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by solresol 8y ago
> Why can't I debug a function without restarting my program? I do this in Erlang all the time. It's one of the most fun parts about the whole system.
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by solresol 8y ago
Anecdata: ACLF in Mountain View had so many people attending that they had to have volunteers direct traffic. (To be fair, that was about a decade ago, so it might have changed. And even now it just looks like an office block rather than a
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by solresol 8y ago
Roughly 20% of the USA will be at church this Sunday. In other countries it might be lower (e.g. about 10% of Australians will be at church this Sunday) but in western nations a general rule of thumb is that each week more people will be at
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by solresol 8y ago
Daisee (www.daisee.com) | Software Engineer, Devops, Data Scientists | Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, Australia | Full-time, ONSITE, no visa but vague chance of REMOTE for someone brilliant We make software for call centre operators to tra
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by solresol 8y ago
Unlikely to be true in general. I'm having no troubles hiring Haskell developers. Hiring good front-end developers on the other hand....
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by solresol 9y ago
Daisee (www.daisee.com) | Software Engineer, Devops, Data Scientists | Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, Australia | Full-time, ONSITE, no visa but vague chance of REMOTE for someone brilliant Daisee makes NLP and computer vision products. We
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Python, Go or Haskell?
41 points by solresol 9y ago|67 comments
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by solresol 9y ago
Thanks for picking it up. It should be recruitment@daisee.com
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by solresol 9y ago
Daisee (www.daisee.com) | Software Engineer, Devops, Data Scientists | Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, Australia | Full-time, ONSITE, no visa but vague chance of REMOTE for someone brilliant Daisee makes software for call centre operators t
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by solresol 9y ago
Actually, I thought it was Albania -- which was for a while the only "officially" atheist country in the world, but checking up on Wikipedia, once Islam was made legal again, it seems to be back to developing-nation levels of reli
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by solresol 9y ago
China is one of the fastest growing countries for religion both in absolute numbers and in percentages. There are more people living in China who describe themselves as "evangelizing Christians" than there are in the USA, for exam
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by solresol 9y ago
This exception to the DMCA for all software where the copyright owner can't be contacted was negotiated for Australia as part of the Australia-USA free trade agreement. It allows for breaking encryption and anything that is required to
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by solresol 9y ago
There were 8 of us because my daughter's old school friend's family was here on holidays. They speak a Chinese dialect that I don't speak well. Anyway it was like herding sheep to get them anywhere. In the rush to get them on
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by solresol 9y ago
The other day I accidentally left my son at a busy station in Tokyo. He was more annoyed than upset. He just found the right platform to go home and planned to email me when he got back to say where he was. We underestimate children's
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by solresol 9y ago
The first railway mania (England 1830s). The pricing of the railways was completely insane compared to any reasonable business projections. Everyone was saying that there was a financial bubble (they were well aware of the Dutch tulip mania
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by solresol 9y ago
> HR people love applications with an "entrepreneurial spirit" This has been the exact opposite of my experience. I think HR is more likely to say "reject immediately, not an exact fit for the job we are looking for and an
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by solresol 9y ago
It's not easy finding a job after being a founder. My experience is that years of {mediocre data scientist and AI}, {mediocre project manager}, {mediocre product manager}, {mediocre software developer}, {mediocre book-keeping and finan
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by solresol 10y ago
And let's add the QUT CAUSEE study that looked a very large number of startups and the factors that caused them either to succeed or fail. The optimal age for the founder was around 42.
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by solresol 10y ago
The right person to read to learn about this is Andrew Odlyzko at UMN: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko . He draws some amazing comparisons between the dot-com bubble and the railway mania of the 1850s. The dot com boom was
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Giving up being always-connected for Lent(medium.com)
2 points by solresol 10y ago|0 comments
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by solresol 10y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I think we can safely talk about the commercial aspects to this. 1. The bank won't chase you for what you've done. You have nothing the bank wants. The bank's legal team have bigger fish to fry. It&#x27
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by solresol 10y ago
More worryingly, only one of the Sydney selective schools actually is vaguely representative of the Sydney population. James Ruse, for example has far less students from low-income families than Cumberland High does, which is on the other s
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by solresol 10y ago
Our main product uses machine learning and natural language processing to predict how long JIRA tickets are going to take to resolve. (www.queckt.com is anyone's interested) Without AI/ML, we wouldn't have a product.
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by solresol 10y ago
6% !??!? Australian here: on my last house sale, I did a deal with the agent where if he got a price above a quite-high threshold that he would get 3% instead of his usual rate. This was seen as a remarkably generous offer, unheard of in th
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by solresol 10y ago
Perhaps a better answer than "f off" or "mind your own business" would be "thank you, I'm sure we'll both be blessed by your prayers" even if you don't particularly believe it to be true. It&#x27
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by solresol 10y ago
I can also add from experience: these are a nice bunch of people to work with.
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Rights afforded to AIs under the constitution (scifi poetry)(ifost.org.au)
4 points by solresol 11y ago|0 comments
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by solresol 11y ago
Finding a tech geek who can put together a coherent sentence is hard, and there are always manuals to write, tutorials to create and deep blog posts to make -- many of which need the kind of in-depth understanding that only a tech geek can
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What's required for text chat to make you productive rather than interrupted(blog.ifost.org.au)
1 points by solresol 11y ago|0 comments
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Draining the meeting bogs and how not to suffer from email overload(blog.ifost.org.au)
1 points by solresol 11y ago|0 comments

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