jinfiesto

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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I've always thought that if I homeschooled I would take a "one course at a time" approach. I think you're mistakenly assuming the point of public school is to educate. I think it exists more so the proles have somewhere
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
Hahaha, occasionally I do too. It's amusing how much entertainment she seems to get out of it though.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
Monoids aren't just relevant to cryptography. Any structure with an associative "+" operator forms a monoid (technically semi-group, but whatevs.) Lists are a prime example.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
To extend the "functional structures" comment, monoids are literally everywhere in software.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
It's also bad.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I occasionally have my 1 year old with me on calls. Besides the occasional burbling, the only issue is that she occasionally farts or burps and then cackles loudly to herself. I wouldn't have her with me on large calls, generally only
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I think basically unlimited borrowing has a lot to do with this.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
Lots of instructors assign from books without reproducing the problems for students without books. Hence, it's typically required to have a book for a class. US University libraries will typically have copies of all textbooks used in a
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
Artistic people? I majored in piano performance (full-tuition scholarship for it) and have been employed as a developer for almost ten years. I don't think my situation is all that unusual.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
It's horrifying. I can't even imagine what it's like to have to confront your own mortality at such a young age. Especially without the love and support of a caring family.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
This. The idea that small societies behave differently than large ones seems inherently obvious to me. Then extrapolating the proposed optimal behavior of small societies (not that I think that the advocated behavior is even correct) to lar
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
Pianist, though if I'm being honest, I'll never be good enough to be A-list. Which is why I'm a developer.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
This was a bad industry in which to pilot this. There are obviously hard time requirements in terms of when such a facility has to be staffed. Obviously, cutting everone's hours means that other people will have to be hired to pick up
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I don't understand why this is down-voted. This is probably pretty perplexing to the lay-person. When a mathematician writes "relatively little mathematical background," what that constitutes from their perspective is probabl
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
Many Democrats, myself included thought that particular statement was unnecessarily incendiary. Though, in the bit of text that you quoted, I was mostly referring to the context of this thread. I don't think that there's any doubt
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I don't think it's painting one group as a whole at all. No one is suggesting that all or most Trump supporters are racist. Only that many alt-right figure heads are. It's not a heavy claim. With Steve Bannon being appointed
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I'm not sure why the above is down-voted. There's a litany of evidence to suggest that this is actually true.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
Wtf? Why would anyone not take this bet? Even if you didn't think Trump was going to win (I didn't) this is obviously absurd EV.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I guess I'm committed to wearing long sleeves now. Though seriously, I don't think anyone can argue that Trump doesn't fall squarely in the "Authoritarian" camp. Also, the parent doesn't even mention that Trump
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I've used react personally and like it rather well. I think it's much better than Angular, but I still don't think that Angular represents the 9th circle of hell, as seems to be implied above.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
Angular front-end, C# "middleware" to Java services layer. I was actually guessing when I tossed off 500k. I went and looked and it's actually closer to 250. Still pretty big though.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
Oh totally agree. There are some really nasty bugs we've had to deal with because of the lack of strictly controlled data flow. Still not all that bad.
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
Continuing the example, I'd say that at the non top-tier level it's pretty important to have a degree if you want to make more than 60k a year. It's really hard to justify charging more than 20$ an hour to parents of prospect
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I'm skeptical of not allowing loans for degrees that don't lead to jobs. The fact that a statistical argument can be made, like "Only 30% of music majors have jobs out of school" totally obscures the fact that there are
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I work on a large (500000+ lines) of Angular daily. Maybe this represents some sort of Stockholm syndrome, but it's really not that bad?
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
I generally agree with the statement that "piracy" is usually about market failure, but it seems to be pretty clearly about money here. Someone stole and edited that content and was subsequently selling it elsewhere...
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Paul Lockhart was also self-taught. If I recall correctly, he met Ernst Strauss at some point, who introduced him to Erdos who then somehow managed to get him admitted to the graduate program at UCLA (he dropped ou
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by jinfiesto 10y ago
AFAIK, the main issue is that we don't know how to cultivate very many kinds of bacteria (relative to the number of species there are.) Since antibiotics are a by-product of bacteria, the number of antibiotics we can effectively produc
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by jinfiesto 11y ago
From the initial setup you have a 1/3 chance of choosing the correct door and a 2/3 chance of choosing the wrong door. The key to this problem is the behavior of the game host as he will never reveal the door with the car. So, aft
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by jinfiesto 11y ago
I'm not entirely sure that this is due to philosophical differences. The fact that Haskell is lazily evaluated makes writing functions that do only one thing much easier, since there is no performance hit for writing code like: tak

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