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by bshipp 7y ago
Oh absolutely. there are definitely situations where you cannot take shortcuts. I'm just saying that most workplaces weigh productivity far higher than originality.
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by bshipp 7y ago
If my programming tasks--comprised of Github snippets and Stackoverflow answers--were graded by any University TA I'd certainly fail too. But I'm getting appraised by different standards in the workforce than in school. The work
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It's not a good thing or a bad thing. I'm saying it's not a thing at all. If someone decides they want to run a custom ruby or python script the least difficult aspect of that decision is installing the interpreter. For e
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I don't know if I completely buy into that argument. API's on the bleeding edge are often prone to breakage because the development frontier is in constant flux. However, software that neglects to update also tends to breakdown a
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by bshipp 7y ago
Installing the version you need when you want to run a script is arguably easier for newbies than all the error messages arising from an out of date implementation originally included with an OS. it's not like installing python is any
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by bshipp 7y ago
Indeed. Take a look at cars, for example. My little 2.0L engine makes more power than a 1970's V8 behemoth could have dreamt of, while simultaneously getting fantastic fuel mileage with minimal pollutants (in comparison). It's b
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by bshipp 7y ago
I think part of the problem is that it's easy to draw a trend-line across a batch of data you actually know about, like oil reserves or food supplies, but incredibly difficult to make educated estimates about how we will resolve constr
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by bshipp 7y ago
Malthusian advocates tend to view the economy as static. One of the most recent surges in that line of thinking was the worlds impending doom at the hands of Peak Oil. Every single trendline in the early 2000's showed us running into
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by bshipp 7y ago
Waterfox is good if you miss the old add-ons from pre-quantum Firefox. But it is the old model, and one lagging page will still hose the whole browser. I tolerate it because I need my Downloadthemall extension, amongst others.
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by bshipp 7y ago
Another vote for the git clone / pycharm workflow. If I'm thinking I might end up tweaking the code I might fork instead of clone to make generating a pull request a simple click in the browser. But I'm definitely in love wi
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by bshipp 7y ago
There idea wide gulf between completely open government and one where secrecy is the default reaponse with very few checks and balances to ensure that those items marked top secret have a valid rationale for being labelled as such. I would
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Hi Devon, I think this is a great idea. speaking as someone working for a small company with the ability to sponsor projects of interest, could you evaluate the possibility of assigning rewards to specific milestones? for example, if I&#x2
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They read it well enough to generate a testable hypothesis about the underlying data. He or she should be commended, not criticized. Even with the resulting edit there appears to be, at least to me, a clear need for additional investigation
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by bshipp 7y ago
The reason climate change is such a difficult political problem to handle is that it requires significant upfront cost but the resulting benefits are difficult to forecast and measure. As a society, we've encountered this time and tim
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by bshipp 7y ago
This explanation isn't nearly as fun as all the wild speculation we're all posting below you. +1 for actually hunting down the original study and interpreting it. -1000 for spoiling our self-righteous party.
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I can't agree with that conclusion. There are plenty of brilliant idiots and idiotic geniuses in the world and it can often be more difficult to change the mind of a "smart" person who has drawn the wrong conclusions than a
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by bshipp 7y ago
I was at pycon when beaz programmed a set of raw socket server/client scripts running fibonnaci sequences LIVE from scratch in front of 1000 people using nothing but a text editor. The man is truly a mad genius. https://you
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by bshipp 7y ago
That has been my experience. I've walked into an ER twice with heart palpitations. The first time I had an EKG, chest x-ray, and specialist consult and was in and out within 45 minutes. The second time was more serious and I was admit
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by bshipp 7y ago
Just as an FYI, the Fraser institute is one of those organizations where you know the conclusion of their report just by seeing the subject in the title. I would be gobsmacked if I read an article by them that had anything positive to say
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by bshipp 7y ago
This is my experience as well. Debuggers are extremely helpful when trying to integrate third party code with incomplete documentation. It's one thing to run a print statement at a specific level, but having the ability to explore an
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by bshipp 8y ago
Great, thanks very much for finding that paper. Hopefully Facebook follows this up in the not to distant future with at least a rudimentary example. I can learn from a paper, but I learn much faster from an example!
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by bshipp 8y ago
Was anyone able to find a link to Aroma in that document? I found the colours made it very difficult to differentiate the links from the text and I couldn't find it. A quick search through Facebook's profile on Github turned up n
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by bshipp 8y ago
I've seen this with companies and non-profits in countries like France as well. Instead of attempting to navigate the complex dismissal laws and regulations, they simply close the shop completely and reopen it elsewhere under a differ
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by bshipp 8y ago
I don't work at Google so I'm probably way off base, but if I was designing it I wouldn't bother telling the difference between the two types of queries. I'd break up the indices into digestible chunks, perhaps chronolog
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by bshipp 8y ago
Between SQLalchemy, Django, Peewee, and quite a few others, Python is fairly well-covered by ORMs already.
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Final Comment on this: after moving it to a slow mechanical drive the query speed dropped dramatically, as expected. What was almost instantaneous on the SSD took anywhere from 40 to 120 seconds on the slower drive. However, previously th
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by bshipp 8y ago
Okay it finally (30 seconds ago!) finished indexing. The reason it ran out of disk space is that I included 3 columns to index on (in this case: name, path, filename) and it ballooned my 66GB db to 185GB! However, every single query afterwa
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by bshipp 8y ago
Hahaha, it's still running. I ended up running out of drive space on the SSD I started it on, which began a lengthy process of shuffling things around, cleaning indexes and VACUUMing two very large databases (60 and 80GB, which ended u
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@snowflakeonice What a time to be alive! I've just started populating the sqlite virtual fts table. I will report back with my findings!
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Elasticsearch uses Lucene at the core of it's search capability. https://lucene.apache.org/core/ Basically it examines each record you want to index and generates a set of features and metadata to aid in rapidly

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