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by pragmacoders 7y ago
Every generation throws off the ideals of the generation that came before. Parents monitor their kids for a combination of: 1. Worry about the outside world. Justified - but monitoring location doesn't make it any less likely that they
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
You could devote your whole life to the pursuit of knowledge and still not have a good understanding of the world. That is how I'd justify the fact that 12 years of access to education is not enough.
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
> Going from owning 1% of a 1M company to owning 0.5% of a 2M company isn't unfair. The extra value comes directly from the new shareholders investing their money. If this we're true, investors wouldn't be adding things li
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
The shares given to investors often have dilution protection and guarantees as to when the company can sell and what minimum compensation will be given to them if that happens. They also have protections such as "If the company dies, w
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
If you're in this position, also be aware of whether you're being offered stock options or stock. It's a little heartbreaking to watch years of equity disappear, in the company you built, because you don't have a year&#x
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
I think that your evaluation of the employee not entirely understanding the toll it has taken on you, is fair. Sympathy and empathy only go so far. One thing I'd suggest is - In this description, you've emphasized the hours put in
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
If the first employee had left their college, family, or country to join the startup - would they have gotten as much stock as the founder? How much risk must the first employee take on in order to be compensated at the same level? On the s
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
Startups don't tend to be fans of tying their own hands in terms of what they can do with stock. To be fair - investors are also not fans of that. Potential investors will look at how shares and stock options are distributed and determ
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
I might be oversimplifying this - couldn't companies that want to take part in the parallel world set up local sensors around their building to estimate position to a much more accurate degree? I'm thinking along the lines of &quo
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Packages and Modern Security(pragmacoders.com)
14 points by pragmacoders 8y ago|0 comments
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Job Hunting for Programmers(pragmacoders.com)
1 points by pragmacoders 8y ago|0 comments
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
What happened to innovation? Innovation on privacy isn't possible? The only way we can assure that cryptographic algorithms are in fact secure is to subject them to public scrutiny over many years. Perhaps the only way to ensure that m
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
Well the idea would be that companies would be forced to actually figure out how to properly clean data or forced not to use it out of public pressure
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
I'm curious what a solution like "All Machine Learning algorithms, and the data that taught them, must be open-source and easily accessible by the public" would look like. It'd allow for public scrutiny at the algorithms
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
If I'm lucky, I'll never see the term "Capitalism has proven..." again, in my lifetime
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
I just started out in UI, too! It's based on watercolor painting but I have to say that Making Color Sing by Jeanne Dobie has dramatically improved the UI of my applications through better use of color!
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
Most everyone's job, at pretty much every company, is to make life easier for their coworkers. Let's say you're asked to build a signup-with-facebook button. The task is not to build a signup-with-facebook button. The task is
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
I definitely agree that higher education should be accessible to everyone and for free. I feel like the conversation should be - "We need ethical and professional standards because our current way of doing things isn't working out
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
There were budget cuts. Teams were shuffled around. You're running the team now. Your colleagues have only ever built boxes. Go get em', master architect! This is my (hopefully humourous but actually taken from my experience) way
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
Does it bother you that every day, your personal information is transferred between a massive number of services created, maintained and secured by individuals with no security or ethical training whatsoever? That personal information is th
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
I agree with the general point of this article. Showing that you have the skill to accomplish a job effectively will get you a job most anywhere. There's a major issue when this is applied to a certain class of problems in ML and Data
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
This part is often referred to as "data engineering" Though I admit - I love "software plumber" and want that as a job title some day! Sounds very cyber-punk
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by pragmacoders 8y ago
I tried to build an app and then googled each problem I hit (How to display a button on iOS. How to change label text on iOS. How to play a sound in iOS...). A few apps later and I had a decent grasp on a lot of concepts.
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The Business Case for Snowplow Analytics(pragmacoders.com)
2 points by pragmacoders 8y ago|0 comments
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by pragmacoders 9y ago
I am confused at how your engineers learned to manage such a system if your take on this is that engineers should forego a learning opportunity and instead take an opportunity to give you their money. I'm confused why you're angry
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by pragmacoders 9y ago
Alright - Bad example. Nice SQL query! Can we then take that raw event data, like this query, and identify users with anomalous usage patterns, automatically alerting administrators of odd activity in a timely manner? Your answer might be &
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by pragmacoders 9y ago
Let's say we'd like to know the median time users spend on a given page. If we leave these at an event level, in a database, we'd need to: - Loop through all events - Group them by user - Figure out which ones represent the b
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by pragmacoders 9y ago
I am aggregating events on a user-level and on a session-level so as to gain a higher level understanding of user behavior. Like: - "What is the median time that users spend on a given page?" - "How many events do users gener
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Analytics data integrity is tough(pragmacoders.com)
49 points by pragmacoders 9y ago|16 comments
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Disillusionment and Modern Programming(pragmacoders.com)
1 points by pragmacoders 9y ago|0 comments

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