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by plinkplonk 6y ago
Julia
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by plinkplonk 6y ago
How does this work with Apple phones? Will apple make set up of their phones dependent on installing government spyware first? How do they handle this in China? And does this mean that android permissions no longer work? What if people jus
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by plinkplonk 6y ago
Done!
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by plinkplonk 6y ago
(I am Indian and live in India fwiw) How about 10k Rs to be donated to the winner's favorite charity? How about 1 January 2022 as a settlement date? If the app is still mandatory on that date, I win, else you do.
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by plinkplonk 6y ago
>the IT sweatshops that produced it. "The app, conceived by NITI Aayog, has been developed in two weeks by the National Informatics Centre in collaboration with the developers of makemytrip.com and 1mg.com." [1] None of these a
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
From the Gleam FAQ "How is message passing typed? Gleam doesn't currently have first class support for the BEAM's concurrency primitives such as receive, send, and spawn. This is because research is still ongoing as to the be
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
yes, the author seems to use "metagame" to mean a combination of pre-game strategizing (including creation opponent specific strategy) and post game review (+ absorbing lessons learned into the pre game strategizing for the next g
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
thank you for this! I was reading the article with the latter meaning in mind, and got quite confused. Should read the comments on HN first!
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
Does the author actually define "metagame" anywhere? He seems to use the term throughout the article to mean multiple subtly different things.
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
"An example of an alternative that is appropriate for a lot of web companies (for example Google, Amazon and Booking) is an A/B test culture. Release features as A/B tests with transparent metrics. Share the metrics with ever
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
There are a few courses on Edx (that I think) are worth paying for (under the new scheme, where you can audit courses for free, but lose access to videos, homework etc once the course is over). But, for such courses, edx also requires uploa
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
> 4) They randomly decided one day to stop paying me royalties "because PayPal takes too much commission" or something. Wow wouldn't that be illegal?
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How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University – Part 4(quantstart.com)
7 points by plinkplonk 7y ago|0 comments
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
SML is a great language, but the tooling around it wasn't so hot the last time I checked (admittedly more than a decade ago. With a medium sized ( a few ten thousand lines) project I had weird build errors and in the end wrote a makef
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
great comment. Thank you for taking the time to write it. If someone were to actually implement your step by step approach - vs just reading and moving on - I suspect they'd find a lot of clarity.
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
Thanks Jacques. Same to you, (and everyone on HN!)
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
This might be relevant A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation by David Hanson and Chritopher Fraser https://www.amazon.com/Retargetable-Compiler-Design-Implemen... Written in a literate programming style.
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
this is unlikely to be a popular opinion here :-) but as someone who lives in a culture (India) overrun by "gurus" of all shapes and forms, spouting Roscharchian mumbo jumbo packaged as "ancient wisdom", I largely agree
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
just trying to understand - you guys think moving a Python2 monolith to Python 3 is too painful, and so you are going to port all the code from Python2 to a completely new language (Go), change the architecture (monolith -> microservices
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
" It's a point of great controversy among contemporary Buddhists:" among contemporary western Buddhists, maybe, who have a hard time wrapping their heads around the concept, (which is understandable, since Christianity - at
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
A variant on the OP's question. What are good books on leadership that are written by people who have actual experience of being great leaders? Most books on leadership seem to be written by people who have no experience of leadership,
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
Hey Ryan, In the interview you say that you transitioned from dev to design. How did you go about doing this? Any advice for someone planning a similar shift?
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
The Mixpanel (if that is the company being referred to, seems pretty obvious) CEO's callous firing of someone who asked for a raise, then threatening anyone who disagreed with this decision with termination is horrendous (if true).
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The world needs an alternative to Selenium – so we built one(hackernoon.com)
18 points by plinkplonk 7y ago|0 comments
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
Thanks a lot!
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
Sorry for the dumb question, I'm not an expert on startup finance, but what is a " pre emptive offer"? The article assumes the reader knows( which is fine, but I don't know, hence the question here, thanks in advance )
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
In your place, I'd work through a basic algorithms + data structures book first, doing the exercises etc before attempting leetcode. Learning via attempting leetcode problems directly seems suboptimal, like trying to learn calculus by
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
thanks to the both of you. (MathematicalArt and jacques_chester) Time to buy some books!
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
Thanks for the reccomendation. I read Meadows's book and it felt a little too "woo" to me. I mean, I sense there is something very valuable there, but past the initial sections, I somehow felt I was reading a New Age fluff bo
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by plinkplonk 7y ago
I don't have an answer to your question. Since they haven't started the course yet, I doubt anyone has direct experience, but the curriculum for the fall 2019 fall offering is (from their home page [1] ) 1. CS 391L Machine Learnin

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