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by dmansen 1y ago
I fell in love with this piece hearing Michael Winograd play it on clarinet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTsQ-TbQReI
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by dmansen 2y ago
I have also been telling Gemini to "fuck off" in my gmail, but that doesn't seem to make it go away
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by dmansen 2y ago
New Jersey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
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by dmansen 2y ago
What in the world is a poetry lockfile
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by dmansen 3y ago
This is essentially the conclusion the author comes to at the end of the piece
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by dmansen 3y ago
> So as long as Songtrader keeps paying artists Fair enough, but I wouldn't hold my breath!
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by dmansen 4y ago
If I were holding savings in USDC I would be nervous right now.
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by dmansen 10y ago
Thank you for the recommendation, never would have found this and am loving it!
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by dmansen 10y ago
Uber hasn't denied any allegations, all of which have an paper trail (otherwise known as "direct evidence")
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by dmansen 10y ago
They seem to be doing just fine without the consent of the governed, given voter turnout in the US. I prefer to look through the lens of expected value. How can you vote in a way that maximizes the chance that your preferred policy outcomes
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by dmansen 10y ago
"Criminal Aliens Sexually Assault 70,000 American Women". You're saying you don't see ANY problem with this headline? The inference is that this is a giant problem that we should be addressing right now, that it's e
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by dmansen 10y ago
> "I'm curious about this project this little repo of yours. Is there some particular reason you chose to use to use / not-use X" This kind of question is exactly what I had in mind when I said "pushing to see ho
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by dmansen 10y ago
[edit: Both the reactions you listed seem fine, depending on what you're looking for. But I wouldn't do this myself, anyway.] I don't know the correct reaction, and don't do this when I'm interviewing. My point was
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by dmansen 10y ago
Are you sure this is what happened? I ask because we interview lots of candidates who always jump straight to their favorite data structure. Given any algorithmic question, they'll immediately create an instance of their pet data struc
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by dmansen 10y ago
the parts people are taking issue with are the ridiculous generalizations that young women aren't interested in serious relationships, etc. the parent comment's perspective comes off as judgemental and paternalistic, especially &q
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by dmansen 10y ago
yep, seemed pretty obvious to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by dmansen 10y ago
> young women are not interested in serious relationships (instead they are interested in having fun, one-night stands, drinking, sex, etc...) because it gets in the way of having a career im guessing you dont know any young women cause
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by dmansen 10y ago
I'm also more interested in finding a solution. Unfortunately, I'm also human, and defensiveness isn't something I can make magically disappear. I don't see competitiveness here. I want to see my teammates as people and
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by dmansen 10y ago
I get defensive when somebody dismisses my domain knowledge with a quick "why not just do this"? I'm not happy with myself when I react this way, but I do. Therefore, when I'm in a position where I want to throw out a qu
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by dmansen 10y ago
> Disagree 100%. Some of the best developers I've met understand very well how to separate their work. The stereotypical hacker that works all through the night on obscure problems tend to pidgenhole themselves and lose sight of the
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by dmansen 10y ago
Pete Egoscue's book "Pain Free" is IMO, the best book for understanding correct posture and how to achieve it. https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chro...
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by dmansen 10y ago
this is brought up every time we have one of these discussions and is inevitably ignored by the commenter
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by dmansen 10y ago
You're not the first person to think about this.
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by dmansen 10y ago
Perfect.
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by dmansen 10y ago
you said you wanted a response and not just downvotes. i tried ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by dmansen 10y ago
here you go your post doesn't add anything to the conversation it might technically be a technicality but 10 years is long enough in startup life units that it doesn't matter you're pointing out definitions when it was clear
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by dmansen 10y ago
i'll take 'u' here any day. would never mistake it for anything else
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by dmansen 10y ago
lol wow
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by dmansen 10y ago
I do lots of recruiting / hiring at my job. I use a sliding scale. If you have no CS degree: have you written applications from scratch? Is your experience diverse or have you spent 5 years repeatedly writing the same Rails app? On the
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by dmansen 11y ago
The answer to mediocre engineers is less education? Doesn't follow.

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