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by jerzyt 6y ago
I'm on a Dell Precision M6400 - it's 12 years old. When it came out it was a $3,000 laptop. I bought mine for about half of that on a fire sale a year later. Still love it, although I do have a 10 year younger ThinkPad, I prefe
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Yup. The author made a poll of fellow FB employees. As if that is even remotely representative of the overall market of the 25 to 44 year olds. Just consider the average salary of the polled population vs the general population.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
As interesting as it is, I'm really curious how this list was compiled. Was it just a manual process, or was it done with some FFT? As a side note, I'm glad Madonna didn't make the list.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
One of the funniest cases I know of is actually a reverse case. A French/Russian caricaturist, Emmanuel Poiré, published his work under the name Caran d'Ache, which is a french transliteration of the word карандаш which means pen
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by jerzyt 6y ago
My pants don't have big enough pockets to carry enough change given the parking rates in California.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I would've loved to be a fly on the wall in that meeting.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
There's no greener grass on the other side. I've been in the big consulting business, and sometimes you can't get a client to schedule a meeting for months, so you're flying blind, with absolutely no feedback. And then w
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by jerzyt 6y ago
This is a great write-up. This is real life. And then you get a corporate dude berate everyone and ask: what are you doing to make sure that it never happens again? And I always want to respond that "I can guarantee that the same thin
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I don't think there's anything 'gotcha' about the question. If you understand that git uses SHA1 for the objects it stores, the answer is pretty obvious. If you don't, you really don't know git.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
That is so true. A lot of people use git as write only repository. Still better than nothing, or copying directories. Maybe at some point they'll figure out how to retrieve a previous version.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. The fundamental design it's absolutely brilliant. The UI does take some getting used to. I frequently use Git as an interview question, but only when the candidate lists Git among the skill set. Specifical
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by jerzyt 6y ago
You are so right about Atlassian tools. I cannot stand Jira. Very often, it's easier and faster to fix a bug, then to update the status in Jira. It's clutterware.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I really like that. I've seen code so full of trivial unit tests, yet no integration or regression testing. A good unit test should be written with the mindset of a hacker - how can I break it - rather than just a few assertions. It&
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Another vote for Ian Stewart's book, or any other of his books. I discovered them at the end of high school and devoured them during the summer before college. Did I just admit I was a nerd? Tough. I'm proud of it.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I haven't used SQLite until a few weeks ago because I've always had an Oracle or Postgres running and it was an easy choice. Recently, I needed a self contained solution for a Python project, and I wanted the SQL support with min
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Sort of a brilliant engineering solution to a non-existent problem. Or a very niche problem to say the least. Mall or airport security certainly fits the niche, but difficult to scale beyond these examples.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Innumeracy on display.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Exactly. And each one of these companies had built the business around a key idea. I interview a lot of candidates for data scientists, and one of my favorite questions is what makes one of these companies what they are.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Compressed air is definitely cheaper than any other gas you could use, but you can't liquefy air at room temperature, at least not reasonably. As result, a can of compressed air would have very low capacity compared to a gas which can
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by jerzyt 6y ago
If the terms master/slave are so offensive is the actual slavery also offensive to you? If it is, what are you doing to stop the slave trade in Libya? If nothing, then all you're doing is empty virtue signaling.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Pretty much any book by W. Richard Stevens, but in particular Unix Network Programming, which made a cameo appearance in Wayne's World. Intro to Statistical Learning by Hastie, Tibshirani, James and Witten: https://www.amazo
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Thank you sooo much!!!
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by jerzyt 6y ago
You beat me to it!
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by jerzyt 6y ago
What should I do now with my Masters degree?
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I've been using vim for 20+ years and have never been into extensive customizations. That was part of the attraction, because I had to deal with a lot of remote servers, often off-shore. With out-of-the box vi/vim I could get th
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Production logging with accurate and precise timestamp is an absolute time saver. That means like 1ms timestamp and NNTP synchronized servers.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I agree. After criticizing print statements, more than half of the article discusses logging, which is a little more organized print. And I'm not disagreeing - it's invaluable in production systems. I wish there was more to how
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I highly recommend the MIT Missing Semester Course. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ It's a glue which is not covered anywhere specifically, but it'll make your life a lot easier.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Git is art. All programming is a solution to a problem. Some of the problems are very pedestrian and the solution is very boring. There have been many version control systems before Git. I remember using SCCS, RCS, CVS, ClearCase and fina
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by jerzyt 6y ago
In the late 90's, I had Solaris running on my Toshiba laptop. I loved it. It was a great OS and development platform. At some point it became too difficult to keep up with software upgrades, otherwise, I'd still be using it.

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