RogerL

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by RogerL 11y ago
'10x' isn't meant literally. No one thinks there is one number we can assign to people (a lot of what we talk about isn't exactly measurable), and then one people is 10x some other person. Well, probably a few use it lit
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by RogerL 11y ago
It's because there is an enormous body of evidence that talent exists. It exists in the form of different levels of cognitive processing, in different levels of hand eye coordination, in, you get the idea. We know this exists. We can v
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by RogerL 11y ago
Ada has plenty of constructs to enhance safety. Explicit type conversion. Limited use of pointers. Arrays with bounds checking. No willy nilly 'enums are ints' type stuff. Contracts. Many more are covered here: http://w
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by RogerL 11y ago
Yes, and those non-validated compilers, and even the validated ones, had lots of bugs. We had to get legal with a compiler vendor because of the number of bugs. This took disassembling the compiler on our end to prove our points. "Ada
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by RogerL 11y ago
I kind of had the same thought the person you are responding to had. You switch from "I" to "you" in your last paragraph, which seemed to imply that you were using your experience to declare how things are for others. I
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by RogerL 11y ago
I don't know what one you took, but the one I was told to take (and vociferously declined) was somebody's unscientific hack of the MMBI. You know, the test that tests for mental illness. No one's business. Sorry, you don&#x27
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by RogerL 11y ago
That would be fantastic. It would pour money into cancer research and open up tons of research spots for incredibly talented researchers now slinging code or hash because they can't get a job in the crowded post-PhD academic arena. It
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by RogerL 11y ago
I did for awhile for Python development. I use the NumPy/SciPy stack, and only used Chromebooks with the 2955u chip, so it ran pretty snappy for me. Bad screen got to me, and rather than drop money on a Pixel I bought an HP x360 Spectr
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by RogerL 11y ago
And, instances like this is why some of us use licenses like BSD, CC-BY, and so on. It's not an abuse to do this, it is allowed by the license, and we choose licenses based on how we want our work to be used. To put some context on t
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by RogerL 11y ago
I'm going to differ from the other answers - I found this technique pretty common when talking to the HFT people. Lots of pet questions with extraordinarily specific answers expected. Example: implement the boost smart pointer on the b
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by RogerL 11y ago
Basswood is very light. Anyone would notice a change to ash or alder.
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by RogerL 11y ago
Can you point me to cheap 64GB LRDIMM Octal rank memory? Dell's prices for this seem to be the market rate, but maybe I don't know where to shop.
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by RogerL 11y ago
The price of 6TB is more in the range of 1/2 million. 64GB LRDIMM Octal rank is running $4.5K.
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by RogerL 11y ago
Yes. Just yesterday in some other story everyone was arguing for the cloud because who wants to maintain their own hardware? This morning the hue and cry is "slap more RAN in that puppy". I just speced out a 6TB Dell server. Price
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by RogerL 11y ago
"That's the core of Scrum, and I don't see what's wrong with it." Depends on what you are trying to do. Add some buttons and a new report feature to some 100K code base with 5 programmers? Sure, why not. Get changes
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by RogerL 11y ago
I disagree with the waterfall->agile thing. There are a large number of development paradigms, and back then I was mostly doing some sort of Rapid development (not sure the term was in use right then, but the concept sure was). This may
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by RogerL 11y ago
What is your goal? It is hard to suggest what you should do if we don't know your goals. To do 3D programming you need to understand a lot of stuff - the math, shaders, how the GPU works, etc. All of that is invariant - you will need t
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by RogerL 11y ago
I'm close to that age, and try to always be growing and improving. I don't look back at 30yo me with disdain. I do find all of normal programmming pretty mundane and cookie cutter. Design this way or that way, pick your trade offs
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by RogerL 11y ago
I am utterly giddy about this. I've spent a lot of time in the book I am writing to generate PDFs, to create TOCs for links to nbviewer, managing all these links and production every time I made a change. Now people can just view it di
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by RogerL 11y ago
The notebooks support a very large number of kernels, including Julia, R, bash, Lua, Erlang, Perl, OCaml, and so many more[1]. [1] https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/IPython-kernels-for-...
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by RogerL 11y ago
I would say an answer of "yes" is a huge red flag. A good CEO needs to understand risk/reward. VCs are investing in risky things, and thus distribute their cash amongst hundreds of start ups, fully aware that most will go to
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by RogerL 11y ago
I lived in DC for many years, and that was the consistent advice. OTOH, in the City Paper (local independent weekly) there would occasionally be interesting stories about how, for example, you could not get toothpaste from the shelters (may
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by RogerL 11y ago
Phone interviews, take home projects, all day grillings, we can't decide, come back for more grillings, is not 'looking at the teeth'. Looking at my resume and asking me to explain something on it is inspecting my teeh.
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by RogerL 11y ago
But why? What does this get him? In two years (say) he will be interviewing somewhere, and sitting across from him will be the person that had to deal with the aftermath of that 5 minute patch. Or, it could be the person that had the pleasu
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by RogerL 11y ago
Glassdoor. If you interview with an established company you can write anonymously about your experiences. I'm amazed at companies continue to not care about how they treat people when everything is public these days. And this is not &#
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by RogerL 11y ago
The majority of the buildings that fell are historic sites and world heritage sites (source: cnn broadcast audio, so no link). They were built before we had such knowledge.
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by RogerL 11y ago
Hard to choose one, but others haven't so neither will I. Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. It's the War and Peace of the second world war. All aspects of society and human relations are touched upon in profound ways. It'
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by RogerL 11y ago
Loathe it. It's a gimmick. First one I saw was 'cool'. Useless, but fun to see. Now I battle it. Are you scrolled halfway between this animation and that one? Good luck, things are halfway animated, or block things, and my at
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by RogerL 11y ago
Guido's keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-uKNd5TSBw 5000 packages converted, 55,000 to go. If you can't port until somebody else does, then projects that depend on you can't convert. Guido talks abou
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by RogerL 12y ago
That is just such an artificial and competitive way of doing things. If I teach somebody something, I want them to understand it completely. If I teach 10 people something, I similarly want all 10 of them to understand it - I want them all

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