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by itamarst 9y ago
Biographies I enjoyed in 2017: "The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism" "Worldly Philosopher The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman"
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The one skill you need to learn in 2018 (and 2019, and 2020, and …)(codewithoutrules.com)
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by itamarst 9y ago
Read Tufte's books. Huge amount of good advice for presenting complex data.
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The Once-Upon-A-Time Magic of Adding '.com' to a Company's Name (2014)(theatlantic.com)
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by itamarst 9y ago
If it doesn't have day-to-day application, does it really matter? I spent 20 years without using linear algebra. Now I'm doing a bunch of image processing algorithms and it's suddenly relevant... and it's mostly coming b
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by itamarst 9y ago
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", published 1841.
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by itamarst 9y ago
There are some relevant follow-up studies, e.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730121/ > We demonstrated that children’s sustained decisions to wait for a greater reward rather than quickly
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by itamarst 9y ago
Supposedly same domain gives better SEO results.
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by itamarst 9y ago
Thanks for the info! I'll see what I can do about the popup. (Unfortunately on its own Stripe is problematic, due to things like EU VAT MOSS, so I'm limited in what I can use to services that do taxes for me.) If you want to see a
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by itamarst 9y ago
1. Try to get as much motivations lined up as possible, and motivations that point in the same direction. E.g. "I care about this topic" and "I can make some money." ( https://codewithoutrules.com/2017&#
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by itamarst 9y ago
You're making some implicit assumptions: 1. Your idea is a good. 2. You will succeed at your business. 2. You will make money quickly. There's a good chance your idea won't work, and even if it does from what I've read S
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by itamarst 9y ago
Don't choose databases based on coolness. Choose a database that will keep you from being woken up at 3AM. PostgreSQL managed by your cloud vendor would do everything you want, probably.
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by itamarst 9y ago
Might work, but... slow learning process. Some alternatives: https://www.keyvalues.com/ may give some insight on some companies. https://theaccidentalengineer.com/ has interviews with people at lots of comp
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by itamarst 9y ago
You can think of the ideal resume entry as a little story: here's the settings, here's why I did what I did, here's what I did, here's the outcome. The goal is to have that story resonate with the reader: "Oh djelly
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by itamarst 9y ago
It's very dependent on what you're trying to explain. There's no one right answer. Do you have a specific goal in mind?
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by itamarst 9y ago
I'd personally use Twisted, but I'm biased insofar as I helped develop it. It has both equivalent of Javascript promises (called Deferreds) and ability to interact with them using async/await if you like that idiom more ( htt
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by itamarst 9y ago
Have you noticed anyone using these currencies for commerce? People use dollars for commerce, and no one invests in dollars unless they live in a country with hyperinflation. So if it's commerce, how is buying the currency a form of in
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by itamarst 9y ago
That's not investing, that's gambling. Rate of return on paying down credit card debt is 19-30%, which is really good rate of return. And zero risk! So just pay down your debt as much as you can.
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by itamarst 9y ago
There's tools like https://github.com/jakerella/jquery-mockjax - depending on libraries you're using you'll want to use a different one. Basic term is "mock" or "fake". Just be carefu
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by itamarst 9y ago
Notice the whole conversation in point 2 isn't about the user, or the business, or any goals . It's about "software quality" in the abstract, with no reference to the real world situation. This is why I think the idea o
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by itamarst 9y ago
There's an event loop underneath, even if it's not directly exposed.
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by itamarst 9y ago
1. Python 2 is EOL in 2020, don't use it for new projects. 2. async/await it just an API layer on top of a framework. Thus there is no such thing as raw async/await, it has to be used with a framework of some sort (e.g. Pytho
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by itamarst 9y ago
Kinesis Advantage helped me get over RSI ( https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/11/18/rsi-solution/); my hands hurt when I don't use it, probably because I'm an Emacs user with small hands so I str
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by itamarst 9y ago
Have you seen "Hammock-Driven Development"? It's a great talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
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by itamarst 9y ago
It sounds like you've already answered your question :)
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by itamarst 9y ago
1. Interfaces allow swapping out objects. 2. Mocking is a bad idea even in languages that support it well. A better approach, when you do need to deal with fakes, is verified fakes: write two versions of an interface, and a test suite for t
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And by "investments" you mean "worthless and fraudulent garbage", if we're talking about ICOs. Honestly garbage is probably worth more, might be recyclable or compostable. More broadly, there's a whole set of f
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by itamarst 9y ago
Might want to go find some scientists and ask them.
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by itamarst 9y ago
Socialized medicine is a government service, I guess. I miss that.
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by itamarst 9y ago
Research is a pretty good way to know if your idea is worth pursuing. In my case: 1. Read one of top-voted comments on CS Career Questions sub-reddit in past year. 2. Write blog post on topic, get to #1 on Hacker News. 3. Write intro to boo

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