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by scardine 8y ago
From the wikipedia article about Ceres[1]: > A proposal before the International Astronomical Union for the definition of a planet would have defined a planet as "a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to
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by scardine 8y ago
For comparison, Ceres[1] has a 473 km radius and is considered a dwarf planet. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)
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by scardine 8y ago
I have trouble perceiving other people's emotions, reading body language and facial expressions; it takes more effort to remember faces/names; have other social oddities; but it is hardly incapacitating and you learn how to deal w
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Sure, I agree autism can be very debilitating and pose a heavy burden on the individual and the family. In my family we tend to fell on the lighter side of the spectrum. My 5yo boy is officially diagnosed and he is really smart. My father w
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by scardine 8y ago
Many things classified today as autism spectrum disorders are hardly incapacitating so I would not call it a mental illness.
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I use digitalocean, but also have a few wildcard manually verified with the --manual flag and a bit of cut & paste. It is 5 minutes every 3 months but it is free so I haven't bothered to automate it (just get an intern doing it eve
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by scardine 8y ago
Except for lisps, few languages let you name functions/variables using dashes and other symbols but looks like any legal name in Clojure is fair game: function people-eq?(p1 p2) if p1 == p2 then println("Are Eq
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by scardine 8y ago
May be Canada can't attract top talent from USA but the best half of the team that worked with me in Brazil the last couple years are now in Canada, Ireland or Germany.
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I just use plain text-areas and markdown - it avoids a lot of footguns from text-editor-like widgets.
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I have and it works but they completely revamped the implementation in 2.0. I'm procrastinating the upgrade because it is a royal pain.
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My first job was designing circuit boards using a software called PCAD, 30 years ago. It did a pretty good job with automatic routing for software running on a i386 PC with a couple MB of RAM.
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Brazil is a huge country and and saying Brazilians are always late is like saying all North Americans are ignorant of non-local history and cultures. I have a profound respect for other people's time and demand the same respect for min
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As an introvert I avoid being the first guest to arrive or the last to leave.
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by scardine 8y ago
Not exactly this one but you could dig moholes. I guess a mohole deep enough to get you 1 atm would be too hot for humans but I will not even try to do the math.
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Just finished "Red Mars", the book aged quite well for the scifi genre. SPOILER ALERT: The book ends with a dissident faction of Mars settlers living in a hidden water ice dome under the polar cap.
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That. Your attempts at entertaining small talk often will be perceived as sassy, cynical or arrogant.
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> Once Adobe products start to support linux, there will be an even better adoption. Is this being considered at all? My wife is a professional designer that likes Krita but can't stand gimp/inkscape.
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I like business logic in JavaScript and presentation logic in templates - for me Vue fits the bill.
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My theory is that communities like HN and StackOverflow are a magnet for very smart people with a very direct style of communication. Yes, they sound sassy or snarky but most have no intention to be mean. They just lack most of the brain c
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by scardine 8y ago
Since the typing module used to be one of the slowest modules in core you paid a performance penalty even if cpython does no care about type annotations (improved in 3.7). So it does have something to do with performance... There are other
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PS: you do get some leeway when you just joined a company, enjoy your honeymoon grace period.
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This is how things should run if the work culture was logic based but with rare exceptions it isn't. As a borderline autistic person I have a very direct communication style and lost account of how many times I burned myself for failin
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In the end hiring is a lottery for both sides. It is like finding a good marriage in a speed date.
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Tried to cancel an Upwork account, a message said I should call a number in USA. I called and a message told me I should call between x AM to y PM business days. It is somewhat expensive to call from Brazil just to hear a recorded message s
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Of course if he is dead and is a public figure and the other part discloses it the exchange is now part of history. What is wrong with that? I love to read correspondence from folks like Newton[1] for example and I want my grandchildren to
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Anything improving dict performance will have significant impact because lots of things in Python are implemented using dicts under the hood (including namespaces).
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"The Emperor's New Clothes" are made of the finest blockchain silk adorned with golden AI brocades.
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Not the OP but the secret is to pick a niche and attend events related to your industry segment. I'm active in the local Python meetups, they are a great source of business leads.
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Sure man, shoot. And if by any means you get nearby São Paulo lets have a coffee/beer/whatever.
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Did this transition 10 years ago (Brazil). It takes some discipline. I guess the $100,000 CAD is not that good if you are working full time for them (specially in the most expensive provinces) because you will not have time for business dev

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