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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> I just aren't seeing anything that is bigoted. I'm very, very open to being persuaded otherwise. See, I am starting to realize that you're not actually open, or at least you're not as open as you think you are and y
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
The reddit megathread [0] does a fine job summarizing. What do you personally make of the remarks about homosexuals, many of which are identified and linked in the reddit thread? You say it is nothing that would be "out of place in any
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Which could further be caused by social tendency to punish or ridicule men more than women for the choice to seek mental health help.
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It is mind-boggling to me that the character of the DNC emails isn't basically under 24/7 emphatic media coverage and on the minds of all citizens. The only counter-argument I can imagine is basically what Bernie Sanders himself
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
In theory, I did. There was a lot of commuting, so I can't say for sure that category theory wasn't involved.
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In the same sense that a C-section is a "stretch".
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I learned a ton about my car from reading the car's manual. And, can you believe it, the manual has no exercises in it!
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
When I read the title of this post, I first imagined a happy and earnest grade-school teacher saying it, perhaps sharing the story with some fellow teachers in a teacher's lounge, all discussing it positively. Then I imagined an angry
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Two excellent sources are Moral Mazes [0] and Peopleware [1]. Moral Mazes is a principled and academic study of how managers believe ethics and morality work within systems of bureaucracy, and how this differs from the ethical expectations
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As a developer who has worked both solely on site for years in some jobs, and solely remotely in other jobs, I can say that hallway conversations, random non-deliberate, unplanned communication has absolutely killed productivity for me and
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You are incorrect in your claim. The paper does make a good point that under the umbrella term "interpretability" there are varied and conflicting understandings of what, specifically, is meant. That fact has nearly zero relevance
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I don't think what you are saying is incompatible with my comment. Asking a question such as, "what is it about the data that is causing the model to be fitted like this?" is very healthy and important, but is rarely what any
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Not really. Some hedge funds might be somewhat better, but there are many kinds of hedge funds. A large number of them function in almost precisely the same manner as a traditional asset manager, and are compensated and incentivized in the
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But that's the problem. Bonuses are awarded based on who can argue politically. It's similar to creating Dutch books. Managers will work hard to set a up a situation such that, no matter what the actual performance outcome really
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It goes further. Folks who care strongly about the interpretability factor generally only care because it gives them authority and political control -- they definitely don't actually believe it's a superior, nor even cost-effectiv
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
In fact, I think managing this extra state, also dealing with complications that could arise from object slicing, were the major reasons given when Martin Sústrik argued he should have originally started out with ZeroMQ in C and not in C++.
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One of my most enjoyable experiences as a candidate was when a company shared login information with me for SSH-ing into a temporary virtual machine they had spun up at Amazon S3 solely for the interview. They asked me what editor I'd
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It's a bad tool. It's important to contemplate what is a good tool and what is bad tool -- and to avoid using bad tools when you are able.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Why not sit with them at a computer, let them set up their own preferred working environment, let them have an interactive shell prompt within which to execute snippets of code while they tinker and develop the solution, etc.? I don't
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Doesn't matter. White-board-as-IDE can throw you off so much that you can't think right about the big picture idea, especially if talking in front of people you just met in a stressful interview. It's nothing at all like expl
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
One of the main things is that it continues to perpetuate primarily mouse-driven interaction with the development environment. Even when tools like this enable Emacs or vi key configurations, the integration just never quite works, and ther
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I disagree. I think the parent is trying to say that businesses hired overqualified people and then give them less engaging work for valid business reasons. What I'm trying to say is that you're told you'll be hired for X,
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Nah. Excel is terrible. Tufte's right about that one. I'm sure there are engineers who like Excel -- I mean Coldplay keeps selling albums, so?
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I avoid widgets for data exploration, which should be written from the start in a well-tested and library-focused sort of way even when it's ad hoc. Model tuning absolutely should not be done with something like a widget. In fact, I
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The returns to widgets in these kinds of things are soo diminishing. It looks cool the first 5 times, but then your boss says, "Great. Productionize it" and it's a world of shit. The widgets are good for throwaway demos and p
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I've been unemployed for just about 16 months now, due to a serious family tragedy that required me to not only leave a past job, but also relocate from the east coast to a rural part of the midwest with no nearby tech job centers. The
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I agree, but would phrase it more like this: Jupyter has succeeded because each of the different major modes of interaction have been decoupled. If you just want to use it in a shell, you don't need to involve the browser at all. If yo
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I would only balk at a couple of things, MATLAB, VBA, and extensive server-side Javascript being the main red flags of poor tech culture. I have some additional skepticism about (a) shops that very quickly adopted Go and then display a cult
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Same tired, cliche replies as usual ... you're probably also assuming that my opinions aren't based on job experience, yet they are based on several years of experience in many positions, where I did the 40-hour grind, delivered b
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The slowness and the pan-everything global namespace for the primary libraries are the two biggest problems. The interface for performance-targeted optimizations (mex files) is awful and doesn't hold a candle to Cython. These are downs

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