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by wenc 9y ago
The majority of the L stops I use in Chicago don't have shops (mostly blue line, some red line and brown line). Which ones do you use that has shops?
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by wenc 9y ago
I mean this in the nicest possible way (as a former Montrealer who also belongs to a minority ethnic group), but it would seem that the way you write English is discernibly non-native and therefore there was a trade-off in fluency that was
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by wenc 9y ago
There's also joke that goes: Power law walks into a bar. Bartender says, "I've seen a hundred power laws. Nobody orders anything." Power law says, "1000 beers, please".
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by wenc 9y ago
Good one. Not many people are going to get this joke, Key and Peele fan. :)
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by wenc 9y ago
What if the "acknowledge receipt to sender" message gets lost?
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by wenc 9y ago
The X-axis really ought to have been labeled. It wasn't obvious that it represented age. Age is a plausible inference from the data, but labeling the axis would have made the visualization tighter.
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by wenc 9y ago
I really liked The Effective Engineer because it had more systems thinking behind rather just how to manage a code project. It covers some really foundational concepts like idempotency which programmers don't often think about when arc
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by wenc 10y ago
Agree about no need for cars to have a grill. However I felt the shape of the front nose on the original Model 3 unveil was aesthetically "incorrect" - like a streamline with an anomaly. It wasn't about grill or no grill, but
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by wenc 10y ago
Companies like Uber (or Lyft for that matter) may go up in smoke but the idea of mobile ride-hailing and having an elastic fleet is so compelling that someone else will fill the void. The convenience factor is so astounding that the problem
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by wenc 10y ago
It'll be interesting to see how small town dynamics influences the ratings. I can just imagine a Corner Gas scenario.
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by wenc 10y ago
I think it could work for remote work, especially for folks with families, but I don't see millennials moving there. It's about an hour from downtown Toronto on a good day. On the other hand, it's close to Barrie.
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by wenc 10y ago
Simply Statistics, Andrew Gelman, DataTau, Win-Vector, StatsBlogs (an aggregator)
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by wenc 10y ago
I'm not sure if the question is about reading habits on HN, or the reading habits of the HN demographic. If it is the former, I middle-click 3-4 articles a day, and if they are also juicy topics, I middle-click the comments links as we
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by wenc 10y ago
No, it is because the British Empire spanned a quarter of the globe and the Americans won World War II. No other language has had the advantage of being the language of two world superpowers with such vast geopolitical influence spanning ov
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by wenc 10y ago
This is where it gets complicated. I'm not sure where the term "Dual Numbers" came from, but in the numerical math community, this is known as Complex Step Differentiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N
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by wenc 10y ago
You make a good point. MATLAB, rightly or wrongly, has become a signal for engineering computation skillset on resumes. That said, the world has become more accommodating in other ways. Python and R are now more well-accepted signals for da
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by wenc 10y ago
The problem with Octave for most of its life was it never had a very good GUI, and that made it hard for university departments to adopt as course software. I know we tried to push Octave in our department, but it just never took off. That,
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by wenc 10y ago
Strictly speaking, equations (note, not functions) represent equality between LHS and RHS, so there is no causality implied.
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by wenc 10y ago
Enthalpy (note, not energy) is an extensive property, and is proportional to the mass/size of the system, so mass is already accounted for. CO2's enthalpy can be represented in the same equation. The energy balance equation is a f
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by wenc 10y ago
The only problem is that calories in = calories out assumes a steady-state where there is no change in internal energy (dU/dt), which is not a good assumption.
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by wenc 10y ago
It is technically not incorrect, but incomplete. We know there is conservation of mass and energy in nature. Any chemical engineer can write mass and energy balance equations that represent this conservation. Calories in = Calories out is a
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by wenc 10y ago
I noticed that too. I don't want to gainsay the author's experiences, but it sounds like the author is describing the job of a data analyst who happens to dabble with various software. I don't get the sense the author has in-
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by wenc 10y ago
That is an excellent course, and a good jumping off point. It is somewhat technical and expounds ideas that most DBAs probably aren't aware of.
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by wenc 10y ago
There was also IBM PC DOS, which was essentially a rebranded MS-DOS but later diverged into its own thing, with support for REXX scripting, etc.
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by wenc 10y ago
Unfortunately, this is the wrong conclusion -- the jobs of the elite are precisely those that don't get replaced by technology. Automation only affects those jobs are systematic and repeatable. The elite typically hold jobs in consulti