malux85

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by malux85 6y ago
I had a similar experience as a false positive for fraud, it was enormously frustrating and time consuming to clear my name, often having to be very adversarial and threaten legal action to the companies, before they finally cleared me for
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by malux85 6y ago
Yeah because everyone has the consumers best interests at heart. Not at all, the profit maximisers will make peer agreements that monopolise their positions and make it difficult or impossible for startups to complete, that’s all that will
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by malux85 6y ago
They don’t think
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by malux85 6y ago
Post your idea and say what you bring to the table, if you don’t do these things nobody will even look twice because it shows you’re contextually unaware
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by malux85 6y ago
Email is inappropriate because its easy to "hide" behind an email. Video call them and enumerate his abuse list while looking them in the eye. Quote their language word for word back to them and if this doesn't embarrass them
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by malux85 6y ago
Rather than just criticise, can you please suggest a better alternative? I am always looking for better tools and tutorials for the people I mentor, but LPTHW has been great, I have mentored 15 or so people so far from no coding to starting
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by malux85 6y ago
I started with BASIC on a second-hand VIC20, and then onto assembler on an 80286 running DOS. So I've been there. I define "fundamental" as something thats in wide use and deployment in actively running systems. Like $PATH be
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by malux85 6y ago
> programmers will scream in rage that no, they are not, and by the way, you are stupid for saying it, you clearly have no idea what you are doing and you will never be a programmer. Nobody has said this to you in this thread, and the fa
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by malux85 6y ago
When I was travelling through Italy, I learnt a phrase from programmers there, "If my mother had wheels, she would have been a bike" - and it's a criticism of hypothetical situations like your answer above. Saying "This
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by malux85 6y ago
No, I was just saying that in my vast experience the two things that you described as: "absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with programming. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. It is completely superfluous knowledge" Were indeed critical compo
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by malux85 6y ago
I've been programming for 25 years now, about 20 of which as a developer at billion dollar companies, google, facebook and various high scale hedge funds, including systems that serve billions of users a day. I have had a hobby in embe
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by malux85 6y ago
If the author has “been playing with the web and code for years” and is still “wtf” on /usr/local/bin in $PATH it shows a lack of discipline and structure in their learning. I see this in many in many of my apprentices - the
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by malux85 6y ago
I love donut.c, after I’ve been teaching my students for about 6 months and they have a basic grasp of code flow, I love to show them donut.c and just watch their minds blow ^.^
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by malux85 6y ago
Oh for the love of science, GIVE IT A REST. ETC exists, if you don’t like ETH go use ETC, the community voted with their wallets, ETH won, give it a bone already
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by malux85 6y ago
Yeah me too, +15 or so contacts
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by malux85 6y ago
I thought it said BMI and had something to do with weight, that was funny and confusing for a second.
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by malux85 6y ago
It’s a trade off - DRY vs abstract Dependency, are they superficially familiar (then don’t create a unnecessary dependency) or are they functionally familiar? Then DRY
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by malux85 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/605/
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by malux85 6y ago
I'm curious, what are the illegal (and the highly unethical) ones doing? Dont need to name the companies, but what sort of activities are you seeing?
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by malux85 6y ago
I know it's mental. Their yearly cost pays for itself in productivity boost in like 1-2 days. It's such good value ...
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by malux85 6y ago
Cutting off the nose to spite the face
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by malux85 6y ago
Agreed - JetBrains is one of those companies where their products speak for themselves, and I happily pay every year. Absolutely money well spent.
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by malux85 6y ago
It’s a trap. It implies it, but doesn’t guarantee it. Everyone wants to be that hero in the narrative, and by the time the people figure out they have been shirked (but not directly lied to) your company has been acquired and you’re out w
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by malux85 6y ago
20 Parameters is WAY too small for a deepnet. Deepnets are better suited for very high dimensional spaces where the data has sparsity, a hierarchical structure and can take advantage of nets rotational, translational invariance etc (if that
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by malux85 6y ago
How did they get past 2FA with Authenticator? Exploiting a bug is most likely? Does anyone know?
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by malux85 6y ago
Your professional network is not yielding after 7 YEARS!? If that's the case the problem is definitely you.
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by malux85 6y ago
> The real solution is to figure out how to love a larger percentage of your day. A lot of this has to do with cultivating the right attitude and not getting exploited by others. At work, don't allow your employer to work you to the
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by malux85 6y ago
The choice whether to login or not is not “strictly necessary” because you do what all other sites do - serve them the logged out content until they login. This cookie not not strictly necessary
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by malux85 6y ago
What? Yes they do. There’s even premium support options for a few k a month you can have dedicated and responsive support And if you can’t afford a few k a month for a dedicated support person for your infra, then you aren’t worth supportin
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by malux85 6y ago
Here’s the thing about a CO2 molecule : I stood there for ages shouting at it, Then I tried to reason with it, Then I explained to it about in intricacies of human politics (you cannot have sudden cliff-edges in policies!) Then I told it I

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