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For me, that skepticism began when Obama received the award. To his credit, he did not think he deserved it. But I have never viewed it in the same light since.

Now I have seen everything! The people section there is particularly creepy.

Are you open to candidates located outside of Lisbon/Europe?

I've been using Kagi for a while, and I find that it delivers better results in a cleaner presentation.

Paolo indeed is a great guy. Can’t wait to hang out with him next.

I am interested in learning more about the Sr. Software Engineer position. Is there any way I can contact you regarding this?

Oh my god.

This is insane.

What's next? Are we going to rename master's as an academic degree? Are we going to start using words other than master or grandmaster to refer to experienced martial artists? What about chess?

It's more complex than that because not every black person is equally likely to have an encounter with the police. There are studies that suggest that if you control for encounters with the police, blacks are just as likely as whites to be killed by the police. Half of violent crimes in the US are also committed by blacks. This is definitely one of the consequences of the history of slavery and segregation. Nevertheless, given that blacks commit 50% of violent crimes, it should be expected that the percentage of people killed by the police who are black, will be higher than their rate of representation in the general population.

There ARE also videos of whites getting killed in conditions just as tragic as e.g. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, etc. But they go largely unreported in comparison.

I salute you.

“Sony's primary focus every generation is to get everything else right: development tools, hardware storage and performance, consistent controller design, software medium, and so on.”

Has the PlayStation really done consistently better than the Xbox on all those fronts? Looking at development tools, online gaming, performance and storage, I could see a case for the PS4, but did Sony do a better job with the PS2 or PS3, than Microsoft with the Xbox/Xbox 360?

The perspective is interesting nonetheless.

It is the best book on personal investing I've ever read, and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

I remember finishing that interview thinking that Cenk was the most intellectually dishonest host I had seen in a long time. Sam's patience from beginning to end was extremely impressive.

Principles is my best non-fiction read of 2017. Superbly written.

I don't understand why these questions are being downvoted.

My thoughts exactly.

Are there that many Canadian companies (as opposed to US companies with satellite offices in Canada) capitalizing on AI? If not, does Canada really "get it?"

I would count both The Sopranos and Breaking Bad as contenders, personally.

> There is a HUGE labour cost in housing such that housing prices track inflation (particularly wage inflation).

Prices have risen _way_ above inflation in Vancouver and Toronto the last 10-15 years. Incomes have been virtually flat, possibly even dropped in real terms after adjusting for inflation.

Our household debt levels in Canada put the US to shame. Our household debt-to-income ratio is at 169%. And our household debt is something like 2.5x our GDP.

" In a big city get your books and music from local independent booksellers and record stores"

Except in many cities, many of those went out of business in large part because of Amazon. Amazon is still often more competitive compared with those that remain, from a price/shipping perspective.

"If this was C, it should be NULL, and it is almost always better to just write `if (variable)` to check for NULL pointers instead."

Imagine that it was this instead:

  if (5 != variable)

As the author points out, this was typically used by C and C++ developers to prevent accidental assignments inside conditional statements.

"A good chunk of the wants to live in DT Toronto, further reducing the small supply"

Toronto's population grew by 10% between 2001 and 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto#Popula...

There is currently a vast supply of condos in the city, and considering the average number of children per household (1.1 in 2011), the supply should cover the housing demand in the city.

Things are a little different in the GTA, but this still doesn't explain the magnitude of the jump in prices in the last two months.

I've read Realistic Ray Tracing by Shirley, before reading the first edition of PBRT. RRT definitely has a more "incremental" approach, and is a lot more approachable than PBRT.

"Physically Based Rendering" walks you through the theory behind, and the implementation of, a photo-realistic rendering system (not real-time).

An extremely thorough guide to ray tracing.

https://www.amazon.com/Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Impl...

It's one thing to prioritize a candidate with a public profile over one without when determining the order in which to interview candidates.

But to reject a candidate, after he's interviewed by the CEO (so this would presumably be the last interview stage), because he doesn't have "enough" public projects and therefore doesn't "love the web" enough? I think that's stupid.

Edit: misread the parent, we are actually saying the same thing.

Microsoft did "fine" for a very long time too under Ballmer.

The GP's point still stands: closed offices _may_ make for more productive employees (for some classes of employees), but it is not obvious that they translate into a more productive _business_.

Instead of using Trello, you could compare Atlassian against Fog Creek. Fog Creek was founded two years before Atlassian, and both companies are more or less in the same space - they make productivity tools for developers. And yet it's hard not to look at Atlassian as the more successful business so far.

> " instant openness in an environment that is against you will ruin you unless you are powerful."

You make some good points, and I especially like this one.