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Places that truly hire the best are not doing it through job postings. The the company / department leadership are actively involved spending time networking to curate a queue of candidates for hard to hire roles.

The second thing high performing companies do is have entry level roles where you can mass hire to see who rises to perform as "the best" where you can then promote out of that pool into your "hard to hire" roles where you cannot afford an average or below average player on the team.

You'll also need to pay the best at market rates for "best" not market rates for "average". "Pay" breaks down into what I call 'the money/fun dial' -- the dial goes from 0% money / 100% fun to 100% money / 0% fun. At 0% money those activities are called hobbies and everyone has a list of activities they enjoy doing each day they either spend money on or at best break even. At 100% money / 0% fun this is effectively "selling your soul" -- these are the jobs that leave you no time or energy to have hobbies, non-work relationships, or a family. With my company we aim for 50%/50% on the dial -- we pay well, allow folks to work hard on meaningful projects, and give them time for hobbies/friends/family. I view life as a marathon and if you turn the dial up or run a company culture with the dial turned up beyond 50% on money people will work for you until they burn out or make enough to find a long term home.
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Thanks for that great reference!

Another worthwhile read is "Nuclear Accidents" by James Mahaffey.
I started playing around with Prosper in 2010. I have had a very good experience. My overall return is about 6%. It's very easy to dial in exactly the amount of risk/reward you want to take.

I had actually typed this up but deleted it because I thought the question was more about a beer-money level enterprise.
I actually think it wasn't. It was our first foray into nutritionalism [1], which is the belief that foods can be deconstructed, analyzed, and reconstructed and still be healthy. This has proven wrong over and over again. No matter how much we discover about what our foods contain, it's been consistent over the past 150 or so years that when we process food, it removes healthy stuff that doesn't get reintroduced when we try to add it back in.

The discovery of vitamins led to Wonder Bread, when we thought that we could make highly processed white flour healthy by adding vitamins. We now know that Wonder Bread, despite the vitamins, is one of the least healthy things you can put into your body since it basically converts directly to sugar. And that's just one example, the middle of a supermarket is replete with boxes of processed foods which claims to have added healthy stuff that have consistently made the people who consume them less healthy than the people who get their food from the produce and deli aisles, where there's no added vitamins and no such health claims.

If we've learned one immutable truth from recent health studies, it's that we're really bad at constructing foods that are healthier than what nature has already constructed. That's not to say that we shouldn't continue to try to learn about what's in the foods we eat, but that information should be used to constitute a diet of natural foods rather than foods engineered to be healthy.

Research, especially when it's reported without understanding like the media typically does, leads to fads that almost always turn out to be wrong. It's how we spent 4 decades trying to eat low fat which led to the highest obesity and diabetes rates ever. Meanwhile, those eating traditional diets based on the foods that their ancestors have eaten for generations are consistently healthier. Given that we know so much more about vitamins and minerals than they do, how is that they're so much healthier than us? If our understanding of vitamins hasn't made us healthier, is it really a big step forward?

[1] https://metasteve.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/in-defense-of-foo...
I'm getting down voted for giving my point of view and trying to be cordial at the same time but cest la vie.

I agree there is progress to be made on fossil power cars but it's still unsustainable in any analysis. We're also not seeing anything like the kind of gains that are needed medium to long term. Progress through one technique yields a regression in other areas (emissions vs efficiency)

I too live in Northern Europe (Ireland) and we're really badly setup for electric car adoption as it stands now though the situation is slowly improving. Policy and infrastructure here (as I imagine in other countries) always lags demand.
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Codano, good name
He said he's been dabbling with functional programming. I saw mentions of Elixir, Clojure, Scala and Haskell. Where did he say he was going to work in Java?
I know at least once case where the insider (a famous Ohio State professor) didn't profit, but his friends and relatives made $1M on his tip. He still got 5 years in prison. http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2005/12/12/daily...
Not sure I understand that. Bublé does require transpilation, doesn't it? It's just easier to configure than Babel, which is notoriously painful.
You left off this point:

0. Get a decent pair of binoculars. If you have money, get image-stabilized binoculars. Learn your way around the night sky, and learn what's up there during the seasons.

I get more pure astronomical enjoyment from my binoculars than from my telescopes and AP rigs, honest.
I know it's supposed to be dystopian but I can't wait until this is reality.
https://github.com/richardjrossiii/CBasediOSApp
Do you have a link to some examples? Learning Racket has been on my to-do list for some time, this might be just the excuse I need!
Ok, we changed to that from http://qz.com/689806/a-controversial-theory-may-explain-the-....
The way you put it, it almost seems like the whole Indian education system has remained the same since the British left. There has been a lot of reform and progress towards making science and mathematics more accessible to the masses.
If I don't eat breakfast, I get a headache after I eat lunch. So for me breakfast is the equivalent of two Excedrin Migraine. Pure magic!
Definitely. And it did not start from the 1990's Balkans war, it's older than that.

http://www.transconflict.com/2013/05/reasons-and-causes-of-s...

