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by Avalaxy 10y ago
That is always being repeated, but I wonder if it still holds up with modern systems like the iron dome, and especially laser weapons that are being tested right now. A combination of pre-emptive strikes on NK's artillery, combined wit
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> Why does your personal website need sponsorship at all? Why should people pay you for it? This commercial mindset is very weird to me. reply Troy puts in a LOT of time writing his blog posts, and they are extremely useful. I learned a
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
I recently bought this book because I found Andrew Ng's course to be a bit too theoretical and mathematical. I quickly found out that this book is VERY math heavy as well though. Does anyone have any resources to get into ML without ha
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> the fact that the contract is "non-negotiable" is a huge red flag Yes, but also because most employers in the CS field are simply not in the position where they have the negotiating power. As a CS grad you get to pick your em
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
£20k/mo which is on the very low end of a developer salary Ehh, 20K stands for 20000. So you think 20000 GBP per MONTH is low?
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> so we can find out how a company is before joining You mean like glassdoor?
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> God stepped in and brought the victory Ehh yea... No.
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This is a thing that I really liked about the movie Interstellar. They faced similar problems and painted a view on what it could look like.
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
That's because the immigrants you're receiving are the wrong ones (the unskilled labor instead of high skilled labor).
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
Have you ever tried looking for a remote job in SV? I did. The results are very disappointing, almost all of those companies are looking for people on-site and are very narrow-minded about that.
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Live in the US. There's no way you'd make that kind of money anywhere else in the world as a SE.
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The touch equivalent of a right click is a long press.
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How is that funny?
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
So... Why didn't you just take the money? I'm confused. Like you said, you could have sent your kids to college, but instead you chose to deny them that?
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
The part about the Coursera course's steep learning curve feels so familiar. I'm doing the course as well, but it's pretty tough for me. I suck at maths and I don't know Octave or Python. It's a very good course tho
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
> very clear that you almost certainly shouldn't be exposing Kestrel to the internet without going through something like nginx or IIS. Why is that? Will you still have the performance benefit of Kestrel if you use IIS in front of i
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
> it would leave us reliant (correct me if I'm wrong here) on a lighter weight version of VS.NET so No, you can just use the normal Visual Studio, with ReSharper support.
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
Yea that last point is where I'm struggling with. I've done quite a bit of software dev in the Bitcoin space. I built at least 5 different wallet apps (mostly contracting), but I'm still struggling with how I can use blockcha
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
Are any of these dapps really in use and making a difference? It seems to me that the listed dapps are mostly technical proof of concepts. For example: a decentralized actuary sounds great, but I find it highly unlikely that the industry is
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
We keep seeing a lot of examples of how Machine Learning can really innovate and reinvent all sorts of processes (i.e. the vegetable sorting we saw on HN yesterday), but when it comes to blockchains, it seems that it's mostly talk abou
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.NET Framework 4.6.2(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
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Because some people (like me) don't want to be locked up in a boring cubicle like chickens in a battery cage.
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> Are you saying that the ability to write entreprise java code is what separates "software engineers" from "cowboy hackers" ? I'm saying that software engineering doesn't need to be simple, it needs to be s
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
> I also can see how Typescript features can shape a codebase and ultimately make it look like Enterprise Java, instead of making it easy to use and to learn. Meh, I don't see how this is a bad thing. We need some more software engi
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Link is broken, Google cache doesn't have it. Mirror?
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Most be a good employer to publicly praise their employees like this! ;) Interesting read, glad he's doing well!
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Like everyone else: my personal preference. In the future I want to use the following setup: ASP.NET Core with Angular 2 and Typescript. And then host it on Azure. Sounds like a golden combi.
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by Avalaxy 10y ago
Read Seth Godin's "The Dip". It recommends you to quit often, and focus on those things that you are dedicated to. The rest is just a distraction. Your project sounds like his description of a cul de sac , or a dead end. I
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Exactly. I think Excel's translations are a real PITA. Makes it hard to google stuff.
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As a European there's absolutely no way I would EVER work in a cubicle. It looks horrible to me, like I'm a chicken in a battery cage. Aside from not wanting to work in a horrible environment like that, I communicate a lot (about

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