yannickt

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by yannickt 11mo ago
For me, that skepticism began when Obama received the award. To his credit, he did not think he deserved it. But I have never viewed it in the same light since.
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by yannickt 2y ago
Now I have seen everything! The people section there is particularly creepy.
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by yannickt 2y ago
Are you open to candidates located outside of Lisbon/Europe?
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by yannickt 2y ago
I've been using Kagi for a while, and I find that it delivers better results in a cleaner presentation.
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by yannickt 3y ago
Paolo indeed is a great guy. Can’t wait to hang out with him next.
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by yannickt 3y ago
I am interested in learning more about the Sr. Software Engineer position. Is there any way I can contact you regarding this?
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by yannickt 5y ago
Oh my god.
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by yannickt 6y ago
This is insane.
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by yannickt 6y ago
What's next? Are we going to rename master's as an academic degree? Are we going to start using words other than master or grandmaster to refer to experienced martial artists? What about chess?
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by yannickt 6y ago
It's more complex than that because not every black person is equally likely to have an encounter with the police. There are studies that suggest that if you control for encounters with the police, blacks are just as likely as whites t
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by yannickt 6y ago
I salute you.
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by yannickt 8y ago
“Sony's primary focus every generation is to get everything else right: development tools, hardware storage and performance, consistent controller design, software medium, and so on.” Has the PlayStation really done consistently better
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by yannickt 8y ago
It is the best book on personal investing I've ever read, and I recommend it wholeheartedly.
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by yannickt 9y ago
I remember finishing that interview thinking that Cenk was the most intellectually dishonest host I had seen in a long time. Sam's patience from beginning to end was extremely impressive.
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by yannickt 9y ago
Principles is my best non-fiction read of 2017. Superbly written.
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by yannickt 9y ago
I don't understand why these questions are being downvoted.
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by yannickt 9y ago
My thoughts exactly.
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by yannickt 9y ago
Are there that many Canadian companies (as opposed to US companies with satellite offices in Canada) capitalizing on AI? If not, does Canada really "get it?"
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by yannickt 9y ago
I would count both The Sopranos and Breaking Bad as contenders, personally.
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by yannickt 9y ago
> There is a HUGE labour cost in housing such that housing prices track inflation (particularly wage inflation). Prices have risen _way_ above inflation in Vancouver and Toronto the last 10-15 years. Incomes have been virtually flat, pos
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by yannickt 9y ago
Our household debt levels in Canada put the US to shame. Our household debt-to-income ratio is at 169%. And our household debt is something like 2.5x our GDP.
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by yannickt 9y ago
" In a big city get your books and music from local independent booksellers and record stores" Except in many cities, many of those went out of business in large part because of Amazon. Amazon is still often more competitive compa
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by yannickt 10y ago
"If this was C, it should be NULL, and it is almost always better to just write `if (variable)` to check for NULL pointers instead." Imagine that it was this instead: if (5 != variable) As the author points out, this was ty
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by yannickt 10y ago
"A good chunk of the wants to live in DT Toronto, further reducing the small supply" Toronto's population grew by 10% between 2001 and 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto#Popula...
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by yannickt 10y ago
I've read Realistic Ray Tracing by Shirley, before reading the first edition of PBRT. RRT definitely has a more "incremental" approach, and is a lot more approachable than PBRT.
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by yannickt 10y ago
"Physically Based Rendering" walks you through the theory behind, and the implementation of, a photo-realistic rendering system (not real-time). An extremely thorough guide to ray tracing. https://www.amazon.com/Ph
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by yannickt 10y ago
It's one thing to prioritize a candidate with a public profile over one without when determining the order in which to interview candidates. But to reject a candidate, after he's interviewed by the CEO (so this would presumably be
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by yannickt 10y ago
Microsoft did "fine" for a very long time too under Ballmer.
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by yannickt 10y ago
The GP's point still stands: closed offices _may_ make for more productive employees (for some classes of employees), but it is not obvious that they translate into a more productive _business_. Instead of using Trello, you could compa
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by yannickt 10y ago
> " instant openness in an environment that is against you will ruin you unless you are powerful." You make some good points, and I especially like this one.

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