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by vijucat 13y ago
> Most people can understand government fiscal policy (to a useful extent anyway). Very few can understand an algorithm even when it's explained to them. They vote in the government and currency in it's current form (e.g. USD)
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by vijucat 13y ago
I've always found https://www.quantconnect.com/ more interesting. They're just not as good as Quantopian at generating some buzz.
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by vijucat 13y ago
The core argument surrounding Bitcoin can be brought to focus by asking the question : "Would you rather trust a government or a mathematical algorithm?". Of course, crypocurrencies are not just algorithms, they're more like
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by vijucat 13y ago
Not sure. The JJ Allaire mentioned here : http://www.rstudio.com/about/ is probably different from the Jeremy Allaire mentioned here : http://www.circle.com/about/ ?
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by vijucat 13y ago
"This item cannot be installed in your device's country", which is Hong Kong. I guess this is by design since locale is a dimension of complexity that you want to figure out later?
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by vijucat 13y ago
Hmm, that's a superb piece of self-promotion. Most experienced developers make the cross-over from needing SO to contributing answers on SO, but it never occurred to me to write about it. I envy the marketing chops this dev acquired in
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by vijucat 13y ago
> Things I can change? I dunno. I lost a bunch of weight, I can now run a few miles, do pull ups. I've gotten better at talking to people. Maybe I should go into sales (laugh*. Well, why not? The goal of life, if any, is probably mo
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by vijucat 13y ago
A personal opinion : there is a U.S. military base right in the middle of Tokyo. The location is equivalent to Times Square in New York : http://www.jpri.org/publications/friends/mcneill_JT_05-09-06... IMHO, just
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by vijucat 13y ago
Basically, there's a clash between what you feel you SHOULD be doing, and who you WANT to do. Realizing this, ideally, you immediately freeze in your seat and ask yourself, "So what do I want to do really?". The only issue is
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by vijucat 13y ago
I think we are in agreement. However, I don't see distress at getting fired or forced to move out of the neighbourhood in which you grew up as an illegitimate reason for protest. I get your viewpoint that what's good for humanity
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by vijucat 13y ago
> just whiny children crying but it's not faaaaaaair!! without bothering to think anything through This is shockingly dismissive, IMHO. It's easy to be judgmental when it's not your job or your existence that is being thre
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by vijucat 13y ago
Most definitely. Many people I know basically develop a relationship with the office because the relationship with the spouse is that difficult / messed up. As a person working from home, I have to sympathize with them : it takes a lot
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by vijucat 13y ago
The whole affair reminds of how Larry Summers was taken down. Basically, there is a type of gender activist that takes pleasure from dragging down males, especially White males, in positions of power because they have been indoctrinated to
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by vijucat 13y ago
I use a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate for it's (Cherry MX Blue) mechanical switches; it's considered an "immature" choice among mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, so you may want to research further. It's a good keyboard
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by vijucat 13y ago
I finally made time for "Functional Programming in Scala" and it was fun. However, I must add that when I tried to use Scala in the real-world, it was considerably more complicated due to implicits, CanBuildFrom, and other "i
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by vijucat 13y ago
You're right! It's not AS simple as I made it out to be.
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by vijucat 13y ago
Had to add this because I thought it was fairly obvious, but all the other Scala mentions were either snarky or seemed to miss the core point of the title of the post : "What languages fix" Scala : functional programming without l
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by vijucat 13y ago
I disabled Caps Lock so that by itself, it does nothing. I mapped CapsLock + hjkl to the arrow keys a la vim, and several other similar CapsLock + <something else> combos that make sense to me.
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by vijucat 13y ago
Later, I realized that in a regular program / on the command line, the negative lookahead can be avoided by using the !~ (doesn't match) operator,i.e., we just check that the number is not a non-prime using a simpler regex: DB
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by vijucat 13y ago
Thanks for the web site links! Both are pretty interesting and I actually learned something from the detailed description(s) that regex101 provides. (I learned that for (\1)+, "Note: A repeated capturing group will only capture the las
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by vijucat 13y ago
I used to slightly better hours in Hong Kong, but now I hear it has got worse (i.e., other have echoed the 10 hours per day number that you mentioned). I was offered an Executive Director role at a big bank and could not get myself to say &
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by vijucat 13y ago
In my experience, this is more about memory rather than intelligence / ability to understand. I used to be quite good at C++ and Perl and then I was asked to move to Java and these days I work with Scala + Java. In between, I also lear
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by vijucat 13y ago
R terminal: > 2147483629*2147483647 [1] 4.611686e+18
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by vijucat 13y ago
I used GMVault only because Google's solution was not out there at that time. However, as others have mentioned, GMVault works on an incremental basis after the first download, while the Google solution seems to be a snapshot-only serv
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by vijucat 13y ago
> It's a book that is a PDF at some point before it hits printing presses. What is there to make at all? The kindle has been out for how many years? how is the book so different when reading it on an e-ink display? Just anecdotal in
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by vijucat 13y ago
Here is the simplest solution I found to taking a backup of your gmail. The only glitch is that the mirror account will of course be a perfect image only if you set up the forwarding from day one :-( I had to use gmvault (gmvault.org/)
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by vijucat 13y ago
Great one, thanks! Thinking / talking to oneself is a huge puzzle-space in general because of the self-modifying aspect of it, and not lying to oneself sounds like a great foundational value to keep the entire OS sane.
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In any case, it's regrettable that your time was wasted, but I guess one day, you'll look back and see how it was a stepping stone to something better! :-)
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Thank you! :-)
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Firstly : cells + formulas are isomorphic to rule-based (expert) systems in that both are directed graphs (which may contain cycles, which is an error!). Thus, just a thought experiment, it may be useful to turn the situation on it's h

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