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by wheaties 11y ago
Why is a CTO only in charge of engineers who work on software? I would assume that the people doing anything molecular are also engineers. Sorry if this sounds strange but I hate it when talking to software folks I somehow have to remind th
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by wheaties 11y ago
The biggest issue wasn't that they didn't have a degree. The issue was that during the boom anyone could slap "web developer" on their resume and get a job. _Those_ people had wonderful resumes, could not do FizzBuzz to
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by wheaties 11y ago
It's called code review. Unless you have stupid time constraints, you don't let that happen.
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by wheaties 11y ago
You know, it's things like these that set back the notion of an open, anonymous and free internet.
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by wheaties 11y ago
No, they sold those too. Look up CDO and CDO squared to see where those things went. That said, super senior subprime mortgage binds did exceptionally well as investments. It was the BBB stuff which had near 100% loss.
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by wheaties 11y ago
No they go to the people who threaten to leave as a means of retaining them. That's an even worse environment to work in.
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by wheaties 11y ago
It's one sided because it's written by the guys who wrote Quasar. Anytime you see a comparison of "code I wrote vs this other library..." you aren't going to get an unbiased report.
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by wheaties 11y ago
I wish they would open source the rest of the charts. When I worked there we had some amazing visualizations that weren't included in the open source portion.
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by wheaties 11y ago
Really? We hired a guy that worked for two of the largest porn companies (they account for 2 and 3 percent of US traffic, respectively) and never looked back. Now that is a guy who knows how to scale and more importantly keep it running.
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by wheaties 11y ago
That's because most government agencies don't know how to run a software project. From experience, they don't understand the requirements, don't pay attention to conflicting requirements, and often times have no choice i
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by wheaties 11y ago
Ues, this, a million times. I have done it again and again without the ability to undownvote. I can't even zoom in far enough to be sure that I have hit the correct button.
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by wheaties 11y ago
Ditto. Every time I take off and I'm at the controls of a plane, it is pure wonderment. Best feeling in the world. One day I will buy but for now I rent. I recommend it to everyone to get their license or even a sports license.
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by wheaties 11y ago
Depends where you're learning. I'm looking more at 10-15k for 40-60hrs. Then again, 172 G1000 planes so...
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by wheaties 11y ago
What an interesting challenge. Great view, low flyer, rough terrain, and of course, STOL.
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by wheaties 11y ago
Yeah, for 100k I'd get a nice used maule, 170 or a cub. For that low airspeed and fuel burn, sheesh, doesn't seem worth it.
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by wheaties 11y ago
Assuming a $100M exit, no dilution, $150k/yr elsewhere, no gains from investing the salary difference, same salary raises per year, no additional equity. after 5 years, you net even. Anything longer than that you lose out. Anything sho
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by wheaties 11y ago
I doubt very seriously that any cop does not find the manual paper entry and time wasted a good thing. More than likely they wanted to go home just as bad as the "perps."
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by wheaties 11y ago
That's easy to answer, instead of using a relational database or even PostgreSQL's JSON data store, it's using MongoDB. I hate MongoDB but for tests like these where there's absolutely no writes what so ever, Mongo is go
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by wheaties 11y ago
It's not that they didn't complete, they never even started. Definitely configured incorrectly for the tests.
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by wheaties 12y ago
That actually sounds like you encountered code that shouldn't have been or you had people using Scalaz (which has weird operators taken from Haskell, looking at you <*>.)
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by wheaties 12y ago
That's an interesting argument and also perspective that I bet will be argued quite strongly in the legal circumstances. In many ways, however, it may not be one particular aspect of surveillance but rather the preponderance of all the
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by wheaties 12y ago
Have you heard that many of these contracts come with preselected tech stacks or have to integrate with legacy systems that violate the standard your contracts have to adhere to? Your requirements will change every few quarters and those re
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by wheaties 12y ago
Ok, so they used an outdated client and then used a double operation on Couchbase when comparing to MongoDB. The other part of "doesn't scale" wasn't addressed at all. I hate MongoDB with a passion (burned too many times
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by wheaties 12y ago
You mean a version of PyPy that runs super fast as regular PyPy but that can also handle introspection? If it were that easy, why doesn't PyPy have that in place already? I think it's a lot harder than it sounds.
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by wheaties 12y ago
A very wise developer I know, John Baldwin, (hey if you're reading this) once told me an important lesson: People don't pay for technology, they pay for a solution to a problem. PyPy can't use introspection, like the standard
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by wheaties 12y ago
Hmmm... now if there were a place to start a business...
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by wheaties 12y ago
Oh, it's easy. It's through things like regulatory capture, funding campaigns and thus having direct access to congressional workers, having people appointed to regulatory bodies that are partial to your stance and/or other m
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by wheaties 12y ago
There were plenty more people who came to that conclusion many number of times. There were companies who changed their whole models just so they could sell the software because the result said "you will lose everything" to half th
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by wheaties 12y ago
This, right here. This is what matters. It's not just that U3 and U6 mean something entirely different but that even the "employed" are people working 20hr jobs, i.e. what anyone else would consider part-time work.
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by wheaties 12y ago
The JVM has several different types of GC algorithms, many of which are tunable. (A better place to look to understand GC might actually be LuaJIT or Erlang. I say "might" because while I've been told that both have simple to

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