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hnriot

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About hnriot

nothing I say here represents my employer(s) opinions

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    Comment #8913609

    maybe, but when an employee asks for a raise, or say they are quitting does that make them a horrible employee. so many people think that work is some big philanthropic organizatio…

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    Comment #8913564

    nobody said anything about firing anyone. That would be illegal for one thing.

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    Comment #8910035

    the real world doesn't work this way when people are involved.

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    Comment #8910028

    interesting to read all these from the engineer's perspective. from the manager's side of the table things are quite different. If an employee comes to me and asks for a raise then…

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    Comment #8909982

    there are all kinds of intangibles not mentioned here. what if you have an idea that transforms the company's sales numbers or you dream up a better way of doing the builds that re…

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    Comment #8909979

    a 25% raise is unlikely next year, sounds to me that this was more of a salary adjustment than a raise which are typically between 3-9%. At your salary level it's not uncommon to h…

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    Comment #8909265

    I'm not sure pointer concepts are very difficult, pointers might confuse people that didn't grow up with assembly language, but they really aren't very hard to understand and they …

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    Comment #8906980

    Apple are just pissed they didn't think of the hamburger menu first. This is terrible advice, the are understood by all and the few people that don't know where this mysterious con…

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    Comment #8906759

    it's hardly java's fault he's looking at a stack frame and not seeing the variables that belong to a different stack. This is simply a matter of selecting a frame prior to the forE…

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    Comment #8902474

    you'll also notice some editorializing the topics (venture -> venture capital) the lda features are already grouped, that's exactly what an LDA does, however, translating a group o…

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    Comment #8897196

    you have clean water? food?

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    Comment #8895989

    not a big surprise, they've all but completely disappeared from sight around S. Another Segway, but I doubt Google were ever serious about Glass, it was a demonstration of Google a…

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    Comment #8893711

    https://m.timeline.com/bower_components/angular-facebook/lib... Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js Failed to load res…

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    Comment #8890948

    Helicopter FTW

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    Comment #8877079

    Isn't this the city's job? I actually think it's kind of creepy that Corporations are taking the role of the City. The general idea is the City collects taxes and uses those to pro…

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    Comment #8876803

    This seems to be written very much from the perspective of a VC backer and not the company itself. There are lots of reasons to sell a company, many are ignored by this blog articl…

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    Comment #8875096

    actually this is not true, what you're not noticing is that the parallel() use is akin to Spark, basically these streams are just map functions and if you can put the closure onto …

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    Comment #8870989

    where are the interview answers? it's no good just having the questions, I won't know what to say!

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    Comment #8869039

    it simply means the opposite of local and really I think that's what the parent comment meant. The issues in EPA are local and not systemic.

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    Comment #8865297

    an opinion that has been touted since the 90's. still just as wrong.

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    Comment #8853355

    Just shows how shrewd Zuck was in acquiring Instagram. This post is exactly in line with what I see my daughter and her peers doing.

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    Comment #8848021

    why sad face? I have written thousands of lines of python and and never once wanted to go to 3.

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    Comment #8847926

    you have to upgrade the processor to even get the option of 8gb I found when ordering this just now.

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    Comment #8836983

    this was the case in Chicago in the 20's too - except then they called the protection rackets the mob.