brobdingnagian

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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
He doesn't post on the website he moderated for hours daily for years? That's rather ironic.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
whoosh
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
According to the way the vast majority of companies conduct job interviews it's easy: memorize every data structure and every algorithm and practice them every day. Don't be creative, be a drone that loves rote-rehearsal and memor
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Great, glad we can agree. Now let's stop talking about them completely.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
He is a nice guy, and very smart. And direct. Nothing wrong with that.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
No I'm pretty sure it would be easier (aka shorter) using 7zipped brainfuck.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Did you read the article? It is clearly not "the more sensible constant for almost every use case."
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Use your brain. Not kidding.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
This looks really cool - like a more generalized map-reduce.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
s/orientated/oriented/
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
This is an interesting anecdote, but we wouldn't really expect you to waste a week doing something pointless like this and then tell us it wasn't awesome. You'd experience cognitive dissonance, so in order to avoid the disson
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
If good is defined in terms of economic utility, then Make is possibly the best language of all time. The majority of the world's compute infrastructure depends on make. (See what I did there?:)
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
> like all companies agreeing together to pay more reasonably I believe that's called wage fixing, and is illegal.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
"Um, Um, Um, Um" - not very entertaining.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
First read this as "Why we should all learn ancient Greek" :)
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
This is not a good study. You should create a two-class classifier to differentiate the two sessions rather than just eyeballing it.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I interviewed with TripleByte and it was different from a normal job interview in some ways, but fundamentally also the same. There is just no culture fit aspect to the interview. Keep in mind that they are not addressing the problem that c
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Expensive Gillette razors can be resharpened with just a leather belt. Look it up!
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
How can you make projections like "between now and 2040" with a straight face? It makes me instantly lose respect for an article attempting to be serious.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Important according to what metric? Making the software developer feel good, or making the company money? The former is almost certainly true, the latter is almost certainly not.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
MCC is trivially extended to support regression and multi-label. See the implementation in http://grey.colorado.edu/emergent
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I'm not entirely clear on why this was needed - The Matthews Correlation Coefficient can easily be used in multi-class multi-label classification and regression scenarios.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I see that people here aspire to become rich and don't want to think of themselves as exploiting others when they do, and they don't want to think of themselves as exploited right now. And yet, I wonder how much of this crowd woul
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Her whole statement just smelled funny. You typically don't get rich without being good at exploiting people.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Related (and cooler, no offense:) http://boxcar2d.com/
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
"I don't like it, but that's how it is." No arguing with that. In the long run, we can hopefully select against business practices that have these kinds of human costs.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Let's do a reductio-style thought experiment: what if everyone was depressed? That's obviously a business concern. The standard argument for socialism follows from the same reductio: what if everyone was happy? That would be GREAT
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
That's really a false dichotomy. Ideally you aren't a nice person outside of work and a jerk at work. You are just a nice person. And if you see someone struggling, you don't fire them: you help them. Just like most of the be
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
That accounts for some of the homeless schizophrenics. "Also, how did you manage to relate this at all to TFA?" Just what exactly do you think the real world implications of this attitude / policy are more generally? "It
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Thanks for sharing. I don't think it's off topic. "It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t." It's just a really really mean thing to say, especially coming from someone w

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