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by geebee 7y ago
actually, that's a good observation - this question depends a lot on knowing one specific solution to a problem. It really is an old "riddle", as was amusingly observed in the line: "Tim retells an old riddle, though he
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by geebee 7y ago
I understood this was about finding a cycle in a linked list. I wish I could understand the code part. But the writing part was pretty brilliant. On another note, I only wish my technical interviews were so simple. People talk about weeding
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by geebee 7y ago
This article doesn't mention anything about scale. I think we may be criticizing an elephant for failing to lift as many times its bodyweight as an ant. For a back-of-envelope calculation[1][2], it looks like there were 27 CS majors ou
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by geebee 7y ago
I'm stunned to hear that. Well, not the part about basic accounting, or maybe thermodynamics, that I believe. But stats and linear algebra? I've worked at or attended several UC schools, and they all require calculus through linea
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by geebee 7y ago
I believe the BMI was created for exactly the purpose you described, to track changes across populations. It was not intended to be a diagnostic tool at the individual level. That said, I suppose if a population generally becomes fitter and
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by geebee 7y ago
I agree with you generally about property rights and "rich"people, though I'm not sure, based on this thread, if you know what is actually happening in this particular case. In California, you can't use private property
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by geebee 7y ago
I can't get behind "looking down" at scifi, but the distinction between scifi and speculative fiction isn't necessarily pedantic. Speculative fiction creates a world sufficiently different from our own that we need to si
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by geebee 7y ago
That's a good point, though we may be dealing with small amounts regardless. For instance, I read that for one study of tobacco lung cancer, a "moderate" smoker starts at 10 cigarettes a day. (woah). So let's say someone
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by geebee 7y ago
I agree, it doesn’t sound like much fun. What you’ve described sounds like a much better “cafe” experience.
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by geebee 7y ago
I’ve read that one consequence of legalization in California has been an explosion of interest in CBD and low THC/ high CBD strains, along with greater interest from women. This surprised a lot of people. In an interview with the owner
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by geebee 7y ago
I kinda disagree, though I suppose it depends on the paper bag.
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by geebee 7y ago
I agree with you, though I actually personally don't find pre-processing data tedious and boring. I kind of like knitting it all together. On a side note... data pre-processing is often viewed a side job that needs to get done before t
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by geebee 7y ago
I'd be interested in also reading about an experiment in buying a diamond. How much of a discount could you get on a certified, ~1ct Tiffany ring? Part of me would be very interested in hearing about the result, along with variations o
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by geebee 7y ago
This comparison between pandas and SQL (from the pandas site) is a good reference: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/getting_started... Here's one example: -- tips by parties of at least 5 diners O
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by geebee 7y ago
No, though it has been a while, and your question may prompt me to take a look around the landscape. Not that I have had a problem with pandasql, it does work nicely. This is one of those technologies that I was hoping would make its way in
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by geebee 7y ago
I've found that SQL and data frames are pretty exceptional together in combination. I'm a big fan of a Python module called PandaSQL https://pypi.org/project/pandasql . What makes this work so well (for me, at
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by geebee 7y ago
I agree. There's also a huge ambiguity in the term "homeless". This ambiguity was not an accident, I believe it is deliberate and is designed to serve a political purpose. What I mean is, currently there is a large population
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by geebee 7y ago
I agree with Marc that many of the things he'd like to do will take money. Solving homelessness in San Francisco, for instance, will cost a lot. But that doesn't mean all we need to do is spend some money. We've tried that -
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by geebee 7y ago
It does (or at least should) put Benioff in a difficult position, in terms of argument, if he cites his own company's pay gap as evidence of why we need broad societal change, but then refuses to provide the transparency and data that
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by geebee 7y ago
My impression is that a PhD in CS can be beneficial in industry, but the benefits generally derive more from the kind of work you get to do, not in the salary you earn. Some positions available "only" to PhD holders may allow you
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by geebee 7y ago
I've been enjoying Stefan Zweig lately. I suppose Zweig figured he could show, not tell by writing scene where the first person narrator meets someone in the lobby of an expensive hotel, who then relates the bulk of the story. In short
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by geebee 7y ago
This is a tough one to answer. Yes, there are harder done people, and I suppose that is enough to end the conversation. The only part I'd mention here is that you focus on micromanagement and autonomy, which alone, to me, isn't re
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by geebee 7y ago
I agree. Over time, I've come, in my cynical moments, to see the agile manifesto as reading: -value trust over plotting and scheming -value open communication over hoarding information and deception -value disarmament over preparing fo
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by geebee 7y ago
But maybe Agile is the source of problem with Agile. Agile, to me, is like the nitroglycerine of development methodologies. The explosive instability of Agile isn't a problem from outside that corrupts Agile - it arises from the meth
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by geebee 7y ago
A daily SCRUM standup is often described as answering three questions: "What I did yesterday, what I will do today, what impedes me" When I described a daily standup to my father and brother, a physician and a university professor
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by geebee 7y ago
I'm prepared to believe that going deeply into student debt can have this effect. It is a very insidious form of debt that can't be discharged through standard bankruptcy. My understanding is that it's possible to avoid this
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by geebee 7y ago
On a related note, you've nailed a big problem I have with encouraging women to go into IT. How I can I enthusiastically recommend this field for women when I have reservations about recommending it to anyone? The reasons I'd be h
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by geebee 7y ago
This article was well balanced. I find title just a bit misleading, since "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL", to me, carries a slightly different message than "What ORMs have taught me: learn SQL". The second sen
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by geebee 7y ago
Can’t edit and leave a note on my original post(too much time elapsed), but I want to acknowledge I have read the replies informing me that chromebooks have changed since i got one several years ago, and that they now do some of these thing
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by geebee 7y ago
That’s a big deal and may change my opinion. My experience with chrome books is older than that. I’ll look into this. Thanks for the info.

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