GlennS

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by GlennS 5y ago
A weird extra effect this time around: a sizeable chunk of the internet is trying to trick journalists into talking about the silliest thing imaginable as if it were something people really believed. (I wasn't around for the first Sata
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by GlennS 5y ago
Thanks for this explanation. I found it really useful.
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by GlennS 5y ago
> no where near proportional to the damage done Do short sellers really do that much damage? Surely they're just part of the price-discovery mechanism for a stock? If you're holding a stock for the long term, what do you care i
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by GlennS 5y ago
I liked this article, but I have two questions: 1. Is it definitely a good idea to build a separate data team, rather than embedding people with analytics knowledge in feature teams? Is it possible to do the latter, but still have end up wi
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by GlennS 5y ago
Adelaide kind of has something like this: the city centre is surrounded by a ring of trees, which is in turn surrounded by a big road.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you, and actually I'm rather mistrustful of even basic autocomplete ever since a colleague caught me using it without even looking at the screen! But I wonder... Is this a difference of programmer cultur
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by GlennS 5y ago
I realise this isn't the point of the article, but I'd be interested in knowing a few more numbers: * Absolute numbers of people leaving over time * Absolute numbers of employee * Average tenure (And you could break those down b
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by GlennS 5y ago
I went and stared at the pictures for a bit after reading this. Not much experience of art really, but I think you're probably right. They're all interesting pictures - but "let's assemble some related elements in a new
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by GlennS 5y ago
This covers most of the weirdness with primitive types, but then we have an oddly designed OO system on top of that: prototypes + `this` and constructors + classes bolted on.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I guess this is why people seem to like Typescript so much.
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by GlennS 5y ago
Insulation in the UK at least is also rated by R-value (or U-value, where U = 1/R). Can't speak to the rest of Europe. Standard Assessment Producedure (which is used for household energy ratings) incorporates both this and some fu
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by GlennS 5y ago
I liked this bit: > The technology could be used in the agricultural industry to help monitor and maintain food quality control, and in remote sensing techniques such as LIDAR – a technology that is helping to map natural and manmade env
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by GlennS 5y ago
> I don't know why anybody would want that. I think the answer is probably something like gambling addiction. While I use a very basic/standard passive investing approach myself, I do believe there are people who have genuine s
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by GlennS 5y ago
I made this mistake once in my first proper job. It took me 2.5 years to leave a place where I was really unhappy. So, move on from bad jobs, move on from meh jobs, and be quick about it. Eventually you'll find somewhere you enjoy and
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by GlennS 5y ago
Cathartic is certainly the word. The title in particular really hits the mark for me. There are a lot of people talking about computer programs, and telling us we should do things this way or that way. Even telling us that their way is cert
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by GlennS 5y ago
You have taken a completely different 2 key lessons from agile than I would have picked. I think mine are closer to the agile manifesto, but perhaps yours are closer to how agile is actually practiced in most places. Problem 1: you want to
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think for a significant portion of R users the jump to JavaScript is not plausible as things stand. R is one of the few languages / platforms where people who don't give a fuck about software engineering can successfully create
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by GlennS 5y ago
> The default would be that it goes to the state I feel like this is a fight you will never win, and it's one I have abandoned, but... I think a better sell would be: > The default would be that it goes to orphanages and adoption
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by GlennS 5y ago
Also the corresponding Philip K Dick book The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. (They each wrote those books after meeting each other.)
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by GlennS 5y ago
I don't know about The Terminator, but Screamers is based on Second Variety.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I love PowerShell too, but I think the real barrier to adoption is that it's just too slow.
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by GlennS 5y ago
Some interesting culture differences in there. For example, one of the reasons that soccer/football is popular worldwide is because it's very cheap. Is it not so in the US? Also the assumption that everyone takes painkillers?
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Warren Buffet should step aside for his chosen successor(economist.com)
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by GlennS 5y ago
Still possible the Iraq war could turn out to have been the right course of action. Probably not, but unclear at this point.
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by GlennS 5y ago
This is interesting. I would have said the opposite. My opinion was that the Guardian is only worthwhile because it occasionally does some very good journalism, and that just about outweighs the pointless bullshit. I don't really hav
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by GlennS 5y ago
Clearly it needs an easy way to drop to a command prompt for input. Seek death penalty? Abort, Retry, Fail?_
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by GlennS 5y ago
There are tools to turn code into diagrams. I don't know of any that can make it understandable, however. I think that would be a very difficult task, even for quite small, well-designed programs. Code has a lot of relationships. In 2D
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by GlennS 5y ago
In addition, database accesses aren't free either. Both in terms of latency (to be fair, probably pretty small in comparison), and in terms of knowing that all the data you fetched is consistent (because you fetched it in the same tran
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by GlennS 5y ago
In Australia, Commonwealth Bank (the largest bank here) is offering a $20000 "Green loan" at 1%. That does more or less what you're asking for I think?
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by GlennS 6y ago
> The company can issue shares suppressing the price. > The company can do stock buybacks, increasing the price. It's not obvious that these should be true. There are more or less shares around, so we have a change in supply, but

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