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by vendakka 12y ago
I started out thinking this was a little tedious and even came up with a little library [1] to use the panic-recover style handling within a package [2]. However, after a few months of writing code using that model, I find that I don't
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by vendakka 12y ago
I completely agree. I used to have a fairly strange sleep schedule that moved gradually till I was finally waking up at 2 PM. I'd then spend one night/day without sleep to reset it. While I got plenty of uninterrupted time it wasn
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by vendakka 12y ago
I'd say it boils down to simple respect for other people's time and your own time. The professor is up there spending their time teaching. The students are in an learning environment which a number people have spent their time (o
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by vendakka 12y ago
Thanks for replying. What you say does fit with my intuition. If I wanted to start looking for a job now I'd talk to the folks in my network at various startups / the Googles or Facebooks of the world. However, it does make sense
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by vendakka 12y ago
Do think a company like 10x would be more helpful for freelancers vs people looking for salaried employment? In the latter case I can easily see an experienced and talented person interviewing at multiple places and choosing the best fit. S
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by vendakka 12y ago
I'm just relaying my wife's explanation from a few days ago and so there could be some things lost in translation. However, here goes. They use EEG to detect brain patterns developed during activities such as meditation. This is u
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by vendakka 12y ago
My wife took the time to explain this paper to me (since I rarely read papers related to biology) and it sounds extremely interesting. She was very excited, since tech like this could potentially be used to react to epileptic seizures for e
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by vendakka 12y ago
It does feel a bit like they are over generalising. In that spirit, anecdotal evidence feels appropriately non-rigorous. I'm Indian, worked in Silicon Valley for about 6 years and then moved to a small town in Germany a year back. Give
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iOS-like app continuity for Android from NextBit(engadget.com)
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by vendakka 12y ago
This is a very nice idea. Thank you! I am currently using spaced repetition to improve my German vocabulary. Using this to remember APIs and technical documentation is a great idea! While there are a number of comments questioning the utili
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by vendakka 12y ago
If I could upvote this twice I would. I still haven't gotten to the point where I can be polite all of the time. However, I find that when I try to be pleasant to people on principle, it takes away a lot of stress. I stop worrying abou
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by vendakka 12y ago
I don't give feedback of this sort too often, so this might not necessarily be useful. Now, for the actual feedback. This is a very useful product to have for the intended target audience. From looking at the landing page, your target
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by vendakka 12y ago
Thanks for pointing to this. I remember reading about it a while back, but when I needed a stack trace wrapper I couldn't remember the name. I ended up adding a function to an error library I maintain (github.com/surullabs/fa
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by vendakka 12y ago
Exactly. This is the kind of technical debt I'm referring to when it comes to code written for science. Not something that can be used as a platform/library, but also not code having references to a single config file hard-coded i
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by vendakka 12y ago
That is very true. I re-read my comment and realized it might come across as being critical of folks in academia not caring about technical debt, which was not the intention. Technical debt in these scenarios is usually limited to a single
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by vendakka 12y ago
A large part of this boils down to being able to estimate how much technical debt you can afford to carry. I haven't seen very much code written by researchers (scientists/phd students/postdocs). However, from the little I&#x
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by vendakka 12y ago
This makes for very good reading indeed. I started reading it and just now realised that I'd spent the last couple of hours on it. It's written well, approachable and very pragmatic. I spent a short while on Haskell a few years ba
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by vendakka 12y ago
I certainly do agree about integration tests being important. I've also started moving towards using a live database for my tests. I set up a postgres database by copying over a master copy to a temporary directory and running a postgr
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by vendakka 13y ago
It took me about a minute before I was prompted to create an account and another minute before I was prompted to sign up for a subscription. I'd gotten through about 4 sentences in total (I clicked a fair bit since I'm still learn
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by vendakka 13y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for! I recently moved to Germany and I'm learning German and I'd love to do it through reading. I was about to sit down and patch together an epub reader to do this, but now I don't have to.
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by vendakka 13y ago
I moved to Tübingen, Germany from the South Bay this week to move closer to my wife. I was able to establish a company and I'm currently working for my company. While I needed to work with a few German lawyers to navigate the legal pro
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by vendakka 13y ago
Looks very nice! Does this play well with existing JVM threading support? More specifically, if there is a call to a synchronized method inside of a fiber and another JVM thread has entered the monitor, will this block the entire fiber sche
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by vendakka 13y ago
Life is suffering? I find that to be overly pessimistic. Life is not simple and there will be sorrow. However, there will be joy as well. "Suffering" is a very strong word to use. There is happiness and there is sorrow. To expect