rampage101

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by rampage101 8y ago
Why?
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by rampage101 8y ago
Saw this GaryV video where he was saying how he told a caller to 'eat shit' for the next 3 years, and he was proud of his advice to the caller. A woman called in saying she was working three jobs where one was her main income, and
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by rampage101 8y ago
That sounds accurate that most money making strategies are based off simple logic and observations. Seems people are blindly impressed by ML and convolutional neural networks, even if they do not yield any impressive results. I built system
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by rampage101 9y ago
Great article. The one that hit home for me "One lone engineer on a big project silo’ed away". Was on a project where we had multiple applications. The team had a new employee code an entire system as a prototype but then it was d
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by rampage101 9y ago
Hi Eric, the idea sounds fascinating. When will it be open for individual investors to make a deposit? Is there a list of companies which will be chosen for initial listing?
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by rampage101 9y ago
There are no simple hacks to get to the top. You need people to be searching for your name, find your link, and then spend time on the page. It helps a lot if you have posts that show up on Reddit, or other social networks. Since there is n
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by rampage101 9y ago
Sad but true. I spent some time building a personal site mostly for fun, but also to get back into industry. Many companies view a blog as a liability... better off studying for a few months to get some extra certifications.
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by rampage101 9y ago
The problem is that SSN's are treated like a private key. If somebody has that private key, and some basic information about you, they can basically impersonate you electronically. Meanwhile countries like Estonia use an electronic car
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by rampage101 9y ago
The reason it's gone up so much recently is that they just scaled it to handle more transactions. As other pointed out you can send an arbitrary amount whether it's 40 cents or 40 million dollars and it transfers quickly. There&#x
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by rampage101 9y ago
It shows up as unconfirmed usually in a few seconds, meaning it's in the mempool and ready to be added to the blockchain. If you trust the sender it's enough... but on average you are right that it's about 10 minutes to get t
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by rampage101 9y ago
People have been saying since it was valued at $1 that it was overvalued, or nobody should pay $1 for a virtual coin. Same people are still arguing the same thing 5 years later...
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by rampage101 9y ago
The cover letter should have more direct language and be mostly about your skill-set. You can also reach out to recruiters at those companies you like rather than going through the official website application.
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by rampage101 9y ago
Ethereum definitely looks like it is in bubble territory to me. There's been a 3000% runup in the past few months. Most of the applications as you mentioned are based off the promise of something amazing rather than delivering somethin
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by rampage101 9y ago
One issue with systems like Stack Overflow is the points systems rewards people joined the service early. For example, somebody asking how does binary search work in 2009 has thousands of points from the post. While somebody asking the same
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by rampage101 9y ago
The crypto-currency Ripple is meant to replace the SWIFT banking system. Right now, transfers between banks are relatively expensive, think for example about a $25 Wire transfer fee. Ripple would make it so these transactions between banks
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by rampage101 9y ago
I recently tried putting Google ads on one of my websites. Over the course of 10,000 page views Google shows there were only 7 click throughs. It does not even make sense because it means there was basically zero mis-clicks. I don't kn
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by rampage101 9y ago
Same thing for me. I think I have 2 or 3 accounts (by accident) that I created over the years. When I login I never know what files to expect... that being said I don't use DropBox that much, but occasionally someone shares something v
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by rampage101 9y ago
People use Python for finance and time series because of how easy it to read in the data. There is a library called pandas which allows you to read in a txt, csv, or excel file easily and do any type of array manipulation you want. The pand
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by rampage101 9y ago
It takes 10 seconds to read a resume? So you just throw out the resume if you don't immediately see "similar stacks"? I wrote "thoroughly" meaning reading the whole thing, and possibly looking at their links, or doi
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by rampage101 9y ago
I don't get why referral is counted for so much especially when there are referral bonuses which would encourage employees to refer basically anybody they know. With all these companies having massive HR departments, I also don't
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by rampage101 10y ago
Why are they dropping shows? Does it save them money somehow?
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Google reduces JPEG size by 35% and images look better(arstechnica.co.uk)
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by rampage101 10y ago
Just curious why someone would open source a project like this? If it works, it should be making money consistenly, but giving away the system will make the arbitrage opportunity non-existant if enough people use it.
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by rampage101 10y ago
I helped my parents rent an AirBNB where the people owning the house were still living there but it said nothing about this in the ad. After the owner gave us the keys, a few hours later somebody opened the door, and I seriously thought it
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by rampage101 10y ago
The vast majority of programmers are not competing for magic internet points. It was a few years ago there was this massive craze to create good looking Stack Overflow and GitHub profiles. Most people are not giving away their time for free
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by rampage101 10y ago
Whenever I hear a programmer talk badly about algorithms it leaves a poor impression with me. It means they have not taken the time to do basic research about their field and shows their aversion to researching new topics. If you look at th
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by rampage101 10y ago
The media is not needed anymore to tell us what to think. We are able to research anything now with the internet, so it's much harder for the media to spread falsehoods now.
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by rampage101 10y ago
Fair point about producing something. But why is wrong to say somebody is a great programmer? Seems most of these articles about programming is a no skill profession are usually coming from somebody promoting a 3-month boot camp.
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by rampage101 10y ago
Great post. It seems a lot of difficulty from judging quality of work is we have no metric to define what quality software is in the first place. People talk of this code code is 'elegant', or it is readable/efficient, but th
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by rampage101 10y ago
Programming is a skill that takes time to be developed. I do not get why there people are against the idea of a 'rockstar' or 'ninja' programmer? In most professions excellence is recognized. Like in basketball there is

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