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by mto 9y ago
That's how you convince people to stay with you
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by mto 9y ago
You are right, what we do in school... and also in work... is typically as unnatural as "technology" and has to be drilled in. What fun? No puppy sits in a classroom all day long without being allowed to move. I find it amusing th
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by mto 9y ago
Ah, don't worry - as others said, most of us did something similar at some point. I'd even say that it's good to keep our profession strong by not playing the game of the business and HR people. I always envy my friends in me
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by mto 9y ago
Yeah but small companies hired the 17 year old neighbor kid to write them some access/visual basic tool or a simple website ever since... And the world's still standing ;). Much of the crap I wrote 20 years back when I was in the
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by mto 9y ago
That's unfortunately true. I found people in research to be much more open-minded than in sw development (at the same time they were always a bit too outgoing for me :)). But not sure if it's much better in most other disciplines.
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by mto 9y ago
I haven't read the whole thing but I'd briefly say: true, there are many codebases where you have to jump through a million strangely-named onliner functions (+5 lines for parameters, braces, modifiers etc... sometimes as declarat
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by mto 9y ago
I feel it's the other way round.. Everyone is advocating Javascript, python etc. JS webapps are more and more developed directly in the browser in the dev console, CSS interactively modified to directly see the results. But this also
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by mto 9y ago
+1 for cmake. It works so well, in my latest C++ project the cmake file is more or less just a listing of source files and it does it job on windows, Mac and a few different Linux distros without any platform specific stuff. So well that
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by mto 9y ago
tl;dr
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by mto 9y ago
Yeah, also have a 30€/month hetzner dedicated server with 2x TB HDD and 32 GB RAM. At the same time at my company we pay sometimes up to a 1000$/month for a really weak AWS machine because of the costs for traffic and storage. R
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by mto 9y ago
FB's policy is ridiculous. Show a breastfeeding woman and it's certainly gone in the next hours. But I've reported countless foreigners for gas chamber and teleheating crap postings and it was not considered inappropriate...w
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by mto 9y ago
I had to take a few of those courses but I doubt they make much sense. I felt that you are mostly discussing "don't so bad things" all the time, captain obvious stuff... There's the one type of people who care about thin
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by mto 9y ago
AFAIK in most of Europe you have to do a master before the PhD and typical (theoretical) numbers are 3 years bachelor, 2 years master, 3 years PhD. But that's theory, usually it's more like 4 3 4, but obviously there are also peo
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by mto 9y ago
Also westerner and also draw them clockwise.. Mostly from the top. I also thought that most people would start "to the right" as we write in that direction.
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by mto 9y ago
I'm a remote freelancer and currently also doing 25h/week but usually distributed over 7 days. Originally started because the birth of my daughter but I've quickly noticed how my productivity increased. I think it's even
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by mto 9y ago
Right, seems many companies like that "SF/SV/whatever"-company label. That's sad. Goes so far that we have really small, local startups doing pretty impressive stuff... With a more or less empty "office" i
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by mto 9y ago
It seems to be much harder for European services to be "interesting" in the USA. There have been local counterparts to e.g. facebook before Facebook was a thing here. Still, we all moved on to FB later. Why? Not sure... Suddenly
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by mto 9y ago
I've always heard that argument in favor of decision trees or random forests, yet those decision trees had 400k nodes :). So no one ever really looked at them, but in theory you can could check the long node paths doing arbitrary split
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by mto 9y ago
Great work. I would like to know "how beta" the Windows version is. Is there a small library for inference that we can use integrated in an application? I am currently exporting models from an existing Theano system running on an
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by mto 10y ago
Same for Austria. Then considering that you might change jobs every few years... and the jobs are mostly in the cities, where you can't afford building a house. We live in a small to medium size flat for 380€/month, including some
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by mto 10y ago
I live in Vienna an this is not the case here. Problem is the other way round (currently, is under discussion) - Universities just get a fixed amount of money. So they try to restrict the number of students by themselves, using different me
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by mto 10y ago
People at University are grown ups, not school children. If they decide to ignore the lectures and still pass the exams, fine. If they fail, it's their own problem. I also think, attendance should never be mandatory. You should learn t
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by mto 10y ago
For me it's mostly about all the contextual information VS shows. I've been away from C++ for some time and now again working with VS2015 and was impressed how intuitive the presentation of contextual information was, especially w
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by mto 10y ago
I have yet to meet a medical doctor saying "medicine is easy" - because it would diminish their status, salary and they love to brag how it is the hardest thing to study.
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by mto 10y ago
True, especially as a child it's not unnatural at all. I discovered qbasic by accident and just played around until I could write small games. It never felt hard, frustrating or exhausting. All fun and play. That is the big difference
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by mto 10y ago
Agree, 10 years ago they asked you about your projects, how you solved problems, what you think about the decisions that were made, to reason about the technologies and architecture etc. I still think, you can learn much more from that than
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by mto 10y ago
Yeah it's absurd. When I talk about this with my friends in other professions they hardly believe it. None of the lawyers or editors consider writing open source contracts or publishing free magazines in their free time. And even if th
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by mto 11y ago
When I started out (in C in 1997) I learned doing 3 spaces. That's why I try to get used to 4 (or even 8?) but in reality I still like the 3 most :).
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by mto 11y ago
It would have been nice to give any reference to "GTD" in an introductory sentence so that readers don't have to google it and interfer from the context what's meant. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by mto 11y ago
Just the usual "omg we need someone for angular/jboss2.34/.net4.3/... We don't care about compilers, logic, theory bla. Because development in the industry is becoming as superficial as tinder in dating. Just riding

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