The original version of the "10x" idea didn't require the productivity distribution to be bimodal - it could be a bell curve or skewed bell curve with high variance. I think it's contextual as well - if you're working…
In special cases multiple string concatenations can be optimized into using a StringBuilder calls. Not in the general case.
Do you know for sure that RethinkDB can't work out what columns are being filtered by a function? In the examples it would certainly be possible with some analysis.
Right, I'd be a lot more forgiving of MongoDB if they had been bringing the product to market 10-15 years earlier.
'When you query with ReQL you tack on functions and “compose” your data, with SQL you tell the query engine the steps necessary (aka prescribe) to return your data:' ... what? ReQL and SQL are both declarative query…
Hey, he's too busy working 300 hours a week to worry about things like "averages" and "mathematics".
Uh, it's completely acceptable to "discriminate" against people based on factors that relate to their ability to succeed in the job. I don't think it's controversial that people's social skills or style of social…
I've definitely heard the negatively correlated variant of the meme. I'm not sure it's the predominant one or always explicitly expressed, but it's out there.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coding-website-github-hit-wi...
Great, another person who doesn't understand marginal tax rates.
If you're learning, it's really important to have the skill of narrowing down what it is you don't know and formulating a clear question about it. I've seen all sorts of failure modes with that: * People asking overly…
It means he doesn't have the commitments that come with being a full-time faculty member but that he can teach classes.
Even if Toyota went away, it wouldn't be so hard to just go and buy a Mazda or whatever and drive that around.
My bias is better than your bias ;)
Um, you can practice for anything that involves communication or demonstrating your skills. Its just arrogant to think that you can go into an interview cold and rely on the interviewer to tease out your positive…
You are wrong about the Dunning-Kruger effect - there is not a negative correlation between perceived and actual ability, just a weaker positive correlation than you might expect. There's plenty of debate about the…
It sounds like #3 was a good thing to happen - you learned a lot.
If those numbers about grad students are right, that's pretty weird - it sounds like they're being overly picky about who they admit and only admitting the people who were accepted at other, more prestigious, places.…
This made a lot more sense when I saw who the author was...
I think the lack of highlighting and indentation support in some of those tools is a pain and adds unnecessary mental overhead. Whether a candidate can reason about the correctness of their code without using a debugger…
"46% of them had failed within 18 months. In other words, most recruiting practices are about as effective as a coin toss." I guess I'm not quite clear what this is claiming - you could read it as saying that tossing a…
The additional rules are normally from valid considerations, e.g.: * Whether its ok to stop temporarily depends on how busy the road is. * The parking spots are on a major road that has a lot of traffic from commuters -…
The general points against people trying to establish a rigid hierarchy of languages make a lot of sense - people make a lot of dumb generalizations about programming languages. I think the article makes a lot of bad…
I think people are reading more into this than there is. Reviewing papers is a highly subjective, high variance process, and very few papers get universally positive reviews. From the point of view of an author, if you…
I have a coworker who sometimes vertically aligns code. It's frustrating having to edit his code because I have to choose between just making my changes and ruining his vertical alignment, or having to spend time…
The original version of the "10x" idea didn't require the productivity distribution to be bimodal - it could be a bell curve or skewed bell curve with high variance. I think it's contextual as well - if you're working…
In special cases multiple string concatenations can be optimized into using a StringBuilder calls. Not in the general case.
Do you know for sure that RethinkDB can't work out what columns are being filtered by a function? In the examples it would certainly be possible with some analysis.
Right, I'd be a lot more forgiving of MongoDB if they had been bringing the product to market 10-15 years earlier.
'When you query with ReQL you tack on functions and “compose” your data, with SQL you tell the query engine the steps necessary (aka prescribe) to return your data:' ... what? ReQL and SQL are both declarative query…
Hey, he's too busy working 300 hours a week to worry about things like "averages" and "mathematics".
Uh, it's completely acceptable to "discriminate" against people based on factors that relate to their ability to succeed in the job. I don't think it's controversial that people's social skills or style of social…
I've definitely heard the negatively correlated variant of the meme. I'm not sure it's the predominant one or always explicitly expressed, but it's out there.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coding-website-github-hit-wi...
Great, another person who doesn't understand marginal tax rates.
If you're learning, it's really important to have the skill of narrowing down what it is you don't know and formulating a clear question about it. I've seen all sorts of failure modes with that: * People asking overly…
It means he doesn't have the commitments that come with being a full-time faculty member but that he can teach classes.
Even if Toyota went away, it wouldn't be so hard to just go and buy a Mazda or whatever and drive that around.
My bias is better than your bias ;)
Um, you can practice for anything that involves communication or demonstrating your skills. Its just arrogant to think that you can go into an interview cold and rely on the interviewer to tease out your positive…
You are wrong about the Dunning-Kruger effect - there is not a negative correlation between perceived and actual ability, just a weaker positive correlation than you might expect. There's plenty of debate about the…
It sounds like #3 was a good thing to happen - you learned a lot.
If those numbers about grad students are right, that's pretty weird - it sounds like they're being overly picky about who they admit and only admitting the people who were accepted at other, more prestigious, places.…
This made a lot more sense when I saw who the author was...
I think the lack of highlighting and indentation support in some of those tools is a pain and adds unnecessary mental overhead. Whether a candidate can reason about the correctness of their code without using a debugger…
"46% of them had failed within 18 months. In other words, most recruiting practices are about as effective as a coin toss." I guess I'm not quite clear what this is claiming - you could read it as saying that tossing a…
The additional rules are normally from valid considerations, e.g.: * Whether its ok to stop temporarily depends on how busy the road is. * The parking spots are on a major road that has a lot of traffic from commuters -…
The general points against people trying to establish a rigid hierarchy of languages make a lot of sense - people make a lot of dumb generalizations about programming languages. I think the article makes a lot of bad…
I think people are reading more into this than there is. Reviewing papers is a highly subjective, high variance process, and very few papers get universally positive reviews. From the point of view of an author, if you…
I have a coworker who sometimes vertically aligns code. It's frustrating having to edit his code because I have to choose between just making my changes and ruining his vertical alignment, or having to spend time…