wmp56

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by wmp56 7y ago
For a new hire, it's more about standing out of average: github projects and all that. At that level connections are same CS grads that can't help much with landing a job. 10 years down the road it's more about connections wi
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by wmp56 7y ago
For me college was only useful to learn math, while everything I know about programming I learnt myself. Technically, everything I learnt about math I also learnt myself, but there was an important difference: math courses were structured i
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by wmp56 7y ago
I have another wild guess. Not only we have just right amount of fossil fuels to leave the planet, but also the sun has just right amount of energy to reach the stage when people can move to another solar system.
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by wmp56 7y ago
Why do you even need Windows in that case? Internet isn't any different when seen from Ubuntu and if you really have to use Windows, because AutoCAD and Photoshop, then you're paid enough to not worry about 260 usd.
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by wmp56 7y ago
The recourse is to move to another team or company.
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by wmp56 7y ago
> Git was released in 2005, four years before Bitcoin Now I have a suspicion who was that mysterious Satoshi who had remarkably good industry-grade software skills.
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by wmp56 7y ago
OK, the 95% percentile, if we want to be pedantic. Regardless, this comment tree is going to be taken down because you used a banned word.
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by wmp56 7y ago
I have one idea that I'm working on now. It will be open source (both app and the server, AGPLv3), but only to prove that it doesn't do anything fishy. There is no way it can make money, though, but luckily, I don't need that
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by wmp56 7y ago
I think women mostly look at social status of men. Appearance is only a plus. An ideal candidate is a wealthy gentleman with manners.
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by wmp56 7y ago
> That cannot be "just replicate"d for javascript extensions. This is false too. If extensions aren't allowed to communicate with the internet and can't auto-update themselves, then they also can't run arbitrary
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by wmp56 7y ago
I'm afraid I have to disagree. The key ingredient is unusually high IQ, not money. If I had a choice between being born with a very high IQ or in a moderately wealthy family (10s of millions), I'd choose the 1st without thinking.
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by wmp56 7y ago
Great idea and the implementation is pretty good for v1. The v2 can index reddit and render that index as a fancy 3d structure that gives a 10,000 feet view on what's going on in reddit: relationship between subreddits, topics, comment
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by wmp56 7y ago
Why does everybody think that by virtue of math ought to be nice, such a nice hypothesis ought to be true? Isn't it just a form of the survivorship bias that we observe only nice side of math? What if this hypothesis stands true for al