The idea that Serbian emigration from Kosovo was a problem was brought out for the first time by Dobrica Ćosić in 1968, but this was censored by the Communist authorities. In the early 1970s, a number of Kosovo Serb officials raised the issue in Kosovo’s party organs of the province’s growing Albanization and the problems this posed for the non-Albanian population.
You're hearing "gift" and imagining this is about birthday parties. Think "prepaid cards" if you like. Imagine a country with more fraud and less consumer credit availability than yours.
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Okay, everyone is hiding a unicorn in their closet :)
Depends, really. What if you could use the software you're working with on a daily basis more efficiently with code? Let's say, write some macros. A regular business analyst would benefit from that. Trying to learn to code to build an app? Probably not a good idea.
Well, that's the thing, isn't it? We don't decry this stuff because it doesn't work, we decry it because it does.

With years of practice, I've metaphorically calloused myself against a lot of these things now. For instance, I'm nearly immune to the stupid "play half a commercial, post link to 'see how it ends'" technique I see every few months. By "immune" I don't mean that I no longer feel the draw, but that it is no longer anywhere near enough for me to actually do anything about it. But it took effort, and I find myself wondering, is there anything else I'm giving up to have that metaphorical callous? What are the consequences of the brain adaptations necessary to function under this constant cognitive assault?

(And I'm not at all sure the answer is easy. "More alienation" or "less empathy" are really snap answers, but at the level of detail I'm interested in, also vacuous. I'd really love to know but probably never will.)
For me risking no more than $25 ( the minimum ) on AA rated borrowers ( the best ) was a decent risk/reward.
>That's just completely wrong. If I hire a satellite to track car dealer inventories, buy Ford as a result, and make a ton of money, I'm doing my damn job. No one has committed a crime. Ditto if I sell that data rather than trading on it directly.

He obviously means pay someone _on the inside_ to get such information.

As is the case with his first definition.
I believe you're missing the point of the article with this statement. Compilers contain basic patterns that are repeated everywhere in programming. So, to be ignorant of how compilers work is to be pretty ignorant about programming in general.

What I think Yegge was getting at is that having a comprehensive understanding of how compilers work will build a foundation for being a good programmer in general. The problems we solve everyday are fundamentally solved the smarter people that built the compilers we all use. His example was a problem involving text processing is more elegantly solved by someone with a knowledge of lexical parsing and ASTs than by someone who blindly throws regex at it.

Compilers are about effectively translating input into the desired program output. The "hardware" is just one type of structured output, but there are many instances where a programmer would output a structure that is entirely unrelated to a processor or machine code.
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It is true. Unfortunately, the project was started several years ago and had nothing to do with the startup world. I would like to complain that VCs destroy another nice name with their hypes :(
Maybe you also changed other habits you can think of, apart from the wheat stop? Healthier lifestyle in general? More sports? Or maybe it's not because you stopped wheat, but you started with a replacement?
Counter point: Dictatorship Germany in WW2 produced many scientific advancements.
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Genuine question. How can a managed hosting service be passive ? Specially since you handle the running and support.
Our PTA donated an entire array of iPads to the school. Probably $20K worth of pads/charging stands/secure carts. Took 2-3 years of saving and fundraisers to get there.

Over the last 18-24 months the classrooms have been introducing Google Docs and Chromebooks. Now the district is purchasing a mess of Chromebooks on their own. Every kid has been given their own gApps account. The iPads are going to gather dust, as far as I can tell.

I can totally understand why. The laptops are way more functional for what the kids are doing in the classroom. iOS is (finally) catching up to the needs of education with things like the multiple-login enable, but it's too little too late.

A lot of parents, myself included, are extremely pissed off at the moment. Maybe we should get in on this.
Particularly apposite just now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36355920

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/22/asia/everest-climbing-deat...
It's a clusterfuck. And as with the parent's correction, it's less about usability really. It just looks clusterfucked. Some say the Japanese have a higher tolerance for complexity, but they are also known to have a lower tolerance for bad aesthetics. You can see effort with cookpad (jp site). But even cookpad, which is a huge profitable online business, does not have a responsive site, is guilty of cramming content, which is so web 1.0.

Also, if your ad blocker is on, you're probably not seeing these pages in their full glory.

JP Yahoo vs US Yahoo is a good contrast also, though the US site does smell of defeat as a portal (JP site is still dominant in Japan).

http://www.yahoo.co.jp/

http://www.yahoo.com/
I would suggest Go if you want a statically typed, performant language. Echo is a promising looking framework for Go although you really get a lot out of the box with Go.

