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by jkbyc 11y ago
>> What if standups are misused for micromanagement? > Then fix it. That's easier said than done. It assumes that the micromanager has enough self-awareness and listening skills. If he had, maybe he wouldn't be a microman
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by jkbyc 11y ago
What if your work consists largely of research and experimentation? No tasks or stories, mostly many long spikes. What if research and experimentation happens over a period of time and only later there is a period of focused prototype devel
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by jkbyc 11y ago
Aphyr's dissection: https://aphyr.com/posts/292-call-me-maybe-nuodb
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Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 1 (2013)(infoq.com)
1 points by jkbyc 11y ago|1 comments
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U.S. Has a Chief Data Scientist(medium.com)
2 points by jkbyc 11y ago|0 comments
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by jkbyc 11y ago
I believe the OP's point is that the demand is for applied statisticians and not for AI experts (in the sense exactly as defined by you).
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by jkbyc 12y ago
A year ago I asked about real-world use cases for Prolog, there were a couple of interesting ones: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Examples-current-realworld-u... People might not be aware that the JVM (Java Virtual Ma
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by jkbyc 12y ago
When there's lack of objective direct information, the evidence of adoption or "churn" might be a good substitute: http://www.quora.com/Is-LinkedIn-getting-rid-of-Scala Of course, it's difficult to judge
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Can all books be found somewhere within the number Pi?(jakubkotowski.com)
31 points by jkbyc 12y ago|29 comments
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by jkbyc 12y ago
My linear algebra professor insisted that we, as computer science graduates, know and can reproduce most if not all the proofs of the theorems presented in the class. He didn't have such demands for math majors. His point was that we a
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What I’ve learned after 10 years of quantifying myself(medium.com)
6 points by jkbyc 12y ago|1 comments
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A card game called Exploding Kittens just made Kickstarter history(venturebeat.com)
3 points by jkbyc 12y ago|0 comments
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Ars UK is looking for writers and reporters(arstechnica.com)
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by jkbyc 12y ago
I sometimes use it to do parallel greps on large files: zcat large_file.gz | tee >(grep -F pattern1 > pattern1_results.txt) >(grep -F pattern2 > pattern2_results.txt) > /dev/null If you stick _pv_ between zca
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by jkbyc 12y ago
$ echo "Process substitution is fun" | tee >(rev) Process substitution is fun nuf si noitutitsbus ssecorP
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by jkbyc 12y ago
tattoos can be a problem, right?
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by jkbyc 12y ago
There might be. One financial sage gave the following example: buy nickles. Currently, the value of the material is ~30%(?) higher than the nominal value of the coin. Therefore at some point in future the government will have to switch to a
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by jkbyc 12y ago
another article about Scott Aaronson's comment 171: http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/on-nerd-entitlement... and the related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809982
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by jkbyc 12y ago
Scott Aaronson's response: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2119
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by jkbyc 12y ago
Learn about positioning (market segmentation, differentiation). Think about what clients want, resp. what your ideal client would see as ideal service. Do they care about how good/pretty your designs are? Or maybe do they care about ma
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MIT professor explains: The real oppression is having to learn to talk to women(rawstory.com)
6 points by jkbyc 12y ago|3 comments
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by jkbyc 12y ago
Check out The Reference Frame blog if you want to read more (and more in-depth) about naturalness. For example: http://motls.blogspot.cz/2012/07/diphoton-higgs-enhancement-... http://motls.blogspot.cz&#
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by jkbyc 12y ago
I can't speak for myself (yet) but some successful bloggers such as Ramit Sethi or Derek Halpern recommend spending even 50% or more time promoting the content you write. But that's of course only one part of the whole equation. O
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Quantum Mechanics and the Geometry of Spacetime – Talk by Maldacena at NYU(youtube.com)
1 points by jkbyc 12y ago|0 comments
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Paradise Lost: The Hippie Refugee Camp(messynessychic.com)
5 points by jkbyc 12y ago|1 comments
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by jkbyc 12y ago
I can confirm. I discovered this fact very quickly when I was looking for a flat in Munich in 2009. Almost no replies to emails, I got a pretty good response rate when I called or texted the people. I spoke some German so getting a viewing
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Campaign to create eye tracking software for disabled musicians(indiegogo.com)
1 points by jkbyc 12y ago|0 comments
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by jkbyc 12y ago
Which language have you moved to?
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by jkbyc 12y ago
Well, I never was much concerned about UI/desktop visions and philosophies. Maybe I am missing out on something, I don't know. I like that Gnome Shell goes pretty much out of my way most of the time and works for me without tweaki
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by jkbyc 12y ago
Alt-Tab works perfectly fine for me in Gnome Shell (I was initially annoyed by Alt+` to switch windows within a program group but now I find it useful). I find the app overview also clear and very usable. And it's nice that it's J

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