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by dasboth 10y ago
Yeah, sounds like that wouldn't have been your fault if it had become a worse problem. Reminds me of that story I saw on HN a few years ago where the guy dropped a table of user details (by accidentally clicking on the wrong thing I th
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by dasboth 10y ago
+1 for Granada. Probably my favourite place I've visited to date, but the job market doesn't sound great. If you can get a remote gig though, what a place to live.
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by dasboth 10y ago
That's a fair account of the reality of life in London. Of course the abundance of jobs, great tech scene and endless things to do are all true, but it's not all as good as it sounds. I'd add one more: 5) Forget going to Prem
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by dasboth 10y ago
Out of all the places I visited in Japan earlier this year, Hiroshima is the one where I'd happily live. Well, if we forget about the working culture and the language barrier... :)
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by dasboth 10y ago
> one of the few cities in the UK that I would be tempted to move to What are the others, out of interest?
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by dasboth 10y ago
I know this as "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
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by dasboth 10y ago
It should be career suicide, but I'm assuming that because people do it there's a good chance of getting away with it. I'm just speculating though.
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by dasboth 10y ago
> There's a random chance that your scanner will be audited by a human against the contents of your shopping cart. Usually the first time you use it, then it backs off. I must be really suspicious-looking because I've been su
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by dasboth 10y ago
> Our education system is failing to instill critical thinking into young people. I'm convinced this is the key. However, media outlets (social or otherwise) also have a responsibility of, at the very least , not spreading storie
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by dasboth 10y ago
Granted, it will never win any awards. Part of the choice behind it might have been the desire to "ship" it before Christmas.
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by dasboth 10y ago
I suspect it's an easy way to get something that won't sound completely dissonant, especially because you can use the same blues scale over multiple chords.
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by dasboth 10y ago
I completely agree with your sentiments. But just to play devil's advocate, it is possible the authorities could have prevented the Bataclan massacre but chose not to "for the greater good". There's a similar conspiracy
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by dasboth 10y ago
Even if you believe it's a necessary evil in principle, the implementation is bad enough to want to be against this particular law. The list of agencies who could gain access is laughable and there's nothing that fills me with c
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by dasboth 10y ago
I couldn't understand that either. The thought of getting on a watchlist didn't even cross my mind, which might be naive although I'm cynical enough to at least entertain the possibility now it's been brought up. Ultimat
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by dasboth 10y ago
I do wonder (perhaps naively) whether this is a genuine misunderstanding of the argument for privacy/encryption or something more malicious. Is it that politicians haven't spent enough time thinking about this or are they willfull
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by dasboth 10y ago
That's exactly the nuanced discussion I like to see from my elected representatives...
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by dasboth 10y ago
This is an important point. Even if, for whatever reason, you agree with governments being able to access this data in extreme cases (suspected terrorism, whatever) and even if we put aside concerns about governments misusing this power, th
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by dasboth 10y ago
I agree. I'd start with something like Joel Grus's Data Science From Scratch to get a handle on the basics in Python (or whatever the R equivalent is, I'm not familiar with R books). I do however find myself more and more wis
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by dasboth 10y ago
I agree with your key points, but I'm a bit skeptical about this: > If you don't have enough motivation, then providing access to Internet, is not going to make a difference. I'd argue that because the barrier to entry
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by dasboth 10y ago
I could have written that comment verbatim. > It's not about facts, it's about emotional viewpoints [...] facts be damned. This is absolutely my experience as well. Thanks for sharing your post, I'll check it out!
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by dasboth 10y ago
> As a side note it's happening here in the UK over Brexit And I wish more people wrote pieces like this one that actually discuss the political/economic arguments without descending into name-calling. It was too hard to find w
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by dasboth 10y ago
> However, the people who he surrounds himself with, are. This article makes no mention of Steve Bannon That was my biggest gripe with the article. Otherwise I thought it was refreshing to read such a well-presented argument, regardless
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by dasboth 10y ago
> it might be easier to find joy in things you hate That is arguably the key to happiness :)
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by dasboth 10y ago
I think it was this one: https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/6407065/senior-data-analyst...
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by dasboth 10y ago
Completely agree. Although if your binary classes are perfectly balanced then accuracy is a valid metric, but that's rarely the case. I guess the problem is that an ROC curve wouldn't create flashy headlines.
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by dasboth 10y ago
Just the other day I saw a data analyst position at UNICEF. Probably not the job you're after, just wanted to let you know those jobs are out there!
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by dasboth 10y ago
Kabat-Zinn's book "Wherever you go, there you are" is also recommended.
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by dasboth 10y ago
raptitude.com has lots of resources about the benefits of meditation as well as various ways to get started. Completely un-esoteric. I recommend the blog in general!
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by dasboth 10y ago
> having actually gone partly down the brexit path What do you mean exactly? > The treatment of leavers by remainers has been frankly disgusting Completely agree. The whole thing of people taking sides, rather than discussing a politi
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by dasboth 10y ago
Source? Edit: The study linked above [0] showed the following for voter regret (specifically "do you have doubts about the way you voted?"): Remain Yes / No / Don't Know 98% / 1% / 1% Leave Yes / No &

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