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by jerzyt 6y ago
I'm surprised that tidal energy is not yet a big player. The amount of potential energy is massive, and it's very reliable, unless the moon falls of its orbit.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
One party is fixated on voter id fraud and ignores the cyber security, the other party i fixated on cyber security and ignores voter id fraud. Both are significant issues which we should be addressing. An accurate election results should b
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I think that Jira killed Agile. It's such an overhead on the Agile process. Engineers spend more time documenting stuff in Jira than actually solving problems.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I think zsh is the best shell ever, unfortunately, I've reverted to bash, because it's too much hassle to install zsh everywhere I work. zsh globbing is on another level.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
You could say that. I'm from Poland, so compared to Soviet Union it was communist-lite. I had a brilliant math teacher in high school. He had the reputation that if he was your math teacher you were automatically accepted at the loc
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Being taught is not really what's taking place. It's more like here's the task, for example the LSVT dataset from UCI - go and build a classifier. Obviously, pandas is a workhorse, and pytorch is also on the horizon. But, in
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I agree that if you have a background in a common programming language, R is not intuitive. I know it from personal experience. However, for someone with no programming background, R may be quite reasonable. Just judging by my daughter&#x
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by jerzyt 6y ago
My daughter is in grad school, learning programming for the first time in her life. She's learning R and Python at the same time. She's finding R much more intuitive.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
It maybe too cynical, but I'm fond of the saying that I'm loyal to the company as longs as the paycheck doesn't bounce.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Although there were exceptions. If you got hitched to a high-visibility program, failure was considered a sabotage.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Some of the modern web pages are so obscure you have no idea what to click.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Russia had brilliant mathematicians even before the October revolution, however, the Soviet Union gave another incentive to become an academic - it pretty much guaranteed a highly respected job, even if the salary was modest, but also allow
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Too preposterous, perhaps?
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by jerzyt 6y ago
>>> The Future of Work Is Remote Yes, in the sub-segment of economy where Gitlab is applicable it's true. It's been true for a long time, even before the Covid-19 virus. But for a large segment of the economy it isn&#x27
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by jerzyt 6y ago
That can be another productivity killer. You inherit some app to maintain/modify, and you're afraid to touch it. So you essentially fork the code, start making small tweaks to reassure yourself that you're not breaking anyt
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I see the same on a micro-scale. I have a task that will take an hour of concentrated effort - I'm afraid to start because I know I'll be interrupted. But it accumulates.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
>>> Presuming that SF is representative for the US, then IMO: tap water, milk, butter, bread and cheese in the US isn't that great. For one, SF is NOT representative of the US. In fact, one of the best places food-wise. How
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by jerzyt 6y ago
You raise a very good question. Unlike C14 dating, where the halflife is independent of environmental conditions, DNA is a chemical molecule, whose decomposition is a chemical reaction, dependent on exposure to time, temperature, pressure,
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I have a second home in the mountains surrounding LA, and it's such a joy to go out there for a few days. I love driving the curvy mountain roads. It's just exhilarating. Nowadays, with the Covid-19 quarantine, I'm taking
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by jerzyt 6y ago
>>> In my current job I write Python, which I really don't like very much and I get burned out on Python-specific things. I've used Ruby for several years, and I love the language. I wish I could use it today, in my dai
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by jerzyt 6y ago
Are you stuck in the rut of doing corporate cruft? I'm there, and it's unbearably boring. I'm finding inspiration in personal projects. Currently I'm investigating the effect of gerrymandering in the House elections.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
The bubble chart is possibly the worst visualizations, in close competition with the abominable word cloud. Yes, they are visually attractive, but so much more difficult to interpret than a trivial Pareto/bar chart.
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I really like problem solving and estimation questions during interviews, and I favor them over coding skills, etc. A question that I frequently use is how long would it take to evacuate a city like Phoenix, if there was a 24 hour warning t
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by jerzyt 6y ago
I completely agree about the unit test point. I'm not arguing that it's useless - quite the opposite. But it's damn hard to write useful unit tests. I've seen a case where an internal IT team took ownership of code I d
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by jerzyt 7y ago
I'm concerned about safety not from the engineering side (although not dismissing it), but from the standpoint of an easy access to sufficiently large amount of radioactive material to build a dirty nuke. As the nuclear plants get sma
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by jerzyt 7y ago
What is far more scary than the old stuff our government is running in COBOL, is the new stuff running in Excel. Excel became a de facto Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL), accessibly to anybody. Old COBOL programs were still develo
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by jerzyt 7y ago
First time I saw one of these, I started laughing. I don't have a webcam. It's hard to believe but people have actually paid the ransom. I seem to remember a post on HN matched some Bitcoin transactions by time and amount.
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by jerzyt 7y ago
Great read. A lot hard earned wisdom!
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by jerzyt 7y ago
I completely don't understand interviewers who like to haze the candidates. When I interview a candidate, I'm rooting for him or her. My employer has already invested time and money in the candidate, I have invested the time to
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by jerzyt 7y ago
Does that mean that someone is getting $1500 because their pizza arrived cold? I hope not.

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