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by dcminter 3y ago
Perhaps? Soft skills includes stuff like writing though, not just schmoozing.
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by dcminter 3y ago
Fair. I'm not suggesting he should focus on being amusing in interviews - just that soft skills have value and sometimes in surprising places. Time invested in them is unlikely to be wasted. Time spent grinding leetcode not so much. Hi
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by dcminter 3y ago
Software isn't done eating the world yet; it is worth hanging in there. End of year is the worst time to be looking even in bullish markets; New Year is always when hiring picks up as the hiring managers are finished with their vacatio
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by dcminter 3y ago
The paper answers this question amongst others.
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by dcminter 3y ago
The first two lines of the abstract are enjoyable. Worth skimming just for that!
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by dcminter 3y ago
I was working with an optimisation problem based around cplex a few years ago that took about 5 minutes to complete - at the time I worked out that if we'd started the optimisation on a machine 10 years prior, it would have been quicke
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by dcminter 3y ago
Same - I just now discovered it existed; it was mentioned on the Sneakers wikipedia page and I just love that stuff like this has been archived.
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Sneakers Film Promotional Floppy(archive.org)
177 points by dcminter 3y ago|54 comments
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by dcminter 3y ago
On the other hand in the great stink era the waterwheels on London Bridge were industriously injecting into the drinking water supply the same effluent that had just been ejected. One would have been grateful to be on The New River company&
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by dcminter 3y ago
Buying in London is phenomenally expensive. We bought an apartment in Stockholm - given that it is spacious (4 bedrooms), has a view of woods and the lake, and is a few minutes away from a subway terminus it's inconceivable that I coul
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by dcminter 3y ago
> I think it is easy to forget just how bad cities in general must have smelt back then. I refer you to London's "Great Stink" of 1858 during which the smell was so bad that Parliament seriously considered moving to a diff
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by dcminter 3y ago
Stockholm, Sweden Pros: A clean city, an excellent public transport network, almost everyone speaks English and the language is not too hard to learn (albeit hard to get opportunities to use it). The social support system is in good shape.
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by dcminter 3y ago
Well, I hope you get the chance to explore a bit before you make your decision on whether to stay. The British climate (at least) is hard to defend though.
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by dcminter 3y ago
The conclusion is missing. Normally the formula is: "So much so that when {occurrence} {outcome}" This has the occurrence (the inclusion of the topic) but not the consequent outcome - seems like some anecdote about that author not
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by dcminter 3y ago
I went to college in Wales a few miles north of you (up in Pontypridd). It doesn't sound like much has changed. Except the vapes; they hadn't been invented back then. However I would recommend that you at least try a few other par
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by dcminter 3y ago
I think they may have misunderstood the meaning of the word tenure (note "with tenure") and not realised it meant only duration of employment here (versus its use in US academia).
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by dcminter 3y ago
OSX is a Unix. I don't like it compared to Linux personally but I'm obviously in a minority there.
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by dcminter 3y ago
Does it need one? There's a longish list of perennials. Mostly what they have in common is that they're interesting to first-timers and pithy enough to be worth a re-read for the rest of us. Someone comes across it for the first t
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by dcminter 3y ago
I'd forgotten that! It was a nice touch.
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by dcminter 3y ago
I remember borrowing this from a friend a couple of years after that Finnish chap created a *nix that I could run on my lowly 386 machine. If you are a unix lover (as I am), then it's worth it at the very least for the anti-foreword by
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by dcminter 3y ago
If you have a strong theory about how silicon based life might arise then of course you could look for signs of that. What are those signs? Well, ... that depends on your theory. Versus carbon based water dependent life? We know it exists i
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by dcminter 3y ago
Java dinosaur here, used to contract in London. End of the year was always tricky to be looking for a new gig. Even in downturns things often picked up in January due to new budgets (for those whose financial years start then) and the hirin
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by dcminter 3y ago
I've had something that seems to be the same a handful of times. Disconcerting. Though I once had something like this while I was lying awake in the early hours of the morning, which was weird. It turned out that it was the Buncefield
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by dcminter 3y ago
"In the end, it was Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in at about 2:55 when you know you've taken all the baths you can usefully take that day, that however hard you st
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by dcminter 3y ago
Sharing this reddit thread because I was looking to solve this problem myself and thought that the needle-probe approach linked was terrific! Hackaday summary: https://hackaday.com/2019/11/15/needling-your-pr
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How to attach logic probes to tiny SMD components (2021)(reddit.com)
99 points by dcminter 3y ago|43 comments
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by dcminter 3y ago
It's been a thing for a while and as I recall it's intended to de-clickbait a certain category of title. Mostly one doesn't notice because e.g. How John Smith Bought Foo Corp -> John Smith Bought Foo Corp Why John Smith Bo
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by dcminter 3y ago
He didn't say money didn't matter, he said that's not why he moved to Silicon Valley. i.e. it's not his top priority. Yes, it's a position of privilege, but he's allowed to have differing priorities from someon
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by dcminter 3y ago
It would be very strange (and rather sad) for you to remain the same person exactly and HN to be exactly as it is now in perpetuity. Perhaps the next thing will be better? For me HN > /.
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by dcminter 3y ago
You did, and now you're incorrectly claiming that the EU is forcing Meta to stop personalised ads. They're not. They're only forcing Meta to obtain user consent. The means by which Meta is doing that are scummy and hopefully

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