em500

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   by em500 10y ago

   > But there is no guarantee that a child will get in a selected school. And once the lottery has filled all the slots, those soon-to-be kindergartners who get into none of their choices are offered a place in a school with open positions
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   by em500 10y ago

   Nope, before switching to bash in 10.3, tcsh was the OS X default.
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   by em500 10y ago

   > Did you finish the article? They're not literally suggesting that all capital income be redirected by the government, but instead suggesting that the government should build up a fund that owns capital assets. To provide a UBI of
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   by em500 10y ago

   Around 7 to 8 dollar/month https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Bucharest?displayCu...
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   by em500 10y ago

   > I am well aware that primarily the developing world are doing better, that is true but it is also trivial. The real question is what we do with those in the developed world. As someone who came from the developing world and still have
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   by em500 10y ago

   No sensible person, Chinese citizen or otherwise, is going to offer you 25 CNY per 1 USD, unless it comes attached with a US green card or something. If you can find one, have them contact me, I'm more that happy to trade with them :).
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   by em500 10y ago

   R: m = matrix( c(0,0,1,1,0,0,0,1,0), nrow=3 ) v = c(2,3,1) solve(m,v) [1] 1 2 3 Julia: for this code snippet the syntax is identical to Matlab: m = [0 1 0; 0 0 1; 1 0 0] v = [2 3 1]' m\v 3×1 Ar
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   by em500 10y ago

   For software companies, "stop spending huge piles of money" means cutting jobs, see headline of this article.
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   by em500 10y ago

   Suppose that you make 20% returns for 8 years straight, followed by 4% returns for 12 years straight. Then your AAR is 10% ((1.2^8*1.04^12)^(1/20)-1), but your median yearly return is 4%.
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    by em500 10y ago

    Have you read this page? https://azizonomics.com/2013/06/01/the-trouble-with-shadowst...
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    by em500 10y ago

    The thing that helped me most with vi(m) was this change of mindset: don't treat Insert as an alternative mode. Instead, threat the append and insert commands as any other command, just ones that happen to (often) take long arguments,
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    by em500 10y ago

    But Android Studio is basically IntelliJ IDEA, which is not that much younger at 15 years.
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    by em500 10y ago

    Reminds me of when Facebook got slammed about their auto-happy-birthday feature: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/29/facebook-...
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    by em500 10y ago

    > I hope one day it can imitate me so well I can delegate all my chats to it. It will be like a mini-me! Next step is when both ends do this and cut out the human middle (wo)men.
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    by em500 10y ago

    This has been a (paid) thing for a long time: https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/sat-nav/maps-services/shop/navi... Recording: https://youtu.be/2ljFfL-mL70
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    by em500 10y ago

    The table viewer in RStudio shows any changes in dataframes live as you change them in the REPL, so I don't really see your point.
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    by em500 10y ago

    > If it really is so horrible why are these 'authors' apparently, not contributing to those horrible docs to make them better? Incentives (building their personal brand) is much more tilted towards blog posts, tutorials, books
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    by em500 10y ago

    Both R ( https://www.rforexcelusers.com/make-pivottable-in-r/ ) and Python ( http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reshaping.html#p... ) can do pivot tables.
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    by em500 10y ago

    > for scenario analysis and prototyping, anything with a code/run cycle is just painful For scenario analysis and prototyping, you'd use RStudio as GUI and the command line for REPL. But personally, I find Jupyter notebooks wit
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    by em500 10y ago

    I'm working at a 10000+ employee, 1B+ revenue corp and G-Drive is the standard filesystem on the corp computers.
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    by em500 10y ago

    Can you deploy another change that will show dead companies too? If you think there is more interest in non-dead companies, you could add an extra filter/selection box.
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    by em500 10y ago

    Right, I found estimates of $600B yearly ad spend. To put that into context, total annual spending (aka world GDP) is over $70T, meaning that less that 1% of all spending in the world is on advertising.
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    by em500 10y ago

    No, UberPoP is banned (and hence not available anymore). UberX and UberBlack are not banned and still operating (the drivers have taxi licenses and blue number plates).
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    by em500 10y ago

    And in rich neighborhoods, Starbucks?
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    by em500 11y ago

    It's not that weird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_E...
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    by em500 11y ago

    Hyndman's online forecasting book https://www.otexts.org/fpp has an ARIMA section that covers pretty much everything a practitioner would need.
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    by em500 11y ago

    > That said, the Packards have been very local vs. Gates more international (maybe it's need, size of endowment, etc). Given the international needs are fare more pressing, I'd say the Gates have the right objective.
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    by em500 11y ago

    Most of western Europe is around 60k, vs 110k for US. I'd call that a large margin.
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    by em500 11y ago

    Not sure what the point of your reply is. I know lots of the EU perks are mandated. That's one of the things that makes Europeans have less take home pay than Americans (hence my comment "do not come cheap"). No value judgeme
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    by em500 11y ago

    I wrote 5yr+, not 5yr, so no, they're not supposed to have all the same experience level. But in Western Europe (outside of some hot pockets like London, Switzerland, Luxembourg and maybe Oslo), 6 figure salaries are very rare in softw