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by xianshou 14y ago
If I wanted to get the best developers for my new startup, perhaps I'd launch a company like DeveloperAuction first, find all the vetted A-list engineers, and secretly swoop in on the best ones for my DeveloperAuction clone. Then that clone
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by xianshou 14y ago
Is it morally wrong for two threads to be writing files out of deadlock?
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by xianshou 14y ago
The truly interesting challenge will be how effectively they transition these policies as they scale. For example, the flood-of-email with filters works incredibly well for transparency at 40 people, but becomes an unmanageable deluge much
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by xianshou 14y ago
"its" I consider it a strength to notice both and critique each accordingly. Otherwise you guarantee that you will inadvertently irritate either the big-picture people or the detail lovers (as you have just, ironically, seen demonstrated).
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by xianshou 14y ago
Companies face entirely disparate problems at different scales. Let's charitably give App.net a valuation of $20M, and take FB's valuation as the approximately $42B the market says it's worth. This isn't even apples to oranges - it's 1 appl
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by xianshou 14y ago
I couldn't stand a one-hour commute if I were driving, but as I take the train, I'm about 70% as productive during the commute as I could be normally.
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by xianshou 14y ago
The word "synecdochic" exists and you can use it in this context, but it's a matter of lightning and lightning bug. Isn't the word "emblematic" more appropriate? We're not just using a part to signify the whole; we're stating that the part
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by xianshou 14y ago
Up again.
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by xianshou 14y ago
The Oatmeal said it before and better: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee
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by xianshou 14y ago
Of course price competition is a legitimate strategy wherever it occurs. I'm simply arguing that it may not be the most effective in the short term or the long. Econ 101 says that competition will push prices down to the level where everyon
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by xianshou 14y ago
Nobody expects the underwhelming earnings report!
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by xianshou 14y ago
That comparison is insulting to rubbish.
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by xianshou 14y ago
Actually, it's quite a good analogy. No one benefits from this strategy in the final analysis because a race to the bottom makes all developers paupers. Smoking a cigarette relieves the pains of addiction (delivers short-term profit), kills
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by xianshou 14y ago
Useful output depends highly upon the nature of the work and how well-rested you are. I find myself capable of at most 4 hours of high-intensity programming per day, but easily capable of 10 hours of routine work. However, if I don't get at
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by xianshou 14y ago
@jderick: Specifically, it functions the same as a cache with a random removal policy, assuming a good hash function. So a cache and a Bloom filter are opposites: the first knows when something hasn't been seen, and might know when it has;
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by xianshou 14y ago
People can multiply 1, 5, 10, and 25 with zero difficulty. An average person would likely resent being forced to count multiples of a less round number such as 18. For that reason alone, such a change is unlikely to come about.
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by xianshou 14y ago
Every smartphone-equipped college student played Robot Unicorn Attack for a month at one point too. It's a pretty well-made game, hilarious, fairly demanding...and absolutely boring after you play it for the 50th time. At this point, the sp
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by xianshou 15y ago
It seems to me as though most of the critics here dislike the decreased information density more than anything else. This is a problem easily solved; make the text smaller and decrease the space between elements. On a broader topic, though,
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by xianshou 15y ago
I was at this talk, and I think that by far the most important point was that you should get great advisers and mentors. Instagram started with an okay stack and terrible configuration. They ended up doing great on both counts; now they hav
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by xianshou 15y ago
Re: "The simplest way to estimate the future is to guess that it will be similar to the past." When we say that the future will be similar to the past, for code, we really mean that the probability of certain events occurring in the future
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by xianshou 15y ago
Personally, I don't like Cucumber because it attempts to bridge the worlds of development and business but ends up serving neither very well. Its syntax gives it the verbosity of English while removing none of the brittleness of the underly
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by xianshou 15y ago
I believe the above comment refers to regression testing. For instance, if I write a test for an invariant that is fairly unlikely to change, then the chance that my behavior will change in the next hour based on the test run is small. Howe
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by xianshou 15y ago
I discovered this one last week, and I personally prefer it: http://seb.ly/demos/MMOsteroids.html
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by xianshou 15y ago
I just stopped in at a coffee shop in the middle of Philly the other day using Register. Guess they got access to the beta testing.
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by xianshou 15y ago
Actually, for several of the presidents, approval + disapproval != constant. For example, Obama moves straight right (up on disapproval) for his first 200 days before descending in approval. There seems to be a substantial difference betwee
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by xianshou 15y ago
I personally adore riddles and algorithmic puzzles, but I too have had to confront the reality that they simply don't provide much information about the candidate's actual coding talent. Instead, where I'm working, we combine a few differen
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by xianshou 15y ago
The principle of subset contradiction (as in Yavalath, where you win by making four in a row but lose if you make three first) is extremely interesting, and it also seems like it can be applied in a fairly simple, atomic way to various type
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by xianshou 15y ago
Also interesting: Mr. Denning self-plagiarizes the concluding three sentences of his previous article verbatim. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/16/why-are-... Like all great obvious, radical ideas, in the first instance i
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by xianshou 15y ago
I notice Steve Jobs is consistently mentioned in the present tense...did the author write this a while ago and forget to run it by his editor, or did he simply miss all of October?
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by xianshou 15y ago
A shame this came out too late to be added to XKCD's "Map Projections" comic. I'd call it the "Manhattan Uzbekistan Projection."

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