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by spratzt 2y ago
From one fantasy world to the next.
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by spratzt 2y ago
I second this recommendation. I used Carnets for the Advent of Code last year. I ran out of steam long before it did.
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by spratzt 3y ago
I would go even further and argue that for the vast majority of organizations vertical scaling is all you are ever going to need.
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by spratzt 3y ago
I agree with this. Developers whose primary skill and interest is in coding seem to be in complete denial about the future.
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by spratzt 3y ago
… as far east as the Caspian Sea.
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by spratzt 3y ago
Complete rubbish. Most candidates nowadays are obliged to deal through low grade, poor quality recruiters. Demonstrating creativity to these morons is an absolute waste of time.
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by spratzt 3y ago
I absolutely agree with this. In my entire career I’ve never come across a situation where a company either needed or could even use real time data analytics. Real time data: occasionally but definitely. Real time data analytics: never.
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by spratzt 3y ago
How does this differ from something like Airflow ?
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by spratzt 3y ago
Cliche masquerading as profundity; the stock in trade of almost every consultancy.
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by spratzt 3y ago
Really!! All the jobs I’ve seen for COBOL programmers paid atrociously bad rates.
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by spratzt 3y ago
It’s just an attempt to distract people from realizing that’s all they are.
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by spratzt 4y ago
‘Understanding the business logic and getting it out of the customer’ is precisely what a lot of programmers are bad at doing. Many would rather talk to a compiler than a human being. For them, ChatGPT is a real existential threat.
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by spratzt 4y ago
Actionable learnings?
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by spratzt 4y ago
This reminds me of the brochure I once received from a fishing camp. In the pricing section of the brochure, there was an item described, completely un-ironically, as “compulsory gratuities”.
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by spratzt 4y ago
Why would anybody want to become an expert typist in 2023? Modern speech to text is just so good.
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by spratzt 4y ago
Does anybody anybody really care anymore? As more production work moves to the cloud, so does the corresponding development. The only thing that’s needed is a modern browser and the underlying operating system becomes irrelevant.
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by spratzt 4y ago
I have absolutely no interest in sharing most of my thinking with a group of strangers.
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by spratzt 4y ago
It’s also available in the UK. Easily, the best self checkout I’ve ever used.
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by spratzt 4y ago
This is a variation on an old joke. Q: What is the hardest task for a Marxist historian? A: To forecast the past.
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by spratzt 4y ago
I use Zotero.
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by spratzt 4y ago
I didn’t realize that it wasn’t until 1835 that English supplanted Persian as the official language for the East India Company.
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by spratzt 5y ago
I'm sure they could, but why bother? They don't need the very obsolete technology, obsolete business processes and obsolete management mentality of most existing banks. Much better to start with a greenfield site and acquire custo
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by spratzt 5y ago
If I were a UK retail bank, I'd be deeply nervous.!!!
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by spratzt 5y ago
Looks great and I shall definitely try it. I've always thought that Stitchfix were the most interesting ecommerce retail operation. It's a shame that none of their data science roles are available in London.
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by spratzt 5y ago
I tried it last year using JupyterLab. I found Julia error messages so unhelpful that eventually I gave up and returned to Python.
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by spratzt 5y ago
Everybody I know who installed smart home devices has abandoned them; none would recommend them. The main issues are surprisingly poor reliability and overly chatty interfaces.
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by spratzt 5y ago
I agree. Modern collaborative tooling has made stand-ups obsolete.
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by spratzt 5y ago
I agree with this. In my experience, LightGBM is often good enough. The additional improvement provided by neural net models is not worth the substantial increase in development time.
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by spratzt 5y ago
My wife and I use a shared reminders list for the shopping. If one of us buys something, then we delete it from the list. This prevents duplicate purchases and reminds us both of what remains to be bought.
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by spratzt 5y ago
Are there open-source data sets of cdr's available?

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