PlaceFan

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by PlaceFan 9y ago
As a counterpoint, I work in high finance and one of our core systems that I'm expected to know extremely well uses Paxos for consensus. Just because those topics show up infrequently doesn't mean that no one's using them. Pl
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by PlaceFan 9y ago
I think that particular subreddit is being generous about the issue because they overwhelmingly support the Antminer manufacturer on a completely separate issue (increased block sizes). That issue is more-or-less the big schism at the momen
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by PlaceFan 9y ago
> This accusation is almost always from people who haven't studied that particular pet topic Well sure, but you only have so much time to study for these interviews. So, you make sure you review your basic data structures, algorithm
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by PlaceFan 9y ago
Is that true? Isn't the generic accusation against AmaGooFaceSoft that your interview performance largely depends on whether you happened to study some interviewer's pet topic (e.g. parallelism, dynamic programming, networking, et
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by PlaceFan 9y ago
> It's a question of how much self-censorship you want to impose on yourself in the hope of fostering a good discussion. And how much you are focusing on expressing what you feel vs. starting a conversation with people you disagree
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by PlaceFan 9y ago
The problem being that as soon as you start bringing the left/right dichotomy into the picture, you've lost all hope of having a sensible argument or even an intelligent discussion. I mean, it's not like it's all that di
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by PlaceFan 9y ago
> But college is not a necessity Ehhh, that isn't the narrative we've been pushing for the last 20+ years. > whereas living somewhere is I think the fact that it's a necessity only benefits the idea of providing peopl
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by PlaceFan 10y ago
I used to have a similar problem. One thing that helped me (which I won't take credit for): I categorize my todo list into four groups. * Urgent/Important (Fill out the kids' immunization forms for school) * Not Urgent/I
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by PlaceFan 10y ago
> "Zuckerberg" seems to be more frequently used than the full "Mark Zuckerberg". Eh, I'm not sure I would agree with that. > And quite a few Hackers seem to be on a first name basis with Elon and Linus. They h
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by PlaceFan 10y ago
> Is journalism so, so much more expensive to produce than entertainment? There's a temporal component here that's much more important for journalism than it is for those other two forms of entertainment. For example, The Shaws
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by PlaceFan 10y ago
> some regions has tradition of alcohol consumption deep in their culture and even national identity New Zealand is one of those places. > nearly everyone consumes alcohol to various degrees. That's the point of the study. Wealth