akinalci

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by akinalci 9y ago
It's a generic newspaper without a regional focus, unlike the NY Times, LA Times, etc. It's distributed nationally, and it's popular with travelers and companies who cater to travelers (airlines, airport kiosks, hotels, etc).
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by akinalci 9y ago
United States is a large country. $51k or $80k would be a nice salary in Arkansas. In the Bay Area it's low. What's your point?
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by akinalci 9y ago
"Just try again in a year" is a good option when you're young. But it gets less attractive as you get older, especially if it means abandoning an interesting project or senior role you accepted after "Company X" rej
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by akinalci 9y ago
No feedback has been the norm, in my experience. Can be frustrating when the company asks you to invest 4+ weeks on phone screens, take-home projects, and in-person interviews, and then emails you a form letter rejection and cuts contact.
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by akinalci 9y ago
Here's another source, Payscale.com: Software engineer (Canada): $51,000 (C$70,000) Software engineer (US): $80,825 The gap here is smaller ($30k vs. $50k) but still significant. And I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I&#x2
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by akinalci 9y ago
If you want a MacBook-quality laptop running Linux, the obvious thing to do is put Linux on a MacBook. There's only an issue if the MacBook is out of your price range, or they Apple doesn't support a specific build you want. But w
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by akinalci 9y ago
Access to the truth is perhaps the most basic prerequisite condition for it being useful. Once access is cut off, no other conditions matter.
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by akinalci 9y ago
>>> "if they do and they aren't, they're idiotic" There's an implicit question, or at least an admission of ignorance.
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by akinalci 9y ago
If that's a genuine answer, the Family Guy segment is based on a long-running advertising campaign by the Pepperidge Farms brand of baked goods. I guess I'm old.
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by akinalci 9y ago
> but I'm very worried about what actually comes out of it given the media landscape We've seen recently that some people believe what they want to believe, regardless of facts. This doesn't mean the rest of us should be
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by akinalci 9y ago
> As someone who actually flies, the existing system works amazingly well, and delivers a service at a surprisingly low cost. Are they really low cost? And having worked abroad recently, it's shocking how much cheaper European f
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by akinalci 9y ago
> Southwest is a great example that the current model is working. Southwest is called out in the article as an example of an airline doing things right. I fly Southwest and prefer it to other domestic airlines, but are they actually be
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by akinalci 9y ago
How does buying over the phone avoid fluctuating ticket prices? Do the ticket prices not fluctuate if you call? Are they lower than online?
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by akinalci 9y ago
When you look at PARC's contributions (laser printer, bitmap graphics, GUI/windows/icons, WYSIWYG editor, Ethernet, OOP, MVC) or those of Bell Labs (transistor, laser, information theory, Unix, C & C++, radio astronomy),
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by akinalci 9y ago
I enjoy working in an office environment because working in my home can be isolating. But cubicles with low walls where I'm constantly seeing and hearing my officemates is awful. Who thought this could possibly be a good idea for work
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by akinalci 9y ago
You have a door?! Is your company hiring?
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by akinalci 9y ago
Best case scenario, it gains attention. Worst case scenario, it gains attention and I drive my car into a tree one night or spontaneously OD.
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by akinalci 9y ago
Part of me wants to make a really nice website to shine a spotlight on these corporate shills and track their offenses. Obviously, we can legitimately argue about the merits of some laws and regulations, but others are obvious corporate pow
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by akinalci 9y ago
There are parts of SF I'd rather not be in at any time of day. That includes the area around Twitter HQ.
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by akinalci 9y ago
We have this big problem. We'll just patch over it with this other problem and call that a reasonable strategy.
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by akinalci 9y ago
I spent a few minutes browsing through the data, and immediately founds lots of mislabeled data, e.g. an industrial power washer labeled as a toothbrush sound.
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by akinalci 9y ago
With pool at least, I've had them charge me a fee when I cancel immediately. I was in a rush to the train station and accidentally booked a pool. I cancelled within a few seconds and booked an Uber X, but they still charged a cancellat
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by akinalci 9y ago
Certainly some of them are for undergraduate education, but I'm not sure they're top research universities.
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by akinalci 9y ago
The NN approach sounds interesting, but there are no technical details and it might be hype-based marketing. Is anyone familiar with solid published work on applying ML/AI to optimize network control (or, as done here, optimize applica
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by akinalci 9y ago
This doesn't hold in my experience with an engineering education. The objective is for students to gain and demonstrate basic competence in fundamental concepts of their field, and straightforward answers to straightforward questions s
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by akinalci 9y ago
Did you read the article? It's not really about manipulating other people. It's more a list of basic social graces that some people learn on their own or from their parents, but others need to be taught explicitly. It's just
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by akinalci 9y ago
As someone else here pointed out, most people don't realize they're getting counterfeit items. Anecdotally, most of the people I've spoken to regarding this haven't even considered that something they get from Amazon mig
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by akinalci 9y ago
> rather carefully avoids coming anywhere close to addressing the legitimate criticisms of Go as a language. The "criticisms of Go are addressed every time the language is discussed: in practice, generics are rarely missed. They w
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by akinalci 10y ago
Unfortunately for them, their reputation in the Bay Area will make it harder for them to attract and retain talent and stay competitive in the long run.
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by akinalci 10y ago
You're right. Damn it Berkeley, you could have just recruited some eager undergrads to caption the videos. Do the captions need to meet a very high standard of quality? If not, automated captioning would have been a good student projec

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