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That never happens. There will always be people who want to be different from the herd. Any inefficiencies will take care of themselves.

"Implement a red-black tree on a whiteboard" is code for "we don't know how to interview, so we ask about stuff that the hiree will never do". I'm not so sure the "advantage" is actually an advantage.

Saved this on reddit a few days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/6a9pnj/cnn_exclu...

It's a list, with links to back up the points connecting Trump.

I'd be more inclined to take this approach, but to diversify geographically and to also include some fixed income in there, too. The US market may pause someday, but there is a much slimmer chance that the entire world's equities and their fixed income will get nailed at once.

Might want to mention that it's especially interesting if you're a mouse.

I'm not too sure that diversity or inclusion has a net cost.

Give it a few years...

"We are shocked that the CIA has the ability to use the command that we left in our firmware for them..."

I read an amazing book about portfolio allocation a few years back and reallocated my holdings. The thing that impressed me was a historical analysis which showed that, as long as you split your fixed income and equities, you would do quite well. The interesting thing was that you could split them sub-optimially and the whole thing would do well. Getting the proportion exactly right would get you a slightly better return, but much less than I expected.

When the market is charging ahead, it might seem that holding bonds/fixed income might be a waste, but it's really just a form of insurance. Another interesting thing I learned was that holding inversely correlated things led to higher returns and less volatility. So an all-equity portfolio would generally have a slightly smaller return than one with even 5 or 10% fixed income.

Anyways, the book was by a guy named William Bernstein, and his (very dated looking) site is at http://www.efficientfrontier.com/. His book is called the Intelligent Asset Allocator. The first 2 chapters are on the author's site. The book can be ordered from Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0071362363/ref=cm_cr_...

I created an IVR scripting language back when premium-rate billing was in its heyday. We were in a very successful business (so successful that we didn't need a salesperson). Our Achilles heel was that we were dependent on a company for our IVR language. I asked why we hadn't written our own and was told that they guy who wrote it was really smart and took 2 years to bring it into existence.

I decided to try to work out a proposed architecture on a pad of paper during a transcontinental flight. I created a mockup simulator that seemed to work and then borrowed some hardware to see if there were any problems. There weren't any that weren't quickly fixable.

I brought in my language to my company's owners, who told me they were going to buy the language they used for $300,000. I told them they could have mine for free.

This "spammy affiliate marketing site" is neither spammy, nor does affiliate marketing. It saves hundreds, if not thousands of lives. Read the linked article.

The AMD news is on the second page. Changing the title here to match that of the linked article, while in keeping with HNpolicy, has ruined the utility of the link.

It was mainly due to Virtualbox querying every 64 seconds.

4100 hours in about ten months (according to the PDF). Did you really put in 100 hour work weeks?

Alcohol is a carcinogen. Every drink you have increases your chances of getting cancer.

http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/al...

"a good amount of equity", apparently worthless without working like a slave. I'd leave.

I'm not so sure that qualifies as a "crack".

Robotdyn is a great vendor. Their stuff is well built (and designed), not as cheap as the other aliexpress stuff, but far cheaper than the name brand.

I had thought that this might be an announcement about the availability of the ESP32. It is not. It's clickbait about an ESP8266-like chip with some onboard flash memory.

Although perhaps Samsung's acquisition might continue with the trend, improving Joyent's bottom line by ignoring all previous financial obligations that may have existed before the purchase...

I will never, ever consider using Joyent in any capacity for this very reason.

There's always the possibility that they will make you an offer you can't refuse. There may be inside information which changes the game. And it might be that the only way to know this is to meet with them.

His "vague advice" is very useful. It's a reminder that tech isn't the only thing that employees are selling. And that selling includes an interpersonal component. It can be ignored, but the results will be far from optimal. The best thing for an engineer who underperforms in conversation and negotiation is to realize that there is room to improve and to get moving on doing whatever it takes to have a package to offer that includes technical ability and the social ability to negotiate appropriately.

I'm not even going to touch upon the fact that the skills that a person can use to negotiate more effectively will almost certainly make them a better and more valuable employee (even if they are just a developer/engineer).

Tech workers are not islands unto themselves. The faster they learn this, the better.

I am exactly old enough to be jealous of your COSMAC ELF. It's an artifact of a time when hobby computing was much more like trailblazing in an unknown land.

Of course you do. When we sleep, we break chemical bonds, releasing energy. We burn like candles.

Well, actually this happens at all times, but it's most dramatic when we're not eating. And hopefully that's what's going on while most of us are asleep.

I'm pretty sure that animal behaviour doesn't necessarily map perfectly onto human behaviour.

We'd be fine. I have a calculator (and have owned one for about 30 years), but I still remember how to do arithmetic.

She has valid reasons for being insecure about murderers...

Wow. A sincere, well executed apology can do wonders in patching up one's reputation. This just makes him seem like an even bigger buffoon.

There was a lesson to be learned here and it seems like he's uninterested in learning it. Or even pretending to.

That is exactly what I thought when I saw what had been posted. I have a feeling that we have a generation of developers whose work makes sense on a small scale or in the short term, but becomes ridiculous with growth and/or age.