Rainymood

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by Rainymood 7y ago
All I want is an e-ink display for my monitor!
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by Rainymood 7y ago
I'm wondering how this comment will age in 10 years...
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Plotting with Matplotlib(janmeppe.com)
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by Rainymood 7y ago
The lack of testing is a symptom of a deeper root cause: cost cutting. The audacious thinking that you can just shuffle around developers that have been on the project for multiple years, outsource them to cheaper countries, count that as a
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by Rainymood 7y ago
> [x:=[1,1]] + [x := [x[1], sum(x)] for i in range(10)] Tried to run this in a REPL and got invalid syntax.
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by Rainymood 7y ago
Malicious compliance by the contractor. Hilarious incompetence by Siemens.
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by Rainymood 7y ago
>Safari and Firefox both block many third-party cookies by default (which is why I had to change Firefox’s privacy settings to get this experiment to work), and as of today Chrome doesn’t (presumably because Chrome is owned by an ad comp
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by Rainymood 7y ago
How?
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by Rainymood 7y ago
Step 1. Realize that advice on HN is often wrong and very one-sided (i.e. they were dead wrong about Dropbox) Step 2. Figure out what you want, and why, and get it in writing. Figure out what your company wants, and why, and get it in writi
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by Rainymood 7y ago
>Also a confused guy stopping meetings is the worst - taking time out of the entire team who now has to listen to stuff they already understand explained again. Pull someone aside afterwards for clarification. "Also a student stoppi
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>I was trying to make a profit is pretty constraining. You have to satisfy customers or you go out of business. [1] Hehe this one was pretty good. [1] https://www.parrot.vc/-LuhxfJS6wU2jI7ulPj0 via @parrot_vc
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by Rainymood 7y ago
Is this some kind of over-the-top joke that I'm not in on? I've browsed and read but honestly still can't understand what Urbit is. When I saw the picture of the stone with the thing on top I thought I was finally "in&qu
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by Rainymood 7y ago
I would argue: leaders lead and managers manage.
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by Rainymood 7y ago
>It's becoming a huge peeve of mine when people seem to have forgotten what thread they're in and take a statement out of all reasonable context or nitpick about things that do not materially degrade the point (quotes are a lit
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My prediction: People on HN will hate it, the general public loves it.
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>I should start calling myself a ML expert? I'm 32 year old and most of these "ML algorithms" are called statistics for me. Maybe I'm missing something, where is the LEARNING on k-means? Numerical solutions seems to b
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by Rainymood 7y ago
This is nothing new. People have always whined about the overgeneralised conclusions from studies with low N counts and the inability to reproduce them.
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by Rainymood 7y ago
Only after their employees revolted. Never forget this. Only after the employees spoke up.
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by Rainymood 7y ago
I'm thinking of applying to McKinsey as a data scientist, could we have a chat sometime?
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by Rainymood 7y ago
I remember reading the article when it got first published in June 2019, this is the same article but with an update at the end. YC W20 batch just got all their letters. Good luck, I hope you guys succeed and keep grinding!
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by Rainymood 7y ago
I'm in my early 20s now :) Do you have any concrete tips/things you wished you did differently?
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>No roadmap to be seen. No high-level goal. No security policy in place. No offboarding process. No onboarding policy. No central auth server. A few different job schedulers. Few different container orchestration solutions. etc Have you
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by Rainymood 7y ago
That's like, totally your opinion. Blizzard has a huge base in China that is largely invisible to us. As a large (gaming) company you want to stay as neutral as possible, or at least that's what I imagine what large PR firms would
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by Rainymood 7y ago
While I agree with the sentiment that is being expressed here (i.e. it's "wrong"). I can't help but think about the fact that he ... simply broke the rules. There is a clear clause in the ToS that states basically "
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by Rainymood 7y ago
Communication skills, business insights, politics ... those for starters ...
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>People are increasingly skeptical of "platforms" and proprietary licensing. And with people you mean ... ? The general public (i.e. "people") don't really care much about their privacy.
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by Rainymood 7y ago
>Committing to dates and then being accountable for the results I found a very good way of getting around this. If you need to estimate a task, estimate it honestly in your head (say 2-3 days) and then double the amount. It almost fe
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by Rainymood 7y ago
No need for extreme measures. Why not do some gardening in the weekend? Some manual labour?
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This stuff is super important and it is good that it is being researched seriously. The money shot is right here in the abstract >We find that students in the active classroom learn more, but they feel like they learn less. >We show t
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by Rainymood 7y ago
Indeed, I think "toolness" should be replaced by "impact" or "effectiveness". Code, for example, can be played with but can also deliver significant impact to a large group of people. A toy car, as another exam

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