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by bermanoid 13y ago
When the payoff for not hitting a certain monetary threshold is extremely negative and out of proportion to the amount of money in question (lose your wife/house/family/life) that can actually change that calculus, and taking
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by bermanoid 13y ago
A closed timelike loop under quantum mechanics is essentially an automatic fixed-point solver, in the same way that a stable quantum state in space is a coherent superposition. So yes, the story is kind of off, but in spirit it's also
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by bermanoid 13y ago
Sadly I'm not holding my breath. For the past ten years we've been upvoting requests for value types, being told that they were not necessary because the JVM was brilliant already, then after much argument and ample proof being to
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by bermanoid 13y ago
Umm, no, it's not a class thing. It's an "I need to get to Seattle and you're an asshole getting in my way without any useful reason" thing. You'll feel a lot less giving towards TSA the first time you show up
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by bermanoid 13y ago
I hear this sort of claim over and over again. Yet whenever I've had to optimize Java code that does heavy math (particularly work with vectors, matrices, complex numbers, etc) the number one optimization is to more or less maintain my
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by bermanoid 13y ago
Unfortunately this is mostly a zero-sum game: there's a very limited supply of housing in San Francisco, and it's always going to go to the highest bidder, which is the eternal gentrification struggle. Rich people deciding they&#x
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by bermanoid 13y ago
I'll echo this - I was at a point where I was starting to miss work because I had so much wrist pain that I couldn't type, and then I switched to a Kinesis. A month later I was back up to full speed and haven't had any pain s
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by bermanoid 13y ago
Ok, I can buy that - your point is that you should be attempting to get an unbiased estimate of how well someone works on a team, not that it shouldn't matter. Totally reasonable. Much more difficult, but a worthwhile goal. I feel like
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by bermanoid 13y ago
If someone rubs you wrong personally, why in the world would that not be relevant, especially on a small team? Sure, you don't have to be besties or anything, but being able to at least converse with someone makes any work relationship
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by bermanoid 13y ago
To swat down an argument one need only show that it's flawed, not that its converse is proven.
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by bermanoid 13y ago
The scientific problem with Christianity isn't that science proposes an answer to things. It's that it looks at the stories proposed by Christianity and calls "bullshit" because of Occam's razor. Virgin birth. Resur
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by bermanoid 13y ago
And plenty of companies move away from Python and Ruby once they hit "own our own data center" scale, too. You only optimize once it's worth it.
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by bermanoid 13y ago
For the lazy: http://www.alexanderwild.com/
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by bermanoid 13y ago
Umm...because without the vaccine 10 people would die, and with it only one dies. Not really rocket science...
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by bermanoid 13y ago
You didn't actually say anything, though. You just spammed a bunch of references and I have no reason to believe that it's worth my time to go through them. You weren't, by chance, a philosophy major, were you? There are fe
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by bermanoid 13y ago
I'd like to follow this up with a plea to statisticians to make sure you're not sending data back to programmers with bizarre newline formats - certain versions of Mac Excel save with /r newlines, which haven't been used
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by bermanoid 13y ago
Austrians, for the most part, make no testable predictions. They essentially reject math as a tool, and insist that unless you implement their preferred systems 100%, then they won't work at all, and then explain all observed failures
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by bermanoid 13y ago
As an ex-consultant/contractor, you're exactly right - it's often confusing because different companies call it different things. I've done both types (consulting on the high level goals, and actually implementing things
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by bermanoid 13y ago
Game workloads don't require ad hoc queries, typically - you're usually just stuffing a save state into the database every few seconds, and you route everything that you might need to query through analytics (except maybe billing,
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by bermanoid 13y ago
I happened to read this right after the article on Simpson's Paradox, and you put your finger on exactly what I was thinking - it's almost certain that there are many hidden variables that predict whether or not you work in an ope
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by bermanoid 13y ago
If it's a normal looking coin being flipped in the air and caught before presentation, the only reasonable prior is that almost all of the probability mass should be that it's completely fair. Maybe I'd leave 1% to spread amo
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by bermanoid 13y ago
In case it's not clear (that wording doesn't really click for me, since there are no exponents involved), the way this information is encoded is in the shape of the distribution itself. If there have been very few observations, it
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by bermanoid 13y ago
The cynic in me says that unless Haskell has a magical "do the right thing in every situation, with automatic full knowledge of your application's business requirements" operator, if there's no specific logic in the code that responds to er
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by bermanoid 13y ago
Which, to be fair, the article points out right at the top: "There are multiple theories for the decline in pay, but a common one cited by analysts is simply that the new people being hired are paid less than those already on the job."
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by bermanoid 13y ago
If you're billing each hour of those 12 hour days and can't make ends meet, then you have a problem managing your finances. If you're salaried and would lose your job if you didn't pull those hours, then I assure you you can find a more rea
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Enh...the thing is, a $300 Fender acoustic sounds good enough that you can get away with playing shows on it - you probably shouldn't, but you absolutely can. As a beginner, you're really not going to appreciate the difference between that
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Lots of possibilities allowed by general relativity (e.g. computers orbiting black holes and information traveling backwards through time) that may or may not correspond to our universe allow for computation beyond that of a Turing machine
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by bermanoid 14y ago
If the first paragraph is correct and the crux of his argument is that the brain is not computable, then there's nothing to see here. Once you assume that, then of course you don't think it can be simulated. That this further devolves into
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Further, Amazon provides a ton of sample code showing how their various services can be used to easily export data from DynamoDB, so there's very little friction there apart from paying for an EMR cluster of whatever size you prefer and wai
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by bermanoid 14y ago
From the front page: "JSDB is JavaScript for databases, a scripting language for data-driven, network-centric programming on Windows, Mac, Linux, and SunOS. JSDB works with databases, XML, the web, and email. It is free and open-source. Use

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