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China suspends Tencent from updating existing apps or launching new apps(scmp.com)
7 points by nsainsbury 5y ago|0 comments
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
I've been continuing my study of mathematics ( https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner ) and recently started Needham's Visual Complex Analysis which I'm really enjoying. I've also been putti
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by nsainsbury 5y ago
If anyone is interested in following a self-study curriculum but with more of an emphasis on pure vs applied math, you may find my experience and recommendations useful: https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner
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by nsainsbury 6y ago
Reading this reminded me a lot of one of my all-time favourite essays "On the Wildness of Children" by Carol Black - http://carolblack.org/on-the-wildness-of-children It's definitely influenced how we raise o
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by nsainsbury 6y ago
I'm a native app developer too (iOS and Android) and I've got some experience with Flutter. I agree with most of your comment, but the only thing I'd add is that from what I've seen if your concern is the quality of apps
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by nsainsbury 6y ago
From what I've seen and has been confirmed quite a few times now Flutter definitely does not deliver on producing mobile apps that are "super responsive and...indistinguishable from the native experience" You can even find th
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Why I didn’t use Swift for Up Spell(twitter.com)
1 points by nsainsbury 6y ago|0 comments
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by nsainsbury 6y ago
I'm nowhere near as smart as Colin but I'll also share here a little personal story which relates to the topic. I was also a very high achieving student in high school and university and was similarly all set for a career in acade
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by nsainsbury 6y ago
I would argue the problem is it's not a one-time cost. You pay the cost almost every time you want to change jobs, because leetcode/algorithmic interview questions are so fundamentally different to what we actually do day-to-day a
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by nsainsbury 6y ago
I think a key phrase here is "he was dismissed for publicly challenging a colleague’s silence". In other words, he publicly harassed a colleague who (for what could be any number of perfectly valid reasons) preferred not to public
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by nsainsbury 6y ago
I've been long frustrated about how technical interviewing takes place in our industry (and I've written about it quite a bit as well eg. https://www.neilwithdata.com/developer-hiring ) I think many companies throu
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by nsainsbury 6y ago
That's absurd. What he has built literally demonstrates he has the ability that the role requires - which is entirely what the entire interview loop is trying to ascertain. If you can ascertain that a person has a skillset without that
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by nsainsbury 6y ago
I wrote about my journey learning mathematics for the last ~6 years quite recently actually! Might be of interest to you as well: https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner
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Advanced SQL and database books and resources(neilwithdata.com)
3 points by nsainsbury 6y ago|0 comments
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
The article is a follow-up to a previous post which I linked to in the leading sentence. > The author does not mention his experience interviewing or hiring people From the previous article: "I've been a software developer now
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The myth of the developer that can't code(neilwithdata.com)
62 points by nsainsbury 7y ago|75 comments
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The software industry's greatest sin: hiring(neilwithdata.com)
542 points by nsainsbury 7y ago|576 comments
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Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high(wsj.com)
84 points by nsainsbury 7y ago|234 comments
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How I built the best-selling BlackBerry app(neilwithdata.com)
234 points by nsainsbury 7y ago|68 comments
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
To be clear, I don't at all advocate that people work through all the Calculus books. Likewise for the Linear Algebra books. My aim was to provide alternative options (which are easier, cheaper, etc.)
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
Yep, this has been the story of my learning experience. I've studied mathematics pretty much entirely on my own, but it's not because I wouldn't love to have company! Having said that, I think it probably would be sufficient
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
Heh, nice to find someone who walked a similar path! :-) Ah Spivak...yes, I absolutely agree it's one of the best books to build up that mathematical maturity everyone talks about. For me Spivak took about 6 months and I managed to do
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Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner(neilwithdata.com)
1232 points by nsainsbury 7y ago|210 comments
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
Not a book, but if you're looking to learn modern SQL in a hands-on way, I created Mastery with SQL (masterywithsql.com) specifically because I was frustrated with traditional SQL (and PostgreSQL) content that's lacking in high qu
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
What's interesting about this as well is that participating in this economy of beefs makes people deeply unhappy right to the core, and yet they can't seem to step away. Take any Twitter user with over 20k followers, and almost to
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
Bingo. I've made this comment several times on Hacker News in the past as well and in my opinion it's the number one reason I've seen ML projects fail to have impact at companies it's deployed: the operators (typically h
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
It's a bit of a harsh heuristic, but after working now on several projects involving ML/AI and reading and watching about the experience of others in the industry too, I've come to associate most claims of ML as snake oil. In
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
I'm working on a new chapter for my course Mastery with SQL ( https://www.masterywithsql.com ) covering query performance and indexing with PostgreSQL. I want to really allow everyone to see first-hand the impact of re-writin
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
Yep, there is! It's just the promo videos on the landing page that don't have this.
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by nsainsbury 7y ago
I actually do cover this in the course! I actively recommend and give examples of using autogenerated identity columns for the primary key, but still in many places in the course do expose people to using the serial types due to their popul

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