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by hintymad 2y ago
> how it's frequently taught in absence of practical examples Unfortunately this has been the debate for thousands of years. One of Euclid's students asked him what practical use geometry had. In response, Euclid instructed a s
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> Why does linear algebra elicit so much confusion despite being an elementary topic I'm not sure that linear algebra is an elementary topic, if the word "elementary" is as in math of elementary school. That said, I don&#x
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> due to Google’s dark pattern to nag you to install Chrome anytime you’re on a Google property I'm not sure if that's true. I switched to Chrome because Chrome felt snappier than its competitors. Its multi-process model made C
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by hintymad 2y ago
I don't know if it's just my bias, somehow I feel that the response time of Firefox is longer than that of Chrome. Or maybe it's due to my lingering discomfort about a Netscape-era bug: after running Netscape for a while, Net
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Unfortunately the US demolished such urban structures to make space for cars and parking spaces. We now get a small downtown with clusters of skyscrapers, and then endless urban sprawl. It definitely made the cities of the US ugly, especial
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by hintymad 2y ago
> Suburbs can be prisons if there’s not enough people your age around you. I lived in semi-suburbs and had friends I’d walk to after school. Makes it more fun than having to organize car dates until someone gets a car. But nowadays kids
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For senior engineers, I'd say opportunities weigh more than the difference in salary or even in overall package, unless the package correlates with the opportunities. I may complain about commute, but I'd still be happy to join an
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by hintymad 2y ago
> For the kids themselves, cities are wonderful and suburbs are often a kind of prison I grew up in a mega city and I agree that cities are wonderful for kids, at least they were wonderful for me and my friends. I'd venture to guess
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Very true. At least to me, a modest condo will be more than enough, as I've learned long before that tidiness brings more pleasure than large space.
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> I know multiple retired or semi-retired people who have moved towards the center of a city Is it because their kids have grown up? I can imagine myself living in a city like Paris or NY if I don't have kids. I get to enjoy a bustl
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by hintymad 2y ago
Oh yeah! Thanks!
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My bad. I meant "for good or for worse". That is, I was trying to be neutral to the merit of moving from SF to the south.
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> back when we did sf had a pretty aggressive additional payroll tax and gross receipts taxes I always wonder what SF has done to deserve the added taxes? Did they keep the crime rate low? Did they keep improving the city's infra? D
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There is a famous paper about the location of company headquarters: they get as close as possible to the residence of company CEOs. If we don't consider the CEO's influence, I'm actually curious if the location of company hea
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by hintymad 2y ago
> Google’s payments to make its search engine the default option on smartphone web browsers violate US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing a key victory to the Justice Department. I still find it hard to understand why t
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> On iOS the list of allowed search engines is simply baked into OS, we have a fiddly extension that hooks outbound calls to /search and redirects them but I wish we didn't need to. Wouldn't this be the fault of Apple as i
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Just curious, doesn't it happen to everyone for certain abstractions? When we study maths, our teachers encourage us to "see" examples or geometric representations or simply some abstract representations in our mind. Some peo
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I think the key is consistency, and it is consistency that is hard for a company to guarantee. If a company does not promote often, like Apple, employees will be content to stay where they are. But once the company starts to promote some pe
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by hintymad 2y ago
To give Amazon and Bezos credit, their 14 leadership principles give a pretty balanced framework for decision making. Customer obsession and working backwards to help focus on what's important, disagree and commit to resolve difference
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by hintymad 2y ago
> Almost any manager of managers has been at Amazon a long time, in that same job for a long time. There is no upward mobility at the company, unless you have been in some org 5+ years. That's not true, at least not in AWS. In fact,
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by hintymad 2y ago
> .. image:: defines the image "directive". When Sphinx reads it, it looks up the registered handler for the directive And the author continues to explain how rST is convenient and flexible to a doc engine like Sphinx. This kin
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by hintymad 2y ago
I'm curious on why European people allow such heavy regulation. They really think that the Europe can enjoy their prosperity with little innovation for years to come?
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by hintymad 2y ago
Maybe fear killed engineering. Even in a decently managed company, I can see so many engineering effort gets stalled, compromised, bastardized, or killed. Like your manager asks you to get sign-offs from 10 different orgs. Like you want to
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by hintymad 2y ago
> For example, a Staff Engineer at an avg startup might get $250k base salary, in a HCOL area and maybe a 10-20% bonus. I think you are taking it in the wrong way. A startup has lower mean income but can have a much higher return in the
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I wonder how many iterations we will need before engineers are happy with a workflow solution. Netflix had multiple solutions before Maestro, such as metaflow. Uber built multiple solutions too. Amazon had at least a dozen internal workflow
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This reminds me of a comment someone made during the craze of XMLs in the mid 2000s. In the comment the author suspected that so many organizations chose XML to implement their domain-specific languages, configuration languages included, on
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by hintymad 2y ago
> via Kumon or RSM or something else. My kids use Kumon and RSM too, only because what their school covers are pathetic. The content may be okay, but the teachers certainly didn't give good enough homework to help the kids deeply un
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by hintymad 2y ago
> Higher Math, Not Competition Math This is very true, especially now. So many families, at least in the competitive places like the Bay Area, push their kids to spend enormous amount of time on AMC, AIME, and etc. Other than viewing com
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> How many of them will mention recent research in mathematics from the last couple decades I think computer science, especially TCS, will mention recent research from the last couple of years. Technically, TCS is a branch of maths too.
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> Students got a taste of programming, but when it came to getting hired, neither the training nor credentials held a candle to a college degree. Yet Lambda School regularly compared itself to college in its marketing, promising, "T

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