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by army 11y ago
Not sure why the other comments are so negative. I don't see how you can dispute that having a large part of your net worth in a single stock leaves you vulnerable if anything happens to it. There's also the fact that your fortune
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by army 11y ago
"This equity is provided in order to align incentives." That leaves out the other - probably more significant - reason - it's provided because it can increase the (real or perceived) value of compensation packages without spe
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by army 11y ago
The original version of the "10x" idea didn't require the productivity distribution to be bimodal - it could be a bell curve or skewed bell curve with high variance. I think it's contextual as well - if you're work
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by army 11y ago
You could probably conspire with another party to sell your shares back and forth at +10% every day. That way the official market price of your shares would eventually get to the point where you could share them at their true value.
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by army 11y ago
Your analysis of the arbitrage is faulty - if there's a cost associated with time-shifting energy, then the gap will only narrow to the extent that it's still economically justifiable for people to invest the money in time-shiftin
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by army 11y ago
In special cases multiple string concatenations can be optimized into using a StringBuilder calls. Not in the general case.
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by army 11y ago
Do you know for sure that RethinkDB can't work out what columns are being filtered by a function? In the examples it would certainly be possible with some analysis.
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by army 11y ago
Right, I'd be a lot more forgiving of MongoDB if they had been bringing the product to market 10-15 years earlier.
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by army 11y ago
'When you query with ReQL you tack on functions and “compose” your data, with SQL you tell the query engine the steps necessary (aka prescribe) to return your data:' ... what? ReQL and SQL are both declarative query languages: I
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by army 11y ago
Hey, he's too busy working 300 hours a week to worry about things like "averages" and "mathematics".
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by army 11y ago
Uh, it's completely acceptable to "discriminate" against people based on factors that relate to their ability to succeed in the job. I don't think it's controversial that people's social skills or style of soc
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by army 11y ago
I've definitely heard the negatively correlated variant of the meme. I'm not sure it's the predominant one or always explicitly expressed, but it's out there.
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by army 11y ago
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coding-website-github-hit-wi...
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by army 11y ago
They can't selectively block parts of github when it's going over HTTPS. All they see is an encrypted connection from inside China to github.com.
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by army 11y ago
Great, another person who doesn't understand marginal tax rates.
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by army 11y ago
If you're learning, it's really important to have the skill of narrowing down what it is you don't know and formulating a clear question about it. I've seen all sorts of failure modes with that: * People asking overly br
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by army 11y ago
Yeah I have a hard time telling what's definitely going on from the OP's description. I personally find the most difficult people to work with are the people who have trouble filling the gaps in their knowledge themselves AND are
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by army 11y ago
It means he doesn't have the commitments that come with being a full-time faculty member but that he can teach classes.
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by army 11y ago
Even if Toyota went away, it wouldn't be so hard to just go and buy a Mazda or whatever and drive that around.
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by army 12y ago
My bias is better than your bias ;)
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by army 12y ago
Um, you can practice for anything that involves communication or demonstrating your skills. Its just arrogant to think that you can go into an interview cold and rely on the interviewer to tease out your positive qualities. If they'r
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by army 12y ago
You are wrong about the Dunning-Kruger effect - there is not a negative correlation between perceived and actual ability, just a weaker positive correlation than you might expect. There's plenty of debate about the causes of the eff
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by army 12y ago
It sounds like #3 was a good thing to happen - you learned a lot.
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by army 12y ago
Nice feature or cunning conspiracy you be the judge.
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by army 12y ago
If those numbers about grad students are right, that's pretty weird - it sounds like they're being overly picky about who they admit and only admitting the people who were accepted at other, more prestigious, places. Edit: I'
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by army 12y ago
This made a lot more sense when I saw who the author was...
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by army 12y ago
I think the lack of highlighting and indentation support in some of those tools is a pain and adds unnecessary mental overhead. Whether a candidate can reason about the correctness of their code without using a debugger is a useful data poi
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by army 12y ago
Those are for the more senior engineer grades at Google - the average engineer isn't making that much.
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by army 12y ago
That was a really long-winded way of saying "I don't like tech people".
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by army 12y ago
Heroin still requires growing poppies. Aspirin can be be synthesized.

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