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by hartror 10y ago
Is a blank page for me.
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by hartror 10y ago
Subjectively yes, I feel more confident. I've re-listened to the book every couple of years as it helps me focus on continuously improving what I see as an important skill set.
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by hartror 10y ago
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss. Wonderful fantasy that treats the reader as an adult and doesn't over explain. It has perfected world building, doing so organically rather than through expositio
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by hartror 10y ago
> How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie Great book. The advice is rather obvious but it really gets you thinking about how you interact with people. For example I've learnt to be vastly better at people's name
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by hartror 10y ago
Terraform meets Consul?
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by hartror 10y ago
Flagged for changing title to "Chemo will kill you before your cancer". Serious editorialising.
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by hartror 10y ago
Operations research is 50/50 compsci and maths. Lots of interesting hard problems that require good maths and compsci skills. We employ some very talented people working on these sorts of problems for rail: http://biarrirail
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by hartror 10y ago
I would be willing to bet an economic externality such as the cost and availability of Starfighters and crews. Especially for what appears to be a US based company.
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by hartror 10y ago
Biarri Rail | Melbourne, Australia | Web & Python & C++ Engineers | Onsite | INTERNS welcome We are a profitable startup using mathematical and algorithmic techniques to optimise long term and operational/real-time planning fo
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by hartror 10y ago
Ah I suspected as much. A local Melbourne boy.
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by hartror 10y ago
Who is the pixel artist?
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by hartror 10y ago
Evanto is well known as a good place to work. BoM have a large presence in Melbourne as well and have some interesting problems. Though their culture isn't what it could be.
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by hartror 10y ago
I am biased but the company I work for is cool. Interesting domain, hard problems with novel solutions and a global focus. http://biarrirail.com
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by hartror 10y ago
The limitations of a medium drive creativity, and there is an expectation when publishing a video of a certain quality. Not so with gifs, the format lowers the bar for people to be creative overcoming many expectations of quality.
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by hartror 10y ago
As a techie in Melbourne I can tell you I stand by my city being a great place to live and work for techies.
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by hartror 10y ago
There is a huge cheap build going on next door. It is two stories with 7 bedrooms with no back yard because pool. The contractors I talked to joked it will be knocked down in 20 years because of the low build quality.
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by hartror 10y ago
But if you want to emulate the aws gateway + lambda cycle locally it seems like you need a bit of rigging to do this easily, especially if you want to talk to it with your browser.
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by hartror 10y ago
> The name comes from thrushes, a family of birds to which for instance blackbirds belong. Sure, but out of context I'd be willing to bet that isn't going to be the thing that most women think of first. 10 hours on HN and no on
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by hartror 10y ago
Is the issue that they were abbreviations or that they were named similarly?
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by hartror 10y ago
If you're like me and have no intention of installing flash here is an alternative video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7fTLLmgbk
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by hartror 10y ago
Mildly scarring but very interesting in a morbid way.
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by hartror 10y ago
I suspect if anyone had thought through this it would be John Carmack. His game design skills can be called into question. His 3D engine skills are second to none[1]. [1] As an individual. I suspect why we haven't see as much from him
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by hartror 10y ago
> Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 (Too Many Requests) Broken for me: Chrome 50.0.2661.102 m
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by hartror 10y ago
As an interviewer I am upfront with our hiring process and that part of it is we ask candidates to do a "exercise" after the first face to face meeting. This exercise is crafted to be representative of the job we are trying to fil
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by hartror 10y ago
No mention of Jepsen tests, I look forward to a @aphyr call me maybe talk/blog post detailing all the issues.
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by hartror 10y ago
Richard Jones the creator of pypi is also running PyCon AU in Melbourne this year: https://2016.pycon-au.org/
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by hartror 10y ago
> degree to which they are purified are not the same Got a source for that?
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by hartror 10y ago
That would be magical.
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by hartror 10y ago
Finally! While as others point out this can work out more expensive the improvement is is that it scales as my company scales and doesn't act as a disincentive to developers spinning up new repos.
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by hartror 10y ago
They are fast as giving you an answer but cannot tell you when are at the optimum solution. You need some termination rule to stop the algorithm such as time spent running, number of iterations etc. We [1] have used a heuristic [2] method t

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