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by auxym 9y ago
I've had a decent experience with maps.me. Not a polished UX as Google or apple, but functional.
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by auxym 9y ago
According to wikipedia, the compression algorithm was originally called MUSICAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Development
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by auxym 9y ago
Yes but, even those who invest in automation need a mass of middle class consumers to buy their products. Ford famously gave employees relatively high wages and weekends off specifically so they had money and reason (free time) to buy the v
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by auxym 9y ago
Another reason to strive for financial independence ASAP. I have to wonder though: if >50% of people currently employed lose their jobs to automation... who will be there to fuel the consumerist economy? Who will buy ads on Facebook and
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by auxym 9y ago
Nmap seems reasonably popular for this purpose. https://nmap.org/movies/
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by auxym 9y ago
While this describes me pretty well, I have to admit an (optional) conversations view would be pretty useful.
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by auxym 9y ago
I understand that the risk, in many cases, is the salary difference between a startup and a more established company that can pay higher wages.
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by auxym 9y ago
I inteviewed for a startup once (I don't live in a big startup hub). I was offered a 40% drop of my current salary, no benefits, no equity and no options. I was also sternly warned during the interview that they were looking for someon
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by auxym 9y ago
Just want to second this in case someone is considering the One. I also got it as a gift to myself. If you would have asked me to spec out my ideal ebook reader, I would have ended up describing the One.
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by auxym 9y ago
How would you say JS compares to python? (asking as someone would never touched JS and for whom Python holds this "most convenient language" spot).
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by auxym 9y ago
Engineering licensing also varies a lot by jurisdiction (by state in the US). In my (canadian) province, the actual license test has no technical component, but there is a continuing education requirement, plus the deontology/ethics re
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by auxym 9y ago
Interesting thought, since I don't have a degree in CS, I'm not sure what it entails. Does it not include any "practical programming" at all? In that case, should we conclude that universities are the failing piece here,
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by auxym 9y ago
I edited my post to reflect my meaning better. I didn't mean high barriers generally, such as a degree, because that definitely isn't specific to software. I was thinking of the complicated interview process, which seems rather ex
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by auxym 9y ago
Why though? Why is programming seemingly the only field where companies feel the need to put up these super interview processes with mutiple interview rounds, technical tests, white boarding, etc? Is it the high salaries? In that case, do y
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by auxym 9y ago
I took a quick look at the ASQ test mentioned in the article [1]. A lot of the things in there, I would have answered "definitely agree" when I was a teenager. Sometime in college, I forced myself to socialize, and did everything
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The Automated Curse Generator(thedailywtf.com)
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by auxym 9y ago
Context handlers come to mind and can often save a lot of error handling code.
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by auxym 9y ago
I've taken to blocking all those random joke pages on sight.
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by auxym 9y ago
Similar situation in Montreal. The new metro cars are fully ready to be automatically ran, but it's resisted by the union.
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by auxym 9y ago
I'm guessing the popularity of Python is why they're going with it. Quants and other power users are starting to drop Excel and moving on to Python, so they figure they might be able to keep some market share this way. Otherwise I
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by auxym 9y ago
I actually didn't notice the McD placement, but I swear every episode namedropped Uber very, very obviously.
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by auxym 9y ago
I believe in the functional world, that sort of thing is implemented suing a feature called dependent types. It's not a very common feature, but Liquid Haskell implements it.
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by auxym 9y ago
Same here, and I put my very much non technical girlfriend on it, too. We keep the database on dropbox and it allows us to access our passwords on any device (Windows, Linux, Android, Web app).
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by auxym 9y ago
Possibly querystorm, in case anyone is looking for it. It did look interesting last time I looked at it, but I've never tried it.
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by auxym 9y ago
Americans who enjoy "rolling coal" come to mind.
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by auxym 9y ago
Excel VBA is not .Net though. It's plain old VB code in text files inside the .xlsx, and you just have to trust it (or not).
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by auxym 9y ago
Transparent access to Excel tables as Pandas Dataframes would be so, so very awesome. I mean, MS implemented these really nice Tables in excel, but then left us no way to easily query them with something like SQL.
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by auxym 9y ago
Performed often with the help of public funds.
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by auxym 9y ago
> problems with many interacitng parts where there is no predefined objectively right or wrong solution This actually defines most problems engineers solve. Well, at least the "predefined right solution" part. If you really alr
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by auxym 9y ago
Yeah, that's what I did, though it was more like 6 semesters including the summers. You graduate with an MSc or MASc, whereas for the non-research masters, you graduate with an MEng (for the engineering programs).

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