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by S4M 11y ago
I did my studies in a university that was sharing some offices with the French office of statistics - called INSEE. The building was shaped as a combination of triangle (the INSEE, not my university, which was in a separate but nearby build
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by S4M 11y ago
Your boss slaps you on the ass?
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by S4M 11y ago
How about category 3: 30+, has a family, wants a stable job with good pay, but not crazy hours?
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by S4M 11y ago
Could Golden Speak be used to correct non native speakers with their accents? I have a (very) strong French accent when speaking English and I could use a tool like that.
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by S4M 11y ago
> I prefer Wall Street's model of annual profit sharing. The difference is that Wall Street has profits to share. A standard company has much less profits than Wall Street, and a startup loses money. Find a way to create a company t
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by S4M 11y ago
> If we become a Spring/Hibernate/POJO/VibratorVisitorFactory hellhole, there is no place for me. Over time, that means that I don't have a job. So, damn right, I am personally invested in fighting that garbage before
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by S4M 11y ago
I agree with you, but when you go to the main page of the project [0] it looks cool and I might use it soon. [0] http://famous.org/
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by S4M 11y ago
My favorite one is Paradigms or Artificial Intelligence Programming: http://norvig.com/paip.html
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by S4M 11y ago
> On what possible basis could anyone consider that appropriate? Not a US citizen here, but I think the reason is that a US citizen has more privileges than someone else: it's easier to travel and get a work permit abroad, if someth
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by S4M 11y ago
You could get something like 10% of the karma of an article if you upvoted that article before it reached the frontpage and that article gets more than a certain threshold (say: 100 points, which would somewhat mean that the article is good
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by S4M 11y ago
Wrong thread?
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by S4M 11y ago
After re-reading the post it looks more like the helper in the lisp functions declarations. (defn fact (n) "factorial calculation" ...)
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by S4M 11y ago
I would feel uncomfortable to use the quotest to define something, like: fact 'defn arity func' I think it would cause problems to have a good syntax hihlighting in the text editor.
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by S4M 11y ago
You can use eshell in emacs. It allows you run elisp commands.
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by S4M 11y ago
In Europe there is normally a probation period, during which new employees can fired easily. After that it gets harder to fire.
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by S4M 11y ago
It's seems like a Japanese bento box. How is beyourmax better?
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by S4M 11y ago
For things in English, I would say it's acceptable but relevance is still below google and I find myself switching to google for about 10% of my searches, being unhappy with what DDG got me. For things not in English, it's quite b
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by S4M 11y ago
I agree that you way of questioning is better, but the hardest part is still to be able to interrupt the person to ask that question.
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by S4M 11y ago
Thanks, it was this expression I was missing.
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by S4M 11y ago
Not saying your advice is bad, but someone who is confident and charismatic will speak in a way that the steps he takes are obvious. For example, if I told you "I wrote this code and it's completely bug free.", you might ques
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Iceland Economy Recovered After Letting Banks Go Bust(independent.co.uk)
6 points by S4M 11y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 11y ago
I agree with you that webpages are sometimes too animations heavy. There is w3m as well that is a read-only browser.
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by S4M 11y ago
Actually, since javascript has an eval function, shouldn't it be straightforward to support it in the browser?
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by S4M 11y ago
I built a shitty CRUD web app with that links to a web form the texts I want to translate - stored in a database - and ask my friends who speak other languages to translate them.
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by S4M 11y ago
The thing is that while it doesn't rain that much, when it does it rains really hard.
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by S4M 11y ago
The elephant in the room is that most of SV companies don't do anything technologically sophisticated, so for them it's simpler to take the latest technologies and hire young people who will work without counting their time. Were
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by S4M 11y ago
I am not interested in doing anything related to accounting, except for my own business. > Or, certain types of software developers get to do interesting math as well. Yes! But sadly, those type of positions are rarely advertised - well,
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by S4M 11y ago
Not really, api's comment is currently one of the last in this thread, which means that it has a low karma. On the other hand, it is likely that several people upvoted it - I did, and probably people who complain that it was downvoted
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by S4M 11y ago
For me Actuarial work falls into "Quant" work, and accounting has nothing to do with maths.
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by S4M 11y ago
As someone who has a maths degree, I find it sad that most of the jobs advertised that require a background in maths are either jobs of Quants or Data Scientists.

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