joaodlf

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by joaodlf 10y ago
Small companies can't really offer that many options. Not everyone works for a large company with multiple offices, different room types, etc. The open office is a concept that saves space too. We have a large open plan office and a fe
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by joaodlf 10y ago
I still think this is a dividing topic. I personally enjoy working in an open office. I think I would have a hard time working from home or in a singular office... I need people around me, I like being able to get up and communicate with co
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by joaodlf 10y ago
Yes! Speed is absolutely archaic. Lack of links can explain some of that (ISP monopoly is another one, lack of investment is so much easier when you control everything...). I'm amazed by the response times our users get in AU.
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by joaodlf 10y ago
This is a world wide issue in the free world at this point, but Australia is stuck in the 90's when it comes to the internet. We have some business there and find everything about Australia ridiculous: ISP monopoly; hosting costs; lice
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by joaodlf 10y ago
I'm on the other end. Early last year I switched to OSX. In the past I was heavily into various Linux distros: From Ubuntu, to the more lightweight Xubuntu. Fedora. Elementary. I've played with Gnome and Kde. It is my opinion that
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by joaodlf 10y ago
I wasn't a huge regular, just kinda lurked for most of the time. I remember those forums being absolutely relentless... Definitely one of the far corners of the internet!
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by joaodlf 10y ago
This reminds me, I actually had some contact with the guys behind RWS many years ago, I was a young man and very excited about HTML/CSS and design in general, I ended up designing their forum (it was running on IPB): http://
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by joaodlf 10y ago
This was still a somewhat big issue for me when I was young. I'm in my mid twenties and my parent didn't really believe in tech until very recently (my success in the industry played a role in changing their mind), now they use th
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by joaodlf 10y ago
This looks quite useful, and I think I'll be using it. I'm impressed by it being written in C... Especially because it can also run on the browser! Also, the default storage being Hash Tables. You don't see many modern projec
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by joaodlf 10y ago
Good read!
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by joaodlf 10y ago
If you are familiar with those concepts, I would count that as a big step over what I typically see in "data science". Surely a big step over what a lot of people think data analytics to be. Like yourself, I had quite a bit of con
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by joaodlf 10y ago
I felt the same when our stats were based on simple arithmetics, "sum those revenue figures", "divide that by the total amount of users", "percentage of returning members"... It can easily spiral into, "Pe
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by joaodlf 10y ago
I feel like this happens because Data Science can only work when two professional areas clash and mix: Programming and Maths. The two are very well connected, of course, but the concepts behind the maths of Data Science are much deeper than
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by joaodlf 10y ago
It's not so much the implementation details that worry me. Well, I do get worried if we end up building a vastly complex beast, but what I REALLY worry about is having data available for whatever eventual scenario that might pop up. It
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by joaodlf 10y ago
Warning: I build bizarre stats systems for a living :) I totally get where you are coming from. Right now I'm thinking about a web API that feeds data into Kafka, to be processed (in Python, maybe Go?), stored into Cassandra and later
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by joaodlf 10y ago
There is some sort of hope, Apache Arrow is (in my opinion) a step in the right direction - A common In-Memory data layer for storage and data analysis systems? Yes please. It's important to start thinking about how all these big data
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by joaodlf 10y ago
SHA1 is a hashing algorithm (as opposed to an encryption algorithm), this means the string you're trying to hash will always have the same result. As an example, the string "password" will always have the same SHA1 hash (5baa