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by rfrey 6y ago
I can tell you that I've started Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs at least five times. Probably doesn't count.
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by rfrey 6y ago
I like React, but this is the first time I've heard it described as a fast-prototyping framework. I believe the Rails guys would be optimizing the SEO and conducting A/B tests by the time I finished deciding whether or not to use
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by rfrey 6y ago
That helps... my dream involves personal financial independence though. I'd want to study what I wanted without regard for what was publishable, whether I was tainting myself with the Cross-Disciplinary Death Scent, whether the people
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by rfrey 6y ago
Nope, still working - just incorporated my latest startup. 7th time the charm?
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by rfrey 6y ago
Sorry for the roadblocks it sounds like your career has hit. I think I chose correctly - I'd only really enjoy a PhD if I were doing it as a member of the Leisured Aristocracy. I only regret not having entered that club, despite having
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by rfrey 6y ago
Teadrunk said it in another reply - peers. I really want to hang out around smart, curiosity-driven people who are pushing the boundaries of knowledge. I realize that describes a small subset of PhD candidates and professors, but I believe
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by rfrey 6y ago
I spent my 20s trying to get rich enough to become a professional student. My 30s too. Its looking like this is also how I'll spend my 50s, which are approaching like a steam train. Bring on the MIT Golden Years Home for the Intellectu
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by rfrey 6y ago
Seems to me that we won't really know if the Swedish approach was a disaster or not until economies are reopened, second waves happen or don't, etc. The game isn't over.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Surely grid applications doing daily balancing care about cycles.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Not really, since we're really talking about the size of swimming pool you need to hold the coins you dive into.
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by rfrey 6y ago
I have not attended the Startup School, but I imagine there's a lot of value in personally recruiting your first 20 or 50 customers. You get to talk directly to them; you get a chance (not easy, though!) to find out the real reason the
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by rfrey 6y ago
I am full to my neckline with Clojure kool-aid: I love the language and programming experience. But the "getting started" your parent is referring to, IMO, is getting the tooling set up, getting the repls connected, figuring out w
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by rfrey 6y ago
You mocked the worst possible straw-man interpretation of your parent's comment. Smileysteve clearly meant his tour of the plant indicated relatively few workers in the plant relative to other plants, and work could probably be arrange
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by rfrey 6y ago
> I can't imagine greybeards programming in rust. Why not?
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by rfrey 7y ago
$179 for an excel template, in case anyone is curious. $10,000 value though!
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by rfrey 7y ago
Beethoven is bigger than "piano". Also, there is very little outrage in this thread - some sadness, some resignation, some head shaking sure, but not outrage.
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by rfrey 7y ago
The book didn't introduce people to design patterns, it invented the concept within the discipline of software programming. Perhaps one needs to have been in industry before and after this book to appreciate how it introduced a commo
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by rfrey 7y ago
"If you don't have a badge and a gun, I'm not opening the door for any reason"
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by rfrey 7y ago
What? What if it's a neighbour you haven't met asking you over for a bbq? Or somebody who noticed your garage door was swinging open and wanted you to know they'd closed it? Or OMG what if somebody needs a boost because their
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by rfrey 7y ago
I wonder what moved Clojure from melancholy to sadism? Hickey's glasses, probably.
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by rfrey 7y ago
People wanting a full treatise on hand scraping should look into Machine Tool Reconditioning by Connelly, available on the used market and the usual other sources. A close runner up for books is Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy by Moore.
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by rfrey 7y ago
Because medical associations understand supply and demand.
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by rfrey 7y ago
Well, it's another piece of evidence to support the hypothesis that our parents and grandparents had modern human-like qualities. Don't discount it: these theories proceed by slow aggregation of data, not one big-bang discovery.
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by rfrey 7y ago
Your parent is the founder of classcentral.com, not Coursera.
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by rfrey 7y ago
A "strong placebo effect that lasts" is not a placebo effect.
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by rfrey 7y ago
Google's ToS says you're not allowed to do any computation on your own? I mean, I'm not disputing it, I just hadn't realized we were already there.
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by rfrey 7y ago
Your comment appears incredibly arrogant to me. Trivializing detection of auto-immune disorders tells me immediately you have no experience in the field, or if you do you are theory-heavy and practice-light. My daughter has an auto-immune d
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by rfrey 7y ago
The tips are generally dine through the app and passes on by the company.
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by rfrey 7y ago
>To be fair though, you compiled bits of sentences from completely different sections to make it look more contradictory than it is. I think consistency across different sections is a reasonable expectation.
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by rfrey 7y ago
A good faith interpretation of aneutron's comment is that they heard this report on Reuters; saw the author is from the Czech Republic and thought it was a good opportunity to find out about "local news" on the issue to get a

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