If you would like to stick with a dynamic language I would suggest Python. Django is there if you absolutely need it but there are a wide range of of smaller frameworks available for smaller more focused projects (Falcon, Bottle, Flask).
I'm calling bullshit on this guy being who he says he is (a former hedge fund manager) based on the following two passages:

"I would estimate 90% of hedge funds commit crimes along the way."

No way. It's a material number, but it's not 90%. Even if the author is using "hedge funds" here to refer to "long-short equity hedge funds"; the latter are often quite sketchy and operate close to the line in terms of hiring consultants who basically traffic in insider information. But the 90% estimate is asinine hyperbole.

"The 20% is the percentage of profits that the hedge fund manager takes. So if a one billion dollar hedge funds returns 10% (about the same as most mutual funds on a good year), then the profits are $100 million and the hedge fund manager makes an extra $20 million for himself (20% of $100 million)."

NOOOOOOO NONONONONONO.

The 2/20 fee structure gives GPs 20% of the carry above a specified hurdle rate that is usually in the mid-high single digits. So, in this example, if the hurdle rate were a relatively industry-standard 8%, the GPs would have earned $4mm. Not $20mm.
Except those things they "actually do" tend to make my life miserable, as they overpromise to the client and then expect engineering to save their ass. It's never sales that has to sacrifice their time to meet deadlines.

If we had a just world, any salesperson who did that would be forced to forfeit their commission to the engineering staff who's saving their ass.
it's entirely shot in a continuous first person like this video, but incorporates explicitly psychedelic elements. the first scene of the film has the protagonist smoking DMT and showing the visuals, which persist to some degree through the film
That's not at all what this is. It introduces another theory and explains the thinking behind it. At no point does it state any sort of bunk, "do X to fix Y."
Not since Newman, which explicitly found that a friendship is not enough.
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A cathedral was a projection of power of the Catholic Church (later other Churches) over the local population. A bazaar is traditionally open to anyone to come and do their thing.

That is where the analogy comes from.
Even if it's obvious to the author and some readers it's going to be interpreted differently by many. It's a very common misconception that's only reinforced by those sentences.
Yeah for sure, you're right in that a machine or even machines across different AZ for HA can have better economics for performance.

But you have api management to sort out and versions to solve which api gateway can do fairly easily.

API gateway is connected to Cloudfront for low latency.

You can simply add a cache for your API.

You have analytics already setup up and ready to go.

Also other things like API keys, auth and cognito integration with other integrations etc that API gateway has.

You can deploy and maintain tens of lambda functions fairly easy, to get something similar you would either have to use some container service like ECS or Kubernetes so have to figure them out compared to just deploying your code with one of the frameworks out there for lambda.
maybe that's what Lara's vegan farm (for her farm-fresh restaurant) is based on??
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Writing a compiler for a real language targeting a real processor architecture with meaningful optimizations is a very big job -- far too big to undertake just for fun or just to learn. Simplifying the problem is imperative.

I've done a bit of digging into various approaches and guides. There are a lot of them, because every respectable CS curriculum needs a compilers course.

The one I find most intriguing is by Niklaus Wirth, the guy behind Pascal and Modula-2. In his "Compiler Construction" PDF, he guides you through building a compiler as a series of exercises in a bit over a hundred pages. I get the impression you could work through the guide in 2-3 of weeks full time or perhaps a quarter as a side project.

http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf
Could you share the website of the service? I'm sure many startups here have a similar need.
At the risk of derailing, some feedback, if I may: I think it need better examples.

Of course, you're selling the tool, and it's the buyer's creativity which limits the outcome rather than your own - but the first thing I'm thinking when I look at that page is "oh this tool is at least ten years old, maybe it's still good, but I'm going to try and find something more modern".

It's just a weird psychological effect of the fonts on the page, I suppose. I'm not saying everyone's like that - and actually, I'm not the target market anyway, so maybe this doesn't apply. But I suspect if I'm thinking that, that others are too.
Passive to the resellers, I'd imagine.
???

Arbitrary Executables = Arbitrary Linux Executables.

Since Python3 runs on linux, you can invoke python3 scripts.
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Passive and managed hosting is an oxymoron in my book. I know because I've been doing that for the last 15 years :)
Thanks for sharing that. When all we see are success stories, we miscalculate the amount of effort required to start generating passive income. Passive income is rarely passive from day one.
He's completely right, the origin of "breakfast" is ending your nightly fast. It's been in use since at least the 15th century, prior to that (Old English) morgenmete was used; morning meal.
Game Industry Vet here. Unfortunately middleware or tools for gaming have gone to the 0 margin, free area. Mainly because 99% of game generally don't make much money so people dont invest heavily. Those 1% that do make a lot of money tend to invest in the their own tool development or want to retain control of their middleware hence less money in the pot.

