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by ralphc 7y ago
The author says that $6.99 a month is a no-brainer for his 12 year old daughter, but what about adults? NetFlix has R-rated content that I doubt Disney would produce or carry, and there will always be a market for that.
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by ralphc 7y ago
I'm on a Mid 2012 MacBook Pro, i7, 16GB of RAM, it does the job for most of my development. My problem is, not development work, but my dependence on the MacOS ecosystem over the past 13 years. Music & iPhone in iTunes, Photos app
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by ralphc 8y ago
Does using this to maximum effect mean I have to change the DNS for every device on my network or is there a single change I can make to my router?
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by ralphc 8y ago
Back in the late '80s, my company had a program that included getting the Windows 3.0 source code. Looking through the code I had found the line "goto wearefucked;" and accompanying label further down. When we got the source
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by ralphc 8y ago
Problem is, in most companies "languages for teams" means "languages for the JVM". What is the Go-like team language for the JVM?
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by ralphc 8y ago
Preach, brother/sister! My career started in the early '80s and I say this all the time in comments here on HN. You had less to work with but less was expected of you.
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by ralphc 8y ago
ok, for my $84 a year I'm now on "Github pro". What does "pro" get me beyond private repositories? Anything a solo developer would want?
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by ralphc 8y ago
I'm a 50-something, recently retired but still programming for fun and non-profits. "Rock star" meant something different 30 years ago. Less was expected of you, but also the tools and technologies weren't there to help
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by ralphc 8y ago
Took Andrew Ng's Deep Learning course on Coursera. Good overview of the concepts, plus exposure to Keras and TensorFlow.
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by ralphc 8y ago
I took Andrew Ng's Deep Learning class on Coursera. I recommend it to pick up the principles, and it exposes you to Keras and Tensorflow.
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by ralphc 8y ago
I think this helps explain a question I've had for a long time, from reading articles and from listening to second-hand stories from my CPA wife. The question is "Why don't rich people just pay their damn bills?" I mean
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by ralphc 8y ago
Is Tumblr's acquisition by Yahoo, then Verizon, on there?
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by ralphc 8y ago
Curiosity got the better of me. Google translate, detect language. "Sorry, Charlie. Starkist doesn't want sophisticated tuna, but wants good tuna." Not bad.
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by ralphc 8y ago
This sounds a lot like what people say about computer code. Write it to be understood, not to be "clever" with a minimum lines of code.
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by ralphc 8y ago
I assume "air pollution" would include smoking? My mother was a lifelong smoker and developed Alzheimer's. As smokers die of old age etc. and non-smokers age up, hopefully we can see a reduction of these cases, or at least a
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by ralphc 8y ago
I was able to retire at 55 last year, so it worked out. The last few years were spent at big companies so there was zero pressure to move into management, there were plenty of people that wanted to do that so they had their fill. I think th
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by ralphc 8y ago
Staying in development. I figured out early on that I had no interest in management, and that served me well during the 2000 bubble burst and 2008 crisis. What was harder to learn was that I had no interest in the Software Architect role. I
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by ralphc 8y ago
That bug, no. The latest bugs that Windows no doubt has, yes.
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by ralphc 8y ago
Just power it all the way down. It will take it longer to be usable again than pulling it out of this sarcophagus.
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by ralphc 8y ago
I'm trying to figure this out myself. I do some pen and paper, but for online I use OneNote, used to use Evernote. OneNote is free, and on any given day I could be on iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac or Linux. OneNote has a web client and iO
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by ralphc 8y ago
My guess is they're for the thousands of people who could potentially invest in the company.
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by ralphc 8y ago
Early to mid 2000's a product I worked on had a messaging abstraction that you could use JMS, MQSeries, MSMQ, etc. We tried, really tried, to use JavaSpaces but it had no FIFO guarantee. You could theoretically add and get tuples and o
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by ralphc 8y ago
Was this under Jobs or Scully? Because for someone who complained about other companies having no taste, this has no taste.
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by ralphc 8y ago
The start of this era was around 1987 with "Top Gun" https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/15/arts/marketing-top-gun-ca...
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by ralphc 8y ago
I try to create an account, put in a username and matching passwords, but the "create account" button gives me a circle-bar "you can't do that" pointer, with no explanation. Chrome on OSX.
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by ralphc 8y ago
My wife is a CPA, and now by reflex when I see a story like this I think of the tax consequences. Do you have to count products and event tickets as income and declare it?
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by ralphc 8y ago
Python is the de facto language for the deep learning part of data science, the interface to TensorFlow, PyTorch and Keras. Others may be possible but all the examples, books, etc. use Python.
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by ralphc 8y ago
But if data scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century, and everyone's going to need one or more, there won't be enough PhD's to go around. Someone's going to have to "take a chance" on the lesser degreed
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by ralphc 8y ago
Perhaps the astrophysicists are getting on the data bandwagon, going back through collected data and applying the latest techniques on them. Are there any papers on this not behind paywalls?
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by ralphc 8y ago
Challenge accepted. http://www.takedown.com/sun-thanks.html "This site is running on two SPARCstation 20 Model 152 workstations, provided by Sun Microsystems."

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