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by melvinroest 2y ago
Sure, just wanted to give the perspective of a new person walking into this field. I'd agree, but I think there are a lot of data analysts that have never heard of polars. Though, I guess they're not on this site :')
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by melvinroest 2y ago
I just got into data analysis recently (former software engineer) and tried out pandas vs polars. I like polars way more because it feels like SQL but then sane, and it's faster. It's clear in what it tries to do. I didn't re
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Companies are already talking about that. At least, I've been to a few conferences where SAIO (I forgot what they called it) was mentioned and elaborated upon. I vaguely remember that it was elaborated upon to build a whole suite of to
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Pointers finally clicked for me when I started doing things with a normal int and treat it as a memory address. I forgot the details, but I remember making a Stack Overflow post about it. The people on Stack Overflow didn't seem too ha
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by melvinroest 2y ago
So I tried schemesh [1] with it. That was a rough ride, wow. schemesh is lisp in your shell. Most of the bash syntax remains. Claude was okay with lisp, but understanding the gist of schemesh, it fount it really hard - even when I supplied
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by melvinroest 2y ago
This is the first time I'm curious to potentially actually learn Lisp. Using Lisp as a shell language is where it's at. Where's my book The Little Schemer? :D
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by melvinroest 2y ago
This would be amazing with Smalltalk/Pharo or a similar language where the concept of debugging is a first class citizen (I guess it's the same for certain Lisp languages?)
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by melvinroest 2y ago
> Just keep trying things. Don’t give up. I agree with this. For me, fixing insomnia has been my number one priority for the past 3 years. It's also a fairly easy priority as during the day you don't actually need to do a whole
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by melvinroest 2y ago
> Shutting down all computers well before that and just spending hours relaxing Yea, I've sometimes do it this. I have had mixed success with it. The opposite of it though is definitely detrimental. It's still nice to be able t
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Since recently I have a fairly good control over my insomnia. Key points for me are tackling my biggest issues: __Issue 1: not wanting to go to bed__ By reflecting on the why and how, I can make myself go to bed much easier, even if I don&#
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Wait what? So people that use the service more support their artists more? That's unfair. I pay the same 10 euro's per month as they do. My use should have nothing to do with it. If I decide to only listen to one song, then the pr
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by melvinroest 2y ago
An operating system based on something like the Pharo VM, Smalltalk VM or any similar mechanism where I can inspect all the code while it's running. I know there have been projects like that in the past, but I don't know of any mo
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by melvinroest 2y ago
In Pharo discovery coding is really encouraged. I personally like it for writing scrapers and/or web tests (I use Selenium in Pharo). I once had an improvized talk about it [1]. Nowadays, I'm back to Python and JavaScript due to t
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The Little Learner A straight line to deep learning(thelittlelearner.com)
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by melvinroest 2y ago
I happen to work with BigQuery since recently and heard you can do UDFs with JavaScript. Good to know that this is a thing with more databases. I didn't need to use UDFs up until this point but now that I know about it a bit more, I ju
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by melvinroest 2y ago
I've used dating apps in multiple countries. I always got to where I wanted to be in the dating game (a serious game at that) by being a bit strategic about it. I'm average looking too, at best. My cleft lip scar doesn't help
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by melvinroest 2y ago
I switched to becoming a data analyst. It's odd, I feel more appreciated too as I'm clearly the most technical person on the team. I help them with certain hard skills and they teach me certain soft skills (and certain domain spec
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by melvinroest 2y ago
This reminds me of timing side channel attacks in general. With VUSEC (VU University Amsterdam) we did flush/reload side channel attacks. I don't remember the specifics, I did this in 2018. But yea, basically if a cache hit versus
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by melvinroest 2y ago
> 20 years ago, you could go on an online dating site and have a serious hope of finding a real mate for life. I did. Several others I know did. You still can, you just have to be strategic about it due to a higher noise to signal ratio.
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Funny you mention that, while I know quite a few programming languages, I think most desktop applications that don't need a lot of bells and whistles, I'd probably make it with Pharo. I haven't programmed in a while with Phar
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Is this like a similar feature in Smalltalk/Pharo and Lisp?
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Recently became a data analyst. It couldn’t be more true, my CS background definitely helped me
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by melvinroest 2y ago
I'm sorry, I'm doing that HN thing again where one reacts to the title. I think there's definitely merit to not analyze your gut feelings. With that said, I would have a framework on when it is appropriate to trust them at le
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Recently, I've been able to meditate for 2 hours per day for a month. Before that I maybe meditated for 10 minutes per month for years on end. What I did have going for me is that I had about 600 hours of meditation experience already.
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Tangentially related, I once wrote a literature review on why people play Flappy Bird. I was a graduate student in game studies at the time. Ultimately, I never pursued the academic route, just sharing it for fun. For the curious minds, her
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Ask HN: From software engineering to product management (EU)?
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Here's a short story that I just quickly wrote that alludes to the title. It's also something I actually do. __The Chair That Changed My Life__ There is the chair. Sit on it. Tell yourself: this is my life now. "But, but, I w
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Having both worked with Objective-C and with Pharo (a Smalltalk descendant), I would argue that the introspection, for example, is a Smalltalk influence. Of course, as some know Objective-C is inspired by Smalltalk, among other languages
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Not at all
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by melvinroest 2y ago
Sometimes

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