chrischattin

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by chrischattin 7y ago
Yes! So much this. Every startup I've worked with regretted choosing a trendy tech stack early on. Speed of development is BY FAR the most important thing and the SPA/Javascript framework de jour trend of the past few years is
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by chrischattin 7y ago
I 100% disagree. College moves at a glacial pace once you're used to learning on your own. It's definitely possible to have a stronger grasp of CS concepts after a 9 month intensive study than 4 years in traditional education.
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by chrischattin 7y ago
This isn't exactly correct. The Federal Reserve sets the fed funds rate which has all kinds of effects on the lending rates (aka: bonds) and pricing models throughout the financial system.
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by chrischattin 7y ago
If you're interested in this stuff, you should check out the book "The Vital Question" by Nick Lane. It's an absolutely fascinating exploration of this topic. Blew my mind. Basically, as best we know now life did have
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by chrischattin 7y ago
They may have just succeeded... https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-are-98-sure-they-ve...
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by chrischattin 7y ago
Probably somewhere in between. Automation will keep getting better. And, with the recent pilot shortage, probably make it safer for lower time pilots to operate. For example, some aircraft are now self-diagnosing during abnormal procedur
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by chrischattin 7y ago
Pilot here. 100% agree. An autopilot isn't autonomous (like the most of the public think). It's more like flying the plane by pushing buttons vs manipulating the flight controls. You dial up a heading or altitude and press exe
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by chrischattin 7y ago
Exactly. Add economics and psychology to that list. Pretty easy to come to a politically convenient conclusion when there's no way to reproduce the results of your "study".
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by chrischattin 7y ago
I completely understand. My younger years were packed full of pretty intense experiences - D1 athletics, the military, building and selling a startup, building and test flying an experimental aircraft, etc, and not much feels new anymore,
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by chrischattin 7y ago
An interesting way to look at this is that nature (from an evolutionary perspective) is selecting away from what the popular sentiment of this board considers intelligent.
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by chrischattin 8y ago
Tulsi Gabbard.
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by chrischattin 8y ago
I'm a former Air Force pilot and was going to writeup a long post about my experience. But, this pretty much sums it up. I loved the people, and LOVED the flying. Some of the best times of my life. But, the organizational bloat, bur
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by chrischattin 8y ago
The last sentence is incredibly naive. The rural U.S. has great connectivity.
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by chrischattin 8y ago
I get the same feeling when programming in Ruby and it seems like the entire community appreciates the same ascetic. I just love working with Rails. Matz took a unique approach when he decided to optimize for programmer happiness vs the ma
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by chrischattin 8y ago
You could just as easily say the best minds of our generation are occupied trying to get people to click on an ad.
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by chrischattin 8y ago
Well, Rails is still the fastest way to build and iterate a web app that I know of... BY FAR. I volunteer to teach an intro to Rails class to folks getting ready to graduate a local code school and always enjoy watching their facial express
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by chrischattin 8y ago
Hypothesis is the key word. It's not a law, or a tested theory. Also, it's predicated on all participants having perfect info, which doesn't happen in the real world. Is it useful? Mostly no, in my opinion, other than reali
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by chrischattin 8y ago
I'm a huge proponent of this concept. The goal is to be able to build and iterate as fast as possible. Most of this is achieved when new folks can step in and understand the code right away. Needless abstraction slows this down and
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by chrischattin 8y ago
You're right if you only have one coin flip. But, this assumes a series of flips. The way I understand the Kelly Criterion it is it's similar to a fancy Martingale. It's statistically inevitable that X number of coin flips
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by chrischattin 8y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. The vast majority of blockchain ideas basically sub a blockchain in the role of a traditional database. The "killer app" for blockchain technology is a currency.
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by chrischattin 8y ago
Rails still wins hands down when it comes to speed of development. I don't think anything else even comes close.
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by chrischattin 10y ago
Good old fashioned sales and word of mouth.
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by chrischattin 10y ago
In an athletic context, one of the key benefits from weight training is injury prevention.
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by chrischattin 10y ago
I can second this. One of the best pizzas you'll ever eat. They only make them in August - which is apparently when the habaneros are the hottest.