jfaucett

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STRML Projects and Work(strml.net)
1 points by jfaucett 10y ago|0 comments
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Its rare that you come across a unique personal pitch tactic with this much selling power and focus. For me, this was one of those rare occasions where it actually happened. This guy seems very good at what he does.
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by jfaucett 10y ago
mainly because the CLs aren't clojure i.e. AFAIK don't use persistent data structures, and don't focus on robust concurrency primitives, don't have STM, etc... But if there is a CL out there that does all that I'd g
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Clojure is interesting in a lot of ways. I've toyed with it a lot, but what actually keeps me from using it much is how tightly coupled it is with the JVM. I know this is its big selling point for a lot of people but for me personally
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by jfaucett 10y ago
I've just started working on a graphql project now and from the frontend perspective its phenomenally better than a rest api. The backend side of things is also pretty simple so I'm really enjoying it. With Rest APIs there's
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Database Design with UML and SQL(tomjewett.com)
2 points by jfaucett 10y ago|0 comments
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by jfaucett 10y ago
I studied literature in college and am a completely self taught mathematician. You're right about quality textbooks and topics not geared to beginners, but at the same time since I got through learning all the basics (analysis, linear
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Very true. Early in my career I made the mistake of viewing a salary in terms of what it would be like in my rural area to earn that amount, which was a big mistake. It turned out I should have demanded at least double due to the significan
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by jfaucett 10y ago
I agree with a lot of your sentiment. But there's still nothing stopping you from writing ES5 or even ES3 and just ignoring ES6. Thats what we do and it works great for us. And we build extremely high end interactive apps using virtua
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Elixir. Why? Because it has tooling that is up to the high standards you're used to using in Ruby and Rails. It has a great ecosystem, package manager, and build tooling. The documentation is fantastic and filled with examples. It also
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by jfaucett 10y ago
> You're the CEO of Y Combinator. When you tell a New York Times reporter that Donald Trump is "the Silicon Valley President", > What the hell is the matter with you? You're completely overreacting to this and misr
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Honestly, I think IEEE 754 floating point numbers are a pretty bad way of dealing with real numbers and just cause tons of headaches that every math library has to deal with. Even high level programmers aren't shielded from the NaN non
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by jfaucett 10y ago
much of O. Henry, "The gift of the Magi", and "The Last Leaf" are really good. Also virtually anything by Borges, "The Library of Babel" is a nice place to start.
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by jfaucett 10y ago
What is the point of diversity? You're just drawing arbitrary lines based on skin color or gender or sexual orientation. If you drew those lines somewhere else say, favorite color/food, political affiliation, mathematical abilitie
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by jfaucett 10y ago
I've been doing a lot of rust lately and I have to say it blows c/c++ out of the water. Sure, c/c++ has more libs, but almost every other feature in rust is fantastic, and wrapping a clib via ffi is really easy in rust. My on
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by jfaucett 10y ago
I don't think this is age dependent. I prefer books to videos for learning programming stuff and I'm in my late 20s. The book/ebook gives me time to review/parse/think about what the code is doing. I can also procee
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by jfaucett 10y ago
I usually do this: 1. Have a subject I want to learn say Game Theory 2. Google phrases such as "Best Game Theory books/textbooks". 3. Collect the links and bookmark them. 4. Look up the best ones on amazon, read some reviews,
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Yes it does. Increased productivity means more tax revenue for government programs, cheaper consumer products and improvement in living standards globally across the population. Its like giving your entire economy an +offset which shifts yo
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by jfaucett 10y ago
I'd say for about 95% of it yes. Other fields can be useful, Graph Theory for instance when you are analyzing graphs i.e networks and stuff, and complexity theory when you are analyzing and comparing different algorithm implementations
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Good question. I've been teaching myself the requisite maths for about a year and a half now and am finally getting where I can understand/apply most ML papers and ideas. I don't know what level you're at right now, I wa
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The Best Square Root Method Algorithm(codeproject.com)
3 points by jfaucett 10y ago|3 comments
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by jfaucett 10y ago
You are calling my assertions lies, when you aren't citing anything to back up any of your assertions. That's not very civil debate and won't get us anywhere. > This is a lie. The Treaty of Rome of 1957(!) .... The treaty
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by jfaucett 10y ago
> There is a reason the EU is a thing. The problem with the EU is that they now have the goal of becoming the United States of Europe and eliminating national soverignty in most senses of the word. [1] This isn't good or bad just ma
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by jfaucett 10y ago
When did you have that? When we tried Netflix it simply wasnt accessible outside the country.
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by jfaucett 10y ago
This is huge. This is the reason why my wife and I ditched Netflix and other streaming services we've tried. I'm guessing a lot of Europeans are like us, spend significant time living and working in other countries or at least hav
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by jfaucett 10y ago
When will people realize that increased productivity is what makes society better to live in and not jobs. If all you needed were jobs then every country in the world would have no excuse for low living standards - they'd just need to
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by jfaucett 10y ago
> Do cable companies in the US have any competition? No they do not. Yet, this is due to government regulation. If you'd like to read about the historical development of cable regulation this article provides a decent summary: http
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by jfaucett 10y ago
> I hope you like the results. They probably will. If the economic study of the history of regulations has taught me anything its that deregulation coupled with stable governmental institutions has over the longterm, always led to bette
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by jfaucett 10y ago
"While we succeeded creatively, the advertisement showed a disappointing return on investment ($0), and we are now going out of business." So cards against humanity is going bankrupt because of a failed Super Bowl ad? This whole a
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by jfaucett 10y ago
True for most, but points b and g seem to be much more recent concerns, especially with the billowing national debt.

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