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by fizixer 10y ago
I sat on your response for a while but it just occurred to me, as I responded to the other commenter, I'm perfectly fine with the price points of chinese knockoffs on ebay, alibaba, ali-express, etc. But they put on too much fancy bell
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by fizixer 10y ago
The keyboard you mentioned, I'll buy it in a heartbeat if it didn't have red coloring (instead, white-on-black markings), backlight. I mean look at the typeface on the keys. Couldn't they stick to standard keyboard [1] typefa
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by fizixer 10y ago
I'm in the market for a full size mech but I'm disgusted by what I'm finding. Either all kinds of fancy nonsense like backlights, shitty fonts, shitty ergonomic shapes, shitty colors. Or. Insanely outrageous prices (and the a
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by fizixer 10y ago
Thanks. In which case OC is still wrong. It's not that "a decade ago when a front-end developer meant you handled [X, Y, Z...]" but "a decade ago there was practically no such thing as front-end development, only web dev
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by fizixer 10y ago
> I remember a decade ago when a front-end developer meant you handled HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Apache/PHP/MySQL. Wait a minute. If front-end developers handled Apache/PHP/MySQL too then what did back-end de
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by fizixer 10y ago
FWIW, a "super harsh" guide to (learning) ML [1] was posted on reddit a few days ago. [1] https://redd.it/5z8110
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by fizixer 10y ago
You could do that if you wanted (and it'll be efficient but in a very local sense). But this article is mainly helpful for battery and mobile usage of IoT devices. At home, the biggest energy guzzlers are the components of your HVAC sy
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by fizixer 10y ago
I'm an intermediate scheme programmer (experienced in C, Python, etc), and one thing I really didn't like about R6RS in general, and Racket in particular, is the amount of bloat. I'm a staunch minimalist and one of the things
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by fizixer 10y ago
Correction: not just grading but testing as well. (cheat-resistant testing and grading).
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by fizixer 10y ago
Not sure why you changed your mind away from a perfectly valid claim. (Please see my response to OC).
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by fizixer 10y ago
> I think that this is not quite true: ... No it is. It is quite true that mathematical impossibility is mathematical and has nothing to do with the real world. > ... but it applies only to mathematical models; that is, models cannot
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by fizixer 10y ago
Still incorrect. You can say 'mathematically shown to be physically impossible'. Mathematical proof is mathematical. It has nothing to do with the physical world. P.S.: Note that 'mathematically shown to be physically impossi
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by fizixer 10y ago
Automated homework/exam creation and cheat-proof (or cheat-resistant) grading needs to catch up. In my opinion, it is making progress but isn't quite there yet. Once that is done, it's over!
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by fizixer 10y ago
I never got to Carmack level of technical seniority but in recent past I got hired (this was my first experience in America) in a level-2 engineering permanent position (assuming level-1 is for fresh BS graduates) and the contract essential
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by fizixer 10y ago
As a technologist, and a follower of automation related news for the past 4+ years, I have basically given up on the economists, save for a handful like Robin Hanson. They will probably realize their folly when it's too late. Even thei
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by fizixer 10y ago
Needs 'Triumph of the Nerds' in documentaries, and 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' needs to move to any of the film sections (it's not a documentary).
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by fizixer 10y ago
Let me rephrase the question: How hard it is to ask a colleague out instead of making a pass or do something unprofessional?
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by fizixer 10y ago
After taking a look and thinking about it, I think this platform is not for representative HN audience. We can DIY the heck out of an equivalent system based on what we know (languages, tools, platforms, etc). So it's (probably) a prod
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by fizixer 10y ago
Yeah I should've mentioned that. Well I guess I did in a way when I started by saying either the lesson from the blog post or the lesson that I talked about. To summarize, if you put a premium on your time then we reach the conclusion
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by fizixer 10y ago
The lesson based on your experience could be the advice you gave. But it could also be: Don't get your expectations too high. If you have achieved something in your programming career already, you've done it. Something to be proud
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by fizixer 10y ago
> ... extremely high-IQ people ... Don't underestimate the drive for people to lie or greatly exaggerate their achievements over the internet. I personally find the post not entirely believable. E.g., - First she says "I had le
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by fizixer 10y ago
> ... transforms online meetings ... (has no mention of collaborative white-boarding)
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by fizixer 10y ago
- I've never heard of Tungsten. - Mitsuba is a mainly-academic renderer by Wenzel Jakob (I say mainly because I haven't seen its widespread use in non-academic setting). The two important open source renderers that are missing in
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by fizixer 10y ago
So TASEP?
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by fizixer 10y ago
This makes me wonder. If my startup reaches a certain amount of success, heck if only 5 customers, and for some reason I need to shut it down, what's a graceful way to deal with it. I can give each customer all of their data back in a
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by fizixer 10y ago
This book has two problems: - It's a collection of numerical algorithms and their implementations, not a systematic study of it. Meaning the style is "if you wish to do this, you use that" and so on. - It developed a bad repu
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by fizixer 10y ago
nicotine through pill, not smoking a cigarette?
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by fizixer 10y ago
> You do realize that "assembling a good software team, with one or two domain experts ..., pair it up with the team of engineers and line workers)" is like kryptonite for these people right? I don't care if it's a kr
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by fizixer 10y ago
> The limit to automation in this industry and others is, quite frankly, how bad these companies are at making software. Your statement contradicts the rest of your paragraph (that the article is naive and far fetched). Because if this i
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by fizixer 10y ago
> I mean, I feel like everyone hating on this article either: You're ignoring the third possibility: S-W and CB types are more likely to say negative things about this article, and upvote criticizing comments (like one by basseq). P

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