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by pyoung 10y ago
How often do you find yourself doing operations like this? I feel like it would take me more time to formulate and confirm that your set of commands are correct than it would for me to just ctrl+f to each instance and then ctrl-v the ones
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by pyoung 10y ago
My take on it, use what is easiest for you. Especially in your situation where it sounds like you are more of a recreational/casual programmer. Free time is a precious commodity and in your case it is probably better spent getting mor
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by pyoung 10y ago
It sounds like you left because you were burnt out. The fact that you were incented by larger bonuses doesn't change that. Many industries and companies use bonuses as a way to incentivize over-work (Wall St in particular) and they e
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by pyoung 10y ago
One idea for you stats page - Number of job listings over time, broken down by various attributes (programming language, location, source of post, etc...). There is a lot of talk of another dot-com bubble, and this could be another data po
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by pyoung 10y ago
I am a huge fan of MOOCs. I strongly believe that these courses and this style of education will be one of the greatest by-products of the modern internet. I was a happy and eager participant in the 'early days' (I took ~2 years
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by pyoung 10y ago
That's neat! Regarding your temp sensor issues, I used the same sensor for beer monitoring. Not sure if is is the same issue, but I was able to resolve it[1]. [1] http://www.blog.pyoung.net/2015/01/28/ds1
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by pyoung 10y ago
>>> I also seemed to have an ever-increasing strength of prescription. I have a hunch that optometrists tend to slightly overprescribe the strength. Every time I would get a new prescription, I would walk out with superhuman vision
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by pyoung 10y ago
Your assumptions on typical behavior do not match my experiences. I normally bring my own bags, and because of that, I pack the bags while the clerk scans the items (as opposed to having that person do both tasks). This greatly increases
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by pyoung 10y ago
They did a post-mortem and pretty much just blamed the polls[1], but didn't really go into detail about why their model spit out that number. But for what it's worth, I have a background in data analytics, and I would never creat
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by pyoung 10y ago
At least for me, it went something like this: 1. Trump says something really bad 2. Check a poll aggregator (538) 3. Breath sigh of relief For a good chunk of the election, Hillary had a really big lead in the polls. But after the Comey in
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by pyoung 10y ago
I think the election is the most plausible explanation. Modern American politics has turned into it's own sport, with the debates, commentary, polling, and predictive modeling, following a modern election these days feel eerily simila
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by pyoung 10y ago
The biggest need for storage is to offset the intermittency of solar and wind, and to help shift peak solar generation (typically 12-2pm) to match peak demand (typically 4-8pm). Reliable and affordable storage is a prerequisite to wide sca
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by pyoung 10y ago
I did 75% time for six months. In my case I was approached by an old employer because they really needed the extra help. I originally asked for a contracting arrangement, but according to HR they couldn't do that, so we settled on th
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by pyoung 10y ago
I can't quite tell what you are trying to argue, because you acknowledge that government incentives have helped, yet you seem to be claiming that the success of solar was due to free market economics. Just to set the record straight, t
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by pyoung 10y ago
The employer isn't magically immune to market forces simply because they move to a transparent salary system. If they are significantly under-paying their employees, and they are not making up the difference via other benefits (shorte
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by pyoung 10y ago
Negotiations still take place, they just happen in a different format. For example if the Technical Lead is having trouble hiring due to low salaries for the positions, he would make the case to management that they need to raise the salar
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by pyoung 10y ago
What Gawker did was disgusting, but what irks me about Thiel's actions is the fact that most of his wealth was created by investing in businesses that have significantly reduced consumer privacy (i.e. Facebook, Palantir, etc..). How m
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by pyoung 10y ago
So exempt primary residences from large tax hikes. The original promise of Prop 13 was to protect grandma from having to sell her home due to rising property values. But there have been some pretty bad side effects and a lot of the benefi
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by pyoung 10y ago
Except for the fact that I would describe myself as a moderate. I can empathize with the desire and need for sensible tax cuts and smaller government, but I can't support a platform that is incoherent and hypocritical. EDIT: To add a
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by pyoung 10y ago
Or it could be due to the fact that the current conservative movement relies on deception to push it's agenda, which makes it difficult for the average lay person to even understand what they stand for. Tax cuts marketed as economic s
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by pyoung 10y ago
Probably the safest 'investment' you can make is to put panels on your roof (assuming your utility is supportive, barring that wait for batteries to get cheap/good). Solar stocks are a minefield at the moment (largely thanks
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by pyoung 10y ago
Fair point. I am more into beer, so waste isn't as much of an issue (unless it's a bomber of really high ABV stuff, in which case I just wait for the weekend and/or when I am with someone to share). But I have found the TJ&
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by pyoung 10y ago
Seems like a low tech solution to your problem is boxed wine. Trader Joe's sells some good ones for ~$12 (and they hold the equivalent of 4 bottles of wine). http://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article/2
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by pyoung 11y ago
Tesla was part of that program and without that loan they would not be around today. Also, the loans are expected to profitable [1], although I read somewhere that when accounting for administration costs, the program overall would end up
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by pyoung 11y ago
A lot of folks like to argue against BI by pointing out population*(BI $/person) = $$$$$ (really big number). The counter argument is that most people won't be netting the full BI as they would be paying it back in taxes somehow.
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by pyoung 11y ago
I have zero experience in this area, but regarding the price volatility, I was under the impression that a lot of the massive late-stage investment rounds had been structured more like debt. So something like 2-3x liquidity preference, wit
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by pyoung 11y ago
This could potentially have some positive secondary effects on the more populated areas as well. SF rent/home prices are insane, and part of the reason is due to the supply of good jobs. With less pressure to relocate to job centers,
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by pyoung 11y ago
BI could have an impact because it could relieve the pressure on job centers (SF, NYC, LA, etc...) as people wouldn't be forced to move to look for work (and I imagine plenty of folks would leave those areas as well, because they are n
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by pyoung 11y ago
A few years back I made the mistake of allowing Anaconda to prepend it's path to .bashrc without realizing it. I was a bit of a novice back then, but I had a number of existing projects in virtualenvs on my system and was rather upset
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by pyoung 11y ago
Looks like the car he is using already comes with adaptive cruise control and lane keeping assist[1]. Can someone with more knowledge on the subject chime in on how/what he is doing that improves upon those? [1] http://www.a

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