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by red_hare 8y ago
My mother has been mostly deaf her whole life. Just the introduction of Bluetooth in the hearing aid (10 years after it was mainstream) was life changing for her (being able to talk on the phone better, watching movies on her iPad, etc.). B
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by red_hare 8y ago
I buy it. Two of my most blue collar friends just made the jump. One a mechanic the other a deli worker, via bootcamps in their late-20s. Neither hated their jobs, but they also couldn’t afford to move out of their parents houses on those i
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by red_hare 8y ago
Can anyone recommend good examples of monoliths in open source? Preferably in Go? I inherited a bunch of micro services at my current job with a fairly small team. My feelings have been that the code had been prematurely micro-serviced cons
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by red_hare 8y ago
Hopefully this will encourage them to finally deal with their handle-squatting issue.
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by red_hare 8y ago
Just gonna piggyback off this and say the family plan is an amazing value if you have aging parents. I recently upgraded to one, set up each of my parents with accounts, and moved all of their passwords out the physical and digital notes th
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by red_hare 9y ago
Honestly, the market is so oversaturated with PHDs who are switching to DS I don't see how anyone can transition into it from a different role. I'm speaking for myself as well as someone with a math background, most people don&#x2
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by red_hare 9y ago
It's not a hard weed-out for us. But, if you talk through variance for 10 minutes, you get pretty close to the formula for standard deviation. Also, for our role, we're specifically hiring someone with extensive stats background s
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by red_hare 9y ago
I actually agree with your breakdown. But, as a "data engineer" with a math background who's spent 5 years building analytics tools, I already identify as your type-2. We're working in a field that already has a rich his
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by red_hare 9y ago
This is a pretty hard problem I haven’t solved just yet. Generally, my in person interview is based on a set of DS problems I’ve been working on and had to do research myself to solve. What I look for is a strong intuition of the underlying
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by red_hare 9y ago
I agree that a graduate degree goes a long way. Even though the requirements of the role varies greatly from team to team, it almost always involves going out to learn and apply new math to solve a problem. That's one of those things a
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by red_hare 9y ago
I'm a data engineer for a startup that's trying to hire its first data scientist. The range of candidates that apply with this title is massive. Defining our expectations has been challenging. My phone screen "fizzbuzz"
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by red_hare 9y ago
I definitely feel the same way about my double-major in Math. My favorite super power that came from the degree is probably "being able to read a statistics text book". I turns out that lots of industries run on statistics. And, i
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by red_hare 9y ago
For the python example, instead of using "\" and "/", you could just use the PETSCII characters that the original 10 PRINT as they were ported to unicode. This is my version python3 -c "while 1: print(chr(i
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by red_hare 10y ago
Generally, you see NULL when the concept of nothing is represented with the byte value of nothing or 0 (e.g. C). Nil tends to be used in languages where the concept of nothing is represented by some sort of container. In lisp, it's sim
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by red_hare 10y ago
This. My company used mongo for years before we got our shit together. Schmemas were always implicit (until we got our shit together and started defining and enforcing them with Python Schematics). Migrations were crazy scripts you run in
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by red_hare 10y ago
Wow, almost 1k of the 2.2k of source is a single regular expression. That's eerily beautiful.
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by red_hare 11y ago
I imagine me! is a multi-arity function which updates and returns his current state given some input. He's simply saying that even without external influences, he's amazed by clojure.
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by red_hare 11y ago
This is awesome! When I was in school, this has always been my go to way to getting people to get out of their "assignment programming" boxes. One of my favorites was having people build a URL shortener using flask and SQLite. The
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by red_hare 12y ago
Pick a small, simple project that will force you to learn new things and put pieces together. My favorite starter server project is building a super simple URL shortener. You just need to render a page with a form, accept a POST from that f
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by red_hare 12y ago
Good call, fixed :)
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by red_hare 12y ago
The entire hack runs in one line of bash: while true; do { echo -e 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'; fortune -s | cowsay; } | nc -l 8080; done
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Cowsay.me(cowsay.me)
4 points by red_hare 12y ago|3 comments
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by red_hare 13y ago
The real experiment is to run the script again and find out how many people are parking the good ones now that i've distributed this list
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by red_hare 13y ago
More importantly, thats something I should have thought to do before running this script for 8 hours. Would have eliminated about an hour of requests :)
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by red_hare 13y ago
The script generates some false positives on reserved words. It's a bug I need to fix.
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by red_hare 13y ago
Yeah. I realized that after this script ran for 8 hours :)
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250,000 English words currently available as Twitter handles(peticol.as)
26 points by red_hare 13y ago|45 comments
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Dustin Dias (Ender.js) and Hon Hoffman (Foursquare) on what to learn(beta.branch.com)
4 points by red_hare 14y ago|0 comments