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by jfaucett 9y ago
> I've been doing Rails development for ~10 years... I'm a long time Rails dev as well. IMHO the main problem with the Ruby ecosystem is that the libraries haven't moved on into the current day and age. I find myself build
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> Don't forget, most Europeans also speak English. Just pointing out that's not true. The number is around 38% who have a working knowledge, second place is tied with German and French at 14% [1]. 1. https://en.wikip
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by jfaucett 9y ago
yes, I would recommend "Algebra 2" published by McGraw-Hill ( https://www.amazon.com/Glencoe-Algebra-2-McGraw-Hill-Educati... ). I actually had to start there myself, now those many years ago :). Best of luck!
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I've done exactly what you are talking about, so I think I have some insight that might be helpful. For me, the biggest aid was finding good books, ones with exercises and that explained the material very well. Then it was just a matte
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by jfaucett 9y ago
This is definitely being taken into account. For a quick summary see: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-mu...
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Well,I think the picture is still much more in favor of nuclear than you seem to suggest although I'd agree renewables have gotten a lot better, though less so on their environmental impact (just having solar panels on land kills natur
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Please note though that the "forever" timescale becomes harmless for all intents and purposes relatively quickly. So IMHO and I don't really know the cause, this conception we have of nuclear is a really uninformed one. See:
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Think of it this way. You are not in the office with the team. You need to actively do as much as possible so no one notices this. This means reading other peoples commits and PRs just to know what everyone is doing. If you had been in the
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by jfaucett 9y ago
What many people is this thread don't realize is that nuclear is by far the cleanest form of energy for the environment. It has no intermittancy problems like Wind and Solar. The process of building nuclear is extremely clean compared
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I'm a Freelancer and work a lot of remote projects. Here's the most important skills. 1. Clear communicator. Get in front of and clarify issues so you dont waste anyones time. 2. You get things done on your own. You dont waste tim
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Yea I phrased it oddly, but you basically answered it. Thanks for the great product though. > But more than any one individual it is more a collaboration between 1900 contributors On this line, as someone who has participated in building
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by jfaucett 9y ago
man Gitlab continues slaying it here! The acquisition of Gemnasium is another big boost for their CI pipeline tools which are already fantastic. I love them building out the CI/CD architecture, not just from a user perspective, I think
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> Isn't this book too academical for any practical learning of algorithms and data structures? I don't think so, I've worked through it and I didn't find it that difficult/academic. But I actually don't read
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I know its not an online course and its a relatively massive tome, but I'd recommend just working through "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen/Leiserston/Rivest/Stein [1]. This book has great explanations and
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> Thomas Sowell is a hack, essentially bought by conservative/libertarian interests to give them a less racist appearance. You can disagree with the guy's arguments and ideas but calling him a hack, an Uncle Tom, and bought out
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I couldn't agree more with Pinker's answer to the most underrated author / thinker. Thomas Sowell has extremely unique insights and perspectives to offer on a plethora of topics, I actually learned better ways to think about
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> I see almost no evidence that we are going to deal with climate change in time to avoid a catastrophe. Admittedly it depends on what you mean by catastrophe, but if you mean the extreme interpretation, as often portrayed in the media,
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Really? (warning anecdotes :), When I lived in the south east (Alabama / Georgia), I didn't notice any stifling because I was an atheist. Sure, you had to deal with people's super religious fundamentalist beliefs which got ex
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> When I go to the grocery store, I usually keep a sum of the price in my head while I pick products. That way I'll know if something is off at the counter. I do the same thing, but it does depend on how much I'm shopping. If i
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I program on Linux here's why. 1. Every library known to man exist for Linux and is very easy to install, build from source, hack on, and customize, especially if you know what you are doing. This is comparably easy enough on Mac since
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree with much of the prescription here. I mean it sounds decent, but there are a couple problems. 1. There is immense good that could come from capturing data all the time: Correctly finding criminals, predicting crime
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by jfaucett 9y ago
This article does a good job of , at least in my estimation, summarizing the main factors of Peterson's success. One additional factor I do think is a major reason so many young people find him interesting is because he synthesizes rel
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by jfaucett 9y ago
The only way I see of alleviating some of the problems you mention is by controlling for them and doing further experiments. My experiment was not intended to measure evilness but rather to give an example of a general approach to the probl
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by jfaucett 9y ago
“We’re not just improving the performance of devices,” says Eom. “So, not improving a cell phone, for example — but envisioning an entirely new device made possible by this advance. This is the beginning of an exciting new path.” For someon
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> Do you think you would be able to detect [malicious motivation] by examining their officially stated desires and morality? Insofar as you can define a measurement for malicious intent, you could detect this. The set of measurements you
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> Informed people should be absolutely allergic to the suggestion that someone promoting or opposing a given policy does do because they have malicious intent This. Once you dig into the research, or just have a lot of conversations with
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by jfaucett 9y ago
A little googling shows that this article was complete bogus in its forcasting. (Its dated 2013). For those interested here's some of the amazingly cool stuff that alumni have done / are doing. 1. http://www.businessins
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Not at all. I've done this with my family, friends have done this, and it is definitely not for everyone - especially if you dont like doing all the repairs and renovations yourself all the time. I hated it, and sure after 10-20 years
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You have a couple options. I'll list them in order of increasing risks, and my order of recommendation. 1. You can sell now and cut your rather massive losses - I'm guessing that's around 40-50% of your initial investment bas
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> The hard challenge in embedded is porting to every mcu. Can this be done without convincing mcu companies to do it themselves ? Agreed, but I think long-term its certainly going to be easier doing that on the rust platform with a tool

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