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by jerzyt 6y ago
Wow, how is a Nigerian Princess supposed to make an honest living?
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by jerzyt 6y ago
800 columns in an OLTP is insane, that was my reaction when I read the OP. But in analytics it's not so unusual, although at that point a SQL DB is probably not the right solution anyway, and the data scientists probably do need all t
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by jerzyt 6y ago
While SELECT * has no place in a production code, it's the right thing to do during data exploration with ad hoc queries. Only after I get sufficient understanding of the data, I'll restrict the columns. I often see junior deve
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I'll be happy to read the citations from the source.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
>>> They need to just pick a side and run with it. So you don't care about objective journalism?
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by jerzyt 6y ago
But, if you believe the person reporting from personal experience, and the newspaper reports something diametrically opposite, that should raise a question.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I will not recognize NYT as a newspaper of record until it deals with the Walter Duranty issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I'd pay money to be a passenger on the maiden voyage. They should definitely include a few passenger cabins, as many freighters have. I have never been on a cruise - has zero appeal to me, but this would be awesome. I'd like to s
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by jerzyt 6y ago
If I skip a song ten times, do you really need to evaluate my emotions to not feed it to me again? KISS?
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by jerzyt 6y ago
What is absolutely mind blowing to me is that when I was in college, in my crystallography class, we were inferring the crystal structure through the X-ray diffraction. Now we can observe it directly. I took the crystallography class in l
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Not exactly a joke, but it could be a marketing slogan for many companies today: "AI or Die"
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by jerzyt 6y ago
It would be interesting how much power you could generate by having a little outboard propeller driving a small generator. It would decrease the speed of your yacht, but if you're not on a schedule to get anywhere who cares, right? An
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by jerzyt 6y ago
>>> appears effective I'm not knocking the vaccine, but that's a pretty low scientific standard. The public is so polarized that we have crazy conspiracy theories on one side, and complete acceptance with very little ques
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by jerzyt 6y ago
This sets a terrible precedent. If you believe in democracy, you should let the public choose what they want or don't want to hear. Now we have Jack Dorsey controlling the public discourse. If you don't trust the public, you rea
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Thanks for the correction. I just used the DefCon as a catchphrase.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Really? When I worked at one of the Big Four a stolen/lost laptop was DefCon 4, despite all of the security precautions. We were actually required to notify a partner in the firm before contacting law enforcement.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I have been in Taiwan multiple times on business, but all trips came in two distinct time periods: about 1998 and then 2008. Each time I have spent several weeks there - not a two day trip like airport-hotel-client-hotel-airport. I had a
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Exactly. I'd be hesitant to buy a stock of a company that is not self-serving.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Netflix's biggest problem is not the recommendation engine, but their lack of content. If they allowed you to filter out the junk you don't want to see and what you've already seen, there would be hardly anything left. They&
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by jerzyt 6y ago
> The point in the article is that at many generations ago, we are heavily inbred, it is not that we are all related. I'm not following your point - maybe it's just a linguistic thing. To me, inbreeding implies relation, at le
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Disclaimer - the last thing I want to do is to start a religious debate on HN. So, please, don't down-vote me because I'm going to mention Bible here. But I find it interesting that the Individual Ancestors Point is not that far
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Gosh, what a childish behavior from jwz. A very opinionated person, but someone who earned the rights to his opinion through serious accomplishments. Yikes.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Can you cite any sources for this? And, the fact that a project didn't complete on time and within budget does not mean that is unprofitable for the rest of its lifetime.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I'd agree with this if the diploma had an indication which bucket the degree came from. When I need a brain surgeon, I'd like to know if he/she got the degree on merit or connections.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
What's shocking is that this caste system is being continued in the US. US is oblivious to this system, very few people have any understanding of this, yet it affects success in the corporate world. Obviously, there's enough Ind
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by jerzyt 6y ago
My pet peeve is with retailers which force you to register before even being able to browse their virtual store. They will never get my business. I wonder if the CEOs of these companies have any idea how much business they're driving
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by jerzyt 6y ago
You're making a very good point. Switching to metric system is much more difficult. On the other hand we go through the drill of moving the clock one hour twice a year, sometimes even more if an international travel catches up with yo
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Dennis Praeger likes to spell his name as: P as pneumatic...
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I once drove from Sacramento to Sugar Bowl ski resort on the I80. Actually I ended in Sugar Bowl, because it was before GPS and all signs along I80 were buried in snow.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I would agree that someone who drives for Uber about 40 hours a week is effectively an employee, however it leaves out a lot of drivers who only want to offer certain rides at certain time. For example, if every weekend I drive to my vacati

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