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by unklefolk 5y ago
One thing I have missed as an introvert is the "people watching" aspect. I don't need to be at the centre of things and don't enjoy big social occasions, but do enjoy walking around a bustling city, taking in the atmosph
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by unklefolk 5y ago
I’m not a big fan of OLAP cubes / data warehouses but it should be noted that these aren’t always just about scale and speed. They also serve to provide a single view of the data when the data is held across multiple databases / s
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by unklefolk 5y ago
I'm confused. The article talks about "tenants". Does this mean the Chelsea Hotel is not actually a hotel, as it has long term tenants?
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by unklefolk 5y ago
Yes. And "learning" shouldn't just be measured in PhDs or being an expert at one thing. I think the "work hard" advice can be interpreted as "focussed, tunnel vision, excelling in one area to the exclusion of e
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by unklefolk 5y ago
Regarding the "work hard in your 20s" advice. I took the approach that in your 20s you are still forming, still growing, still malleable. The experiences you have in your 20s will have a disproportionate effect on the kind of pers
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by unklefolk 6y ago
I've always wondered who does those browsers / email clients / phone UIs you see in films and on TV that are kind of familiar but also not "real" software. I'm talking about everyday films - not futuristic fant
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Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professions
154 points by unklefolk 6y ago|74 comments
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by unklefolk 6y ago
Plus there is a great deal to learn out there that is not instructional and can't be captured by a single book. Reading good fiction, biographies etc opens your horizons, builds human understanding and empathy. It is more subtle than t
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by unklefolk 6y ago
Performance basically. As SQL is a set based language you can often replace cursors (which are basically loops) with joins and that is orders of magnitude quicker for larger workloads.
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by unklefolk 6y ago
My rough estimate is: 1/2 * 10/49 * 4/48 * 3/47 * 2/46 * 1/20 = 1 in 3,390,016
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by unklefolk 6y ago
What are the chances? 6 consecutive numbers when 6 balls are picked from a set of 50 balls? Ref: https://www.nationallottery.co.za/about/how-to-powerball (Actually, the 6th ball - the "powerball" is picked f
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by unklefolk 6y ago
One obvious drawback is the amount of boilerplate code and multiple files. Although the essence may be no more complex, the amount of "noise" and fragmentation across files can increase the mental load.
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by unklefolk 6y ago
I personally have found that how to approach data access has been a real bone of contention on projects and quite damaging. It seems half the team want to use an ORM and have a long list of reasons not to use SQL/Stored Procs (slower t
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by unklefolk 6y ago
What does the slash mean in the article? Where it says “... in 2018 GE sells 3.0.0.0/8” what does the “/8” mean? I guess it indicates the range of addresses?
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by unklefolk 6y ago
I live not too far from Scunthorpe and heard a story that Scunthorpe county council rolled out a new spam filter on the own email servers and no one in the council could sent any emails that day as they all got blocked. This was a few deca
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by unklefolk 8y ago
Seems that the four wings rotate around the central unit creating centrifugal force that will keep the cables tight.
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Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue(bbc.co.uk)
54 points by unklefolk 8y ago|61 comments
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by unklefolk 8y ago
This article about Harrison Okene whose boat sank is interesting in terms of surviving in an air bubble underwater (and seems somewhat analogous to the cave situation). http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science&#
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by unklefolk 9y ago
It is very difficult for those who have already had children to consider, if in retrospect, it was the right decision. Once you have children it is no longer a cool, abstract decision. The subject in question (the child) has been made real
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by unklefolk 9y ago
That's a good question. Here is a link to the numbers: http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/cryptowall-ransomware.html That averages out at $800 per infection compared to about $0.30 per infection from WannaCry.
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by unklefolk 9y ago
I think this venn diagram explain part of the problem: https://www.trustar.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/WannaCryVe...
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by unklefolk 9y ago
I suspect the long term plan is to create a training dataset labelled by the 3000 people and, when they have sufficient training data, let machine learning / AI take over.
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by unklefolk 10y ago
This looks awfully like set theory and SQL. I wonder what the SQL equivalent for each concept would look like. For example (picking the easy one!) marginal probability for long hair would be: SELECT SUM(CASE WHEN LongHair=1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 E
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by unklefolk 10y ago
Does Tesla try to justify this practice anywhere? Buying a software for a superior navigation system I understand but hobbling the performance of a car seems pretty shady.
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by unklefolk 10y ago
Don't understand the "...One of the (mostly hated) features of the (mostly hated) language was that any statement required a line number...". Basic was a wonderful entry level language - user friendly and understandable. It i
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by unklefolk 11y ago
Here are some comments prompted by a similar question that I asked on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9255305
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by unklefolk 11y ago
A pre-pre order holding page. Before this webpage I guess we were in a pre-pre-pre order state?
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Tesla supplied just 208 Model X cars in 2015(theguardian.com)
3 points by unklefolk 11y ago|2 comments
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by unklefolk 11y ago
I wonder if this will evolve into large flat screen tvs (50 inch plus) folding down when not in use (just like a portable projector screen). That would be a nice feature for those who don't like having a huge TV on display.
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by unklefolk 11y ago
I would be interested to hear other folks experience with TypeScript. We have move virtually all of the project I work on over to TypeScript but I am not seeing metrics improve (less bugs, quicker to fix etc). Gripes include lots of boilerp

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