methodover

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by methodover 4y ago
Well. That first video was terrifying. I'm too scared to click on the others.
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by methodover 4y ago
Dystopian SaaS idea: Integrate facial recognition and Yelp reviews. If someone shows up who gave you a negative review, send a text to staff and/or deny sale at POS. Please, no one make this.
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by methodover 7y ago
I left out a great deal of detail. We had documentation. We closely work with an HR lawyer, and consulted with her extensively about this individual long before firing him. We didn’t get “scared” of his lawyer. Lawsuits are distracting and
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by methodover 7y ago
I’ve told this story before on these forums: I had a junior engineer once, a few years back, who could not take criticism. He would get flustered, angry, sarcastic. His work wasn’t good. I did my best to help him — and even though I was pol
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by methodover 7y ago
I don’t understand the math you’re giving here.
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by methodover 7y ago
I just read The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovitz. It’s an incredible book and talks at length about the issue in the article. A word about this: “What technology and trade have done, however, is displace millions of Americans from their
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by methodover 7y ago
In MySQL, discovering the UNION hack a couple years ago was like a revelation. It’s something that I’ve since been preaching to everyone who’ll listen. It’s extremely common to want to OR a small set of items. It feels like the compiler w
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by methodover 7y ago
I’m sure other commenters here will comment on the substance of what you wrote. I’ll, however, just toss a complement: You’re a fantastic writer. Pithy, funny, informative. Nice work here.
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by methodover 7y ago
You’re totally right. I meant socialist in the same way that Bernie Sanders seems to use it, which I have trouble distinguishing from Warren’s states policies. (I do agree that the traditional definition of word applies to neither Warren’s
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by methodover 7y ago
This was my experience as well. Started off as a libertarian. But then I started working, first in the lobbying industry, then in Silicon Valley. Meritocracy is not as good an idea as it seems to be in practice.
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by methodover 7y ago
I’ve seen a couple comments saying that it’s the non-SWE’s that are the liberal ones. That’s a very different experience than my own, and that of my friends. My experience: Designers tend to be pretty liberal. Product managers and other man
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by methodover 7y ago
I see no contradiction there. She’s fighting against the influence wielded by those at the very top of the ladder.
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by methodover 7y ago
Do you have a source for the Zuckerberg quote?
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by methodover 7y ago
How is it voting against their self interest?
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by methodover 7y ago
This discussion and the original post has been what the United States government’s trade policy ought to be, not the morality of an individual’s purchasing choice (say, to buy a Chinese-made sweater or a US-made one). I think the question y
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by methodover 7y ago
In regards to swapping cell phone plans, sure: If a cell phone company were to die because too many of their customers switched to a better competitor, that would be difficult for the employees of that company. But that's an entirely d
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by methodover 7y ago
There are more ways to measure the health of the American worker than the BLS' unemployment rate. What about other statistics? Things like like... - Wage growth over time - Health outcomes - Savings rate - Credit card debt rate - Feeli
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by methodover 7y ago
Yeah, this is another aspect of the debate I find myself challenging: Labor is different. Our human lives are different than a cell phone plan.
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by methodover 7y ago
I'm sympathetic to that idea, to some extent. Foreign workers would indeed be happy to get a marginal increase in their income, even if those wages and working conditions are well below developed-country standards. But, then, aren&#x27
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by methodover 7y ago
The big question I’ve been struggling with in regards to the free trade debate is this: Is cheap labor a legitimate source of comparative advantage? I increasingly don’t think that it is. Yes, we get products more cheaply. But those product
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by methodover 7y ago
The chilling effect that China is having in liberal democracies like ours is extremely disturbing. We need our governments to do something about this. If Chinese companies want to do business here, we need our own businesses treated with th
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by methodover 7y ago
> Would we even realize their sentience (Minor nitpick, but I think you meant "sapience" rather than "sentience." Sentience is something that essentially all animals on this planet have, and just means the ability to
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by methodover 7y ago
Reposting my comment from yet another HN post on these pretty mundane videos. Gofast is just a weather balloon. https://youtu.be/PLyEO0jNt6M Gimbal is a jet. The perceived rotation is an artifact of the camera rotating on a
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by methodover 7y ago
Gofast is just a weather balloon. https://youtu.be/PLyEO0jNt6M Gimbal is a jet. The perceived rotation is an artifact of the camera rotating on a gimbal. https://youtu.be/4X1PRDbtiF0 Nimitz is also a jet. I
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by methodover 7y ago
Oh I see! 1G from our reference frame! Fascinating! That’s a perspective I haven’t seen before, I didn’t realize that that’s what you meant. Indeed, it isn’t possible. We’d see the ship slowly approach but never reach the speed of light,
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by methodover 7y ago
Err, that isn't a correct understanding of physics, I believe. The ship wouldn't need to reduce its output as it gets faster relative to some other object in the universe. It can happily keep accelerating at 9.8 m/s for as lo
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by methodover 7y ago
So, actually, like, it's actually really intuitive I feel like: From the perspective of an object accelerating, newtonian physics works totally intuitively. If you had a rocket that could accelerate at 1g indefinitely, you just go fast
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by methodover 7y ago
The GDPR doesn’t care where the personal data is stored, I thought. It makes no distinction as far as I can tell between data stored on a web server and data stored on a device. You seem to be making a distinction. Is there a source you cou
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by methodover 7y ago
Prefix tree is the right answer here right? From an interview standpoint. But my question is: why would you want to roll your own here? Wouldn’t the appropriate move be to look for solutions for your specific use case that’ve already been m
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by methodover 7y ago
> But having a deep understanding of data structures (not just arrays and maps) and algorithms really gives you a mastery of your craft, especially around performance and scalability. Can you give an example?

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