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Dismantling barriers to participation in programming communities(hanselminutes.com)
2 points by barik 6y ago|0 comments
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by barik 7y ago
It was posted by the author on Twitter, so it was absolutely for the world: https://twitter.com/invtym/status/1227321408469909504
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by barik 7y ago
The important part is that if you really set your contributions to 65% then you will max out your annual retirement contribution limits early on (front loading). So the rest of the year you will receive your full paycheck (- ESPP, which you
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by barik 7y ago
Yes, that's true. If you're wanting to buy a house that is a good reason to not put additional money in the Roth 401k. It still makes sense to do the Roth IRA, since you can withdraw your contributions early without penalty (subje
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by barik 7y ago
It would be good to add something on mentoring. This isn't covered very well in new employee orientation. But it's hard to figure out what advice to give because it's so team and role specific. Maybe the advice should be to j
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by barik 7y ago
It felt odd writing it. You are right, but when people do suddenly come into money (the initial cash signing bonus), they will sometimes do irrational things. Being able to step back from this emotional reaction will allow that money go muc
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by barik 7y ago
> Also forgot to mention open a Fidelity BrokerageLink account for your 401k. I thought about adding it, but BrokerageLink requires a minimum balance transfer. By then, I figure that people will find out about invclub if they want to pur
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by barik 7y ago
How many more groups are left to join? There's no easy to way as far as I can tell to get a sense of completion. The extension goes in reverse alphabetical order, but also loops around again.
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by barik 7y ago
You can join as many groups as you want. For example: https://df58.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/yahoogroups/leaderboar...
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The Website for TypeScript(github.com)
1 points by barik 7y ago|0 comments
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by barik 8y ago
It's hard to say if it was worth the price. I purchased a lifetime subscription a while back at a discounted rate. I'm not sure if this a product that I would pay for monthly perpetually though. Brain.fm does "work" in t
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by barik 8y ago
What is a recommended VM size on Azure to use?
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by barik 10y ago
Keyboard-Video-Mouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch
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by barik 11y ago
Ignoring for the moment the active jamming, it's interesting to consider otherwise how perspectives on cell phones have changed over time. When I was in high school (circa 1998), the administration would suspend students caught in poss
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by barik 11y ago
I agree. In 2000 or so when I first started blogging, pingbacks [1] (or its variation, trackbacks) seemed like it would take off as a popular mechanism for link notification. Unfortunately, for various reasons, it doesn't seem to have
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by barik 11y ago
> which is to motivate me to do something today which I will be able to talk about tomorrow. I've actually wondered about this, ever since finding inconsistencies in the psychology literature about this subject, particularly those w
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by barik 11y ago
You actually indirectly highlighted one of the problems with these types of "brain teaser" questions. Condition 1: If you are actually as brilliant as Donald Knuth, and independently derive the Floyd's cycle-detection algorit
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by barik 11y ago
Just a couple of notes. The "Rizos et al. in JAMA 2012;308:1024-1033" refers to the article: Rizos E. C., Ntzani E. E., Bika E., Kostapanos M. S., Elisaf M. S. (2012). Association between omega-3 fatty acid supplementation and ris
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by barik 12y ago
Like many ggplot articles, they seem to consider the primary output being the Web, and not print publications. One thing I haven't quite figured out with ggplot2 is how to keep the text size constant in publications across figures. If
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by barik 12y ago
I think what's more frightening to me is how non-systematic this sort of thing is. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to who wins the "doxing lottery". I was looking at my own Facebook and Twitter feeds and realized that
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by barik 12y ago
The article is a bit too fluffy for my taste, but in observing my own online behavior, I think that this part is key: > People are searching for products on Amazon, rather than using Google. My own habits suggest that I have a "look
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A Look at Characters with Disabilities in Video Games(tay.kotaku.com)
2 points by barik 12y ago|0 comments
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by barik 13y ago
I think what's alarming to me is that these actions by private citizens are necessary in the first place. If the problem is as widespread as the article seems to imply, then I think the industry should be more proactive and formally im
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by barik 13y ago
Using a term like 'hn' isn't really a representative example, since it's unlikely that any advertising would be purchased for such a term or have any custom "knowledge panels". So, first, turn off AdBlock (if y
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by barik 13y ago
> Sorry? Apple is an adjective? For purposes of a trademark, actually, yes. From Apple's own site [1], "Trademarks are adjectives, and should not be made into verbs or made plural or possessive." In addition, Apple specifi
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by barik 13y ago
It's possible that both of you are actually right, depending on the package. For example, "plugins" (such as Flymake, or modern variants) can indeed cause the editor to slow to a crawl. Likewise, I had to turn off real-time s
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by barik 13y ago
This is an off-topic answer, but I see no reason why this thread shouldn't be generalized to FizzBuzz equivalents in other careers (in fact, it might be interesting to do so). Our electrical engineering FizzBuzz is an introductory, Fre
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by barik 13y ago
In CS, conference papers act much like journal papers (though often quite a bit shorter). Unlike journal papers, a talk or poster (by one of the authors) is also required to be presented at the conference in order to have the paper publishe
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by barik 13y ago
I'll give you a serious response, as explained to me in a recent interview I had for a research scientist position: branding. Some researchers in industry are given fairly wide latitude in the topics that they are allowed to study. In
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National Science Foundation outage(nsf.gov)
2 points by barik 13y ago|0 comments

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