Another interesting point, IMO, is that game development attracts very capable developers. Thus they tend to be very adept at finding things for OS instead of forcing the company directors to buy large licences for convoluted software they don't need :)
Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology
I'm still left wondering what this means for the fact some people are allergic to things that others are not. Is it just genetics? My sister is allergic to penicillin, onions, and mushrooms while I'm not allergic to anything I've yet encountered. Did I just get lucky (or, maybe unlucky) and inherit different genes from our parents? Does environment play a role?
So the guy who sent me free swag was what a developer? I mean I have got some irate bug reports but I never sent no one a tshirt!
That's all milk though, and be sure you look at the unsweetened data.

A 16oz, Ice Coffee (which is what I prefer so that's what I'm posting), is a mere 5 calories[0] - drip coffee with no sweetener or splenda or some other low/no calorie sweetener would be the same.

[0] - http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/iced-coffee/iced-coffee...
You might want to read up on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_European_Constitution_...

Our government doesn't really care what the people think though. The Euro project must go on, no matter the cost.
You might want to try out my project PeerCube https://www.peercube.com, a side project that became full-time job. We provide lots of analytics and automation for Lending Club and Prosper platform and work with both retail and institutional lenders on these platforms. As others mentioned, be careful with unsecured peer to peer lending. It is not all roses. Do your homework and stay diversified in your investments on and off peer to peer lending.
You know what really grinds my gears when it comes to insider trading though? The fact that the really big names are most obviously participating in insider trading, but it's illegal for everyone else. Don't even get me started on congress and insider trading, but I digress.

The big players, I would say the C-levels and board members of the 147[1], or the other central big players[2], have the ability to manipulate and move markets in a way that I believe qualifies as insider trading... but they have so captured the regulatory market, to the point that the SEC is a gutless, teethless entity that only chases middle-men. Once again, multi-tiered justice creates an environment where all the middle-men are just going to cheat all they can until they get caught because they are just emulating the bosses!

Not to mention that even if they do get caught, almost never are the fines enough to discourage the act, so they see it as a win! Just offer up some low on the totem-pole scapegoat sacrifice, and be on your merry way. (Looking at you Bank of England and LIBOR scandal....)

The entire financial industry is a ponzi scheme of corruption, and I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the supranational bankers are more terrorists than the people with thwabs who we like to think of as terrorists. (plus, where do you think they get funding in the first place? Follow the money, and the money certainly doesn't end in a cave in Afghanistan.)

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.5728.pdf
2. https://www.sg.ethz.ch/media/medialibrary/2013/12/james_glat...

edit: Anyone downvoting care to actually respond please? I understand my statement about the supranational bankers being terrorists is a jarring statement, so I am willing to discuss the matter in further depth...
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For the sake of lucidity, I wasn't thinking of excluding (most) sales roles from "people that do things" - but as an engineer, you should still be looking for "basic" parity in remuneration between the top sales and the top engineers (even if it's structured differently.). If the two figures are completely untethered from each other, then it's a good sign the place either doesn't value business acumen (if engineers are paid highly and there are not good incentives for sales) or technical systems (if salespeople are all driving a Lexus' and they are stiffing developers). Both are deadly. I was merely pointing out that the latter fallacy tends to be indicated in mock conversation described.
Good for them. How many other companies have tried the same thing and failed?
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I disagree that a wave of rationality has come from somewhere and boosted everybody's critical thinking skills -- it doesn't seem to have affected e.g. the anti-vaxxers yet. The OP might want to consider some alternative explanations as well as the original hypothesis.
Some investors like Calpers, biggest pension fund in the U.S., are falling out of love with hedge funds. http://wolfstreet.com/2016/04/21/whats-hammering-hedge-funds...
Yes, and there are gambling apps that use the block hashes. Miners have the option of throwing away blocks they don't like, but are likely to lose the block reward if they throw away a valid block hoping to find a better one. So as long as it's not a huge payoff, it works fine.
It's interesting to see that as further work is done on spark (and I'm pleased they're actually improving the system), it behaves more and more like a database.
....I love it already. I practically live inside Google Drive for work.

Question for the maker or anyone else: how can I turn these into bookmarklets so I can save them with favicons to my bookmarks bar?
The logic fails me - why would it matter if your first 3-4 months are sun filled if the next 6 are snowy/rainy (repeat yearly)?
also interested to know which site you use or would recommend?
The biggest ones tend to reek real bad and most of the time all you have is a matchstick to light them up. Most of them big'uns come from the "network above".