virgilp

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by virgilp 8y ago
One of my colleagues complained a while ago to management that "you hire brain surgeons and put them to work to peel potatoes". Quite a poetic way to express the same idea, I'd say :D
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by virgilp 8y ago
A smart guy once told me that the easiest sales pitch is "I've got money for you!". Think how you convince the buyer that your product will help him earn more money/ save more money. If you can e.g. get a percentage of t
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by virgilp 8y ago
EU helps with this too, accidentally. All official documents are translated in all EU languages, with very high quality translators. And all these documents are public.
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by virgilp 8y ago
> Although the number of trackers is decreasing overall, a few large tracking operators such as Google receive even more user data. This won't be a popular opinion here, but... it's actually good news/ what you observe is
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by virgilp 8y ago
> if you hover over just about any text element, a little 'copy' icon will appear. I like this feature. Think I didn't try that? Doesn't work on CosmosDB databases. Yes, for a lot of items it's true that "co
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by virgilp 8y ago
I've been working with it for months (still do), and have never found it to be good or reliable. The endless-horizontal-growth is maddening. Horizontal scroll-in-scroll is very hard to do for users, why they thought it'd be a good
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by virgilp 8y ago
Well, yes. Comparing top .01% to top 1% is akin to comparing top 1% to general population - NOT akin to comparing top 1% to top 2%. So a big difference should be expected/not surprising at all.
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by virgilp 8y ago
Well, if you want to be very precise about it, and start excluding dictionary definitions ([1] "success = the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.") - then I'd argue it's more important to define "p
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by virgilp 8y ago
Right but if you postulate that "perseverance" is prerequisite for "education" then why would Coolidge list it separately, as an argument that "it's not enough"? Also, there are other examples of success w
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by virgilp 8y ago
There are instances of success without perseverance. For instance, the guy who invented GANs did it in one evening, more or less on a whim. One could argue that education and probably IQ were the dominant enablers there.
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by virgilp 8y ago
I don't know. It's not exactly JSON, but I like HOCON configs a whole lot better than XML ones.
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by virgilp 8y ago
I agree they can afford it... But, they still "optimize". We were already open-floor, and they modified the plan to pack us tighter. Nobody ever thought that was "cool", in any way.
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by virgilp 8y ago
I'd like to see that ample evidence. On the contrary, I know even fairly experienced developers who get burned with memory issues in C - and I have never ever heard of even the most junior developer to have any problem with double free
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by virgilp 8y ago
... and there's ample evidence that this is a reasonable assumption, so let's do closures based on it, too! :)
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by virgilp 8y ago
It must be about cost though, at least in some corporations. Why are they calling it "space optimization" here? Also, what are they measuring - since you can't optimize what you don't measure? I haven't seen surveys
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by virgilp 8y ago
For "open-floor plan" I think the explanation is simple: it's cheap(er), and people in charge of facilities/ hr don't understand or care about the tradeoffs. It's funny, in our corporation they call it "sp
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by virgilp 8y ago
The key word in your message is "I". Some people are willing to bet that there are enough people with different priorities/preferences
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by virgilp 8y ago
How is a personal identification number a security risk? It's only so is it's considered a secret. If it's considered to be "public information" ( like eg your name), it's not problematic at all
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by virgilp 8y ago
Better take care of him now, both of you will appreciate it much better. Dementia is not fun at all, for any of the involved parties.
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by virgilp 8y ago
Gwynne Shotwell seems to be doing that just fine. Surely she's not unique in the world - though I do agree that COOs that meet Elon's bar are probably extremely rare.
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by virgilp 8y ago
Isn't that Bezos' declared goal? To have a cut from all economic activity.
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by virgilp 8y ago
You can do it without backtracking with a very simple deterministic finite automaton - keep track of <block_start, block_end, condition_met> as you pour through the input. But yes, it's a bit more complicated, it's preferabl
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by virgilp 8y ago
It's quite simple, really - at least in some instances. Say you look for log lines (or jsons) that contain the username 'mamcx'; you first filter-away lines that do NOT contain 'mamcx', then parse only the remainin
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by virgilp 8y ago
Lots of vividly-colored text is hard to read and makes a pretty bad interface, too. Also, apparently the whole quiz is kinda' moot - here's how my console looks now: https://imgur.com/n9Ohtri (apparently they move
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by virgilp 8y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Smartphones & touchscreens were "here" for decades by the time iPhone launched. Or, take a look at the timeline of "social media": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_soci
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by virgilp 8y ago
Because, while I might not remember/recognize all their obscure logos, I actually remember/differentiate between the few frequently-used ones. Also, the logos are color-coded by "service category" if I'm not wrong
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by virgilp 8y ago
You are right, of course, in an abstract sense. But in the real world, this reminds me of the "we never had communism!" argument (because somehow, all those who implemented it, got it "wrong" and failed the principles).
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by virgilp 8y ago
If only social media was the worst.... see Juul Labs: https://om.co/2018/07/25/juul-stinks/
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by virgilp 8y ago
But, they can be maintained. Changing the rubber gaskets every 100 years doesn't sound so bad. And glass will withstand water+wind forever, unlike stone. And it's easier to replace. And our steal&glass buildings might withstan
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by virgilp 8y ago
I've heard that theory before, that "you're an alcoholic if you feel the need to drink alcohol periodically". Like, if you drink one beer per day during weekend, you're alcoholic because you feel compelled to do it,

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