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by GlennS 6y ago
The first time I saw this phrase was in some sort of "qualities of an effective leader" type article, but targeted at techies. Don't know if that's the real origin though. Edit: I should've read the article first. T
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> The net effect of Robinhood is we’re training a generation of investors with self-destructive habits. When they lose a lot of money for the first time, won't they unlearn this training?
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I dunno. I always thought that one looked kind of like a scaled-up version of Bath.
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Surely this principle becomes more important the more stuff you put in?
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This is an interesting idea, and I will chew on it for a bit. I'm not sure how I would achieve it though? The right initial structure isn't usually clear at the beginning of a conversation/research session/whatever I am
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I guess I prioritize it over other things which I would otherwise be spending the time on. You might just be a more busy person than me? I also have a pretty strong aversion to headless-chicken-mode, having seen it as a pathological disaste
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For this reason I try to write everything down twice. Once roughly by hand, and then a day or two later tidied up and put on the computer.
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> treating their citizens like adults For most society level problems we are OK as long as most people behave responsibly most of the time, so this approach is great. We can inform our citizens and they can enforce good behaviour amongst
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Moving abroad is pretty scary for most people I think. Even moving to somewhere that speaks the same language as you. How many people stay more or less their whole life in their home town?
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It's a price-segmentation system. It's not about fair. They have to target limited grants without much information to get the best set of students they can (plus probably keep some politicians happy about their demographics). Hous
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I enjoyed MITx circuits and electronics. They've moved everything around since I did it, but I think this is the one: https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:MITx+6.002x_6x+1T2...
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I disagree, China seems to fit right into the pattern. Mao became undisputed leader. His purges were bad enough that the party decided to implement a 10 year term limit. Xi removed that limit, and now China is swinging slowly towards author
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I don't have loads of Django experience, but I have done some Django and some raw SQL + Flask and had good experiences with both. I think I agree with you. A lot of the benefits that you get from Django and its plugin ecosystem come fr
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I think most people who use Nix on Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu and so on probably don't use it to provide system services like `sshd`. A more common use would be to install a package in a version that isn't available, or where you woul
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Because they could focus extra resources on making the Terraform providers for their own products really good. They could have really tight, quick communication channels between the teams building their features and the Terraform team. Much
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I wonder why none of the big cloud providers has bought Hashicorp. It seems like a really obvious move to me?
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This one really threw me. I'm often critical of religion myself, and find it all a bit baffling to be honest, but I feel like you've really misread believers here. Surely the point of religion is not to compete with the divine,
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I think ML is a bit niche in terms of overall number of programmers doing it? Meanwhile, making websites has turned out to be very popular. I suspect the response rate there is actually skewed high by the large chunk of students. Regarding
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Thanks, enjoyed this. That SICP quote really nails it too.
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Agree completely, that's a really nice summary of the key problems. The mental effort of building up taxonomies in particular is exactly what put me off inheritance (and fussy type systems in general). It's too easy to jump down t
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Was discussing this with my partner recently. We have all these hundreds of games we've paid for, and somehow just end up playing free co-op tower defense mods in Dota 2.
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There was the Orange Box, which was an absolutely fantastic deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orange_Box
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I really genuinely think you have misunderstood the book, and Dawkins' philosophy in general. Dawkins isn't a social darwinist (and nor was Darwin for that matter). He doesn't believe that nature red in tooth and claw is the
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I think you may have missed the point? It's not about genes for selfishness.
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It's funny, because I seem to remember the original Google homepage, Google Maps, and Gmail all being pretty good. Then, somehow, little annoyances crept in and accumulated over time. And now everything they make is like treacle.
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Guess it varies per bank. My main accounts are with NAB, and they seem pretty up to date. Maybe Bankwest in particular are stuck in the past.
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I got a MSc in Computer Science from Bristol University (UK), having previously done a BA in History. It's deliberately set up as a conversion course. You study an extra semester and there's a lot of work.
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I think this may be something that varies to region. I lived in the UK for 32 years and never sent a fax or even saw a fax machine outside of a museum. Couple of years ago I moved to Australia. Got a credit card for travel with Bankwest. In
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It covers up bad queries, so you may not see an underlying data duplication problem. Often better to group explicitly so you know what's actually going on.
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It boils down to supply and demand, though, right? I think the large number of people who love programming makes getting an "elite" programming job difficult. But, I think the vast majority of people think they'd hate or coul

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