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by jowdones 5y ago
>> There is no such thing as "very mutated". Something is either mutated or not. Well if there are 1 billion genes and one virus strain has 1 mutated gene while another virus has 1,000,000 mutated genes then the latter is &q
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by jowdones 6y ago
Meh, it's disrespectful and rude. I had a friend, haven't seen him in a while then met for a coffee and a chat. 10 times in 20 minutes he would pick up a call in the middle of the conversation and "hold that thought". Ma
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Do Not Create DSL for the Customer (2015)(javax0.wordpress.com)
2 points by jowdones 6y ago|1 comments
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by jowdones 6y ago
"Why do most of the DSL projects fail then? What I see is that most of these project implement first the switch on the wall and the outlet to plug in the TV, washing machine and so on but then they start to go on and try to invent othe
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by jowdones 6y ago
Eastern European here. I remember going to Mallorca and see clubs advertise 20 EUR entry for an all-you-can-drink night. We went there just to see with our own eyes and indeed it was. Vodka + tonic or beer and not even cheap crappy one on t
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by jowdones 6y ago
"Quantra is a REST wrapper for QuantLib, the indrustry -leading library for quantitative finance."
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by jowdones 6y ago
I live in Eastern Europe and long time ago, before the Internet and Netflix, I used to go to the library and read books for entertainment. I likes SciFi and at some point I fell on some really weird anthology of Soviet stories from the 50s.
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by jowdones 6y ago
There's an untranslatable phrase to describe the concept, in my language: "decât să lucri de-a pula, mai bine stai de-a pula". Hope the moderators won't delete it, since it contains some profanity.
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by jowdones 6y ago
I'm in my early 40's and started programming 20 years ago. Did C++ and Java with touches of Perl (recently Python) and SQL databases. Also have 10+ years in quant finance. I gave up trying to "keep up with the Kardashians&quo
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In-House Languages
7 points by jowdones 6y ago|6 comments
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by jowdones 6y ago
Cool. After like 5 random clicks, all I get is black as the bottom images. Eventually the bottom right says "unable to load this image".
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by jowdones 6y ago
And in today's interviews environment, telling the greatest stories along the greatest CV, training for months and months on leetcode problems and being able to convincingly act like you never seen them before during the interview, gen
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by jowdones 6y ago
Whatch'a cofounding?
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by jowdones 6y ago
>> Tara, a smart [...] alternative to Jira If someone there were smart, they would have named it Tira.
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Coronavirus Spreads Alarmingly in Open Space Offices(corona24.news)
8 points by jowdones 6y ago|3 comments
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by jowdones 6y ago
The outbreak occurred in a building where the commercial offices were located on the first 11 floors, and the rest was occupied by residential apartments. Of the 1,143 people tested for COVID-19 in the building, 97 were diagnosed positively
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by jowdones 7y ago
What fieldwork consists of: 1) No abominations like above, which by the way does this: void printNTriples(int n) { int i = 0; for (int z = 1; ; ++z) for (int x = 1; x <= z; ++x) for (int y = x; y <= z; ++y) if (x x + y y == z z) { pri
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C++: Interviews vs. Fieldwork
3 points by jowdones 7y ago|1 comments
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by jowdones 7y ago
I would have bet on "die", just coze it "sounds right".
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by jowdones 7y ago
As a Romanian who had to study German in school, I testify to that. I still remember the word "Umweltverschmutzung" but no idea if it's der, die, das, dem or des umweltverschmutzung :P
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by jowdones 7y ago
Shoulder MR scan in Romania: €115. https://medimar.ro/tarife-rmn/
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by jowdones 7y ago
>> I have never named and shamed the first company You should. Does it look like they give a fuck about you? Who are they?
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by jowdones 7y ago
>> A good soldier behaves differently. A good one wants to [blah blah] The article and formulation smells of entitlement as bad cologne across the room. You don't question your boss, you lowly peasant. Know your place.
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by jowdones 7y ago
Although I'm gonna change the World, not much network so far on my side. And I'm not taking trying to be friends with the rich and powerful. The poor and hopeless are equally unfriendly. One word: middle class.
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by jowdones 7y ago
I'm Romanian living in Romania and in physical conversations while not drunk, people are cautious. But drunk (e.g. Okto berfest) or under anonymity of Internet forums, the dark side of humanity did surface out. Of course it's a sm
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by jowdones 7y ago
May I point out that it's racist to call them monkeys? The correct term is "ape". Just kidding, btw, but I recall having heard something along this.
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by jowdones 7y ago
Heh. Good one :)
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by jowdones 7y ago
Core count is becoming more and more bullshit. If I get performance X using 1 core and Y using all cores, then true core count is Y / X, regardless of what advertised CPU count the manufacturer may dream. Geekbench scores: ------------
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by jowdones 7y ago
The word "ciorba" comes from Turkish "çorba": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorba Ciorba arrived on the table of the Romanians on a historical whim, being boiled first in the kettles and boilers of
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by jowdones 7y ago
When I started with computers back in 1992, Eastern Europe, noone around me had the slightest idea what computers can do. I sort of imagined (and hoped) they will (magically) solve math problems for me so I won't need to actually make

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