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by a-saleh 7y ago
When I was in college, I did enjoy my 17in, 3kg (6.6 pounds) notebook a lot. Was considering buying additional kilo in batteries :-) I was in lecture-halls all the time, so there usually was power, and having the extra screen real estate wa
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Damn! It is beautiful. If I were to become a manager, where my greatest contribution will be sending the best damn meeting-minutes I can, I am buying this. But I already have Onyx Boox for my note-scribbling-on-e-ink needs, and if push come
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I have been on L2 and L3 on-call duty in my previous company, and some of the times these dashboards were life-savers. Is the queue growing? Certain node not processing all it should? e.t.c Alerts actually did go out of prometheus. Hindsigh
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I would look at several things 1. junior positions available (you already did that) 2. local community/meetups available (bonus points if you have friends that could tutor you) 3. other paths to tech companies (i.e. have seen people st
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by a-saleh 7y ago
W.r.t. grand-fathering, I have seen approach, where the free users can keep their account free forever, but they don't get any of the new features, but with a path to upgrade if they choose.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Yep. That is why we mostly end up in the music section :) You don't really need to rebuild i.e. the guitar for it to be a prime noise-maker :D
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I'd go against mindstorms, that is way to advanced for a 4yo. If you want to go lego, Boost or WeDo is better :-) I especially went with Boost because I remember debugging minstorms at school and I really didn't want to interupt o
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I did buy my kid Lego Boost. I chose this, because I like robots as well, we already have Lego, she loved playing with duplo and with help could manage to build a smaller 5+ lego set. It is not cheap, but you can build several things out of
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Snap Circuits Jr. look more 5+? My cousin has that, and likes it, but he is well into school. I found backgamon to be fairly complicated and never really got my kid to play anything abstract, closest I got was with Hive, but that quickly de
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by a-saleh 7y ago
There are degrees. I remember a friend that had a degree of intolerance, and definitely wouldn't accept a bun, but wouldn't have to care about reusing a frying-pan. So, if you need to check for every 'might contain traces of
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Even more interesting is, that the research I shared claims 'just type-out a transcript and don't try to summarize/structure your notes' is better than 'by hand, and summarize' ... but both agree writing by han
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Most of my meetings are throug video, so having half-screen the video-feed and other half some sort of note-pad is fairly useful :)
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by a-saleh 7y ago
a) figure out how to make the "messy and dangerous" doable. b) I had some success by playing boardgames (even Carcasone) at this age, with some rules-simplifications c) sometimes we played games on my phone, Monument Valley, I lov
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by a-saleh 7y ago
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/488e/c93cf68806bd8ac63fc7d0... ... interesting research that suggests that trying to type-out a transcript with a keyboard might be more effective.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I remember my mind being blown when in Discrete Math 101 we learned that natural numbers are isomorphic with whole numbers. Was it, you map 0 to 0, even n to n/2, odd n to -(n+1/2) and all of us were like whoa and the TA is like &
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Noted :) I hope prof was more tongue-in-cheek 'hating the game, not the players', but I can't be certain after 10 years :P
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by a-saleh 7y ago
This reminded me of our Analysis prof. "I really hate Iternational Mathematical Olympiad. The problems there give you the false impression that math-theorems have elegant solutions. No. You are usually banging your head against the pro
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I think we try Scratch once she learns to read :-)
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Nice! I was wondering if would try something like this, but in the end, I takes me too long to create something entertaining even with a nice game-engine such as Unity. So far I opted to play with Scratch Junior, as that a) runs on my table
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by a-saleh 7y ago
This was one of the reason, I started looking at APL, to be able to write code better on paper. And a reason why I like applicative programming in haskell with all of its squiggly <$> and <*>. Another interesting idea might be t
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I am considering organizing book-club to go through google's SRE book and workbook.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Our manager is running one right now, but he usually proposes books about team-work, e.t.c. Just finished 'Turning ship around', next on the list is probably 'The phoenix project'
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Do you have a community, where you'd learn together? I wonder if it weren't more efective to i.e. buy books and organize book-club with your colleagues.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I bought Onyx Boox, that runs Android 6, and that means I can read pdf, login to Kindle, Play Books, e.t.c. For pdf's I usually just use SyncThing (but I don't have bookmarks there), for the rest I use the various apps. I am consi
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by a-saleh 7y ago
It was possible to setup Light Table to work like this. The project is unfortunately dead.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Wow that is a giant difference, especially in cognitive capacity. I.e. by 11 you should be able to understand more or less anything (i.e. including abstraction, recursion, e.t.c) ... but a 5 yo might just be comprehending the number-symbol&
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Alternative could be, sometimes things don't form a system, because 'system' could imply more order and predictability than there really is. Sometimes stuff just happen, and if you try to look for the system behind, you would
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Tldr: for your first Python web-app, you will be fine. Focus on learning programming, and there are easier ways to learn Linux than installing it. If you go for i.e. game-dev, with Unity or other game-engine with windows IDE, you will have
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Art of the propagator It is like a discovering a new programming paradigm. Something new and different, not a Lisp, not a Datalog, weirdly distributed, with interesting properties, but powerful. There are adjacent things, BLOOM project and
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by a-saleh 7y ago
With some risk of 'no-true-scotsman', more I look at soviet/cold-war era, more it seems like Russia was exporting weird meld of cult-of-personality, imperialism and fascism? To me, if reading about Gulag destroys left-wing fo

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