quantumhobbit

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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
I don’t like adding low content comments, but I have to say this whole series is great so far. Im about 50% through.
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
This is a weird answer. But it was probably the project that almost ruined my career. I once started a project to add in A/B testing to a legacy platform that really wasn’t supportive of any such changes. The project was a technical su
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
Completely agreed, but that isn’t what seems to happen in reality. Im not a hiring manager but what seems to happen is when presented with too many candidates, hiring managers redefine qualified to be more like themselves.
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by quantumhobbit 8y ago
I think we have seen that an excess of qualified candidates, for some values of qualified, leads to problems with diversity in tech. After all if you have enough candidates, you can choose to only hire clones if the founders. And completely
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
Disposable Diapers are surprisingly high tech, or at least well engineered. See: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNX8y6lQMc
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
I hate the whole api copyright stuff, but part if me is hoping this leads to a decline in popularity of Java. I don’t even hate Java that much I just hate the Java is the only “serious programming language” attitude so common in this indust
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
How about, your task is to program a thermostat, but also keep the thermostat from mining bitcoins because an npm module you downloaded has been compromised.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
There are pyopencl and pycuda. Not sure what the best tutorials would be though.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
I don’t know that the people making the decisions care all that much. Even though programmers are expensive, most managers seem to prefer to hire a dozen programmers where far fewer would get the job done if given access to better tools. Th
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
Scott Meyers' Effective C++ books are really good for learning the "right way" to code C++. He has a good intro to c++11 and 14 too, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22800553-effective-moder... D
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
I keep a notebook partially to help myself but also to protect myself James Comey style. It really comes in handy when non-coding managers ask what I do all day or when they try to gaslight me on my commitments. And yes, I am looking for a
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
Companies definitely try to inflate their rankings with fake or forced reviews. But these are usually pretty easy to spot. They are often short vague 5-star reviews. Read longer reviews and judge for yourself. Don’t trust the star ratings.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
He highlights the speculative nature of the theory quite frequently within the article. It would take pretty poor reading comprehension or deliberate misreading to conclude that he was presenting established scientific facts.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
Lots of what we now consider symptoms were thought of as diseases until the underlying problem was better understood. It wasn’t that long ago that your fever example was how people thought. The fever was the disease regardless of the unknow
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
Let’s not forget that it often makes sense to call in sick just to be able to complete work that requires concentration in a quiet environment.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
Headphone jack. Escape key. MagSafe charger.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
What's a good resource for learning about expert systems? I'm curious about this "dead end" but most of what I've found online has been about the ai winter and not the technical details of expert systems.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
My two year old will not fall asleep without at least 1 sometimes 3 readings of "snuggle puppy". I definitely recommend any of these books to parents of toddlers.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
I'm in Richmond VA.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
I've recently started mentally comparing tech companies that complain about the "lack of talent" to SUV drivers who complain about the price of gas. There is so much low hanging fruit in terms of improving engineers productiv
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
I'm in a pretty small secondary market and was recently advised by someone who knows what he is talking about to never accept less than $200/hr for contract work. That is the going rate around here and accepting less signals that
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
If you want better than mediocre employees then guess what the solution is? More money! Although mediocre employees can often become great employees with some training and coaching.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
I have R in a nutshell. It is a pretty good reference but maybe a little brief and outdated.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
"Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can." Should cover open offices
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
True, but still very common in this industry.
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
I'm fond of "sneeze distribution center"
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
My wife grew up with a border collie. Her grandparents kept chickens, fluffy white chickens, and to the dog they were tiny sheep. So the dog spent hours herding the chickens, kept them in a group. Of course chickens are not sheep so they wo
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
I would ask why is there a set cycle for raises? If an employee is valuable enough for a raise why wait and risk a competitor poaching them before the cycle comes around? That may sound far fetched but my current company has a very rigid an
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
Aka a blueprint to turn your efficient company into a bloated office politics obsessed enterprise. I have never seen a company with such a structured review process not have the review process gamed by political players. Especially peer rev
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by quantumhobbit 9y ago
I wasn't familiar with "Chatham House rules". But it is allows members to present controversial arguments but prevents anyone from associating their arguments to them after the fact. For example, I can cite the argument later

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