sbenj

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by sbenj 2y ago
Hello Dhruv. From the site it looks like none of the positions are remote?
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by sbenj 4y ago
This is monstrous. No other word for it. That people can justify this in the name of some sick version of bureaucratic efficiency... Who are the people that go along with implementing this?
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by sbenj 5y ago
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by sbenj 8y ago
I thought references to scientific evidence and "understanding of statistics" made it sufficiently clear that I was joking.
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by sbenj 8y ago
Actually, it will take someone actually compromising an election in a way that is unassailably and unquestionably broken. At that point the elected officials (who presumably have succeeded under the existing broken voting system) will rise
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by sbenj 8y ago
Am I the only person on here who is bothered by the specs of the base models? For $2400 you get a 2.2 Ghz machine with a 256 GB ssd and 16 GB of Ram. That was seriously overpriced and it hasn't budged in this new release. Seems like yo
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by sbenj 9y ago
I'm also both an answerer and asker on SO, and I've been using the site off and on almost since the beginning. The larger issue for me (and what is just touched on in this article) is the change in character of SO as its grown ove
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by sbenj 9y ago
Actually, I think the market has created this. To me it looks like universities have moved from things like subjects that represent the apex of current human knowledge (hard sciences, philosophy, literature...) to a far more vocationally fo
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by sbenj 10y ago
There's the nugget of an interesting point in here. A lot of journalists are struggling with the difficulty of covering someone who's essentially taking advantage of the norms of evenhandedness to get a platform for outright fabri
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by sbenj 10y ago
The writer draws this conclusion from the fact that many newspapers are attacking Donald Trump and are therefore unfair. It's also a bit funny to see something from the NY Post here (from NY). It is (to put it mildly) not a reliable s
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by sbenj 11y ago
I have nothing but admiration for the writers hard work, and I (as a Bernie fan) want to strongly object to it. I think my objections and his mirror the political divide in this country - the left wants a more compassionate world, the right
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by sbenj 11y ago
For software jobs, if the coding interviews are too easy it's likely you will be working with people who are not very skilled, both because the low bar allows poor programmers in and because it's a sign that the people putting tog
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by sbenj 13y ago
These arguments always seem to make the bait-and-switch of "Steve Jobs is worth this much money therefore CEO _ is as well", conflating people who's financial value we can see (it would be hard to argue with the financial val
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by sbenj 13y ago
Well, there's really something else going on - I'm sure the phenomenon is there but I think they're asking the wrong question. Stackoverflow tends to get a mix of questions that would require an experienced person to give a g