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by logandavis 5y ago
The most stunning outcome here is the apparent internet consensus that Star Wars is better than Star Trek. This is indefensible. A Star Wars fan will tell you there are, at most, four good Star Wars movies. A Star Trek fan will tell you the
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by logandavis 6y ago
For sure! I'm an SF-based software engineer who's also on an improv team that did monthly performances in the Before Times. There are three "big" improv theaters in SF which I know of: Endgames Improv in the Mission, Lee
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by logandavis 7y ago
Great thread, great answers! Follow-on question: OK, so how does your company's interview process test for these traits? It's mind-boggling to me how many organizations understand that the most important traits of a great engineer
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Architecting a scalable Graphite metrics deployment(engineering.mixmax.com)
7 points by logandavis 7y ago|0 comments
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Why we moved from CloudWatch to Graphite(engineering.mixmax.com)
11 points by logandavis 7y ago|0 comments
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Mixmax Releases Faster Email Editor, Grammarly Support(mixmax.com)
8 points by logandavis 8y ago|0 comments
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Progressive UX design for engineers(engineering.mixmax.com)
19 points by logandavis 8y ago|0 comments
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Efficiently troubleshooting NPM link(mixmax.com)
7 points by logandavis 8y ago|0 comments
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Tips for the effective engineering demo(mixmax.com)
7 points by logandavis 8y ago|0 comments
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Choosing between Flow and Typescript for JavaScript static typing(mixmax.com)
4 points by logandavis 8y ago|0 comments
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by logandavis 9y ago
>“And by the way,” I added, “Stop calling your subscribers ‘users.’ They’re not ‘users,’ they’re listeners––our listeners in fact. You’re the ‘user.’ You’re using our music to monetize our listeners for your profit.” He looked at me as i
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Writing Effective Engineering Specs(mixmax.com)
2 points by logandavis 9y ago|0 comments
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by logandavis 9y ago
> We'll include the license updates with React 16's release next week. Was this release date known before now? I can't find it anywhere else on Google or Twitter. Man, talk about burying the lede.
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Questions Over C.E.O.’s Conduct Cloud Lending Startup SoFi(nytimes.com)
5 points by logandavis 9y ago|0 comments
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by logandavis 9y ago
Are those ACT scores? Surely you realize that an ACT score is not a sole determinant of "qualification" for admittance into college. If it were, there would be no such thing as an admissions department. Everyone would just use ACT
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by logandavis 9y ago
Technische Universität München dropout says new zeppelin "won't be another Hindenburg" Well, yes, I'd certainly hope this startup won't be another Theranos, one of the most high-profile disasters in recent memory. B
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by logandavis 9y ago
An interesting idea. Fowler certainly deserves credit for her work. As the author correctly notes, it was not only a courageous thing to publish, but also an impressive piece of writing. On an unrelated note, the experience of reading this
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by logandavis 9y ago
> If we assume that group A and group B have the same average skill level This assumption, on which your argument rests, is invalid. I'm an engineering college student who's had conversations on this subject with admissions off
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I am an Uber Survivor(medium.com)
3 points by logandavis 10y ago|1 comments
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by logandavis 10y ago
By all indications, Uber has a toxic work culture that costs them both top talent and organizational velocity. I'm a college senior at a well-regarded engineering school. My CS classmates - especially women - simply do not apply to Ube
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by logandavis 10y ago
The reason this is more HN-relevant than your average article on pure American politics is the top comment. Someone suggested to a well-known VC that he could do something about the fact that software he invests in powers the comments on Br
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by logandavis 10y ago
The Trump team's "polling prescience" has been vastly overstated. Trump himself has admitted that, reading the polls, he thought that he was going to lose the election as late as election night itself [0]. In fact, he says, t
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by logandavis 10y ago
You have completely missed the point of the comment to which you are responding. In kafkaesq's analogy, knowing the time does not really indicate good understanding of the color of the sky, and should not be considered as evidence of c
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by logandavis 10y ago
Actually, there are "junior product" positions at many large tech companies. They're called "APM programs" (the A is for associate) and tend to hire new graduates with engineering backgrounds. Hires are rotated thro
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by logandavis 10y ago
Your heart surgery question is ridiculous. As anyone who has taken the SAT can attest, it has nothing to do with ability to perform complex medical procedures. As for your question about which number drawn at random from two differently dis
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by logandavis 10y ago
Again: I cannot demonstrate that "aforementioned factors" like "values" are homogeneously distributed between ethnic groups, because it is not true. I don't understand why you keep asking me to try. You have repeate
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by logandavis 10y ago
Ah. My apologies for misreading. I went back and re-read what you wrote. Please correct me if the following interpretation is wrong: First, you said that moral outrage is the motivation for "racist" policies such as Affirmative Ac
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by logandavis 10y ago
I do want to define equality of opportunity that way. As you originally asked me to consider (before editing your post), the consequence that I believe would follow would be equality of outcome, give or take random sampling variation. To re
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by logandavis 10y ago
What exactly makes you think that a degree "means less" for a black job applicant than it does for a white one, when a white applicant is approximately 150% likelier to have a degree than a black one is? Are you attempting to asse
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by logandavis 10y ago
1) You've carefully chosen two examples of jobs that depend highly on physical attributes with well-understood genetic causes (height, muscular development), and you've extrapolated this out to technical employees at Oracle, whose

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