warmind99

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P-Hacking Society(sigmoid.substack.com)
3 points by warmind99 6y ago|0 comments
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by warmind99 6y ago
Coming from the finance world, there's a very good reason that doesn't happen. In situations where a company is spiraling, everyone is incentivized to leave for new work. The people who are most competent at work are also most cap
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by warmind99 6y ago
It would be nice if they took over the video call market from Zoom. They definitely have the web expertise to do it, and they could make a lot of money since absolutely no one I know actually wants to use zoom over a competitor.
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by warmind99 6y ago
It'd be really interesting to see how much activist HR employees eat into their revenue.
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by warmind99 6y ago
I really like the trait/struct/enum model of programming that you find in Rust. I'm a quant and I do a lot of higher math, and the trait method of programming is very very similar to how you might construct algebraic structur
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by warmind99 7y ago
Hi, quant here (in Uni). I have some obligation to respond to (2), because I know something about it and you've mischaracterized it alot. We have around $1.5T in student debt currently, at its peak in 2008, there was around $12.7T in h
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by warmind99 7y ago
Yeah, new Rust programmers always fight the borrow checker. Once you get used to it though, Rust's compiler is literally orgasmic. It has a build in spell checker for christ sake.
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by warmind99 7y ago
Agreed, the Rust docs seriously suck, but once you get used to the language you can write incredibly fast code witgh only about 15% more effort than Python. Also, Cargo.toml is great.
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by warmind99 8y ago
Def might, if your tone is off/the CEO is neurotic. If some rando came in trying to gauge how long he could hang on to a job rather than how he can contribute to the idea I'd be a bit put off.