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by szopa 6y ago
My bet is that it's MIT's Scratch. Notsomething used in production, but if you have a kid learning how to program these days, it's the obvious good choice (and I've done a ton of research). The language itself is surpris
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by szopa 6y ago
This article may be unnecessarily alarmist: https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/13240857614493040...
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by szopa 7y ago
Infermedica [1] is a company that uses Bayesian networks [2] to map symptoms to potential causes (they are used to triage patients in call centers, etc.). They have just published a REST API that targets COVID-19 specifically, and made it f
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Covid-19 symptom checker REST API(developer.infermedica.com)
5 points by szopa 7y ago|1 comments
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by szopa 7y ago
I read his new book, Agency, sick in bed last week. It hits very close home.
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by szopa 7y ago
Scratch is right now my 6yo's favorite toy. It beats the Lego robot because you don't have to worry about having the right parts and you can concentrate on the "fun parts," that is programming. What really amazes me was
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The data driven way to build a technical organization(medium.com)
3 points by szopa 7y ago|0 comments
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by szopa 8y ago
This sounds insane. My hobby is medium distance hiking in (say, 250 km/155 mi na week) in the Scandinavian Arctic, so I have to carry all my food. I'm a fan of ultralight hiking, so my whole summer baggage weights around 10 kg&#x2
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Your AI skills are worth less than you think(medium.com)
48 points by szopa 8y ago|9 comments
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by szopa 8y ago
Rather bad. I guess it's getting better, especially in bigger cities, but even in Warsaw I don't think it would be a good idea for a gay couple to walk hand in hand. Poland is a mostly a great place to live, but this is a disgrace
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by szopa 8y ago
I've been to Taipei, and the language barrier was quite horrible. People speaking English seemed to be the exception, not the norm – I'd never appreciated Google Translate as much as I did in Taiwan. And a lot of things work quite
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by szopa 8y ago
I also had mixed feelings about the protomolecule (for the same reason as yours), but in later parts of the books it contributes to the plot in a meaningful way (that is, it's but just a bogeyman). Can't say more without spoiling
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by szopa 10y ago
This is one of those movies I used to watch every now and then with my dad when I was a teenager (although it's way too long to watch in one sitting). It's one of my father's favorites, along with Rio Bravo, The Deer Hunter,
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by szopa 10y ago
Well, a spreadsheet used as intended is mostly read-only, that's no necessarily true if it's backing a website :)
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by szopa 10y ago
Huh. I bet that in the Docs SRE team at Google there's a senior SRE who's having a "I felt a great disturbance in the Force moment." Google Sheets is awesome, people at Google are smart, but they are not capable of magic
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by szopa 10y ago
Yeah, being oncall for something like a well behaved backend system may be quite nice. I was an SRE for YouTube, and it was an almost constant bloodbath. YouTube's code changes at a relatively fast pace, there's a ton of developer
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by szopa 11y ago
I would love to see the sericon experiment described in the article, but I cannot find it on YouTube.
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by szopa 12y ago
What is more, it is possible to find an Agnieszka working at Nabino through a Polish LinkedIn clone...
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by szopa 13y ago
The iterator pattern I have in https://github.com/ryszard/goskiplist uses an interface similar to type Iterator interface { // Next returns true if the iterator contains subsequent elements &#
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by szopa 13y ago
I am not sure what OP wants to say with this submission... Is it that the US treats differently people who defect to them than people who defect from them? That's... not very surprising. In some way it feels more fair than the way the
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by szopa 13y ago
A prairie dog shaped robot could work better.
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by szopa 13y ago
I went quickly through the paper, and there are some interesting ideas, like separating scheduling, sequencing, and storage. Also, there are some details that leave me a bit confused... For example, they mention they use ZooKeeper for Paxos
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by szopa 14y ago
> But it didn't touch the important question -- is the development time for Go faster than for scripting languages with critical sections in C? At YouTube (which is a predominantly Python shop) we use Go for some elements of our infrast
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by szopa 14y ago
The one thing that's really huge in this proposition is that it would allow spouses of H1B visa holders to work in the US. The fact they cannot do it is a particularly cruel aspect of the current immigration system in the US. We moved to th
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A scavenger hunt down the darkest corridors of the Internet(mentalfloss.com)
2 points by szopa 14y ago|0 comments
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How do I improve the performance of SQLite?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by szopa 14y ago|0 comments
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by szopa 14y ago
Interesting. Do you have any way of checking that the change has actually propagated through the system before starting to act on it? Is the system consistent at all times? If I understand correctly, the client can connect to any instance a
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by szopa 14y ago
Nice work! It seems that you are well aware of the tradeoffs that you are taking and communicating it openly in your documentation (and your choices seem to be very reasonable). I really like the tone of your communication – it seems essent
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by szopa 14y ago
The origins of /etc are lost in history. Wikipedia [1] says that at Bell Labs /etc was pronounced "et caetera," and contained files that didn't belong elsewhere. And it had the advantage over conf or misc that it was only 3 letters. [1] ht
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by szopa 14y ago
I DO work at YouTube, and for some time I've been working on CMS, YouTube's frontend to ContentID that allows copyright owners to claim their content, set automatic policies, etc. I can confirm that what Slapshot wrote was essentially corre

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