svdad

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by svdad 15y ago
Cooking and washing dishes work for me. My wife loves it.
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by svdad 15y ago
I've often felt that there is a world of terse, clear code waiting to be unlocked in R, but haven't been able to find it myself. This is a great example.
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by svdad 15y ago
I must be missing something. What is it about these online education programs that has so many superstar academics so fired up?
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by svdad 15y ago
That is actually the one reason I like carrying a pager. I still dislike it for enough other reasons that I would give it up in a second. But, when I'm on call, I know that if anything is important enough that I have to respond to it RIGHT
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by svdad 15y ago
Perl still has this with $[ but it's deprecated as of 5.12.
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by svdad 15y ago
Exactly. There's a lot good about this post but this business of "finding what you love" is meaningless. There is no one thing you love. Just like there is no Mr/Mrs Right. The good advice in this blog is that the secret to succeeding at so
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by svdad 15y ago
Damn, I was thinking about building something like this. But seriously, it looks very cool. Looking forward to playing with it.
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by svdad 15y ago
I agree with the form factor issue, but an iPad with a Thunderbolt port would basically take care of it. OK, might need a little more graphics hardware on the iPad to drive a big monitor, but that can't be far off.
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by svdad 15y ago
that's actually not that far from what programming with well-designed libraries and abstractions is like now. at least, I know I have a more-or-less 3d visualization of my program in my head as I'm working on it... but that could be just me
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by svdad 15y ago
Having thought about (un|home|normal) schooling for my own kids, it seems like unschooling in particular depends very much on who the parents are. Is it underestimating people to say that most kids wouldn't engage in anything like what this
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by svdad 15y ago
It's not the only, nor by a long stretch the best reason to be against "ending aging". Human culture fundamentally depends on death and the passage of time. Our myths, rituals, literature and sense of history depend on death. I may be an ol
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by svdad 15y ago
"Capitalism without failure isn't capitalism." That's what she said.
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by svdad 15y ago
Well, exactly. It was written in prototype, put in production, and ignored for a year while usage slowly built up.
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by svdad 15y ago
I second this -- strongly. I've spent the past four months leading a team of programmers assembled for the sole purpose of dealing with a productiontype system (written by one of the early employees in a weekend because one customer wanted
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by svdad 15y ago
The problem is Pincus wants to pretend that options-based compensation is in any way related to performance. If they wanted a performance-based comp structure, they should have set one up in the beginning. Options are pure seniority-based c
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by svdad 15y ago
I beg to differ -- touch rugby is actually quite fun, very energetic, and a reasonable simulacrum of the real game.
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by svdad 15y ago
Still don't understand the fad for "programmer-friendly" languages. Why on earth would you even start learning to program if you didn't find something diabolically fascinating about learning a new syntax for symbolic computation? C, C++, AP
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by svdad 15y ago
Couldn't agree more. Most of the crap I've seen in the various codebases I've worked on has nothing to do with poorly implemented or understood algorithms, and everything to do with bad designs and ill-conceived architecture. Lack of abstra
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by svdad 15y ago
I think the concern about whether or not candidates have seen this, or any, programming question before is missing the point. Think about what we want in the ideal candidate -- we want them to come up with a good (elegant, efficient) soluti
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by svdad 15y ago
We don't have a tree house, or a tree, either. The lesson I've learned from having two boys on one grad student's stipend is that they would almost always play with an empty milk jug than some plastic toy from Kids'R'Us. We have a bunch of
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by svdad 15y ago
Yes. And the latest, well supported by research -- see Carol Dweck, Mindset.
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by svdad 15y ago
I was confused too and still am. But the core ML course in my CS department gave a list of other "related courses" at the end of the course. Despite the fact that our Stats department has umpteen learning-related courses, not one of the cou
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by svdad 15y ago
The ML / probabilistic AI people think they're the latest and greatest, so they don't talk to anyone else, certainly not the GOFAI people, and especially not the statistics department.
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by svdad 15y ago
So this is all well and good if you work with a team like this. But I have two questions: (a) How do you find out, before going to work somewhere, whether they actually work like this? Are there questions you can ask? Word of mouth? ... ? (
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by svdad 15y ago
With that sentence construction, he must be a Perl programmer.
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by svdad 16y ago
I think you mean Think-Screw-Iterate-Screw-Iterate-Screw-Succeed-Screw If you're getting it that often, why stop?
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by svdad 16y ago
Entirely missing is any notion of system modelling. Yes, at some point we actually have to give the computer detailed instructions, but what instructions? To do what, exactly? Seeing programming as essentially making really detailed lists o
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by svdad 16y ago
I can say without a doubt that reading this article (if I let her) would make my wife look at me more strangely, not less.
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by svdad 16y ago
You have a point. In finance especially, I think being middle class is about the worst position to be in. If you're poor, you get into finance because you're fearless and hungry and worked your ass off. You work on the trading floor and get
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by svdad 16y ago
Zuck went to Philips Exeter. Boarding in 2011, that's $40,000 a year his dad shelled out for high school; non-boarding, still $31,000. OK, it wasn't today's dollars, but aying he wasn't "exactly poor" is an understatement. Going to school s

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