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by candu 11y ago
Interesting idea, and a great exercise for learning more about parsing, CSS selectors, and command-line interfaces. One point of (hopefully) constructive criticism: I'm not completely sold on the CSS selector syntax. Attribute selecto
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Reasoning about pivot selection in quicksort was once PhD-level work.
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Or we could, you know, follow the rest of the developed world and nationalize healthcare.
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> It's not all that hard to spot and interview for I'd argue that it's a lot harder than you think - you might be able to spot what you recognize as empathy, which is likely specific to a particular culture or personality
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by candu 11y ago
So don't go to hackathons, and maybe look a bit farther afield for this "hacker culture"? There's so very many open-source projects, LUGs, meetups, civic open data hack nights, hackerspaces, mesh network initiatives, wor
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by candu 11y ago
Much of the real value of degrees to the prospective employee is in added leverage. As long as "enough" employers in field X require degrees, and as long as either a) the unemployment rate in X is low enough or b) your demonstr
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...which is why Let's Encrypt ( https://letsencrypt.org/ ) is awesome. Also, HTTP is unsafe. Also also, "those who develop and distribute web browsers" are not a uniform cabal of shadowy conspirators. You ar
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While it is true that scale brings certain advantages, larger companies are not an unalloyed good. For instance: - larger companies can leverage near-monopoly status to prevent meaningful competition, increase rates, etc. (e.g. Verizon&#x
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"The role that the computer can play most strongly has little to do with information. It is to give children a greater sense of empowerment, of being able to do more than they could do before. But too often, I see the computer being us
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Those differences definitely matter if people come to depend on them. This is really a debate between prescriptive and descriptive schools of specification ;)
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Yup. Everything about this posting screams red flag to me, from the derisive snipe at freelancers to the drug-testing requirement to the strong indication that they expect everything done yesterday (but, naturally, would never themselves p
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by candu 11y ago
OK. Find me an example of a system that doesn't require external resources :)
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I'll typically use Airbnb for business travel - it's always been cheaper than the average hotel (after some searching), and it fits well with my preference against neatly-packaged things. That said: in my experience, the "loc
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The video game industry makes ~2x as much as the film industry [1], so imagine production on a scale comparable to (or possibly even exceeding) that of big-budget Hollywood movies. [1] https://www.quora.com/Who-makes-more-mo
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I'd...search for things I need? Or rely on word-of-mouth via people I actually care about? (Of course, you could argue that these are also forms of advertising, in which case this argument ultimately devolves to "people hear abo
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Also worth noting: the same insight is valid w.r.t. languages, databases, etc. One rule of thumb I've heard is that you should incorporate at most one "new" piece of tech into any given project.
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by candu 11y ago
This sounds counterintuitive, but: learn when to take breaks and step away from problems. Some of my most productive hours have been spent walking through parks, coming to crucial realizations or designing approaches that end up saving me
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I've seen similar patterns elsewhere: company X brings on powerful, smart, and egotistical person Y, who browbeats others into believing their pet project Z has to be top priority; those who disagree with Y leave Y's team (or perh
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Cool! The interface for variables is reminiscent of DragonBox ( http://www.dragonboxapp.com/ ).
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To help you get started, some relevant documentation: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/ufuncs.html http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/routines.random.ht... htt
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by candu 11y ago
+1. I'd argue teaching OOP in C is better than teaching it in <insert OOP language here>, as then you can build OOP from first principles. Otherwise, OOP is just this black box that has "you know, classes and objects and
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by candu 11y ago
OTOH, if sickness was 100% predictable, those places with nationalized health care (and therefore predictable costs, some level of centralized control over administration, etc.) could deploy resources precisely where needed with minimal was
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In a strict game-theory sense: if you're aware of what might cause offense to others, you'll inadvertently offend others less frequently, and your conversations/negotiations/etc. will have higher average outcomes. Of cou
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Because removing a single editor-in-chief is much more damaging to the publisher than removing a single author?
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Nature? (I suppose you could argue that the ability to get to said nature is often dependent on roads and other transit networks...)
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...or it would take more technologically sophisticated and less traceable forms.
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One issue I have with posts like this, however awesome/uplifting/well-intentioned they may be, is that they attempt to generalize mostly anecdotal evidence to general advice. Is this an engaging and inspiring story? Yes, and it&#
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Which is exactly what it says, along with an argument that the rest of us shouldn't care either.
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Like with most useful tools, you have to use it more than "several times" to gain fluency.
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I think that precedent has already been set.

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