jimmyvalmer

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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Basic understanding of statistics informs us that aggregate results do not predict individual outcomes. Actually, that's precisely what it does.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Wait... we're not all bots?
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I guess your university math class didn't cover Bayesian likelihood.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
High school students generally can take classes at universities Guy fails high school math, but yes, have him ditch school, drive his mom's car to a university and audit college calculus.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
By this I mean something similar to a trade school There's nothing more similar to a trade school than... a trade school.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Horoscopes sometimes work.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Just because we use [discrete, not continuous] math doesn’t mean we’re not doing engineering Yes, it does. The analog-digital divide makes engineering that much harder than programming where 1's remain 1's and 0's remain 0
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
actually "doctor" comes from the latin "to teach" There's only one robust doctor test and it doesn't involve etymology. If someone else's mother refers to you as such, then you're a doctor.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Emacs, for the reason Churchill preferred democracy.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
you will outperform me... on almost any physical activity Well, every activity except that one, which, if your idle question is any indication, you appear to do furiously.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
go read emacs-devel to find out where the focus is. If by focus you mean distilled yak shaving, then emacs-devel is the place to be. Emacs is going nowhere because elisp makes it too easy to work on the plugins relative to the C core whi
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
> You can do research on your own, without the costs of a PhD. You can, but not if you want to get paid. A PhD is still the union card for research scientists.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I attempted something similar and I lasted about a day before it dawned upon me that an MS was really what I was after. A PhD is really a young person's game. Just as you don't attend conservatory later in life to become a perfo
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
nnhackernews only shows new comments for the tiny fraction of threads you've read (and hides everything else). It won't notify you of your upvotes however, which is what most people are after. Only manually refreshing "news.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
by getting a safe, highly effective vaccine that would protect him Well, that's exactly what my poisoner would say about a purported antidote (disclaimer: I am vaccinated). As the top player... has a responsibility to be a good amba
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
He tried handing punters a playing card Dunno why the author had to denigrate the diners like that.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
How do you encourage your son to learn programming Unnecessary. A nine-year-old boy is as likely to refuse influence over Roblox as a junkie would heroin.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Given its loosy-goosiness and ubiquity in gaming (Roblox), Lua is the inarguable answer.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
why hire you over a younger graduate? Instead of bristling, start by coming up with a good answer for this. We ask because younger people don't go off about ageism the way you do. They raise other problems however, chiefly inexperien
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
No, that's an easy one.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Going back to "pass the biscuits pappy" and beyond, lowbrow salesmen have employed politics as the highest-risk-highest-reward advertising channel, the biggest risk being you just might win an election.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
A 50% raise is extreme. Realize the company hired you because you're a "cheap date." To become otherwise, you'd need to demonstrate the cost of losing you exceeds 1.5x your compensation. Easier said than done, of cour
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
The older I am, the less I think so. Yes, the younger you was naturally more appreciative of the technological advances that allowed him to live as long as the older you has.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
This is the right attitude for staying off the promotions list, and staying on the layoffs list.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. Office Space, 1999
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I hear you, but that approach, while delightfully mindless, would never have pushed human civilization beyond subsistence farming.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Agree: a 32-hour week is not nearly enough time to write software. Agree: interspersed talking and coding for eight hours pales in yield to coding for 4 hours with no talking. The problem is clients and their wranglers need the talking to j
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
The lengthy and pointless verbalizing of the above is a good example of what we're up against.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
tldr; test your junk on old browsers.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
No more "malicious" than raising a price.

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