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by meuk 7y ago
> you can get the work done very quickly and then have large periods of unproductive time. Totally agree, but I've also worked in codebases where I spend a huge effort and don't get anywhere (these are usually codebases with da
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by meuk 7y ago
Same here. Generating LaTeX statically is a pain in the ass.
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by meuk 7y ago
I think that generally speaking, women tend to be more social, and, biologically speaking, have a higher desirability (it is low-effort for men to produce offspring, but high-effort for women).
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by meuk 7y ago
This is also why it's useful to hire new people once in a while and pay attention to what they think . A new, junior hire will note many of the same things as an expensive consultany. With the difference that people actually listen to
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by meuk 7y ago
So you're basically judging the book by its cover? You don't care about the content at all? That only makes sense if you're hiring a frontend developer. Many people who are excellent programmers hate frontend development, and
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by meuk 7y ago
Yup, it doesn't feel exactly fair too. There's a voice inside of me that says: "It takes me almost a year to save that amount of money, and these people get it for free because they couldn't resist to spend money they di
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by meuk 7y ago
Hm, I'm not a fan of Cmake. I like how simple and clean Make is. In my experience it works more often than Cmake, and if not, I can usually debug it. Cmake seems like an overengineered beast to me. But I probably haven't 'gro
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by meuk 7y ago
> I gather you understand the topic, but I'm still left wondering: who is this for, and what will they do with it? 'Understand' is a big word. I've played around with Idris (which is a Haskell-like programming languag
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by meuk 7y ago
Yup. You're 80. You spend your money on a modem, because some marketing guy tells you that's all you need to send e-mails. Then there's this thing in your room, you still have no idea how to send an e-mail, so you call tech s
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by meuk 7y ago
The premise of an axiomatized system is that you can "mechanically" check proofs. So you can also invert the question and ask "Why the hell do we still prove things by hand?". The answer to that is that there are no good
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by meuk 7y ago
I'm not sure what exactly the defining quality of 'balance' is that nature does not have. In other words, I miss the point of the article.
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by meuk 7y ago
I always saw the tradeoff more in terms of developer time: Python is faster to write but pretty much always slower to run (unless you're doing a lot of IO or mainly writing wrapper functions around compute-intensive compiled code). I d
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by meuk 7y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying the mistake is understandable, and that you can correct someone in a polite way. Probably everyone has used terminology the wrong way, and I don't think overreacting helps you
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by meuk 7y ago
Whoah, this covers a lot. I was expecting some linear algebra, calculus, and discrete math, but there's actually some stuff in there I don't know after doing a masters in math.
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by meuk 7y ago
> Where are these people coming from? We were perfectly clear when we invented the term "open source" that we meant "free software", to the point of adapting the Debian Free Software Guidelines into the explicit and d
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by meuk 7y ago
Yup, she makes great examples without sacrificing accuracy.
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by meuk 7y ago
This visualization is also very useful when trying to understand Bayes' theorem.
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by meuk 7y ago
> A typewriter is an excellent tool because, even though it’s slow in a relative sense, every aspect of the machine itself operates as quickly as the user can move. For some reason, coffee machines with a built-in reservoir for coffee be
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by meuk 7y ago
A lot of people are unaware of how insanely fast computers are. If you can do a computational task in a year, a computer should be able to do it well within a second. At a previous employer, we had a test that took about 45 minutes, which
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by meuk 7y ago
One of the reasons I always get annoyed when I work in windows: Programs take forever, I need the mouse for everything, and god, the installation times. I recently started working at a company where we use Linux workstations. I work on a ma
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by meuk 7y ago
The minispartan FPGA devboard has HDMI in- and output and is decently priced. On the other hand, I don't think it is fast enough to process full hd (only hd, so 1280x720). See http://hamsterworks.co.nz/mediawiki/in
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by meuk 7y ago
That sounds super familiar. One time my team lead moved a meeting one day back for a week, even though I mentioned that the meeting was important every day. When we finally had the meeting, she was mentioned that I took care of it too late.
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by meuk 7y ago
> Or is it on their best interest to keep it broken? It seems similar to a strategy they use more often, famously known as embrace, extend, and extinguish [1]: 1. Use some standard/specification 2. Accumulate lots of users wi
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by meuk 7y ago
I can't help but think that you can only do a very shallow treatment of everything in this list in a CS program. It seems like the author basically put down his own CS program as a requirements list. The style the author uses reinforce
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by meuk 7y ago
I don't understand the problem, and the article doesn't really help. If I understand correctly, universities pay a fee to Elsevier to access papers. They also submit their published papers to Elsevier. And (this is where I'm
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by meuk 7y ago
Congratulations on the win! Can you recommend any papers, blog(post)s, or books for the interested layman? (I am currently scanning though the facebook post, which is great, but personally I am looking for something more technical).
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by meuk 7y ago
If that's your job, then you should, but not every programmer . At least make the title of your post "every web programmer" or "every programmer using AWS". It makes the post a lot less clickbaity.
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by meuk 7y ago
You might consider the HiFive board. It's around 50 dollar, a more appropriate price for something to play around with.
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by meuk 7y ago
The constraint is not on the number of neighbors directly. If there is just one node (say, A) with 4 neighbors (say B1, B2, B3, B4), we can color A red and B1, B2, B3, B4 blue. It only becomes a problem when all nodes are interconnected (i.
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by meuk 7y ago
If you squint your eyes, the balls look red, blue, and green, but that's to be expected if there are colored bars over them. And if you don't squint your eyes, the "balls" look about the same color... So what's the

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