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Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)(danwang.co)
130 points by ptr 6y ago|423 comments
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by ptr 6y ago
Why would fib(35) be more optimal with a differently sized cache? And how come _5_ is optimal? Wouldn’t 2 be all you need? What am I missing?
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Covid-19 Country Overviews(covid19-country-overviews.ecdc.europa.eu)
1 points by ptr 6y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 6y ago
I thought the third party tool was a kext and was made non-functional. Is there a new way?
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by ptr 6y ago
The gas tank on top of a bus in Stockholm exploded when the bus was about to enter a tunnel protected by a metal bar: https://youtu.be/4pVStENP_Y4
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by ptr 6y ago
A hypothesis could be that these great developers became what they are due to an extreme internal drive at a young age; they already have tons of experience and the right attitudes/thinking patterns when joining the work force. If they
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All human communication fails, except by accident(jkorpela.fi)
1 points by ptr 6y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 6y ago
Generally a “long call” would mean that you bought a call option. If you sell/write the contract, you’re short. Your position is in the derivative instrument itself, it's not cascaded onto the underlying. I also know multi-layered
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by ptr 6y ago
This issue has been a real nuisance for at least 5 years and I could never retrain myself. One solution that worked for me was to make it full screen with its own Space.
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by ptr 6y ago
But aren't they running the risk of computers treating these as octal numbers instead?
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by ptr 6y ago
An interesting point regarding the "ministerial rule" is that the other Scandinavian countries don't have the same restriction on politicians, at least not in law/constitution.
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by ptr 7y ago
Most people that I know have been WFH for some time, myself for 4 weeks. It's not like people are out and about like they used to -- the social distancing is self-imposed.
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by ptr 7y ago
The case with Sweden is that the central government ("regeringen") cannot order people around; it's explicitly forbidden in the Swedish constitution ("ministerstyre"). This is different from many other countries, li
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by ptr 7y ago
Not shaking hands has been the norm for some weeks now in Sweden. I thought this was the case everywhere?
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by ptr 7y ago
The government gets a lot of flak for this (tame? naïve?) approach, but the underlying principles are interesting in a general leadership perspective -- setting a goal without explicitly forcing people: “Therefore, you don’t need to microma
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In the Coronavirus Fight in Scandinavia, Sweden Stands Apart(nytimes.com)
1 points by ptr 7y ago|2 comments
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by ptr 7y ago
The senior probably had both Knowledge and Understanding, and decided (correctly) in a split second which solution was good enough in all applicable dimensions, including the temporal (is it easy to change this if we have to?)
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Remote Development Productivity at Microsoft: 'No Lunchtime Dip'(visualstudiomagazine.com)
2 points by ptr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 7y ago
An article dedicated to why Rail's Active Record library isn't actually using the Active Record pattern would be interesting!
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by ptr 7y ago
It's a very interesting topic but it gets weird when large words ("completely unworkable", "causes huge problems in even small projects", "retrieving whole rows is hugely wasteful", "unfortunately Act
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Oil Prices Dive as Saudi Arabia Takes Aim at Russian Production(nytimes.com)
3 points by ptr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 7y ago
Unfortunately a lot of things tend to break down anyway when the power is gone: doors won't open, PoS machines won't work, etc. What might work is actually cell phone payments due to the towers having power backup.
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by ptr 7y ago
Two other things he missed (or maybe that's the "too much to list" under smartphones) that have been a true revolution for me: * Buying groceries in an app and getting them delivered directly to my door (without being super
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by ptr 7y ago
Erlang is mainly used in the control plane at Ericsson -- you'd never write a DSP in it for example. Most code is sadly not Erlang.
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by ptr 7y ago
Market rate for .NET contractors here in Stockholm is ~£570 a day (~£71/h). I wonder why market rates are higher here, despite standing still for many years.
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by ptr 7y ago
Stora Enso is actually a merger of two companies; Swedish Stora and Finnish Enso. It’s Stora that was founded in 1288 with the copper mine in Falun ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Mine ), which produced 2/3
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by ptr 7y ago
I'm quite aware of the taxes involved -- as I said, I've been working as a consultant for some time now. What you might be forgetting is that, with a company, you can plan your taxes better. Take out a minimal salary and put every
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by ptr 7y ago
Assignments that are accessible by "anyone" at the consultant brokers are often listed around 750-950 SEK/hour, which means ~470 to ~600 GBP/day if you work 8 hours per day -- clients usually don't mind you working
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by ptr 7y ago
I don't understand your anger, but it's interesting that you've got such a completely different experience of the situation. FWIW, I've also studied in the US, and I've hired developers in Stockholm. There are of co
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by ptr 7y ago
Is Sweden's tech industry an utter joke, though? Stockholm and Sweden rank very high, both when it comes to old-style tech companies (Ericsson, etc) and startups. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/

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