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by yid 11y ago
> More simply, if the SAT is the perfect determinate for intelligence and energy Nobody, including the College Board, has ever made a claim remotely close to this.
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by yid 11y ago
> Should everyone apply to First Round through the OpenApp? > No. The best way to reach us is still through a referral. I'm curious why even an "open application" has big bold lettering saying that referrals are favored
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by yid 11y ago
> More likely it's highly dependent on where that code is, your exact manager chain, etc. It could just as easily be that you picked the week a new manager started or a new process was put in place that turned out to be terrible and
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by yid 11y ago
I'm sure OP understands that four lines of code can be important. I think it was just different from what they were used to at the early stages of the company, where there was perhaps less oversight of engineers. Oversight is necessary
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by yid 11y ago
Ignore the negativity in this thread, OP. The rough design you've come up with is called a "triple store". You might find it interesting to learn about how powerful the representation is. Start here: http://en.m.wi
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by yid 11y ago
Not Google, but Snapchat runs on AppEngine.
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by yid 11y ago
There's a very marked difference between "safe" and "low probability of failure". With uncommitted writes, even with a quorum, there's still a chance that you lose the write.
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by yid 12y ago
> Facebook cannot become AOL (which is what all the platforms desperately want to become) unless they can vertically integrate with the network. Maybe you could also interpret the backlash against Zero/AOL as an indication that cus
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by yid 12y ago
> In a few years it wouldn't surprise me to only see stuff like the Corvette, Camaro, Mustang, etc. have big 5+ liter V8s. I'm all for nostalgia, but have you driven the new turbos?
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by yid 12y ago
Money grab? In some circles, that's called monetization.
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by yid 12y ago
> If I were a 4th level worker at your company...and suddenly the kicker pool rewards me with a couple of million, I might seriously consider quitting. This is precisely why equity vests over time instead of being awarded as a one-time e
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by yid 12y ago
> You don't have a phd, you can't be first author on this paper I'm going to go out on a limb and say that either you're in a very archaic field or institution, or that your PI is not a nice person. In the US at least
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by yid 12y ago
Prescription medication can be extremely expensive without good (expensive) health insurance, especially if there is no "generic brand" version of the drug available. Think hundreds of dollars per refill. I think that's the p
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by yid 12y ago
Could happen. Look at Clinton's last-day pardon record. I wouldn't rule out something similar for Obama on his last day in office.
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by yid 12y ago
If you're still interested, try solo stringed classical pieces while coding. Bach's solo cello suites are a good place to start.
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by yid 12y ago
Your statement contradicts the No Free Lunch theorem because of the word "every".
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by yid 12y ago
This sounds like an excellent use case for blood-level monitoring for personalized medicine (or in this case, vitamins). I'm not sure how viable the hardware aspect is, but there are sure a lot of things you could do in software with a
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by yid 12y ago
Not sure how, but this happened to me. Specifically, my bookmarks accumulated over years seem to have been wiped out when I did decide to sign in. Turns out I had already synced a new computer, so Chrome decided to helpfully delete my un-
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by yid 12y ago
What about Crunchbase?
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by yid 12y ago
So you're trying to build a realtime MapReduce? The other part about the diff-vs-batch tradeoff really depends on what the performance penalty of moving to a stream of diffs is going to be, over a batch. If it's uniformly better t
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by yid 12y ago
Running plenty fast for me on Chrome / i5 / Linux.
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by yid 12y ago
Wow, did not know about that! What a shame that Amazon didn't go with the dual e-ink/LCD idea, given that they're practically singlehandedly responsible for e-ink going mainstream. Throw in free-with-Prime, Android, and a few
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by yid 12y ago
> If the monopoly is due to superior technology, why are Google able to write a better search engine and maintain this search engine lead? Answering because I feel like this is the bulk of the answer -- Adwords still constitutes a large
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by yid 12y ago
> we should remember there is a degree of immunity to ultra-logical semiotics in literature and (continental) philosophy that imparts subjective states that reinforce one's humanity (and maybe even intangibly touches holy-grail-onto
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by yid 12y ago
Phabricator is a legend within Facebook. For an example of some truly funny marketing copy, check out its homepage: http://phabricator.org/
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by yid 12y ago
Ugh... comparing random algorithms without showings error bounds on the accuracies.
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by yid 12y ago
You absolutely can combine results from different studies, look up meta-analysis.
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by yid 12y ago
The writing's on the wall for Google Code. I don't think I've seen a new feature in several years.
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Simple Wikipedia dump parser(github.com)
3 points by yid 12y ago|0 comments
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by yid 12y ago
Thats a lovely sentiment. Unfortunately, commoditization of common skills is bound to hit. Things won't be as rosy after.

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