mangala

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by mangala 13y ago
Here Here!
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by mangala 13y ago
> Don't glorify urban living to a fault, blowing money at bars for binge drinking well after college, spending too much on rent to be in a "trendy" area. You shouldn't have an iPhone, iPad, and MacBook and spend $1500
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by mangala 13y ago
Plain truth shouldn't be interpreted as smug.
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by mangala 13y ago
(Chuckle) Well seeing as how half the tech managers I talk to at private companies haven't ever heard of it, I think he should be given a little bit of a break.
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by mangala 13y ago
Yes, but how did you become CTO. I'd like to hear that. It's all well and good once you're there.
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by mangala 13y ago
Don't you know that on Hacker News the answer to every social problem is either make everyone code up a massively-successful website or become an engineer in the bay area?
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by mangala 13y ago
That is absolutely innapropriate for HN. You should have at the very least offered to have Elon's babies as well.
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by mangala 13y ago
Sounds like Google noticing people actually read your blog and now playing a game of CYA (cover your ass). Some tech managers can be horrible people though, because some of them, (definitely not all, or even most) take their promotion to me
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by mangala 14y ago
Take it down a notch. This is a blog post about modern programming, not a tech interview.
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by mangala 14y ago
Race relations are progressing but by no means fixed, but I'm sure you'd get quite the surprised reaction if you went back and told people the president was black.
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by mangala 14y ago
This was the narrative toed by the Bush administration and Fox News, but many Americans and the international community by and large did not agree.
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by mangala 14y ago
Your first point would only elucidate a common misconception that IQ tests adequately measure intelligence. As to your second point, what studies are these? (I'd actually be interested)
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by mangala 14y ago
Yea what more proof do you need that insurers will screw anyone out of money than an expert in his disease's field being denied a promising attempt to save his own life.
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Hackerreddit.com(hackerreddit.com)
2 points by mangala 14y ago|5 comments
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by mangala 15y ago
This is my new favorite site. Thank you.
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by mangala 15y ago
The lady doth protests too much, methinks.
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by mangala 15y ago
You know, it's funny how ridiculous D-wave sounded when they insinuated they were scaling qubits about as fast as Moore's law, but here they are in 2011 with a 512 qubit chip that clearly works. That's nuts. It's hard to believe our technol
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How to use Numpy Record Arrays(techblog.appnexus.com)
1 points by mangala 15y ago|0 comments
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The Magic of Numpy Record Arrays(techblog.appnexus.com)
1 points by mangala 15y ago|0 comments
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by mangala 15y ago
reddit.com/r/politics
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by mangala 15y ago
Oh man, I have so many ideas for this framework, but not enough time to code it up :). Maybe one of these days. Thanks for putting this up!
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by mangala 15y ago
After interviewing for months I basically memorized the answers to the main kinds of technical questions. After I started to hear the same sorts of questions asked over and over, I knew the process was completely broken and I would never as
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by mangala 15y ago
As someone in NLP I think I just came up with an idea about how it would be useful, but I won't say :D
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by mangala 15y ago
Pretty cool, but you should put popular topics on the first page. Searching is not as interesting as browsing.
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by mangala 15y ago
The site's not showing up...
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by mangala 15y ago
What's funny is the entire web will be 3D in 5-10 years.
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by mangala 15y ago
What horrible advice. Yes, stalk the founders to get a job.