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by paddy_m 4y ago
I miss driving across vast stretches of emptiness in Utah, which is somewhat related. I would see these vast spaces and want to explore, via bike, dirt bike or foot. Another fun, related cartography activity is to find the longest drive be
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by paddy_m 4y ago
I am working on something similar to a dataframe explorer called data cleaning framework. Would love to talk to some people about it. The idea is that everytime I start data analysis with pandas, I run through the same adhoc data cleaning
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by paddy_m 4y ago
Location: Boston Remote: Or Hybrid preferred Willing to relocate: for an awesome opportunity Technologies: python, pandas, typescript, django, PostgreSQL Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddymullen/
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by paddy_m 4y ago
Keeping modernish (5-15 years old) bikes running and upgrading them is one of the most confusing processes I have gone through. Many times I have gone to purchase a replacement part or upgrade online, only to put it off 3-5 times because I
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by paddy_m 4y ago
I'm surprised there aren't greater economies of scale for bicycles, especially bikeshare bikes. A rough approximation... Bikes are almost 3 times more expensive per pound than cars while being much simpler. A citibike weighs 45 l
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by paddy_m 4y ago
Can you expand on this. does this change make it easy to communicate why a program was rejected?
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by paddy_m 4y ago
Physical buttons. Fast boot time. I'm looking at buying an aftermarket head unit. The biggest feature for me is the boot time of the head unit, followed by good feeling physical buttons. Suggestions?
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by paddy_m 4y ago
Reducing the issuance of placards won't solve anything if parking isn't enforced. The governing class (NYPD, FDNY, city government workers) in NYC starts their day by driving in and parking wherever they please knowing full well
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by paddy_m 4y ago
> There is absolutely nothing about Python which makes it especially suited to scientific programming or any other kind of programming. Compared to Java and JS there is. The lack of operator overloading would make numpy matrix manipulat
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by paddy_m 4y ago
There absolutely is a whole area of study of the economics of housing and land use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_economics . In the US we have chosen not to implement any of the recommended policies. The
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by paddy_m 5y ago
I agree, Stallman is an incredibly poor leader and holds back the free software movement, FSF, and FSF projects at this point. It's not just that I disagree with his absolutist view on free software, he holds back the movement from ac
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by paddy_m 5y ago
Not mentioned here but important, I strongly prefer and recommend an opinionated framework like django, rails, (possibly ember) over mix match frameworks (express, flask) because they have already thought more about most design decisions th
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by paddy_m 5y ago
Dassault Systems was spun off from the european fighter plane manufacturer with the same name. They bought up solidworks and Catia and runs as a standalone business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Syst%C3%A8mes
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by paddy_m 5y ago
I have been working to script Autodesk Fusion 360 with python recently. Programming against this environment is tough and frustrating. A couple of things I have noticed 1. Using the API is far from intuitive. There are many objects that
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by paddy_m 6y ago
If you're interested in machining, check out the Business of Machining podcast. https://businessofmachining.libsyn.com/ Every week John Saunders of NYCCNC talks about his business with John Grimsmo of Grimsmo knives
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by paddy_m 6y ago
I wrote an email to friends years ago about a side job I got at a machine shop while working in tech, it was quite well received. email in my profile, contact me and I'll send it to you.
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by paddy_m 7y ago
Nimbius. Awesome to see mechanics here. I'm a programmer working on a startup in the heavy equipment space. I would like to talk to you, my email is in my profile.
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by paddy_m 7y ago
Towns are fine, it's suburban sprawl that's the problem. If you like the outdoors and wilderness, you should want more people to live in the city so they don't tarnish the countryside. I would really like to see hunters sta
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by paddy_m 7y ago
I'm glad they are all screwed together. Years ago I broke my wrist and couldn't rotate my left wrist in all of the proper ways. I tried some key pedals, which were helpful but very finicky, there wasn't good tactile feedba
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by paddy_m 7y ago
I once read an awesome paper that wrote a lisp compiler as a series of lisp macros that defined more and more of the language in terms of a smaller and smaller set of primitives. Then it started introducing new primitives that were lisp st
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by paddy_m 7y ago
I took a side job in a machine shop over the winter.I was loading parts in and out of CNC machines, doing a little setup, cutting metal, made one fixture, and a lot of floor mopping. I thought the manual labor was going to make me apprecia
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by paddy_m 7y ago
Great ideas. I also have started bringing in an extra pair of shoes - loafers. I sweat into my hiking shoes that I wear into work, take them and the socks off so they can dry, then wear loafers around the office. At the end of the day I
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by paddy_m 7y ago
Wow you named almost every channel I pay attention to. I would add Matt Cremona, AvE, NYCCNC and April Wilkerson. I listen to the Welding Tips and Tricks podcast that features a 60 year old from Alabama (Hi It's Jody from Welding Tips
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by paddy_m 7y ago
You can do this with most any ORM by mapping tables on top of views defined in SQL. I regularly use this pattern with Django's ORM to make complex aggregations only a foreign key away. I can write detailed performant SQL that it is i
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by paddy_m 7y ago
I had a matrox card on my 486 dx4 120. This would have been around 95-97. I remember matrox being the best for 2d acceleration. Back then the voodoo cards were brand new and rare.
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by paddy_m 7y ago
When I lived in NYC I started inviting friends for a "walk and talk" instead of going to a bar. Going to a bar is such a generic crutch for "I want to spend some time with you". Walking around the city and catching up
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I use pandas mostly, rarely dropping down to NumPy. Are there non ML/neural network use cases where this library is meaningfully faster than numpy?
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I completely agree about buttons. Touch screens have no place in a car.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Phillip Greenspun occasionally (every couple of years) teaches a 3 day deep dive on SQL at MIT. It's free and open to everyone. I have gone to TA the class twice and I learned a bunch walking students through the exercises. Highly r
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Thanks for the responses, looks like I have some digging to do. My point remains though that I don't know of a way to write user extensible syntax in SQL. I can get by fine in most languages without user extensible syntax (especially

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