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by bcheung 8y ago
Depends on your area of focus. Schools tend to be much more focused on the academic / math than practical application development. CS isn't as critical until you have to worry about efficiency, scale, or creating radically novel
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by bcheung 8y ago
Really hard to read that chart. The font is like 4 pixels tall total with massive compression artifacts.
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by bcheung 8y ago
I think it varies. There are a large class of landlords that will favor longer term tenants because it is lower risk / less hassle. There are also many cases where renting long term is more profitable as well if the home can't be
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by bcheung 8y ago
There are already laws and rights for tenants that are based on how long they have stayed at a place, whether they have received mail there, pay for utilities there, etc. Generally speaking, the more you are a full time tenant for a longer
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by bcheung 8y ago
Why should they be prioritized? That seems rather subjective and dependent on who you are. An argument could be made that it takes supply from the short term side and artificially drives up the cost of hotels. Why not let supply / d
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by bcheung 8y ago
This is a fairly recent and controversial change to the word. It was updated officially in the dictionary after people kept misusing the word. So now it means both literally and the complete opposite of literally.
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by bcheung 8y ago
What is the motivation for this law? Why is SF regulating the length of stay or rentors at all? Seems like a gross violation of freedom and property rights. Zoning I can understand but duration? This seems like a bad law.
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by bcheung 8y ago
It's not so much utility as it is addiction. A lot of the popular platforms are implemented to take advantage random reinforcement / variable reward schedules, social approval, ego validation, etc.
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by bcheung 8y ago
I'd be curious to see what effect this has on business models. A lot of useful features are free because they can make money on the backend or through paid promotions (search, email). Take away that ability and a lot of the services p
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by bcheung 8y ago
Must be the 5-pin. Been a while since I've used one of the old MIDI connections.
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by bcheung 8y ago
> one of the most stubborn, misinformed, anecdotal and delusional bunch I've had professional recording artists tell me they won't use MIDI over USB because the volume is lower than the old 9-pin connectors.
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by bcheung 8y ago
Discrimination aside, isn't the UK providing the favorable tax haven to begin with (Double Irish)? Also, how is revenue classified? If someone buys ads on Facebook do you now have to count and prorate clicks based on where the user co
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by bcheung 8y ago
I normally like what "Uncle Bob" has to say but I do not agree with a lot of what he says in the article. > Objects are bags of functions, not bags of data. That might be an ideal case, but it is not reality. Pretty much every
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by bcheung 8y ago
In theory, yes, but in the case of GraphQL, I found it was very difficult to generate schemas dynamically. Factoring out common fields was not possible. Common fields in schemas had to be duplicated and there was no concept of an include&
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by bcheung 8y ago
There's Open API Specification (Swagger). It's more documentation than strict protocol enforcement though.
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by bcheung 8y ago
Can people share their experience and success stories with gRPC and/or GraphQL? I've tried both in the past and found that APIs are rarely as static as typed API systems require. Many APIs have fields that are required conditiona
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by bcheung 8y ago
Is it just capital gains? Wondering if it applies to any other forms of active or passive income. How are profits from these investments treated? Can you "swap til you drop" like with a 1031 exchange?
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by bcheung 8y ago
Agreed. Critical thinking is becoming a lost art that we should not use "workarounds". Also, who gets to decide what is true? Silicon Valley tech employees lean overwhelming to the left. How do you remove this bias? But really,
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by bcheung 8y ago
I've done extended water fasting several times. 5-days, 7-days, 10-days, 17-days. It's MUCH easier for me to fast for 7-days than do 7 24-hour fasts. I feel much less hunger and fatigue when doing extended. All the negative ex
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by bcheung 8y ago
There's also all the FUD and scare tactics when you try to install another browser saying it might be "insecure, slow, etc".
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by bcheung 8y ago
How did you control for these things? Wondering what patterns there are that people use to prevent social discrimination. Seems challenging since much of AI, especially classification, is essentially a discrimination algorithm.
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by bcheung 8y ago
I have a hard time believing that the vast majority of cars won't already be 100% electric by then. Also, I doubt there will be nearly as many personal cars and that there will be much more ride sharing and public transportation optio
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by bcheung 8y ago
One of the things not mentioned, and maybe it is unique to my personality, is that I often don't like the exercises given in courses and come up with my own. If something is obvious and intuitive when hearing the concept, it is usuall
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by bcheung 8y ago
Nand2Tetris looks really cool. Just signed up to audit the course. Thanks for mentioning it.
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by bcheung 8y ago
Find a project you are passionate about that you can pursue on the side. It can be both your portfolio and motivate you to keep pushing the envelop. I do these short little exercises in programming to explore different concepts. Usually ma
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by bcheung 8y ago
A Hyper-V image would be great if it can take advantage of the GPU and not cause driver issues. Didn't know they had one for DL. Or is it just pure Ubuntu you mean?
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by bcheung 8y ago
It was more the removing access to a course that I paid for if I didn't follow their schedule that really upset me.
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by bcheung 8y ago
Agreed. I notice that many MOOCs have this academic mentality that something must be complete and a certificate earned. I could really give a damn about a certificate. Gaining the knowledge I need is all I care about. Udacity really mak
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by bcheung 8y ago
I have a gaming system (Ryzen 1950X w/ GTX 1080Ti). Is there an easy way to create a bootable external media with most of the stuff preconfigured already? I remember it being a pain to get all the drivers working and there was a lot o
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by bcheung 8y ago
Why the distinction? It's the same language.

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