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by bayonetz 8y ago
Currently reading David Foster Wallace's collection of essays book titled "Consider the Lobster". I get a similar feelings about the topics of the essays because of his great, quirky-for-journalistic-essay style in them.
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by bayonetz 8y ago
I expect he will continue to innovate though. To be sure, Kelly's wave is better than BSRs though, just too costly. Give it some time.
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Jokes from the Future(nytimes.com)
1 points by bayonetz 8y ago|0 comments
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by bayonetz 8y ago
The introvert/extrovert dimension is as predictive as the identical dimension in the Big 5. I've made great use of knowing when a colleague, friend, etc. is introvert or extrovert regardless of which test told used. Even if MBTI
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by bayonetz 8y ago
Ha! A close cousin to what I call "Resume Driven Development". Most engineers don't want to add to or maintain something someone else built prior. Since most people are working on and inheriting monoliths at small to midsize
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by bayonetz 8y ago
Regular expressions and SQL. It boggles the mind to think of the imperitive version of custom logic you'd have to write to accomplish the same things. Two of my most prized technical tools...
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by bayonetz 8y ago
It's the academic analog to Hollywood's "executive producer" credit. At least they typically only take the last author slot on the paper's author list. That's how it is in computer science research.
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by bayonetz 8y ago
I’ve seen this lead to needing stifling amounts of consensus building to make any decisions. Similarly, since no one is “in charge”, it is way too easy for a minority to pull a de facto veto by refusing to work on or support whatever initia
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by bayonetz 8y ago
Hell is other people and their stinky microwaved seafood leftovers wafting through the open office.
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by bayonetz 8y ago
Also, a physical sport. You will never have the time, interest, and enthusiasm that a kid has to get good at a sport again. I grew up surfing and am proficient at it. This makes it fun. Which means I do it regularly. It’s a great fitness ac
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Caviar’s Food Recommendation Platform(medium.com)
5 points by bayonetz 8y ago|0 comments
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by bayonetz 8y ago
Blacklisting is typically done covertly though.
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by bayonetz 8y ago
The proliferation of these overprotective practices reminds me of the proliferation of simpler practices we impose on kids like showering regularly and wearing clean clothes that we just take for granted now. The link in my mind is how you
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by bayonetz 8y ago
There is a great recent Reply All podcast episode called Pain Funnel on shady rehabs. Diabolical, perverse-incentive capitalism at its finest. For example, giving drugs to teens kicked out of one rehab so that they can “piss dirty” to get a
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by bayonetz 8y ago
I think they do though. The drunk-driving-death example could easily lead to chronic negative thoughts about it. How foolish you were to drive drunk. How foolish you are to be an alcoholic. How weak you are to be an alcoholic. How messed up
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by bayonetz 8y ago
Useful framework but the 180 seconds part is false in general. For a typical person with lots of negative thoughts it will take much longer to do the countering exercise at any given time. Once you become good at it though, then it takes no
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by bayonetz 8y ago
Looks cool. Did you have any experience with similiar earlier generations of this concept like Knime and RapidMiner?
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by bayonetz 8y ago
Knime is very similar concept giving you access to building blocks like models, evaluators, input transformers, etc. so that you can make arbitrary ML pipelines. It doesn't have the slick drag'n'drop of input data. Instead yo
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by bayonetz 8y ago
What is unreal is that these homework assignments don't get the job, they get an interview. The interview is then still the standard whiteboard coding and system design sessions. If passing take home meant getting the job, it would be
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What we say vs. what we mean: what is conversational implicature?(aeon.co)
2 points by bayonetz 8y ago|0 comments
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by bayonetz 8y ago
@xiphias comment shouldn’t have been flagged. The same priority-based booking nonsense happens in our open floor plan. Similarly, you need to be important enough to have priority. We love touting how “we are so flat hierarchy that our CEO d
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by bayonetz 8y ago
Savage yet true!
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by bayonetz 9y ago
AKA "The Baby-Industrial Complex"
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by bayonetz 9y ago
Yep, this article’s framing is poor. The 5 Whys are just a simplification that proved useful to get people to dig deeper that previously couldn’t be bothered. There is nothing stopping you from turning a linear sequence of questions into a
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by bayonetz 9y ago
In this case, It’s what it does that matters, not how it does it. I don’t care if SQLLite is powering it. Maybe the author would want to swap out the SQLLite engine with something else in the future too. Then it’s even better that they didn
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by bayonetz 9y ago
Bystander here. Why the ban? It’s snarky in places for sure but I’d say it’s a pretty solid set of points and counter points. It definitely “added something” to my experience reading this thread.
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by bayonetz 9y ago
It’s not regular app load times where I notice it. It’s things like Safari’s url bar autocomplete responding slower and slower with each update. Like noticeable lag with each keystroke. It doesn’t matter which default search engine is set e
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by bayonetz 9y ago
Not privacy related but how about that damn “Ratchet” that iPhones have to get you to upgrade the OS? You are literally presented with two choices: upgrade now or remind me later. The remind me later choice means getting a daily nag with th
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by bayonetz 9y ago
Not familiar with this blog and this post doesn’t say — did he end up doing anything professionally with the knowledge he gained?
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by bayonetz 9y ago
On a related note, as a new parent, I’ve been inundated with advice where no sense of absolute risk or prior probability is given. For example, stuff like “don’t sleep baby on stomach because of increased SIDS risk” or “not inducing at 41 w

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