreciate your response. Thanks. On your first point, I barely disagree with you at all. The second point is where I feel like no one is paying much attention: For me personally, the irony of criticizing the US on unethical activities
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by vbtemp 13y ago
I'm choosing not to give him the benefit of the doubt since his intermediaries so far have been HK (a free society, but still under the clutches of PRC and not totally free) and Russia (need not say more about its trampling of human ri
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by vbtemp 13y ago
I actually do appreciate this response. I think it well encapsulates the gist of the debate of what's going on here on HN. There's a great irony going on that I think few people here are appreciating. Snowden "blew the whistl
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by vbtemp 13y ago
Just curious, do you have the same indignation that China does the exact same thing?
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Right, Cuba or Venezuela is his final destination. Does this change my point at all?
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Then why do they have a massive campaign of cyber attacks on government/military targets throughout the US? Source: I worked for an affiliated organization that was the victim of a large-scale, extremely sophisticated cyber attack from
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by vbtemp 13y ago
> It's possible that one of the room service delivery people was a Chinese agent and made Snowden an offer he couldn't refuse: "USA has issued an arrest warrant....we may have to arrest you...but...what do you have for us?
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by vbtemp 13y ago
> He's a patriot Daniel Ellsberg is a patriot. Edward Snowden crossed the line a long time ago when he fled to China to reveal more than domestic surveillance but foreign intelligence activities. I'm probably just as indignant
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> Ironic, people used to seek asylum in US from persecution in other countries. How times have changed? Now people run to other countries for asylum to avoid persecution in US. More and more land of the free is becoming land of tyrants.
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Ask HN: Snowden: When does ethnical whistleblowing cross into defection?
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by vbtemp 14y ago
I cannot recommend this course enough. The lectures and assignments are very well organized. It was worth every minute, and I look forward to a "level 2" FP course from this instructor.
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by vbtemp 14y ago
First, in education, sorting algorithms are used as prime examples of well-defined problems with well studied solution.. they are not taught because every student is expected to work on sorting problems for the rest of their life. It is usu
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> What I learned: It’s not always hard to make interesting changes to large projects. Should be, it's not always hard to make interesting changes to very well-designed and well-architected projects
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by vbtemp 14y ago
Judaism it not a religion. It is a complex mix of culture, religion, language, history, nationality, and ethnicity each to varying degrees. Being a Jew is never predicated on what you believe, athiests and believers - traditionalists and

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