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by linspace 4y ago
I have an easier to understand analogy: China is the country that will try to solve an integral using Gaussian quadrature while USA will use some kind of Monte Carlo.
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by linspace 4y ago
Too good for my pocket, without knowing how much costs. Obviously aimed at institutions.
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by linspace 4y ago
The solution is obvious: cloud providers should mutually serve each other
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by linspace 4y ago
> It appears that especially in the American/European continent, muscularity, the ability to exert physical violence, justified or not, is what is preferred, which tells you a bit about those societies, violence and fear appears to
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by linspace 4y ago
> Why do we even bother to give any credence at all to company PR-provided explanations like this? It's propaganda and it would be great if it didn't work, but it works at least partially. Someone who doesn't know anything
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by linspace 4y ago
> I'm from Spain so our working ethic is different from the Anglo-Saxon world. People adapt to their environment. I don't think there is anything ethical involved. Most people have found that their best trade off is not caring
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by linspace 4y ago
> Trying to do a good job and finding interest in what I do is at least in part a self-defense mechanism This. Gamification, but for real prizes.
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by linspace 4y ago
> can't evaluate you fairly. What's the meaning of fair? Several people admit you need to prepare, and then it seems you should not prepare too much? It looks like a date.
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by linspace 4y ago
Ha! One could think that the psychological screening is meaningless... until you are involved in hiring people. Of course, 95% candidates will pass, otherwise humanity would be doomed
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by linspace 4y ago
It would be quite absurd to dismiss a candidate based on the editor and yet I find it more important that a particular cloud provider, which quite often is a requirement.
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by linspace 4y ago
> I'm too young to confirm but I assume we had something like this before social media took off. The period after most people moved to big cities and before internet was widespread was the golden age of privacy.
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by linspace 4y ago
The Emperor of Mankind [1], the most powerful psyker ever, still protecting humanity from the forces of Chaos 10000 years after his death. [1] https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Emperor_of_Mankind
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by linspace 4y ago
> Did this guy need to help NK for anything remotely like that sort of responsibility? This is what keeps me wondering. I guess that a guy with a doctorate from Caltech and in the current technological context could be making a lot of mo
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by linspace 4y ago
Barcelona-Madrid vía the "Puente Aéreo" (air bridge, freely translated) is the closest I have seen. There are departures every half hour, you buy one ticket and can take any of them. Boarding is also very fast.
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by linspace 4y ago
How on earth? > The answer is perhaps surprising - SVG files can contain JavaScript, CSS and load external content There you are
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by linspace 4y ago
You are asking for the holy grail: aligning individual objectives with corporate objectives. The company that manages to do that will eat the world. It would be bigger than nuclear fussion or solving P vs NP. The first thing to ask is how y
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by linspace 4y ago
I don't know the parent but people definitely stay longer when recognized, and even more important, they do a better job
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by linspace 4y ago
Completely agree. I think GvR was too conservative. And yet he had lot of backslash, it's easy for me now to criticize several years later after the fact, I only have respect for the work done. I think it was in the mind of everyone th
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by linspace 4y ago
> that would massively undercut the core business This happens a lot of times. The reality is that someone will do it for you. Sometimes they even grow bigger than you.
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by linspace 4y ago
Aren't computers tool themselves? It's only natural people interested in computers are interested in tool making
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by linspace 4y ago
Some points in that list are deeply rooted in human psychology. I will comment on some of them I have hit in the past: > 10 points for not knowing (or not using) standard mathematical notation; I personally hate non-standard notation so
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by linspace 5y ago
> who care about large legacy code bases It's clear that Python's main strength is its vast libraries, priority number one is not breaking them. If it could be possible to speed up Python without breaking changes I would be sur
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by linspace 5y ago
Some people born with money don't like to think that the only thing that makes them special is the money they have, but didn't earn. Avoiding common endeavors, getting an engineering degree instead of being an artist or running a
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by linspace 5y ago
You can take something out from an interview: practice for other interviews, insight of how others interview (what did you think were good or bad questions, what annoyed you). I know it's not the best use of your time but it's bet
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by linspace 5y ago
> it generally means your boss and your superboss have decided that it's time for you to go The problem is that those are two highly correlated data points. Toxic bosses are eventually found but at that point they leave a track of d
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by linspace 5y ago
I love it although it feeds on so much programmers pain. I propose a new keyword myself for exception handling: "oh really?"
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by linspace 5y ago
> he and his intrepid group of psychonauts had tried on themselves. Unrelated, but couldn't help myself: https://www.doublefine.com/games/psychonauts-2
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by linspace 5y ago
There is something special about making things. If they are physical it's even better.
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by linspace 5y ago
As you age it permeates every interest you had, because you already have taken the low hanging fruits. Not only computers, also books, movies, food and I bet even sex. Everything reminds you of something you have already lived. Every novelt
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by linspace 5y ago
Why do you reply in the first place? Why don't you block unknown messages? Where are your servers right now? Who knows who am I and from where I'm replying to you? Do you feel tainted that I'm not using Safari to reply to you

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