i_phish_cats

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by i_phish_cats 7y ago
then ban me
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by i_phish_cats 7y ago
But, is it effective? It seems many of the the 'gig' companies are simply floating on Saudi (aka venture capital) money and have yet to turn a profit. And it's not like gig-workers are much better off than minimum-wage worker
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by i_phish_cats 7y ago
Selfish gene is a popular science book, not a text book. You want to learn something? Get a dense, highly-regarded text book with lots of problems and work through the problems. Supplement it with lectures, or more importantly, office hours
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by i_phish_cats 7y ago
I wrote a PDF parser in golang a few years ago and it was an extremely unpleasant experience. No polymorphism means I essentially have to cast everything to void* aka interface{}. Rewrote it in C (the rewrite was quite easy actually) which
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
I predict nothing will change. Flaws in p-values and confidence intervals have been apparent since almost their inception. Jaynes spoke out against it strongly from the 60's on (see, for example, his 1976 paper "Confidence Interva
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
"First they laugh at you, then they fight, then you win" -- Elizabeth Holmes.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Yes, I can see it now. So, we have a bunch of millennials that have no idea how to manage a pantry because they only eat at their company cafeterias or dine at restaurants. Instead of thinking "gee I'm almost out of coffee I'
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
If only there were trailer parks or other cheaper housing options around here. Fuck NIMBY's.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
So, where's data?
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Sounds like he was just trying to hit on you.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
what kind of MBA brain washing are managers receiving that make them think most people wouldn't prefer working from home, if given the chance?
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Anything written by federal contractors, and anything written with state funds are not in the public domain. National labs flat out refuse to release some of their source code.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Special cases are a sign you have a business problem that is worth solving.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Says the data scientist? Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
FYI if you're buying the £1k phones £3.5k laptops, you are the fanatic.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Aside from a critical mass of developers, another reason is: Because it can. I can access new, proposed features not yet implemented in any browser with polyfills and transpilation. Distribution is not a problem (sans file sizes) because th
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Don't. SF is covered in feces, needles, and bodily fluids. There is absolutely nothing to do in south bay except work. The entire area is an intellectually homogeneous, collectivist wasteland.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Is it your goal to be a junior IT plebian throughout your 40's competing with eastern bloc/south asian workers? Because that's what a bootcamp and half-baked knowledge in a bunch of random trendy technologies will get you, es
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
visual studio code and browser are about 50 mb each. That brings a complete web dev setup to maybe 300-400 mb. Oh and I can build desktop apps and mobile apps too with web tools, still never coming close to 10+gb.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Nah, what they really need are crappy fisher-price laptops, one per child.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
wait... `/>` and `|>` are python operators?
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
I once attended a talk about humanitarian aid during an ebola outbreak a few years ago in africa somewhere. My favorite part was when he went down the list of professions that could help out... from the obvious medical staff, to architects
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
I switched a long time ago when tensorflow decided to change a few of it's low level functions' parameter orders, for no f'ing reason. The only reply on the bug report was "why weren't you using named parameters&quo
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
So, how many people is an acceptable number of people that can be killed by driverless cars?
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
C is equally bad, but it can be used anywhere -- it can be compiled into a dynamic lib and used in any language/framework, which is exactly what we did.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
My first Go project was a PDF parser. Rewrote it in C a similar number of lines because Go's capacity for polymorphism is as primitive as in C.
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Ask HN: Are There GPL-Like Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, etc for Webapps?
2 points by i_phish_cats 8y ago|1 comments
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Oh look a bunch of academics telling developers how to do their job, again.
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Doesn't clicking on ads reward google, instead of punishing them?
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by i_phish_cats 8y ago
Yeah, I've had friends who buy iphones in the US and take it back home to china for relatives, because it's cheaper abroad..... How does that work, exactly? Is it because of some sort of luxury tax in China?

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