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by superice 8y ago
This is why we regularly take developers to customers. It is eye-opening to see on-site that your mobile app with tiny but well-designed buttons doesn't work for registering container positions when the user is in a shaky 90 metric ton
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by superice 8y ago
So far I have been trying to eliminate repetitive tasks that can easily be automated to make jobs more interesting. People using our software are usually afraid to lose their jobs, but in practice their work just becomes more exception hand
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by superice 8y ago
Think of firing a canon sideways: it takes a while for the cannon ball to drop and hit the earth. Now imagine firing it faster and faster, till eventually it's dropping at the same rate as the earth curves. That is essentially what the
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by superice 8y ago
That definitely looks very interesting, I'll look into that. Clustering on non linearly separable clusters is also one of the reasons we chose DBSCAN back then :)
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by superice 8y ago
I have always liked DBSCAN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBSCAN DBSCAN is used for clustering in applications, much like k-means clustering, but in k-means clustering, the number of clusters must be known in advance (
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by superice 8y ago
In that case they both would be a moonmoon.
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by superice 8y ago
Autocomplete Driven Development: when you don't know the language that well yet, but IDE-support is superb.
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by superice 8y ago
What I mostly do not understand is that Apple did not structure this as a 'we will store your library for you' instead of a 'you can redownload from the store anytime'. The first case would mean that rights holders canno
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by superice 8y ago
Not at all. Raspberry Pi-like hardware can run Node perfectly fine. A startup I used to work at had hardware specs comparable to a Pi, but was running multiple user apps in separate processes, weighing in at over 20MiB of memory each before
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by superice 8y ago
Yes, that is the unknown variable. However, your costs can be steered pretty accurately in software startups through hiring and firing. This means you can easily track whether your sales are still hitting the targets you expected, and if no
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by superice 8y ago
No, this also affects software companies, especially those that grow faster than you would organically. The cost in software companies is a cost in people. These people need to be paid. If you are not paid in advance for your software, then
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by superice 8y ago
What I find interesting is that they must at some level realize that it does not work: Torvalds is not going to respect you more, or cut you some slack because you are incredibly polite and careful in your wording. It strikes me as rather d
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by superice 8y ago
> There is nothing novel in merely knowing an algorithm. And you also have not tested a person's ability in inventing an algorithm either. The goal of this is too test whether the interviewee can recognize that this is a case to app
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by superice 8y ago
I know the movie as 'The KGB, the computer, and me': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKxaq1FTac
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by superice 8y ago
I am not keen on the analogy with orange juice, but the gist of it works: the company I work at got a large contract by knowing the business inside and out. A client came to us an asked us if we could build a certain system. We said 'y
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by superice 8y ago
I work in such an organisation, albeit a rather small one (~ 60 people). It is absolutely not easy: some people are not cut out for it and would prefer a strict specification and focus on writing the best code, which clashes sometimes with
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by superice 8y ago
That statement makes about as much sense as "I don't see how you can learn Haskell without knowing the basics of Elm". Arguably Elm is easier to learn from scratch since it is a younger language and does not have as much comp
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by superice 8y ago
There are some nice features that MySQL lacks. Personally, the thing I like best in Postgres is transactional DDL. In MySQL, if halfway through a database transformation your migration script fails, you are in a broken state and you are on
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by superice 9y ago
The propositions that are true. If a or b delete it becomes weird when both are true, because in conventional programming languages, b often isn't executed at all, since we don't care about the value of it. However, in this case y
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by superice 9y ago
Unsound typesystems are not necessarily a problem, but consider the problem the other way around: given a sound typesystem, how do we improve this in such a way that a) the average Joe will understand it b) it decreases the overhead of
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by superice 9y ago
Zero-rating your own services is something entirely different than zero-rating services of other companies though. It is no different than a car manufacturer paying for their own highway lanes. If half of the highway lanes are BMW-only, wou
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by superice 9y ago
You misunderstand 'the case' here. The case is that your music startup now has no chance of competing against Spotify, TuneIn, Play Music, or Soundcloud because it would go against your general internet data, not the music specifi
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by superice 10y ago
Yeah, that was my project, it worked quite nicely. However, the biggest reason was that my Raspberry Pi was my only server at that point, and besides, tranferring 10GB out of my home connection to a VPS would've been too slow for my im
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by superice 10y ago
This is awesome. Although the Android app has some rough edges it gives off a very personal and connecting vibe. I think the shades of blue and green you chose feel too cold for what the platform is supposed to be, the app feels very cold i
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by superice 10y ago
This issue is quite easily fixable if Facebook would have set up their censoring policy in a different way: allow everything by default, detect or let users flag illegal posts or images (e.g. child pornography) Make the post invisible for o
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by superice 10y ago
Auto-release time lock
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by superice 10y ago
A tiny question: does this mean a workflow in which only one user would be able to merge a specific branch (say: master) is only available in the enterprise edition? I imagine this is quite a common workflow, even at smaller companies or no
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by superice 10y ago
Ofcourse. From the Deadpool movie, I remember now. Thanks :)
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by superice 10y ago
That's pretty badass. Does someone know what the name is of the song used in the video? It sounds familiar, but I can't come up with the name.
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by superice 10y ago
It's both a blessing and a curse. As a bisexual man in a relationship with another male software developer the way I understand my partner is something that trumps my wildest dreams. On the other hand, it's very easy to let softwa

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