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by nxb 11y ago
Talking about another country. Regardless, US culture says that this sort of thing gives the employer far too much power over the employee, and that there are plenty of unscrupulous employers who use that leverage against the employees to m
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by nxb 11y ago
South Eastern Europe. I'm curious about how common it is elsewhere in Europe too.
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by nxb 11y ago
No, we're talking about something vastly more invasive. Beyond a certain extreme, they become very different things.
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by nxb 11y ago
But go talk to some people who've only ever experienced these types of business cultures, and they'll start listing for you a ton of reasons why it would be IMPOSSIBLE for the business world to operate as well or better, if it wer
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by nxb 11y ago
It's a region-level culture I'm talking about. In this case, I was thinking of Eastern Europe culture. You're in for a MASSIVE culture shock, if you ever get employed there. For this, and many other reasons. The cultural expe
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by nxb 11y ago
Worst is the whole country's cultures who really believe that each person can only be great at one single thing. Being great at multiple things? Impossible, right?
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by nxb 11y ago
Is there a document that lists out Redis best practices like "Redis is very fast as long as you use O(1) and O(log_N) commands"? Sure it's probably all obvious things, but it would be nice to have a checklist to skim over, to
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by nxb 11y ago
The top chart looks correctly formed, but you may be right about the bottom chart on that page: "Probabilities For Years Left to Live". If I'm reading correctly, it seems they tried to deduce the bottom chart from the top cha
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by nxb 11y ago
Each fundraising is literally a mini-exit, especially B-series and beyond, where founders are often allowed to liquidate some of their shares. The reality is more fluid and less black and white.
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by nxb 11y ago
So what's the best OSS search autocomplete these days? Solr's, Elasticsearch's, Linkedin CLEO?
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by nxb 11y ago
You have to realize that it's not about what's going on in your mind. The receiver can't possibly read your mind to know your intentions behind the words. But they will likely know that people who typically use these techniqu
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by nxb 11y ago
Someone pasting that template to a client is doing the opposite of "honest" communication :)
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by nxb 11y ago
A moody client could see it as insulting to their plans or project.
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by nxb 11y ago
The template sounds very passive-aggressive, and the excessive length of the template makes the receiver feel like the freelancer has something to hide.
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by nxb 11y ago
What's missing from this argument is that opportunities to make ongoing profit without considerable ongoing investments tend to be VERY short lived in the tech field. Assuming that steady revenue will last, will lead you to ending up c
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by nxb 11y ago
Is lower goals really more founder-friendly? I'm not so sure. A bit perplexing, but in my experience, VCs who aim lower will often put far more stress and pressure on founders to meet short-term milestones and ramp up revenues immediat
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by nxb 11y ago
I'd just note -- both total-profit and profit-per-employee are REALLY terrible ways to predict employee happiness. Just look at some of those rankings. They're a really mixed bag of both exploitive and great employers. I mention t
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by nxb 11y ago
> Second, they tell every applicant that openly discussing the interview process (esp blogging about it) will get you disqualified/blacklisted from any future positions at google. Wow, it's like they're fully aware of how
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by nxb 11y ago
So punctuation is a type of musical notation for high-level meter and pitch, while the words are like the lower-level rhythm. Pitch and meter fluctuations, over the ranges of phrases and sentences, are what many spoken languages use to chun
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by nxb 11y ago
Also worth pointing out that in languages which do divide the words, they often divide the words too much, such that the individual words have little to no relation to the meaning of the longer phrase. E.g. new york, arm and a leg, kick the
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by nxb 11y ago
> What I have found is that the subconscious will resist taking action on something perceived to be important until it's worked out an appropriate approach. Yup, that's why whenever I get stuck on the high-level design, I'
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by nxb 11y ago
Some of the radio interferometer telescopes actually do require some of the most powerful supercomputers ever built, just to assemble their "images". E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOFAR https:/&#x2
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by nxb 11y ago
Yes, communicating / negotiating the decision with the other person. That's how humans do it. Now try driving in dense NYC traffic, and you'll see humans communicating everywhere. Good luck to self driving cars in that scenar
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by nxb 11y ago
I just use Tornado templates for doing this. I made a wrapper to make it a single function call. The syntax is very similar.
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by nxb 11y ago
Show me one C/C++ library that competes with Theano or Torch7? Google / Facebook and many other huge companies are using Theano and Torch7 in production, at scale. The ML industry has been continuously moving in this direction for
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by nxb 11y ago
It's not about wrapping. The real power is in the cross-compilation of expressions and entire complex data pipelines, from a simple-as-possible high-level language into GPU language. That's the power at the core of, e.g. Theano.
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by nxb 11y ago
The speed performance of C/C++ is terrible, compared to GPU speed, which is often 50x to 100x faster. The goal has shifted and continues to shift in that direction. C/C++ is no longer best for speed, not even close. Now, all that
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by nxb 11y ago
How do you setup a routing protocol to do fast failover? Is it easy?
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by nxb 11y ago
In that case, I wonder if it can output a probability score for each tag at each position, like pycrfsuite does? Then the output could be ensembled with other taggers, or otherwise pass that confidence information downstream. Also, maybe a
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by nxb 11y ago
That's a good example as to why this tool should probably have the option to output a sample of the top-N guesses. Some sentences are just totally ambiguous without context. "Fruit flies like a banana." isn't even good E

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