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by tsiki 9y ago
I think you're missing the point. The jimmies are getting rustled up because someone provides false information about the performance to make his own argument seem better. This is something anyone should be against.
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by tsiki 9y ago
Really? I have the exact opposite experience, I feel much more free to study and work on whatever I want now that I graduated. I would always feel bad for working my own stuff instead of just working on the class project or homework.
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by tsiki 9y ago
I've heard this before, is there a source for this? It has all the hallmarks of an urban legend...
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by tsiki 9y ago
For me the problem is that the number of sites I'd like to support to some extent. I'd love to donate to The Guardian, but I also frequent The Atlantic, BBC and many other sites. Actually supporting all these sites would take time
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by tsiki 9y ago
I currently have a thinkpad with ubuntu in it (not preinstalled should it matter), and unfortunately I'm considering switching the other way around. There are just too many things with this combo that don't work the way they shoul
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by tsiki 9y ago
How exactly would that premise be different from the Microsoft/Nokia disaster?
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by tsiki 11y ago
What if wage disparity follows the lines in negotiation ability even more strongly, does that make it an issue of negotiation skills then?
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by tsiki 11y ago
I'm the most surprised how LA blows up, I thought it was quite a bit cheaper there than in SF/NY.
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by tsiki 11y ago
A lot of the people commenting on the article seem to be pretty adamant that something like this matters. Personally, I've never been confused by a period (or lack of thereof) at the end of a commit message. And if such a time comes, I
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by tsiki 11y ago
>Finland has a cultural problem: working for a big company is considered good, working for a small one is considered being unsuccessful and failure at founding a startup is considered a shame. Maybe 10-15 years ago. Now with the rise of
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by tsiki 11y ago
Same goes for Google, but you could argue that it's for a reason. FB/Google have a reputation to uphold and they strive to make sure their name isn't associated with subpar stuff. Plus, they have a lot of brilliant developers
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by tsiki 12y ago
I think most people from those companies (I can't speak about Wall St) would make more money in other companies. The employers those companies usually hire are exceptionally good at what they do, but simply the reputation of those comp
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by tsiki 12y ago
I'm a big fan of 10MinuteMail, it's saved from a lot of spam. Thanks!
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by tsiki 12y ago
While Google's this year's submission was good, it didn't seem to contain any particularly inspiring ideas, as it was mostly just a collection of small improvements on previous ideas. Personally, SPP-nets seem to be the most
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by tsiki 12y ago
>This article makes it sound like Spatial Pyramid Pooling is something new and amazing Hardly, the paper specifically states "Spatial pyramid pooling ... is one of the most successful methods in computer vision" and "SPP h
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by tsiki 13y ago
That's a regional Federal Reserve Bank, not "the Fed". Also, you leave out that those share holders get at most 6% annual return for their investment, since it's capped by law.
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by tsiki 13y ago
>Famous theory from Harvard: The difference of a person’s fate is decided from what a person spends in his free time between 20:00 to 22:00. Anyone know the source for this theory? I'd like to know more about it but googling turned
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by tsiki 13y ago
I think it has something to do with the idealistic view of "pure, well-written" code. There's something appealing about a code base consisting of only code, not comments. But in my very subjective experience, I've notice
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by tsiki 13y ago
>You don't want to make someone who is editing code stop to think about how it affects the comments. What's the point of comments then if your general rule is that it should be fine to edit code without changing the comments?
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by tsiki 13y ago
The programmer who doesn't change the documentation when changing the code is usually the same one who doesn't change the function name when changing its functionality. If a bad programmer is tweaking your code, it doesn't re
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by tsiki 13y ago
I honestly think public libraries should be allowed to use some of their money to advertise and create a brand for themselves. For a lot of people the thing deterring the usage of library is simply the idea that it's unexciting or does
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by tsiki 13y ago
This makes me think if there might be demand for a consultancy-like startup, which has the business idea of taking over a SaaS service if the company is discontinued, and running it for x number of months/years. The business model woul
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by tsiki 13y ago
Probably all of us agree that being forced to comment everything will lead to some bad/useless comments. But the examples you showed were simply bad comments. Just because there are bad coders out there who don't care about the qu
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by tsiki 13y ago
Lately I've developed a distaste for thinking of math as simply a representation of "something real", I'd rather think of it as a language in its own right. I'll just link this here because it explains the point way
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by tsiki 13y ago
Not strictly economic, but personally I quite like the idea of gross national happiness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness On the more economic side, you have something like the Misery Index and its
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by tsiki 13y ago
Absolutely, personally I dislike how it's the single most powerful figure for decisionmakers. There have been many alternative measurements developed for measuring overall progress of an economy, but unfortunately they haven't tak
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by tsiki 13y ago
It's always hard to tell what's really happening behind the GDP growth figures when comparing countries. The population of US and UK are currently increasing around 0.7% a year, while Germany is around 0%. That's a lot of add
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by tsiki 13y ago
If you don't mind, I'd like to hear of your experiences too. I'm part of a start-up team building a somewhat similar product. My email is jani@viima.com
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by tsiki 13y ago
It'd be interesting to also hear some average hours worked. I have the image that the average hours worked in the IT sector in Bay area is quite high, so it's not directly comparable to the previous poll.
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by tsiki 13y ago
I know of quite a few data analytics companies that hire mainly PhD's for their research positions. Many traditional companies do so too, to get on the big data trend.

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