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by thearn4 11y ago
I've had great luck so far with the Moto X and G line (Via Republic Wireless). Not too expensive and fits my use cases pretty well. On the development side, my preferences are actually pretty flipped: I'm pretty comfortable with b
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by thearn4 11y ago
Right, this is actually the part that confused me. I didn't realize that the editor was not previously available for Linux.
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by thearn4 11y ago
Excellent use of Python + OpenCV (one of my favorite 3rd party libraries)
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by thearn4 11y ago
Assuming you're young: far better now than later.
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by thearn4 11y ago
The 5% matching contributions for the Thrift Savings Plan (gov't 401k equivalent) is one nice part about being in the fed. Not sure if it balances out the crappy GS payscale (especially for colleagues of mine in high-cost areas like SF
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by thearn4 11y ago
Good points. Honestly, I feel like a discussion on PCA using the SVD as a background is much more intuitive, and would fit with some of the author has claimed about eigenvectors.
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by thearn4 11y ago
Personally, I think an explanation using the SVD would probably be more intuitive: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3869/what-is-the-int...
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by thearn4 11y ago
Where did the stargate franchise go wrong? It seems to have grown huge, then went up in a puff of smoke almost as quickly. Was it overextended, or ran out of new ideas to work with?
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by thearn4 11y ago
> maximize profits at amazon Funny thing is, Amazon has never really been into maximizing profits, at least in comparison to re-investing the company in new experimental directions. An investment in their own employee's well being s
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by thearn4 11y ago
> "We have Nerf wars, almost daily, that often get a bit out of hand" This really bugged me too, but reflects a trend that I've notice in tech circles of infantilizing engineers (vs treating them as working professionals)
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by thearn4 11y ago
I don't know if there are any egyptologists on HN, but I'm curious to hear what the state of egyptian archaeology is following the revolution and change of cabinet. In particular, the removal of Zahi Hawass and the issue of safety
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by thearn4 11y ago
For folks who have made the transition, was learning to type while walking difficult? It seems like it could be somewhat nauseating at first.
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by thearn4 11y ago
Just a quick note: NASA is not a unified entity marching in lockstep. This was one org-unit's decision made for their own work. I work with a lab at NASA GRC that uses Unity engine pretty extensively for scientific visualization.
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by thearn4 11y ago
On my team, we've had an evolution from daily in-person standup, to daily short google hangout, to daily status dump into a dedicated slack channel. While there's something to be said for face-time, I think this is working for us
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by thearn4 11y ago
I find that it's a mixed bag. There are some good technical discussions had here (far better than one would find on /r/programming most of the time). But the discussions about tech monetization and SV startup life in general
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by thearn4 11y ago
> Can you name other "career paths" where are more technical & creative challenges open to solve? Fair question. Once I was in graduate school (math program), I went down the scientific/large-scale computing path. It i
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by thearn4 11y ago
Game development seems to be one of the most competitive and least forgiving corners of the larger software development industry. A long time ago, games are what originally motivated me to learn to program. But some point along the way, I c
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by thearn4 11y ago
"average" with respect to the company, or the population of programmers as a whole? If normally distributed and sufficiently large, you'd be getting rid of half your company under the former. The latter seems like a tough thi
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by thearn4 11y ago
I'm a NASA engineer, and I think one of the problems that we recognize is just how much fragmentation there is between org units, projects, programs, and centers (each of which can be surprisingly autonomous). A single mission may have
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by thearn4 11y ago
Ah YTMND... what a sharp rise and steady fall https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=YTMND&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%...
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by thearn4 11y ago
In addition to the answers given, I'd have to imagine that the number of 777 airframes that are unaccounted for has to be fairly small.
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by thearn4 11y ago
I am imagining that what they're going for will be biotech problems that can be addressed as software problems in disguise (since they would most certainly be in the right place and connected to the right people for that). Those connec
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by thearn4 11y ago
Pretty handy for quickly iterating on things. Especially complicated expressions within matrices (or things like that which quickly turn into a jumbled mess in TeX). I remember using this site a few years ago during graduate school.
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by thearn4 11y ago
At NASA, we're very interested in hybrid electric propulsion. As an applied math guy, it's a very interesting and surprisingly non-trivial design problem to tackle. Even addressing the "does this really make sense?" ques
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by thearn4 11y ago
I've sort of run adjacent to the field of machine learning in the last few years, but haven't really dove in to the existing literature. This seems to be a pretty interesting overview. Out of curiosity, do many implementations of
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by thearn4 11y ago
whoo boy, I recently did a contract job deploying a clone of reddit (directly using their source code on Github), and yes... it is a gigantic mess of ugly crap code and bizarre design decisions. I'm kind of surprised it works as well a
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by thearn4 11y ago
If I owned a credit monitoring company, this is a service that I might be cynical enough to offer.
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by thearn4 11y ago
I definitely agree that this is the right approach. The methods with stick with you much better, and you'll have an easier time with higher order rubiks cubes, or other turning-face type puzzles. I have an embarrassingly large collecti
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by thearn4 11y ago
I've been on reddit for a few years, but never really took in how toxic the community is until I started following this. I cannot for the life of me understand how seriously people take that site and the things that go on there. It&#x2
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by thearn4 11y ago
> Software Engineering Unfortunately, I feel like that term has been very diluted in the last few years, to the point where I'm not sure it has much difference (at least colloquially) from "programming".

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