RogerL

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by RogerL 11y ago
There is a pretty wide gulf between no homework, ever, and the kinds of loads being placed on some kids. You talk about "a few" words a week. My friend's kids (I have none) end up staying up until 1am, forgoing family and fri
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by RogerL 11y ago
Utter nonsense. It is the lack of belief in something without evidence. You don't believe I have a full grown elephant in my pants pocket because it is a dubious claim with no evidence. That doesn't make it a belief - it's a
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by RogerL 11y ago
And to expand on this, I've had friends accept (on paper) job offers, show up, and either the job was completely non-existent or completely changed. Happened to my gf when we moved to Denver. A friend took an offer, moved to Chicago, s
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by RogerL 11y ago
You can do it explicitly, file by file, in Google Drive but Dropbox is vastly superior in doing it automatically for all files.
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by RogerL 11y ago
I PIDed my Silvia as well. Seems to work well, though my heat exchange machine w/o a PID seemed to make better espresso (at several times the cost). These days my schedule has me leaving early so the machine is gathering dust in the ga
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by RogerL 11y ago
One fairly recently cold emailed me 4 times in one day, the last email quite put out and angry that I hadn't responded yet; this was followed by numerous cajoling to censorious emails in the following days, and then a letter mailed to
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by RogerL 11y ago
I worked a program in the early nineties. We all met the test pilots that would fly the bird. It was abundantly clear (they made it clear) that lives were at stake, and that they wouldn't step inside unless they trusted you and your wo
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by RogerL 11y ago
There is essentially nothing about COBOL in Sammett's Wikipedia page. edit: that is not disagreement with your point, but pointing out there may be a deficiency in Wikipedia that needs correcting.
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by RogerL 11y ago
Because they are human beings, and if we are doing something culturally insensitive or repressive to them we should stop?
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by RogerL 11y ago
https://github.com/clef/handbook/issues/69 https://github.com/clef/handbook/commit/4794bc93db32222855b4... https://github.com/clef/handbook/commit&#x2
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by RogerL 11y ago
MSVC also will report whether vectorization succeeded, and why it didn't if it failed.
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by RogerL 11y ago
"You god damned idiot, how could you write something so full of logic errors, you should have been aborted". vs "I disagree. In paragraph 3 you state X, but in paragraph 4 you contradict yourself with Y...." The latter i
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by RogerL 11y ago
Look at the work of Harvard Professor Jerome Kagan, or the fRMI work of Carl Schwartz at MA General Hospital. People are different, and the differences are measurable, both behaviorally and in brain structure.. It's not as simple as in
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by RogerL 11y ago
Imagine 2.9 Billion phones with a login of 'password'. SIMs are secure(ish). Hand typed passwords are not (no one want to memorize and type a 20 character password formed from a mix of upper/lower/numbers/symbols).
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by RogerL 11y ago
What does that tell you about what matters: on the job performance? What's a pass? What's a fail? Two people could tell you the same thing. for example, they doggedly raised issues, keep escalating, ended up talking with the CEO d
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by RogerL 11y ago
You failed to read the interviewer's mind. No job for you! I really despair every time I read these interview threads. The number of hoops you have to jump through, the questions that require "just so" answers (I'm a 8 o
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by RogerL 11y ago
"The follow up questions are going to kill you though," I don't buy that. If I was applying for a job as a social worker, is about the last thing I want to do, I could pretty easily say the kinds of things that a social worke
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by RogerL 11y ago
So, I have a great but perhaps hare brained new idea for a drug/treatment. I'm willing to throw my tens of millions (heh) at it. Instead I have to go ask permission from the government, fight for funds, wait for approval, build ma
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by RogerL 11y ago
For anyone who isn't a data scientist, much of this applies to any interview experience, especially the latter part of the article. Recruiters and companies tend to flip out when I push back, but you know what? That is an excellent sig
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by RogerL 11y ago
I've worked with so many people that were amazing, and had Masters, and others who were nearly useless to destructive. I don't believe it is a signal at all.
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by RogerL 11y ago
I prefer having member functions that convert to a different value, and friend functions that create instances from another type: Distance d = feet(7); d += meters(3); std::cout << d.yards(); Distance d2 = 3; /
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by RogerL 11y ago
Yes, sometimes the keys on my new 12 sometimes don't register at all. The enter key is the biggest culprit, of all things. Never again. Meanwhile my 41cv from 1982 is still going strong.
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by RogerL 11y ago
We are all here to learn, not bicker. So, what are the tradeoffs?
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by RogerL 11y ago
Those 'toys' create thousands of jobs. They create demand, which means people work to purchase them. That work brings value to society (person x helped build a bridge, y did a dental implant, z built a yacht (horrors, a toy for a
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by RogerL 11y ago
I don't think so. The best predictor of university physics scores is...wait for it.... university physics scores. Likewise, the best predictor of on job performance is on job performance. If this isn't a recent grad, interviewing
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by RogerL 11y ago
I've been explicitly told that the code should compile, as I write it (Hi Microsoft!). That's daft, and I told the interviewer that that is not how I think and did it my way.
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by RogerL 11y ago
I think this still smacks of too-situational thinking. Every day my inbox fills with "exciting opportunities" that are nothing but a laundry list of requirements. Am I going to learn nothing on this job? Are you going to invest in
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by RogerL 11y ago
Can you (or somebody) explain how that works in practice? Here I am ready to deploy some new feature to gmail. In the meantime, I'm getting a steady stream of API changes. Can I build and release gmail to a specific revision number, an
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by RogerL 11y ago
It is not "cool". That's the main problem, which is no problem at all. Now, if Bloomberg's code is a spaghetti monster (I have no idea), that is a problem. But that is a problem of legacy code, not a 'Fortran'
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by RogerL 11y ago
Fortran is entirely modern. Last standard is what, 2008? And any compiler will just eat any previous version without complaint. You can take a huge swath of '77 code, put some 2003 and 2008 in there, and it will all just compile. Pytho

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