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by vijucat 11y ago
If you know the distribution of the data (which can be imputed as part of the sorting process by sampling the data), it is possible to guess if the next number is going to be larger or smaller than the current one 75% of the time without l
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by vijucat 11y ago
+1 for basic income +1 for the safety of AI I came here to write "basic income" and was pleasantly surprised to find it already on the agenda. Other suggestions: - Desalination / easy clean water - Related : Cleaning the ocea
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by vijucat 11y ago
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one that was less popular on Google That was not a smart move (With apologies to Frost fans).
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by vijucat 11y ago
While building perl6, you see "-Larry -Wall" as part of the gcc args, which I thought was a clever + syntactically correct joke :-)
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by vijucat 11y ago
I woke up one night with the idea that if WhatsApp allowed API integration, it would so awesome : you could message DHL or UPS with your waybill tracking number, and they could push updates to you. More interestingly, the WhatsApp text box
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by vijucat 12y ago
Are you sure that NYC has an annual budget of $78B? That's a humongous number for any city, and an outrageous number for a city with a Subway system that is (supposedly still) in a state of disrepair.
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by vijucat 12y ago
OP, ignore my speech if it's a bit too much. I suppose you just have to find a balance and take some natural breaks. Please don't do this : "for days and work on my projects with hardly a break for food and sleep"...At l
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by vijucat 12y ago
> An extreme reading of your comment Right, there's no need to get all New Age enlightenment-ish about it. I am not even in disagreement with the Richard Hamming quote. All I'm stressing on is that it's title is "YOU
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by vijucat 12y ago
Ha ha, no I don't mind, I'm enjoying my 15 minutes of fame.
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by vijucat 12y ago
"Do whatever you want", yes. Whatever you want can involve not starving, being able to afford health insurance and a mortgage, marry a desirable person, have children, etc; Now, are we still in disagreement, Sven? :-)
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by vijucat 12y ago
Great points! Yes, "critical thinking" a great phrase for it. I agree with a lot of your points. The "don't go to university" / "dropouts are successful" meme is particularly alarming to me. Unless yo
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by vijucat 12y ago
We are probably not in disagreement. My point is to choose the direction of your ship from inside. There will be a lot of shovelling of coal into the fire in the dirty engine room. I'm not claiming that you just stand at the railing an
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by vijucat 12y ago
> It's been getting better. It's not, it's getting worse. You are in a cycle of slave-driving yourself. You remind me of Jiddu Krishnamurthi's assertion that "Influence acts strongest when you don't realize
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by vijucat 12y ago
To an extent, candidates are actually giving companies an employer-challenge every time they read the firm's job description. This is the mirror of asking a candidate, "So why should we hire you over other candidates?".
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by vijucat 12y ago
It's good to hear that you don't have any self-dislike. I look forward to a positive update from a couple of years later :-)
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by vijucat 12y ago
It could be physiological, such as low testosterone. It could be that your colleagues are incredible jerks, and it is affecting you psychologically. Assuming it's just you, there is one thought that may help you : this whole area of ha
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by vijucat 12y ago
ScrapBook : It allows you to save web pages offline, mark-up (highlight, annotate, make text-box callouts), indexes the whole collection + has tags. It unfortunately doesn't do sync yet, but provides an Import feature that is good enou
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by vijucat 12y ago
This will not be as big a problem as you assume because the "everyone in his professional circle who knows that he or she didn't make it through company X's probation period" would also have gotten their fair chance to t
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by vijucat 12y ago
The "Are you good enough for us?" interview process is seriously broken, maybe even neurotic, considering that the excessive focus on weeding out false positives actually ends up rejecting too many good people such as you who woul
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by vijucat 12y ago
I'd be interested in this, too. It is ridiculous the number of times I sat down with the feeling that there is nothing new to write, only to get up an hour or so later with my hand paining from having written / drawn continuously
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by vijucat 12y ago
Get up, get ready, have breakfast, and start writing. Write in your journal / diary every day (it has to be pen / pencil and paper, not keyboard-based online journal; not sure why it works that way). Even if you think there is not
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by vijucat 12y ago
> I'm tired of having to have a kernel extension to remap keys and a stupid "window manager" just so I can hit Caps Lock+Up to make a window fill the screen. I'm using Karabiner + Seil for this. I suppose Seil is the
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by vijucat 12y ago
> located on the actual error location in Hindley-Milner style type inference Very interesting, thanks for the insight + reference to the PLT group.
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by vijucat 12y ago
Why are all "learning to program" languages these days duck typed / dynamically typed? Has it always been this way? Has SML, for example, been a first language of choice in Programming 101 in earlier decades? Personal bias :
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by vijucat 12y ago
"We've been consistently recognized as one of the best places to work for Gen Y", read an ad that I saw recently.
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by vijucat 12y ago
I think the risk of dental decay is another factor. If I am not wrong, you have to keep the traditional dental braces in place without ever taking them off for the entire duration of the n months / year? Not being able to take them out
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by vijucat 12y ago
Yes, this solution would have worked for our situation.
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by vijucat 12y ago
Luckily, and just that one time, there was nothing but disapproving glares.
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by vijucat 12y ago
I once shut down an algorithmic trading server by hastily typing (in bash): - Ctrl-r for reverse-search through history - typing 'ps' to find the process status utility (of course) - pressing Enter,....and realizing that Ctrl-r ac
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by vijucat 12y ago
Nice article. "I'll quickly rewrite the engine", said no wise developer ever.

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