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jkyle

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About jkyle

I do tech stuff.

http://blog.jameskyle.org

Recent public activity

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    Comment #15055388

    I've had the opposite experience. Except for very small companies or startups almost every company of size I've worked for or interviewed reimburses for continuing education.

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    Comment #15055379

    Graduate level algorithms is a required course. Many of the courses in the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence tracks are very math intensive. "Isn't phenomenal" is hard t…

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    Comment #11919594

    The fact that automobiles are on the road for longer than ever and their life expectancy keeps growing makes me think they're getting better at reliability and maintainability rath…

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    Comment #11848825

    Since the opposite would be entirely impossible to prove (that Costello did not receive any mail), it certainly would be on Zavodnik to prove they were sent and received. This is w…

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    Comment #11741736

    Or they starved to death. With their kids. Or they started selling themselves or their children to get by. If you go back a little further than 100 years (in the U.S. anyway). They…

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    Comment #11741710

    It's in the 'reports' link. [1] 1. http://www.southerneducation.org/Our-Strategies/Research-and...

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    Comment #11722606

    I bet some even have code like that stored in their snippets library.

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    Comment #11602807

    You're forgetting Social Security, which is a regressive tax system as it is not taxed on income over ~$118k. You're also forgetting things like Medicare. Both SS and Medicare carr…

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    Comment #11544455

    > I don't see how it had an impact on revenue if ads weren't displaying 1. browsing hacker news sees interesting article, uses ad block. 2. posts link to Facebook 3. link gets prop…

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    Comment #11529658

    > There's a good chance you'll do about as good as 50% of the stock market investors(or more counting fees lost) A naive response may be "well, then. I'll invest in the other 50%..…

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    Comment #11474866

    Or public transit or riding a bike, etc.

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    Comment #11442881

    > You have a right to not have violence initiated against you This is a right of outcome. The outcome of not having violence committed against your person or property. Rights of ou…

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    Comment #11440356

    > I believe you have the right of opportunity, but not of outcome. I may be assuming too much, but in most don't really believe this. For example, I'd wager you firmly believe you …

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    Comment #11427755

    I did. Programming oriented courses were my strongest subjects.

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    Comment #11418205

    Ostensibly, these publications are written in addition to the services rendered for grants. If an author received a grant specifically to write a book on a topic, then I'd say yes.…

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    Comment #11408521

    Ostensibly, the company is receiving some sort of value from the free plan users. Increase of adoption rates and "buzz" come to mind.

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    Comment #11400382

    The problem isn't the subsidies. The problem occurs when the proportion of solar users increases such that the utility's margins become low enough to threaten the minimum budget re…

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    Comment #11395448

    He'd have never passed a Google interview. ^_^

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    Comment #11393851

    > I've seen people with PhDs from top schools who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag A computer science PhD, in my humble opinion, does not teach how to program anymore the…

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    Comment #11393108

    > Lots of interview processes today deal with culture fit at the end, but should it be item 1 and then coding skill item 2? Culture fit should be focused on areas of professional i…

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    Comment #11363997

    Paywall. USAToday is covering the story without paywall. [1] Quick read indicates they aren't 'throttling' they're serving lower quality (e.g. smaller) videos to mobile users so as…

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    Comment #11363742

    > It seems like many people on this forum would be considered by many psychiatric professionals to be suffering from delusions about the government, The way the OP framed the thera…

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    Comment #11361744

    > Some women jump right up and get back into the swing of things. Even 25 year olds in the shape of olympic champions take a week or so to be back in the full swing of things. The …

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    Comment #11348092

    The way his comment read to me is he felt compelled to tinker because of flaws in the device like bad firmware or poor design that didn't seem to work well for him. So he switched …

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    Comment #11347065

    What you're saying is that you left the freedom of your device to jail yourself into simple interface...? That's an incredibly hyperbolic way to spin their choice. No one's in pris…