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by RogerL 12y ago
I think that is a bit unfair or cynical. I loathe open offices, but plenty of people who have no financial ties to the layout advocate for them (such as my immediate boss). For some reason people believe the "collaboration" argume
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by RogerL 12y ago
Total accident. Is it not clear to some that these are error bars?
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by RogerL 12y ago
Sure, that is what I use. Great package. But I can't tell readers what to use. I spent a bit of time supporting a reader. It is easy enough for me to get the versions, but the typical reader may not be au courant on the latest librarie
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by RogerL 12y ago
I had no knowledge about pip freeze, I will look into that. I don't do Python professionally, except as a Matlab replacement.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Good point, I will do that.
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by RogerL 12y ago
fizzbuzz can be modified to remove knowledge of the modulus operator. "write a function that loops through an array and prints 'fizz' if it equals the parameter 'a', 'buzz' if it is -a, otherwise print the
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by RogerL 12y ago
Jupyter supports all kinds of kernels now. R, Julia, Javascript, Python, Haskell, Ruby, bash, it goes on and on. I am just giddy in love with the Jupyter project, despite the pain points about the current pace of changes. http://
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by RogerL 12y ago
Sweet tool; I didn't know about it. I will be running it tonight against my source.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Author here. I struggle a lot with the choice of medium. In many senses Jupyter (IPython Notebook) is fanstastic in terms of workflow. With latex+external program+external data+external output it is hard to keep everything in sync. Here, it
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by RogerL 12y ago
Talk to them about school projects or classes. I recall one candidate was in a compiler class, and told me about the compiler s/he had working. I asked 'what's a recursive descent parser'. They didn't recognize the
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by RogerL 12y ago
I suggest the inverse of this - spelling. It is hard to know how to spell a word. How much time did we all waste in school endless drilling on spelling that could have been used in better ways? How much time do I waste now in spell check? T
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by RogerL 12y ago
I work near a wall of windows, which is quite nice. But every morning I'm pulling and adjusting the blinds to avoid being blinded by the morning sun. I also wonder about what it will sound like when it rains. I guess with that will the
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by RogerL 12y ago
I have to disagree, no bugs is better than some bugs. Pushing a change that introduces bugs is wrong (without the scare quotes). This (sw design) is a multidimensional optimization problem with a somewhat vague cost function. But argmin on
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by RogerL 12y ago
I just tried SFO to Mexico City. $447 on Google ($427 with a 12 hour layover), vs $352 on Kayak, and $338 on priceline.
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by RogerL 12y ago
We* have them all over the place. I'm not aware of any problems. * former CO resident, current CA resident.
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by RogerL 12y ago
My mother was on chemo for years. Her only 'suffering' was tiredness, and she survived far beyond what was predicted for her. For others it is horrible and/or ineffective. You won't know if you don't try.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Then you want many cores. Link still seems to be single core, but with 6-12 cores compiles fly. I have a 6 core xeon machine at work (so 12 compiles at once); some have 12 core (2 xeon processors). We just spec it out and have a local shop
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by RogerL 12y ago
I use it every single day. In the past I did all kinds of simulations for avionics and flight. I've used it for epidemiology studies, signal processing, augmented reality, machine vision for factories, and nowadays I'm using it in
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by RogerL 12y ago
I have over 25 years programming, have invented, marketed,and sold several products, have run teams, have significant IP on github, and I get treated like somebody with no experience with a BS resume. Sure, I should get over myself, but I e
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by RogerL 12y ago
You have a million or so replies saying yes. I'll say no, not necessarily. I have grievous RSI issues. They mostly evaporated by going to chicklet boards. Your fingers go through a very minor range of motion with them. Notice how some
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by RogerL 12y ago
I don't HN is reflective of all the jobs out there. There's tons of C work at places like Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, Ericsson, Lab126,and so on. And then there are plenty of smaller companies doing hardware things like came
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by RogerL 12y ago
> And that's okay. I see it differently. We all take different understandings of things. The tweeter should have considered this when posting the tweet. I find it hard to accept this. I've offended people, unintentionally. Heck
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by RogerL 12y ago
No. Lives are ruined by some drugs, and not ruined by others. No one has ever destroyed their lives with coffee, you don't read about people being mugged for coffee, and so on. Conversely, we have heard, countless times, of people wi
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by RogerL 12y ago
You get a round of funding, or you have X in revenues. That's all you have. There is always more things that you want to do with your product than that amount of money will buy. That's not a failure of management, that is physical
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by RogerL 12y ago
This is by far the best comment on the page; too bad it is so far down. It is very specific, mirrors what I have seen with 'scatterbrained' programmers, and maps out how to improve the situation.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Are you hiring? This sort of stuff tends to get imposed from above, or by busybodies enraptured with ideas and theory as opposed to practicality. I'm endlessly told how nothing but agile works, despite the fact that I'm 48, and su
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by RogerL 12y ago
I am really passionate and angry about this. Knowledge is everything in this world, and it is being withheld. I'm a well paid silicon valley engineer, and I think twice before pressing the buy button on Amazon, because the books I want
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by RogerL 12y ago
Okay, what are those changes in pedagogy? Be specific. Dover prints classic mathematical texts which are wonderful. There is nothing wrong with them. I've learned so much from them. But, you know, I could be wrong (I'm serious, no
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by RogerL 12y ago
What is the C# role doing? Is it moving your career/knowledge forward in any way (other than learning C#)? It just seems like an odd choice (C#) given what you want to do. Scientific computing is C++, Fortran, and Python, along with so
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by RogerL 12y ago
Do you realize how much time and study catchers put into the abilities of every pitcher, and every opponent that their pitchers face? It's very data based, combined with prodigious amounts of athletics on the part of both the pitcher a

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