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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yeah thats the same argument for movies being shorter as well. Thats why a lot of movies have crept down to 80-90 mins. It allows theaters to fit a whole extra showing into the day, which means more box office revenue. Only the big hits are
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I think the argument is that they already have spotify downloaded and are probably already using it. So why NOT use it? Why bother with a dedicated app? Spotify is also probably more feature-filled than the average crap app thrown on the ap
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by jacurtis 3y ago
So it is actually a little different than what is noted above. I actually was told this directly from the mouth of someone who worked on this project. I don't believe it is that secret. But this is how it works. The Captcha presents yo
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yeah most self-help books start off as viral articles, popular newspaper editorals, or conference talks, and publishers will then approach the creators of these ideas and ask them to write a book about it. The formula is simple, the idea yo
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> I would argue to start with writing the basic SQL queries and adding an ORM later when you know you actually need it. I think you missed the point of the parent comment, which is that ORM's are not about writing SQL queries (altho
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by jacurtis 3y ago
To OP: What is your experience (YOE) and specialty (web, AI, data science, ops/sre, backend, etc)? I think that makes a huge difference. From my observation, there is plenty of demand in AI/ML and Data Science. But fields like web
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I'd argue that your original approach is actually better than your new approach. Using a list comprehension, such as your original approach, is pretty easily understood by anyone writing python and is easy to follow, it is also quite t
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> The article's main point is that you can change the story, but the actual example he gives is a change in the facts Not really. The facts didn't change. The fact still remains that both these individuals collided their cars t
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by jacurtis 3y ago
There are a lot of shitty people that work for all the big companies (and many of the small ones). Google has 140,000 employees. I'm sure there are hundreds of assholes among that group. Microsoft has 220,000 employees, so they probabl
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I agree, this is a common narrative, that does a disservice for people that actually are consumed by the disease in the expected timeframe as if they weren't willing to fight it with sheer will. I knew a guy who was diagnosed with stom
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Its because those people aren't working, so they have time to write articles at how to be better at the stuff they don't actually do. The rest of us that are already good at X, don't have the time or energy to write articles
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> I have never met an I.T. manager whose LinkedIn profile was remotely close to reality. I really wish there was a way to flag false information in someone's profile. I had a guy last year that we fired for substantial cause. He was
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the
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by jacurtis 3y ago
On the website it says that if you only want to host, you don't need to pay the membership fee. So the fee is really only if you want to be a guest. But then you need to host to earn credits to be a guest.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I love paying $100 annually to get something "for free". Jokes aside, I think this concept is cool and I'm not even upset that there is a membership fee to keep people engaged and to support the software component that coordi
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> But for the other 85+% of people in the profession its basically a game of AdLibs This is so true. I work at a fairly small organization (~35 devs). Large enough to see roles form but small enough that I can tangibly see everyone'
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I don't know why the UCI doesn't just have a women's event alongside the men's event each day. In motorsports (like the "24 hours of Le Mans" for example), we see organizers running multiple races at the same t
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Cycling is very sexist. But to play devils advocate: There has been a women's Tour de France for a while. It existed between 1984 and 2009. It struggled financially that whole time and was never profitable to the UCI. They canceled it
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by jacurtis 3y ago
That was true up until the last couple seasons (around 2020). As of today, it is finally easily available cheaply via streaming. - Peacock TV streaming service which is $5 a month (I got a $20 annual plan deal a few weeks before TdF) - GCN+
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Cool.... This is the type of feature / partnership you build in year 5, not pre-launch. Wouldn't it be better to focus on features and scalability needed for opening up the network to more users to build the network beyond a beta
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by jacurtis 3y ago
To be fair to AWS, their documentation has improved dramatically the past 24 months or so. Not perfect, but the difference between 2019 and 2023 is dramatic. Also, I'd argue that it is very easy to be worse than AWS's own docs. A
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by jacurtis 3y ago
This to me is why I don't use ChatGPT. Every time I use it I get answers that are questionable in validity. I'd say that 3/4 of my questions have returned incorrect answers at least partially. Maybe 10% are wildly incorrect w
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by jacurtis 3y ago
For that matter, using an access-key or secret-key at all is basically an anti-pattern now. In the past few months AWS has added to their UI a popup box that asks you why you are creating access keys, it makes you answer it before generatin
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by jacurtis 3y ago
A lot of stuff in AWS has changed since Q3 2021.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I really love what you said, and this is why I did it too. The journey is long and hard and there are a ton of bumps along the way to complain about. But the overall journey is worthwhile. I think it is similar to marriage. If you meet some
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> I loved grad classes and research but I hated Academia Truer words have never been spoken. I went back to get a PhD after a solid career where I was in a prominent leadership position at a respectable tech company (in my mid-thirties).
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by jacurtis 3y ago
In academia, your Resume/CV is basically a list of what you have published. Even if you are an awesome teacher, you are going to be required to continue publishing a minimum amount every few years and you will be hired based on what yo
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I think this depends on the field. For example in CS, my advisor straight up told me multiple times to stop worry about class work. His exact statement is that "There isn't anything more that you will learn in classes that you won
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I have a clipboard manager application called "Paste" (creative i know). Its an awesome app for a million reasons. But one thing I like is that it allows me to see and hear when my iphone copy worked. So I have it enabled so there
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> There's no reason a 1/2 ton pickup should be bigger than a 1994 Ford F150 It is funny that we still call trucks like the F150, Ram 1500, Silverado 1500, etc as 1/2 ton pickups. Even though they are still officially categ

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