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by wheaties 10y ago
As a former C++ dev, you can't compare Ruby LOC to C++ LOC. Just 4x the Ruby and then it becomes more fair. C++ is just verbose. #import <algorithm.h> doesn't fix everything blocks fix.
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by wheaties 10y ago
Big companies use more advanced features like adaptive audience segmentation or dynamic creatives to better target viewers. Hence they tend to bid on those who are statistically more relevant to them.
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by wheaties 10y ago
I'd just like to say that a master's degree makes you a better leader in the same sense that reading a book does. Knowledge is great but knowledge alone doesn't do diddly-squat for becoming an effective leader. That takes sof
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by wheaties 10y ago
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me get this straight: you took an application layer protocol (HTTP) that runs on top of TCP and ...reimplemented TCP over it!? (see: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-HTTP-pr
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by wheaties 10y ago
I never understood his desire to remove 'reduce' from Python. I would love to hear a cogent reason as to why we should have to write a for-loop for everything 'reduce' like. In other languages, 'reduce' (akin t
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by wheaties 10y ago
>> My main issue with ad networks is that they simply aren't technically competent enough to run an internet facing business. As someone who works in Ad tech, let me be the first to say that there are a few A-players and a ton of
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by wheaties 10y ago
Yes, because we all know that your ability to implement a red-black tree from memory has a direct correlation with your ability to implement some random business logic or CRUD app. Oh wait, they don't.
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by wheaties 10y ago
Some strategies aren't about beating a benchmark but providing non-correlated market returns. By that I mean returns which don't go up or down based on the direction of the market. A good example are catastrophe bonds and weather
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by wheaties 10y ago
Couple of reasons: it's new, it's shiny, it holds the promise of doing super awesome stuff, it's really hard to get right and if you've explored the language enough, it's one more facet to explore.
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by wheaties 10y ago
There are many talks about why OOP is "bad" but they tend to come from the FP camp The decent talks of this nature are backed up by firm, fundamental reasoning showcasing the power of "better" abstractions. I, personally
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by wheaties 10y ago
The scary thing is not that this happened. The scary thing is how easily this could be going on with any microphone equipped IoT device. How will we continue to monitor for malware and other things that any type of company wants to put on a
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by wheaties 10y ago
This is great. I worked on the ground processing systems for this satellite. I left before my own algorithmic systems went through final review. Was good for me to leave career-wise but I wish I could have seen it through to the end.
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by wheaties 10y ago
Having worked with Bob and having him explain the "why" of the different transitions, the behavior of the charts combined with the look/feel really sell them to me. It's hard to compare other charting libs to this. That
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by wheaties 10y ago
In general, when those thoughts crossed my mind it was when I was working a job I should have left already. There are good companies that value developers and/or give them a reasonably good balanced work environment. Generally the two
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by wheaties 10y ago
The lack of NFL on Netflix and Amazon Prime is the only thing that makes me reconsider cable. I haven't but it hurts. Sports bars just don't cut it.
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by wheaties 10y ago
I'm certain in the future that companies that sell third-party data to the government for this type of thing will get limited by large social networks due less to the reputational risk but more to the fear that the knowledge people are
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by wheaties 10y ago
I have flagged many questions for being off topic. You could say I'm part of the "problem" but from my standpoint, someone will ask a question that can be answered so many ways that the scope is too broad. Many times the pers
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by wheaties 10y ago
Actually yu can and someone already built and sold a business around it to the tune of nearly $100M.
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by wheaties 10y ago
Already happening. Jet-A is more widely available and cheaper. Take a look at all the new diesel engines coming to market.
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by wheaties 10y ago
This is a well written piece that has enough tech mumbo-jumbo to scare the non-tech literate person away. I enjoyed it but are there other, more widely accessible scare pieces out there? It's this kind of thing that needs to reach priv
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by wheaties 10y ago
The pendulum will swing both ways eventually. If we want a society that doesn't punish one group in disproportion to another, we're just going to have to accept that eventually the previously dominant group now needs help in certa
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by wheaties 10y ago
I have to wonder if the employee stock options were worth anything? Most telling is that Walmart decided to throw ~$300M at the founders "and others" to retain them. Does that mean, in this case, that the founding team is the only
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by wheaties 10y ago
I am very clear with how things progress. You have to be: 3mth evaluation, 6mnth evaluation if 3mnth wasn't going well. A clear onboarding process and written docs to get people up to speed. A pairing with another developer. Several st
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by wheaties 10y ago
If I want to keep my communications encrypted online, I'm going to do so. The only people who won't have the same luxury as me are those that follow the law. I don't get it.
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by wheaties 10y ago
To add to this, tasks risks in hiring but fire fast. Seriously as a hiring manager my best hires have been, on paper, the least qualified for the position. And when we've hired bad people, removing them within the span of 6months have
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by wheaties 10y ago
No, farmers have very little power. Agri-corps, big business which collects the majority of those subsidies, have power. These laws keep little guys down.
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by wheaties 10y ago
I can comment that there's been times when I've been on flight following and switching to a new ATC controller causes problems. I've been asked to drop to under class Bravo airspace midway through a transit. I've been pi
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by wheaties 10y ago
SO is I/O bound most of the time. If you've set up your system to handle high workloads of I/O bound traffic, then hitting CPU bounds throws a real wrench in your cogs. To put this another way, SO is one of the most traffic&#
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by wheaties 10y ago
Educated people ask questions. He doesn't want an educated populace.
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by wheaties 10y ago
Oh, I love them: atomatoflames, FMS Race, and Imsafe. Or the whole how to remember the 7500, 7600, 7700 emergency order: "Hi Jack, can't talk now, got an emergency."

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