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by kyllo 7y ago
In a high level language, yes, you should probably refactor code that looks like that. In C, no--just write the nested loop that iterates the pointers over the array, and use break or goto.
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by kyllo 7y ago
The amount of incidental complexity. Reading through their SOAP service spec and coding up a program to interact with it took several times as much effort as coding against a similar REST API would have.
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by kyllo 7y ago
It's also bad when your trading partner's sender process crashes and they build up a backlog of a million messages, and then once they fix it, they want to dump their whole backlog on you at once. Or their process gets stuck in an
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by kyllo 7y ago
Yes, but the niche providers flourish when the market is good, but they're the first to get killed off when it's bad. The post-2008 economic collapse saw mass consolidation in the industry as smaller players either went bankrupt o
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by kyllo 7y ago
Yes, and the mathematical reason behind this is straightforward. Capacity planning is the hardest problem in logistics[1]. You have to plan weekly capacity several months ahead of time, and you have a minimum break-even load factor to hit,
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by kyllo 7y ago
I worked at a major third party logistics company from 2012-2015 and they were less than halfway through a massive project to rewrite their COBOL mainframe systems in Java, and I doubt they're anywhere near being done yet. The industry
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by kyllo 7y ago
I've heard that dril on Twitter is actually Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka from SA, can anyone confirm/deny? https://twitter.com/dril
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by kyllo 7y ago
Right on, now we're only arguing about whether the open paren goes before or after the function name :)
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by kyllo 7y ago
Grant Sanderson has made a lot of great contributions to Khan Academy as well, particularly in the Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus sections.
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by kyllo 7y ago
Learning in-depth your various options for persisting data, is very useful since most applications have to deal with persistence in some form, and increasingly in a distributed manner. Go beyond simply skimming the surface of SQL vs. NoSQL
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by kyllo 7y ago
Yeah, the first mistake was _and make them dependent on external services_. An internet-connected light bulb's failure mode should be "temporarily become a regular light bulb". "I like an escalator, man, because an escal
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by kyllo 7y ago
It's sad because the concept of IoT in the home has such great potential, but the execution so far has just been atrocious. https://twitter.com/internetofshit
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by kyllo 7y ago
More likely is that they simply extend the term.
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by kyllo 7y ago
It's a systems programming language described as a replacement for C, this blog post shows how to incrementally replace C with Zig in your codebase: http://tiehuis.github.io/blog/zig1.html The single-page document
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by kyllo 7y ago
This is my preferred approach--a fluent, composable query builder API that uses pipes. When I do data analysis with R, this is what I use--same concept: https://dbplyr.tidyverse.org/ The somewhat tricky part can be converti
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by kyllo 7y ago
> Story points being used for the team and to tell management how much work is being done are not mutually exclusive. That's the thing though, in reality they really are mutually exclusive. As soon as management starts using a metri
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by kyllo 7y ago
I've noticed that Rust projects are starting to pop up at Microsoft. As of this writing, there are 5 open SDE job positions that mention Rust: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/search-results?rt=profes...
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by kyllo 7y ago
That question is also addressed in the blog post I linked to: "In general, no. Contract terms vary a bit, but for me: I retain IP and the right to post it elsewhere, but grant DC a perpetual, non-exclusive license to the course materia
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by kyllo 7y ago
> So should I not take your DataCamp course anymore? Probably not, no. Here's some context for anyone who's wondering why: https://noamross.github.io/datacamp-sexual-assault/
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by kyllo 8y ago
Cool, I'll shoot you an e-mail. I'm very interested in the Tea project and potentially contributing to it too. It's the sort of thing that could make every working data scientist noticeably more effective at their jobs. I was
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by kyllo 8y ago
Because if you and your co-workers all negotiate together, you have more bargaining power and can extract much greater concessions.
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by kyllo 8y ago
I read and shared your paper and GitHub link with the rest of my data science team here at Microsoft Azure--we do a lot of hypothesis testing of this nature in our day-to-day work (using R or Python) and a tool like Tea would go a long way
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by kyllo 8y ago
There's an interesting interface from F# to R, which is not maintained by Microsoft http://bluemountaincapital.github.io/FSharpRProvider/ The most important errors in R are not at all related to data type safety (
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by kyllo 8y ago
Your employer is able to bargain with you as one massive, collective organization with all its resources to bear. Why should you have to negotiate with them as a one atomic individual person, when you and your coworkers can instead get toge
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by kyllo 8y ago
Yes, and I also see a spot in the shape of it after looking away, though that may just mean my monitor is too bright
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by kyllo 8y ago
It's a bad question, but not an illegal one (in the US). You can be no-hired or fired legally because of your political views or support for a political candidate. Religion is off-limits in the US.
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by kyllo 8y ago
Yeah it really seems to me like a highly expressive data analysis language with a tightly integrated column-store database system could have saved many, many millions of dollars and person-hours compared to Hadoop and Spark.
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by kyllo 8y ago
Have any data scientists here who were primarily working in R or Python, learned J? What did you think? I love programming languages that teach you new ways of thinking about programming and I'm very curious about the APL family--think
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by kyllo 8y ago
In my experience you basically have to give data scientists direct responsibility for a business process in order to ensure that their models are relevant to and actually get utilized in the process. Forecasting is a great example of someth
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by kyllo 8y ago
Here's a dependent types example I found a little more interesting: statically modeling a valid date type: https://github.com/chrisdone/sandbox/blob/master/liquid-hask...

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