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by yid 12y ago
You're just reinforcing the parent's point. Take this sentence: > <PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE> is not without it's shortcomings and hidden pitfalls. After all, there is a reason that any style guide for <PROGRAMMING_LA
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by yid 12y ago
Other than vacation for new hires (15 days), Google has an incredibly generous policy towards pretty much everything. Your comp is top-notch, your health insurance literally makes doctors drool, and you'll be discovering new perks and
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by yid 12y ago
> "I want to give you some time to ask questions about {insert company name}." I don't have excellent social skills but I can spot that line from a mile away. Actually, that's standard protocol at a lot of places and
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by yid 12y ago
> I really hope Google does not use Gmail data for projects other than ads. It's already used by the Google Now cards on Android, and it's a fantastic feature. If I book a flight, I automatically get a card that reminds me to l
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by yid 12y ago
Reading the copy on the page, I wonder if the author has heard of npm init and npm install --save . I haven't had to edit package.json in quite a while.
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by yid 12y ago
Radical inclusion includes people with paid help.
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by yid 12y ago
> Actual executives at Google have the title "software engineer", as do data scientists. Not entirely accurate. There are also VPs and engineering directors who could be considered executives, who are not titled software engin
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by yid 12y ago
I think that's an editorial embellishment. I don't think Google hires "data scientists" per se.
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by yid 12y ago
> with a world focused on security and import taxes, how does this work out? Pretty much like Airbnb -- do it till someone notices and hope that you're big enough by then to fight back.
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by yid 12y ago
Motorcyclists.
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by yid 12y ago
I appreciate your intentions, and you make a good point about bad native advertising not being a "new" thing. However, I think as rational, reasonable people, we have a hard time accepting that this idealistic intention you expres
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by yid 12y ago
You don't have to "call bullshit". The text you quote can be better understood as saying that facebook should have known that if users found out they were being manipulated, they would feel violated. This is indeed what happe
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by yid 12y ago
> Quit your job just to ask a woman out? No, but you can recuse yourself from that particular deal.
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by yid 12y ago
> if I was a VC, I might choose to avoid female founders altogether. If you're a VC, you should be adept at assessing risk. If you think that the "risk" of working with female founders outweighs the potential upside, you&#
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by yid 12y ago
You can get research internships at large companies. If your PhD grant doesn't cover summer at full-time rates, SV companies pay on the order of $5k-$8k per MONTH for interns. Actually, even if your PhD grant covers your summer expense
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Westboro Baptist to picket Twitter, Facebook, Reddit next week, not Google(godhatesfags.com)
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by yid 12y ago
> and isn't merely a model This is a leap in logic.
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by yid 12y ago
What does modeling have to do with observability?
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by yid 12y ago
Perhaps someone could explain to me in simple terms why FB's stock has been surging for the past week (and is currently $75 in after-hours). Did people have an "inkling" about the financials?
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by yid 12y ago
From the description, it sounds like they're not at the moment. Instead, they seem to be aiming for the globally replicated, consistent, SQL-supporting features. Nothing wrong with that -- the world could use more geographically-aware
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by yid 12y ago
Interesting -- sounds like once implemented, you could leverage the consensus algorithm to implement atomic multi-document/multi-table transactions too?
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by yid 12y ago
First off, I see you're a new account, so thank you for starting your HN life with such detailed comments. Second, you seem to have some experience with manufacturing and electric locks. How much of an expert would you say you are in L
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by yid 12y ago
Careers in CS most certainly exist at Google, Yahoo, MS and Facebook, several of which have research labs in Europe (see MSR, Yahoo Barcelona, Google Zurich).
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by yid 12y ago
Why would a large holding company like IAC do something as stupid as fake messages in a legal deposition? What you're suggesting is highly unlikely, and would have absolutely no potential payoff for IAC. Your comment comes off as compl
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by yid 12y ago
Interesting idea. It would also give people who frequent the site the most the loudest voices (which could be a good or bad thing)
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by yid 12y ago
> This is depressingly similar In graduate school, many a moon ago, my advisor would say that this is validation of the idea, so one should be happy to be on the right track.
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by yid 12y ago
> Holy shit.. can you imagine someone just plotting all the trips from a single gay bar? Listing off all the connected residential addresses? And not only that, any subsequent trips home from those addresses the next morning? Taking the
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by yid 12y ago
It seems like nothing like this currently exists in a centralized, non-distributed way. Why add the complexity of a p2p network into an unproven concept? Is it purely to save on the cost of indexing and serving queries? > Scraping Google
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by yid 12y ago
> I actually think its overly long, wordy, rambling, poorly conceived and short any novel or important ideas. Yes, it's written like the draft of an academic research paper that might or might not make it to peer review. Unfortunate
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by yid 12y ago
There's no reason why node/npm can't implement a thin filesystem mapping layer on Windows and map long, logical module paths to shorter filesystem paths. That sort of address translation would fix both the symlink and the pat

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