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by dbt00 7y ago
Two of my favorite tools for this kind of thing: http://visidata.org/ And http://recs.pl/
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by dbt00 7y ago
http://visidata.org/ Is pretty fast if you’re comfortable in a terminal (not cli) app.
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by dbt00 7y ago
> Most of these white board tests seem to be "Have you revised this specific algorithm for your interview, and found the specific implementation we're looking for?" If you have, great. If not, rejected. As someone who has
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by dbt00 7y ago
It’s pretty standard to stand up a shell corp for each piece of real estate you own/manage to take advantage of tax laws and protect yourself from property liability.
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by dbt00 7y ago
Welcome to the boom half of a boom and bust cycle. It’s lasting longer because the amount of capital invested in subsidizing Uber/Lyft but it’s still going to turn eventually.
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by dbt00 7y ago
I’m glad you’re benefiting from it but have an exit strategy in place because it’s not sustainable.
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by dbt00 7y ago
Standardized test taking is a skill but hardly the only one that matters.
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by dbt00 7y ago
Most commercial projects are orders of magnitude more complex than that, and the performance differences are stark.
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by dbt00 7y ago
Or environmental lead exposure? Or a tradition of reading to children at a young age?
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by dbt00 7y ago
They’re trivial wastes of a precious resource. Toilet flushing isn’t a significant consumer of potable water, and retrofitting multiple municipal water lines is expensive for the benefit.
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by dbt00 7y ago
You mean like the space pen vs pencil thing, where Fisher spent his own money to design and make it and sold it to both the Americans and Russians because pencils are a huge fire hazard in zero G?
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by dbt00 7y ago
(2016)
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by dbt00 7y ago
Or perhaps exceptional claims (plants have brains we just can’t see them) require exceptional evidence.
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by dbt00 7y ago
Seriously I never ever ever found this to be a problem when I was using one. It charges from zero to usable in as long as it takes to type “ha ha this mouse charging port is on the bottom” on the internet, and a full charge lasts a long tim
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by dbt00 7y ago
It has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies?
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by dbt00 7y ago
Recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19659853
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by dbt00 7y ago
This is not Appeal to Authority fallacy. He's simply citing a historically accessible example of similar criticism that here is being dismissed as "lots of people are hasty to throw out the old without really understanding it&quot
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by dbt00 7y ago
The problem of the dataset is not just that AI will pick shortcuts and naive heuristics, because humans will too. The problem of the dataset is that you're not in control of who populates the dataset and what their intentions are. Ther
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by dbt00 7y ago
I've worked in places where those were put up on a volunteer basis by people who got tired of stepping in puddles...
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by dbt00 7y ago
Go's certainly not perfect but I usually find it more productive than java or C++ for equivalent problems. For 2, I hate this example. Code that returns or takes booleans that requires reading a comment to understand the value is super
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by dbt00 7y ago
this is more or less how the TV show Chuck works, except in generally a positive capacity.
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by dbt00 7y ago
NYT straddles a line between being institutionally conservative while having a majority liberal staff and subscriber base. It creates pattern matching hits for both sides. MSNBC has similar issues.
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by dbt00 7y ago
The point was to reduce the opportunity for insider cash theft while servicing machines?
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by dbt00 7y ago
> niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid And these are just iron and b-complex vitamins, the "enriched" part of enriched flour.
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by dbt00 7y ago
If the salt is static, the hash becomes the password. Nobody does this. If the hash is dynamic, the password has to be stored in plaintext. Kerberos does something like this. Neither of these are better than the current state of the art. Re
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by dbt00 7y ago
Yeah I found that pretty moving. It's worth pointing out he continued to fly for 8 more years between the incident in 2008 and his retirement in 2016, but seems like he was really struggling most of that time.
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by dbt00 7y ago
Or, completely in keeping with the open source license he made it under? https://github.com/andyhall/noa/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
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by dbt00 7y ago
Example A could be the author himself. And example B is already discredited. So that’s not super inspirational...
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by dbt00 8y ago
Using git as a filesystem performance metric is horribly flawed -- git was written from the beginning to perform perfectly on Linux. It's the most native linux application I can think of. (Not because it's using secret system call
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by dbt00 8y ago
That's not a correct statement. Nothing in the MIT license says that you can claim credit, ownership, or restrict licensing terms on someone else's code. What you can do, of course, is include the original MIT licensed work in a l

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