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by lomereiter 5y ago
If you think of the world as a giant corporation, in the short term it's more efficient if these workaholics are not paid at all. Think of a typical workaholic who's always happy to do more and take on more responsibility - why wo
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by lomereiter 5y ago
Helped the department chair by making a convenient tool to create schedules. Beats all years of commercial software development I've done since.
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by lomereiter 5y ago
For example, they could provide a hidden (and very expensive) API for hedge funds, so that they could manipulate stock prices more conveniently.
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by lomereiter 6y ago
If someone in a position of power looks honest, it's either because they have such a huge competitive edge that they truly don't care, or because they are incredible bullshit artists. In the case of Musk it's a mix of both, a
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by lomereiter 6y ago
Nope, only for "Open Source Initiative" and "Open Source Initiative Approved License", according to https://writing.kemitchell.com/2020/05/11/Open-Source-Proper...
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by lomereiter 6y ago
This conundrum can be resolved by generating synthetic datasets resembling true data. The definition of differential privacy doesn't distinguish between algorithm output types, which can be a single number as well as a whole dataset. T
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by lomereiter 6y ago
Indeed, this comes from oh-my-zsh (lib/functions.zsh)
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by lomereiter 6y ago
If we are talking about linear in number of characters, an easy answer is building a trie and traversing it left to right. (Cache-friendly variation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstsort )
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by lomereiter 6y ago
Indeed, I find the alternative naming proposed on the DaedTech blog a lot better: opportunists/idealists/pragmatists. Giving up on financial ambition and simply enjoying life is a pragmatic choice for many if not most people.
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by lomereiter 6y ago
A recent PEL episode went into why meritocracy is not as good as it seems: https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2020/10/12/ep-254-1-sandel...
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by lomereiter 6y ago
A feature would be nice to have, but right now you can just go to an artist-friendly shop (such as Bandcamp or Qobuz) and buy an album of the artist you'd like to support.
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by lomereiter 6y ago
I wish this article had a bit more systematic approach. I've been recently looking into consensus protocols, and there are at least two dimensions to consider: permissioned (participants are known in advance) vs permissionless (anyone
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by lomereiter 6y ago
Related (IMO a somewhat better explanation of why): https://smallstep.com/blog/use-ssh-certificates/ (note: you can also use Hashicorp Vault for the same)
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by lomereiter 6y ago
Right, but how much do these nice-to-haves add to the revenue? Is it truly worth it to bake them all in from the very beginning? E.g. five minutes of downtime in morning hours will affect only a handful of users, and if so, why bother with
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by lomereiter 7y ago
Been there. Where it helps is in having all this extra time for understanding what you actually want from life, and crucially also job search and interviewing (whilst the employer is under false impression you're now more loyal). Side
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by lomereiter 7y ago
The complete beginner should start with Harris & Harris "Digital Design and Computer Architecture" (David Harris is one of "CMOS VLSI Design" authors), it provides a gentle introduction into the underlying physics bu
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by lomereiter 8y ago
Your statement is true if the electricity is generated locally, otherwise there's a difference in energy losses depending on the carrier. According to http://web.archive.org/web/20180822025250/https:/&#x2
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by lomereiter 9y ago
Your last statement theoretically could be addressed by tweaking the algorithm settings such that it consumes at most [the time it takes for a human to solve reCaptcha] x [average power consumption of a smartphone]. Not sure if it would sti
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by lomereiter 9y ago
It could have better documentation but here's the Java client for Android: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-android There's also a Swift client available: https://www.apollographql.com/
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by lomereiter 9y ago
Look for Indian editions (their students obviously can't afford American-priced books), these usually have a marker on the cover saying it's not to be distributed outside Indian subcontinent, but it stops no one.
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by lomereiter 9y ago
They might not care, but in that case this question essentially tests if a person understands what 'GHz' means and can think logically, which is not that much to ask.
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by lomereiter 9y ago
This page forced me to find and install autoConvert Chrome plug-in, so that I can read the text without stopping to wonder what 14 feet is.
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by lomereiter 10y ago
Well, I'm also a full time developer but I learn new things on my job almost every day. Your question is way too broad. If you mean tech topics, it's perhaps time to find another job; if any topics at all, just follow your interes
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by lomereiter 10y ago
Kibana has quite a few rough edges but it takes non-technical users very far in terms of data exploration. Local setup also alleviates privacy concerns. The bummer is import/export: 'Upload CSV' feature has been almost introd
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by lomereiter 10y ago
There are lots of not so serious apps, however. Also on mobile devices there are no keyboard shortcuts, so swipes and time intervals between taps present very natural opportunities for animation.
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by lomereiter 10y ago
I treat fish with much suspicion after reading (ZeroMQ author) Pieter Hintjens' opinion, which is based on similar reasoning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11626182
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by lomereiter 10y ago
The best attempt to solve this M+N problem is https://github.com/Valloric/ycmd as far as I know. It handles only autocomplete, though; syntax highlighting is apparently not too painful to add.
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by lomereiter 10y ago
On the other hand, autocomplete leads to typos in the middle of a variable name being repeated again and again. Plus, practice of typo-free editing is beneficial also outside IDE, i.e. for chats/emails/commenting on HN.
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by lomereiter 10y ago
For learning just facts, solving crossword puzzles regularly helps a lot (not cryptic ones). More complicated matters are going to get forgotten rather quickly anyway unless you need them in your daily life.
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by lomereiter 10y ago
Nice idea, but I'm afraid those who are too lazy to structure their code are not likely to give Vim a chance either. A plugin for a popular IDE would be more beneficial.

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