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> Burden of proof belongs to those who want to change the system. This is only true if the existing system does not keep on worsening. As the technology progresses human working ho…

In an economy where at the early 30's people are too afraid of being unemployed this is the stupid advice. Without financial independence everything is a luxury.

The company policy to speak to another department without managers approval seems great in theory. The problem with this approach is that managers will favor good ratings and promo…

How to define a nonscientific problem. There is none. All sociology problems are related to psychology that is related to biology which is related to chemistry which is related to …

This specialization contains 5 courses. Does this mean one has to pay 245 dollars(49 * 5) + 49 dollars for the first month.

After the google diversity memo issue, i have started thinking about using DDG all the time. The reason being what if google decides to censor the information when it is negative a…

> But I see no evil whatsoever in someone making a software tool and selling only the binaries to someone who is happy to use said binaries under the terms the seller and buyer agr…

Exactly what is being marketed ?

Can the certificate be received by completing the course in audit mode and then paying at the end of the course.

> If this is not the case he should apologize for it. Even if your understanding is correct for which of the 3 points he should apologize for. My opinion is none.

The author has a point. One suggestion to hire people without bias is to make the interview online for the most part and then conduct very few face to face interview with multiple …

This point has been already made by Eric Raymond in his article "Women in computing: first, get the problem right" http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2118

Like it or not, only the founder cares about the company. So the founders attitude should be forced to change and not change the founder itself. If Uber brings Meg Whitman then she…

hckrnews is awesome. Before i found hckrnews i had no idea at what point to stop scrolling for more news if i missed looking hacker news a day later. The problem was since the feed…

You may have a good reason to not disclose your identity, but how do you plan to get paid. Do you want to get paid anonymously in bitcoins or you just want to provide your identity…

The best way is for the company to tell in a few lines that this is all they can do due to market pressure and any possible helps they can offer over mail. Its pointless to call in…

Do they still use mysql for storing the usernames. What is their software stack as of now ?

How old is Andrej Karpathy ? Unable to find on google.

I hate oracle because in the past you need to register to download jvm. I am glad android moved to open jdk.

try skytorrents.in does something similar.

We have limited attention span in 21st century. The teaching content better be interesting with low cognitive load required to understand using animations to get the material in to…

Now i am realizing this. Once you accept that the only way to remain in the industry is to work after work you just get used to it, although it still sucks :) .

Not just 10x, just infinite. I am fairly a decent programmer but still i think i will be not able to write a kernel from scratch in a decade.