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by vijucat 12y ago
Impressive refresh rate! I'd love to try using an IDE such as Eclipse on such a screen. I suppose IDEs can have an e-ink mode where instead of colors, they use multiple fonts, italics, bold fonts, and other decorators to highlight synt
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by vijucat 12y ago
What do you think about the newer attempts at declarative programming (which are often embedded in Prolog) such as CLP + consistency techniques and CHR? Regardless of whether Prolog (or CLP or CHR) is helpful towards "real" AI, I&
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by vijucat 12y ago
I have read that sleep deprivation is as bad as getting drunk in terms of the number of IQ points' hit taken, so I would argue that many folks in the industry are effectively coding drunk :-)
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by vijucat 12y ago
The fascinating part for me has always been the power of compounding : 1.032 ^ 300 = 12703, while 1.030 ^ 300 = 7098 ! i.e., a difference of 0.2% per annum makes a 5600-times difference in final wealth. Related : in the finance industry, th
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by vijucat 12y ago
That's not a software dev, that's a quant. They are as different as Javascript and Java. (Or, as one review of the book, "Javascript and Java" put it, "This book conflates two topics which have as much in common as
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by vijucat 12y ago
I use OneNote for this, although I can't comment on whether it will scale to your level of 10-year+ use. I have just one page (which had to expand into a set of pages) which has the chronological order of what I plan to do today /
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by vijucat 12y ago
Are you sure about this? That sounds like a fairly basic flaw in the product.
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by vijucat 12y ago
A friend of mine has recommended https://www.entropay.com/ for these kinds of online purchases : since it's a pre-paid virtual credit card, you cannot get charged beyond the pre-paid amount, if I understood it correctl
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by vijucat 12y ago
It's a shibboleth : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth . It shows you belong.
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by vijucat 12y ago
That's a good point.
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by vijucat 12y ago
IMHO, offers of $2000 as referral bonus if you find us a rockstar (while for the exact same role, recruiters will be rewarded with 2 to 3 months of salary, i.e., $20000 to $30000 per $100k of salary) are asking for a ridiculous arbitrage th
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by vijucat 12y ago
It just occurred to me that Hackathons which stress on the caffeine-induced sleepless continuous-production aspect of programming are the opposite of what Rich Hickey termed "Hammock driven development" : http://data-so
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by vijucat 12y ago
I just gave the FIX log example because that's what I am familiar with, that's all. :-) > Are firms actively looking for people with these kinds of skills? Generally, I used to use efinancialcareers.com and other industry-spec
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by vijucat 12y ago
IMHO, not only is this a "grass is greener on the other side" situation, it is a drastic abandonment of accumulated potential energy (your degree + industry experience). You would be abandoning a true niche skillset: there are som
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by vijucat 12y ago
One of the big banks has instituted this policy recently of firing a certain percentage of the seniors-and-above every year till they get become small enough. Now, do you want to be senior in this firm? :-) There is a way to ensure career p
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by vijucat 12y ago
I suppose people working on such projects don't think of their creations as "scary as fuck"? Because that is exactly what I think when I see an effective dog-like robot. I cannot help but imagine, for example, that in the f
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by vijucat 12y ago
This could be due to the momentum of thinking anxiously, or in a forced way in general, throughout the day. If you are able to think at a natural pace throughout the day, your thoughts will be calm, or at least, come to you at a natural p
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by vijucat 12y ago
Bruce, not sure if you are interested in commercial success, but assuming you are, one suggestion is : whatever you may feel about Scala, I believe that Martin Odersky had the right strategy when he noted that Object Oriented Programming di
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by vijucat 12y ago
Bvdub - A Moment's Peace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exr3IAMaLPM is a favourite track of mine. However, it's just for initiating the session and writing down the TODOs or Goal before starting. I need silence
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by vijucat 12y ago
Blame the 90s : the Gang of Four design patterns book, UML, et al. If you wrote code that did not abstract enough, such as not using factories, it was jaw-droppingly obvious to your colleagues that you were not good enough. FP and Scala owe
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by vijucat 12y ago
That's scary, for sure!
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by vijucat 12y ago
"Twelve dollars, twelve minutes" (to Mong Kok from Kennedy Town), as a local said to me about the red minibus :-) 12 HKD is 1.5 USD. The route is this on Google Maps, which notes that the distance of approximately 8 km should take
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by vijucat 12y ago
That's such a great combination! But I wonder if I personally will have the resolve to BOTH skip lunch and exercise :-)
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by vijucat 12y ago
Aha, is this why I am able to think so clearly after a fast, I wonder! If anyone else wants to try it, this is what works for me : skip dinner, (take as much water as you feel like, though), sleep early, wake up early, and feel the clarity.
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by vijucat 12y ago
The way you phrase it makes it sound as if the choice is between a finance-domain path ("My peers are gunning for the usual private equity/ hedge fund jobs, which pay handsomely") vs. a technology-industry path. I have absolu
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by vijucat 12y ago
> owning a house may make it harder for you to decide to move and accept a job/opportunity elsewhere, or to travel -- the impact of which is unquantifiable Why is it harder? Not sarcastic at all, by the way : it's just that I a
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by vijucat 12y ago
Windows 8.1 has an inbuilt Alarms app which includes countdown timers that you can use for keeping track of time in general (Pomodoro technique etc;). Here's how it looks like : http://i.imgur.com/cz0tg6Z.png Non-Windo
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by vijucat 12y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this, it's actually a quite relevant point, i.e., the the side-by-side comparison should include the consideration that you get to enjoy rent-free accommodation in the home for a certain n
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by vijucat 12y ago
> customers’ name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth Holy crap, isn't that enough to do some social engineering and get a new credit card or something equally serious?!
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by vijucat 12y ago
The attrition rate is due to the lack of cost involved in opting out if you find yourself unable to keep up with the course / too many courses. Being able to try and see if you can do a course (despite the other commitments in your lif

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