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by rcoder 12y ago
This is the silliest argument for why intelligence would be negatively correlated with number of children. FWIW, the original article very much did not assert that assertion; reproductive success (meaning having any children at all surviv
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by rcoder 12y ago
I've used Joker since 1999 and have had nothing but excellent experiences. They don't spam me, their DNS service is rock-solid, and their website (while a bit lacking in the graphical design department) is fast, clean, and ad-free
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by rcoder 12y ago
First: if you're building sites that people are using, you are officially a "junior web developer". That's especially true if you're deploying and supporting those sites. Second: PDX.rb is a friendly, knowledgeable
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by rcoder 12y ago
It sounds like you've had some terrible experiences with employers gaming your salary, for which I'm sorry. As a manager, I value my long-tenured employees _very_ highly and work hard to ensure they get significant raises year aft
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by rcoder 12y ago
I strongly disagree with this. It may be true at many companies, but not anywhere I would ever work (esp. as a manager). Requiring people to have a competitive offer in-hand basically says, "if you want a raise, go interview somewhere
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by rcoder 12y ago
I'd highly recommend fiction, history, and biographies. If you can, find things written about people and events in the region(s) you're visiting. Detailed maps are also great, because they let you go wander around and get a bit lo
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by rcoder 12y ago
Urban Airship is hiring systems and web engineers in San Francisco and Portland to join our 45-person engineering team. Our platform powers many of the biggest and best-known media, retail, and brand apps on all major mobile platforms. We&#
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by rcoder 12y ago
If you're running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL and want to be truly careful, assume your private keys (not just certs) are already compromised. Once new packages are available, you need to update and then re-roll your crypto. Also
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by rcoder 13y ago
Think "working-age adult" (perhaps even "household") not "individual". Also, assume that taxes will reclaim that basic income from folks making significantly more than the poverty line. According to Wikipedia,
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by rcoder 13y ago
If you want to interact with local hardware/storage media, native apps are still easier. "Offline" mode can also be the default, at least for systems that have a local data store. Finally, multicore CPUs may be theoretically
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by rcoder 13y ago
The cost of beer made on-premises is roughly half what vs. buying from a distributor. If you can create real demand for your product at your own pub, you can make an extra $100 per barrel (a.k.a. $50 per keg). At ~2000 barrels a year (which
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by rcoder 13y ago
Generally speaking, the cost of scaling beer production is paid once. You need bigger, more expensive brewing equipment (and can't just repurpose mass-produced consumer items like turkey fryers and drink coolers) and the recipes have t
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by rcoder 13y ago
Full disclosure: I used to work at Twitter, and this conversation came up all the time. I even proposed it myself as a naive new hire, and after a few good-humored suggestions from coworkers to run the math, ended up with roughly the follow
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by rcoder 13y ago
My $0.02: programming doesn't slot into a tiered progression of mathematics education as usually presented in secondary and higher education. At various times, it'll utilize concepts from basic arithmetic, trig, algebra, discrete
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by rcoder 13y ago
Three things: First, most recruiters/hiring managers ask for current comp (or at least a salary range) early in the discussion, so it should be easy for them to offer well over someone's current pay. This simply removes one bargai
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by rcoder 13y ago
This is exactly the position I would take. However, I have little doubt of my ability to find another job quickly (and the resources to weather a period of unemployment fairly easily) so doing something that puts my job at risk in service o
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by rcoder 13y ago
Having been a part of similar conversations to this at Twitter, I can say with complete confidence that you are wrong . The "...in a way that makes us proud" part of that company value is taken very, very seriously.
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by rcoder 13y ago
Yeah, I realized it was hyperbolic immediately after posting; hence the edit to say "tens of thousands of dollars". I also wasn't really trying to generalize; I was attending a fairly expensive liberal arts school (albeit to
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by rcoder 13y ago
This closely mirrors my experience, though my "summer job" straight out of my Freshman year of college was part-time cashiering at a pizza restaurant. From there, I temped as an office worker at a startup, convinced them to hire m
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by rcoder 13y ago
This is exactly the model that my team uses. We have ~40 folks on-site in SF, and about a half-dozen who work remotely. We got a Double a few weeks back, and after a slow start it's now in use most of the time. The OP is not wrong about the
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by rcoder 13y ago
What you need for sharded queries is concurrency , not necessarily asynchronous requests. Async callbacks (ala Node.js, Twisted Python, Event Machine, etc.) give you a kind of cooperative multitasking, which is one way to have concurrent I
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by rcoder 14y ago
A number of years ago, I set up a similar configuration with two OpenBSD boxes (which support PF and CARP out of the box) running Apache + mod_proxy_balancer for really granular load balancing and routing. It was a super-flexible and cheap
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by rcoder 15y ago
Your instinct sounds solid on this one. From what you've said, I think going into debt now to change the focus of your bachelor's degree would be a bad idea. Focus on building your skills and experience at work, and I don't imagine you'll f
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by rcoder 15y ago
From my POV as a hiring manager a CS degree is far less important than a proven history of shipping working code. If you're already in the industry, contributing to open source, etc., you can accomplish a lot more in 18 months out in the fi
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by rcoder 15y ago
As someone who just moved from Portland OR to the Bay Area in order to take a "corporate" engineering job in SF (and got a >40% raise in the process) I can say with confidence that the cost of living here, even outside the city (specifi
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by rcoder 15y ago
For a base web server included in OpenBSD by default, I don't think dynamic loading is actually a huge win. Auditing and hardening a single, statically-compiled binary is easier than doing the same thing for one that loads shared objects at
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by rcoder 15y ago
> We can probably rent it for our mortgage. I just wanted to weigh in and say how huge this is, not just for the question of "is buying a better deal than renting," but also to allow you flexibility in terms of job relocation and family
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by rcoder 15y ago
The interesting point missed in this article is that mixins actually do create a superclass relationship in Ruby: http://gist.github.com/945435 There's an anonymous superclass injected into the inheritance chain every time a module is i
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by rcoder 15y ago
At the risk of feeding the trolls, I couldn't help weighing in here... First of all: you're just straight-up wrong about file transfers and polling. The select(), epoll(), et. al. syscalls are exactly what you want for large network file
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by rcoder 15y ago
This "loophole" was closed by Apple during the last round if App Store approval rule changes back in December of last year. The Kindle app seemingly gets a pass, but a number of other applications have been rejected since then.

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