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by gaius 8y ago
You won’t be coming to office everyday doing assigned task on your backlog and reporting your status in scrum meeting Including former colleagues I probably know a couple of hundred PhDs who do this exactly the same as mere Bachelors. Out
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by gaius 8y ago
PLA cyber, missile, air and maritime forces are deployed against TW in order to neutralize its ability to defend itself. What does that actually mean tho’? A buildup of forces doesn’t neutralise anything. And why would Taiwan sit back and
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by gaius 8y ago
More importantly the Chinese leadership doesn’t need to worry about an election cycle. They can easily think in 20-40 year timeframes, while American leaders can go 4 years ahead at most.
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by gaius 8y ago
No sane govt will allow a foreign power to literally be able to shutdown one of their cities on a whim. Western Europe is already critically dependent on Russian gas pipelines, so this would be no biggie. Russia needs the foreign currency
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by gaius 8y ago
He also acknowledged that Uber drivers could lose out from the plan, but said over the longer term drivers would benefit These were the same drivers Uber was planning to replace with self driving cars! The well-being of its driving employ
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by gaius 8y ago
As a full stack engineer I’m confused, if you know the full stack already don’t you already know all this? It’s all part of the stack after all. “As a webdev...”
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by gaius 8y ago
80% of time is spent on getting and cleaning the data, 20% of time is spent preparing and delivering reports and presentations. The super-cool ML stuff that attracts people to the field in the first place, accounts for little more than a ro
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes there’s no concept of cell dependency in Jupyter. Often find myself just re-running the entire notebook!
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by gaius 8y ago
RStudio is mainly a native tool, the web version is quite inferior. Linux, Windows and OSX native versions
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by gaius 8y ago
write some unit tests (or even just asserts) in the same cell it's defined As many people will do this as presently write tests for their Excel macros or formulas.
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by gaius 8y ago
People do that in Excel too and the next thing you know a spreadsheet is managing a portfolio or being used as the basis for published science!
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by gaius 8y ago
How do you find it compares to Spyder?
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by gaius 8y ago
In the mid-90s I was a Mech Eng undergrad using a program called MathCAD which provided a "notebook" interactive computation mixed with text environment by running as a Word plugin. In 2018 I use Jupyter and it's not clear wh
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by gaius 8y ago
When you consider that it is impossible to reuse notebooks in each other... Or unit test them... Or that it is not especially easy to version control them in any sort of branch/merge workflow... Jupyter Notebooks are much closer to Exc
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by gaius 8y ago
poor trade favors with a large network of contacts to do the things that they need to get done This happens in rural Ireland too. I was visiting friends there, we started in the morning with fenceposts and sardines and 4 or 5 trades later
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by gaius 8y ago
IBM is a law firm these days
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by gaius 8y ago
Good article but you can’t really discuss the cultural impact of black without mentioning the goths.
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by gaius 8y ago
Have unfortunately had to use it as it was the scripting language embedded in an application we used. Now I avoid it whenever possible. Even BeanShell was better!
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by gaius 8y ago
Well, unless you need to deal with datetimes or timestamps. And it suffers from the same repeated-metadata problem that XML does. It’s easy for JavaScript users, that’s it’s main purpose. For serialised data either at rest or on the wire th
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by gaius 8y ago
Ah, Groovy. All the brevity of Java and all the type safety of JavaScript. I had no idea anyone still used it, let alone loved it!
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by gaius 8y ago
I don't think AMD is impacted by Foreshadow
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by gaius 8y ago
My understanding (let me know if I'm wrong) is that Hyperthread aware OSes (which is like what, everything since WinXP/Linux kernel 2.4?) will schedule lower priority tasks to the logical cores and higher priority tasks to the re
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by gaius 8y ago
lavish parties for Halloween and New Year’s Eve, which came with their own code of secrecy: no photos. That speaks volumes in and of itself about the company culture. When a company bans its staff from using their own product what does th
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by gaius 8y ago
F# is available in Azure Notebooks so I guess it’s fully supported
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by gaius 8y ago
I find that even the premium and more expensive makes are being made just as cheaply I was looking for some new headphones recently, but reviews of even premium makes were pointing out quality flaws, flimsy manufacturing and so on and I g
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by gaius 8y ago
Should I just go and basically say that this person did a bad job? No, because it’s not true. This person was operating under constraints you don’t understand with incomplete and constantly changing requirements. You would not have done b
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes - take 6 months off to go and do something completely different. Weeks 2-4 will be difficult as you struggle to let go. Months 2-6 will be incredible.
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by gaius 8y ago
The Jr. bankers billed a metric-ton of hours and made their firms truckloads in fees. Yes and no. A lot of that work if not most would have been essentially speculative in the hope of getting a big payoff if the deal went through. The la
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by gaius 8y ago
I remember, but this case is different because FB is already doing it on the sly
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by gaius 8y ago
It’s the lack of transparency that bothers people. If each user’s truthiness score was displayed alongside every post or comment and you could up or down vote it in real time, users would be satisfied

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