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by progn 13y ago
Eh. I'm in Facebook bootcamp now. Between this article about the ranking system, a truly uninspiring (to me --- YMMV) choice of teams to work on, and the press Facebook has been getting lately, I'm seriously considering parting wa
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by progn 13y ago
> included unethical, anticompetitive and illegal Oh, like Uber and AirBnb?
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by progn 13y ago
> I always assumed cryptography is slower than IO Cryptography is a CPU-bound operation that often has specialized hardware support. Here's a rule of thumb: in modern computing, IO incurs a greater cost than pretty much anything you
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by progn 13y ago
See, that's what I love about this profession: it's never boring. If something _is_ boring, then almost by definition, it can be automated. The automation itself is usually interesting, and once you've automated your boring t
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by progn 13y ago
Actually, no. That wouldn't be nice at all. Large government solves the collective action problem and is necessary to have a modern, functioning civilization. I'll take a welfare state over your Randian hellpit any day.
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by progn 13y ago
The stack rank is the _reason_ there's so much dead wood: managers have to keep mediocre performers on the payroll so that star performers don't get bad reviews and leave. You need star performance to get anything done, since Micr
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by progn 14y ago
Optimization problems like that are fascinating. We can treat them generically without having to teach our program about the specific problem it's trying to solve. All we have to do is come up with proposed solutions and pare them down. For
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by progn 14y ago
With the creator of Python on your team, what can't you do? (See http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/final-words-on-tail-... )
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by progn 14y ago
I'm sick of Google being hailed as a magical place you'd have to be crazy to leave. Look: Google sucks. All technology companies suck, albeit in different ways. It's possible for a talented, rational person to hate working at Google, and
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by progn 14y ago
Are Swedish startups (or EU startups in general) interested in talented American programmers?
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by progn 14y ago
It sounds just like Seattle, then: perfection.