sciprojguy

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by sciprojguy 5y ago
This is similar to my experience. My company <redacted> is doing a stripe integration and I wasted a week playing with the multiple different sample apps that were provided "as is" and only made significant progress by igno
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
I can see management thinking that this is true for people working "bullshit jobs" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs ).
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
Not really. Well-crafted ads that convey a compelling message in context are fine the first time or two that you see them. Even the best ones get really irritating when they're played over and over and over, at which point they motiv
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
I flatly refuse to have the Facebook app on any of my devices, and if they start charging to use it I'll happily delete my account.
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
It lost me in the first sentence of the body of the paper. I am not "human capital"; I am a person hired to do a job.
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
when you see the phrases "Bayesian analysis" and "concludes beyond a reasonable doubt" in the same sentence you can be pretty sure it's equine fecal matter being passed off as chocolate energy drink.
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
I'm stoked for this to be usable on things like PyTorch.
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
FYI, Apple isn't a monopoly. Worldwide, Android has almost six times the market share that iOS does ( https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os ). If you want to keep slinging dorm-room libertarian
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
On paper that's fine. Do that too much, though, and your willingness to burn personal time for the company's benefit will become the norm and factor into their planning. Getting management to un-learn that is difficult and trick
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
That's fine until that manager wises up and keeps a long backlog of things to assign to you so you don't have time to prove him (or her) wrong.
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
Former software dev manager here. My job was split roughly into thirds - babysitting and mediating team issues, running interference to keep the executives out of my team's hair and bird-dogging HR and payroll issues. I would walk ar
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
Hmm. Are you checking for SQL injections?
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
If my company announced that they were going to use this, that announcement would be followed in fairly short order by a brain dump of all the stuff I've been working on for them and then my resignation effective immediately.
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
I did this back in the 90's and while it's a nice bucket list entry I wouldn't go back to it.
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
That kind of thing looks good on paper but fails miserably in reality. No individual has the bandwidth to verify everything themselves, and precious few have the numerical and statistical literacy to be able to even verify samples here and
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
Ha. Using Foundation, Swift and SwiftUI I can write an app that doesn't require a trip to GitHub or Node.js in order to work properly. I can prototype my UI right there in Xcode, and if there's something I need that hasn't
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
True enough. Swift Codable with optional properties handles this automatically.
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
This is all great until you get to the stakeholder who prototypes something in Excel (or Honeycode, I guess) and since it only "took them a few days to do this" can't understanding why scaling it up takes six months or a year
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by sciprojguy 6y ago
Great. Another ReactNative. Just what we need.
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by sciprojguy 7y ago
Native iOS developer here (10 years). Knowing how to leverage UIKit and CoreAnimation properly can give a very smooth UX. SwiftUI has significantly upped the ante on iOS13 and future versions; it's reactive without the middleware lay