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by jvans 4y ago
my point is the literal interpretation doesn't come close to capturing the business value
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by jvans 4y ago
Pair programming appears to management as a huge waste — two people doing 1 job!! — but having done both I believe the exact opposite. It increases bus counts, speeds up shipping code(no waiting for review), and improves quality. It is very
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by jvans 4y ago
I have done something similar with ruby, this is a great book: https://workingwithruby.com/downloads/Working%20With%20TCP%2... I would recommend doing C at some point in your career, nothing comes close in terms of for
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by jvans 4y ago
Really good point. I remember from Carreyrou's book how big name biotech VCs were notably absent from the list of Theranos investors. People who were capable of making good decisions did just that
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by jvans 4y ago
I have always thought the most troubling aspect of these frauds(Theranos/Madoff/Enron/Wirecard) is the fact that they are not sophisticated, are complete and total frauds, and yet they persist for years or decades. It makes m
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by jvans 4y ago
+1 would be great for more detailed explanation or links out to reading material. I assume there are some limitations if you actually skip the LB? How do the host NICs rewrite the LB address, does this imply there is hardware support for th
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by jvans 4y ago
Shiny object syndrome is universal
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by jvans 4y ago
I like how this article highlights the complexity of many competing factors. We like to understand things by boiling them down to simple rules and catch phrases that make us feel like we understand the world but that is almost never how thi
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by jvans 4y ago
thanks, definitely. It would be an interesting project to compile a list of this stuff. Opioides probably deserve a special mention outside of regular drugs and J&J baby powder would also make the list.
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by jvans 4y ago
This looks very cool, nice work. Any plans to support ANN vector searches in the near future?
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by jvans 4y ago
> I hope future alien historians laugh at how wildly incompetent our governments were at dealing with corporate entities Yup, it is astounding how much harm a handful of greedy people can do without ever being held financially or crimin
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by jvans 4y ago
This story is a broken record that just repeats over and over again in different forms and industries. It follows the general form of: 1. Develop some profitable product 2. years later people report horrible effects 3. Big co denies and sta
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by jvans 4y ago
There's a long list of things that I think are abused in an effort to save on some vaguely defined future cost that never seems to materialize. Some things off the top of my head: * Interfaces(particularly in java) that have 1 implemen
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by jvans 4y ago
> if someone senior writes a lot of overcomplex or abstract code For me this is a much bigger concern than subtle changes to method names. My biggest headache digging into new codebases is when I run into layers and layers of abstraction
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by jvans 4y ago
Someone find the memo from sbf demanding a switch to 128 bit longs
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by jvans 4y ago
In large systems an enormous amount of energy and dev time is wasted in trying to maintain staging/dev environments. Accepting that they won't ever be the same and building out tooling for safe testing/rollouts in prod is a f
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by jvans 4y ago
> Non-fiction books are bloated with fluff You can usually tell in the first few pages if it's written in that cookie cutter "must make it to 350 pages so I'll stuff it with 200 pages of fluff" style. It is really ann
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by jvans 4y ago
There is a common saying that if you can't explain something to someone else then you don't really understand it yourself. Monads made me realize that some things need to be experienced in order to be understood.
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by jvans 4y ago
Agree, textbooks are very underrated. The three blue one brown guy had one of the best tips for textbook selection that's been extremely helpful for me. He suggests that textbooks by single authors are the easiest to understand and in
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by jvans 4y ago
not letting devs push code on friday afternoon
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by jvans 4y ago
The catastrophic errors aren't the problem, the problem is when things are degraded by 20% which results in a small loss when it could have been a big win. You just assume it didn't work when in reality it wasn't implemented
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by jvans 4y ago
> often needs to be optimized for scale or refactored for reusability It's so easy to make subtle assumptions when you redo their code that completely invalidates the work they've done. ML completely collapses on extremely smal
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by jvans 4y ago
modeling is 1-2% of the overall work involved in having a model serve customers something useful. There's just so much other work to do that it rarely makes sense to have people who can only model. At some level of scale, building out
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by jvans 4y ago
This seems like a side effect of centralized power in general. You see it at amazon too which is full of either subpar goods or counterfeit products[1]. It becomes a game of manipulating these companies into showing your product/good&#
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by jvans 4y ago
Richard McElreath's Statistical rethinking is an absolute masterpiece. https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/ on statistics
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by jvans 5y ago
this is not possible with home sleep tests. They will often claim to do this by using pulse transit time as a correlate for eeg arousal but that does not imply high sensitivity. People should be getting their sleep tests in lab as much as p
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by jvans 5y ago
It's worth noting that sleep apnea can disrupt your sleep without oxygen desaturation. Typical at home sleep tests cannot return a negative result, they can either be positive or inconclusive. EEG monitoring for arousals is necessary t
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by jvans 7y ago
They don't give you the raw data, I emailed support a couple months ago and their response was: "Unfortunately, we do not provide you with a raw data report containing your EEG data. However, we do provide it via user-friendly hyp
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by jvans 10y ago
Location: San Francisco Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Haskell, Ruby, Javascript, Postgres, Redis, ReactJS, AngularJS Résumé/CV: http://jamesvanneman.com/ Email: jvannem (at) gmail (dot) com
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Which job boards are the best for hiring developers? (blog.underdog.io)
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