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Ask HN: I will have a 14-year old shadow me at work – any advice?
9 points by maest 4y ago|21 comments
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by maest 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think that addresses my concerns around P1 and P2 being different.
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by maest 4y ago
> The probability of C also having true in the row would be equal to Jaccard’s similarity! That's clear, call this P1 > The probability that two documents A and B having the same representative token is, equal again to Jaccard’s
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by maest 4y ago
Heh, that's the first time I've heard someone describe this, but I recognise the feeling. It's like constantly rushing and wondering if you're being inefficient and if there isn't a faster way to deliver what you ne
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by maest 4y ago
> sometimes probably best just not tell project manager and do it 80/20 way. easier forgive than permission, project managers mind like butterfly at times overworked and dealing with many grugs. In my experience, I have to fight to
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by maest 4y ago
https://status.zoom.us is green, even though service is down/severely degraded.
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by maest 4y ago
BTW, this is true, but that is not locking in the "sync locking" sense.
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by maest 4y ago
What's the difference between this and e.g. using a Postgres db?
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by maest 4y ago
> Reddit is not a platform for self-promotion, and moderators there are very keen for it not becoming such a place. Counterpoint: mods can (and have been) paid off to promote/allow posts from certain companies, while shutting down p
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by maest 4y ago
Is your point that since there exist a standard which occurred without government intervention, then the government should never intervene to create any standards?
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by maest 4y ago
Would you happier if you were affected by European corporate actions instead? We live in a global economy, you are constantly affected by things happening thousand of miles away (e.g. Ukraine invasion bumped the price of gas across the worl
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by maest 4y ago
This is a class of "hard to find, easy to verify" solutions.
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by maest 4y ago
I think this is supposed to be a fork bomb? https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=%3A%28%29%7B%20%3A%7C%3... That's not clear at all from the explanation.
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by maest 5y ago
> Somebody who makes it clear they're wealthy or well connected or attractive or smart or etc... > Or somebody who is upbeat and friendly with no desire to display anything about themselves? It's the one who can run the fast
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by maest 5y ago
That feels like quite a disingenuous answer.
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by maest 5y ago
Interesting story, but why in Mexico?
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by maest 5y ago
See also BBG news headlines
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by maest 5y ago
IN many parts of Europe, I've seen people shrink wrap their luggage, like so: https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f... I think it serves a similar function.
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by maest 5y ago
The approach reminds me more of junior devs who have no interest in fully understanding the code/problem and they just make semi-random changes to the code until the compiler is happy/the test is green.
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by maest 5y ago
Not much to add except wanted to say that I enjoyed becoming aware of the impact Wikipedia's design decision had on me, as a reader. Seeing the encarta/marginalia version vs the wikipedia one really drives home the point. It'
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Revolut is down since 10:50 GMT(revolut.com)
1 points by maest 5y ago|0 comments
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by maest 5y ago
> Oughta start taking bets on how long until this makes its way into Waze Waze is already serving very aggressive modal-type ads mid-navigation. I got a pop-up for a car repair shop 20 minutes out of my way, _mid-navigation_ with a big &
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by maest 5y ago
Romania had something similar going on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caritas_(Ponzi_scheme) > An estimate of Romanian newspaper România Liberă gives the amount of money involved as 1.4 trillion lei or about 20% of
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by maest 5y ago
From "Summaries": > How People Get Rich Now > Surpassed maximum word count permitted by OpenAI. I'll take this to mean that one has to break the rules imposed by others in order to get rich. Do that which is not permitt
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by maest 5y ago
Basically q/kdb with types and first class support for stuff like pattern matching and monads (and maybe marginally less terse). It would need interop with a large subset of existing Python/C libs to ensure adoption.
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by maest 5y ago
You may be conflating "false information" with "politically incorrect statements".
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by maest 5y ago
I think the assumption is that you're taking this quiz _because_ you're in a bad mood.
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Google fixes Android bug that stopped user from calling 911(arstechnica.com)
7 points by maest 5y ago|1 comments
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by maest 5y ago
> python+pandas Another advantage is supporting sql-like syntax natively (and not having to use pandas' awkward, bolted-on API)
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by maest 5y ago
q with static typing and a sensible pricing model would be amazing. I do think that q's main strength is not its speed, but the fact that qSQL statements are a first class citizen in the language - no network hops, no awkward marshalli

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