mamon

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by mamon 9y ago
Ask some of your past and current coworkers for endorsement. Rule of thumb being that endorsments from colleagues are next to worthless, recomendations from your bosses or customers are what you should aim for.
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by mamon 9y ago
Isn't the issue here that whatever government does there still will be someone protesting against it? You know, watching the news and seeing 100k people protesting looks impressive, until you realize that you live in a country of 350M
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by mamon 9y ago
It's nice to see that someone finally acknowledges existence of left-wing extremists. However, I'm still waiting on serious move against Antifa.
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by mamon 9y ago
It might be factual, but the mention of cat urine smell is unnecessary and rude.
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by mamon 9y ago
Never gonna happen. ECC is "pro" feature for Intel, reserved for Xeons only. They have to justify high price of Xeons somehow.
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by mamon 9y ago
You know, statistics is a branch of mathematics, and mathematical education itself can be considered "elite", if for no other reason then for the irrational fear it induces in most of people. Most of high school graduates decides
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by mamon 9y ago
Maybe this is stupid question, cause I don't know React or Redux, but why would anyone want the data structures holding page data to be immutable? Data can change any time due to user actions, immutability would only get in the way, wo
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by mamon 9y ago
You are right about the countries that suffered from Communism. East European countries, or Poland at least treat Nazism and communism as equally evil. There even is a passage in Polish Constitution (Article 13) that makes both Nazism and C
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by mamon 9y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. In Poland it is similar: you have 26 vacation days and you have to use them all, with at least one two weeks in one go. Employer can be fined if employees don't use all of their vacation days. Add
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by mamon 9y ago
Ok, so US company re-discovered benefits of something that in Europe is mandated by law :) Once again we can see how US is a place to earn money and Europe is a place for work-life balance.
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by mamon 9y ago
They could base GPU warranties based on usage, the same way car part warranties are based on mileage. In fact Samsung already is doing the same for SSDs: they have data write limit of 400 TB.
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by mamon 9y ago
Richer declensions make puns different, not harder. Adding or changing suffix due to declination opens a whole new world of "word collisions" waiting to happen.
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by mamon 9y ago
On the other hand, Twitter is less and less relevant, on it's way to bankruptcy.
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by mamon 9y ago
Unless we have another housing bubble burst and your 1 million $ asset falls down to 400k
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by mamon 9y ago
You know what else gives you insane amount of security? Insane amount of money in your bank account :) If you are working on B2B contract, making 750 euros per day you'll quickly accumulate savings, and having 100-200k euro in your ban
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by mamon 9y ago
This is not a constant factor, this is an exponent. Constant factors are what's standing in front of whole term, like this: O(7*((n^1000)^n)^6), 7 being constant factor.
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by mamon 9y ago
No. If you distributed the students admitted to Harvard among other universities their education would be impaired by the fact that the professors would have to dumb down the material taught in their classes to their less bright colleagues.
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by mamon 9y ago
Quizzes (both single and multiple choice) are the worst possible way of testing student's knowledge, because they are sooo... easy. Trouble here is that human memory is an associative memory - being given one piece of information helps
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by mamon 9y ago
How about this 7-day "trial"? all those courses seem pretty short (estimated 5 courses x 3 weeks x 4 hours = 60 hours), so if you do them full time and manage to finish within that 7-day trial would you receive certificate for fre
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by mamon 9y ago
My impression was that the language was "too natural". I mean Octave notation is so similar to mathematical notation that many exercises could be solved by just typing a formula from lecture almost 1:1. Plus, learning Python and t
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by mamon 9y ago
I think it is more about getting the client's testimony confirming the deed. And you're right, prostitution is a business based on discretion, so most of the time prostitute would not know the name of her client. Bottom line is: t
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by mamon 9y ago
In countries like Poland prostitution is actually tax-free, because if government took any money from a prostitute it would act like a pimp, which is illegal. Once upon a time it was the best excuse for those who had undisclosed income sour
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by mamon 9y ago
Are you suggesting that rich people use those utilities like education or infrastructure for free? Because I'm pretty sure that they already pay for them, in taxes or otherwise. And of course their companies also PROVIDE some of the se
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by mamon 9y ago
Your point is contradicted by the fact that Germany, where prostitution is completely legal are the single biggest destination for human trafficking victims. Literally dozens of thousands of them. Legalising brothels removes the social stig
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by mamon 9y ago
For machine learning Tensor Cores in the upcoming Volta GPUs seem much better idea, delivering 120 TFLOPS. Although the price would be a multiple of 400 USD, for sure.
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by mamon 9y ago
Plus, our reptile brains has deeply ingrained fear of wild animals, cars are too new invention to be able to affect our instinct the same way sharks do.
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by mamon 9y ago
But the point is: both Tesla and SpaceX already had their respective fields, with established players that proved the whole thing at least possible despite being far from perfection. Google or Amazon pioneered completely new fields, somethi
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by mamon 9y ago
Ok, so he is a great entrepreneur: knows how to run the company to be profitable, low cost, high revenue, knows how to advertise, how to make a lot of hype. Those are great skills, but have nothing to do with technology. There are many comp
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by mamon 9y ago
As someone else in this thread noticed: so far all Musk did was incremental improvements to existing technologies (electric cars, autopilot, space rockets). He has no track of record of actually creating a new technology.
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by mamon 9y ago
If he thinks Hyperloop is viable he should build it with his own money. One of the reasons private businesses apply for public subsides is that they know they would never succeed without them. It's just easier to take risks with someon

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