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by wrnr 7y ago
True story, I am self-taught but have some impressive projects listed on my resume, some even open-source. It's more often than once that I've finally get an interview just to learn that the recruiter has removed these when anonym
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by wrnr 7y ago
Don't read too much into it, economic models like this are wrong in the same way the original version of Einstein's theory of general relativity fails to model 90% of the stuff in the universe, except that in this case it's m
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by wrnr 7y ago
Practice it as much as possible, I stutter and developed selective mutism because of it. Speaking used to agonising to me but in my mid twenties I got cured of my stutter. Don't know how it happened, but one day I realised I hadn'
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by wrnr 7y ago
In my region the government employment office likes to state that there are tens of thousands of IT vacancies but these numbers are misleading. It's actually a form of ghost liquidity. The same job at one company is advertised by diffe
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by wrnr 7y ago
It's still early days but I'm working on it: https://github.com/wrnrlr/foxtrot
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by wrnr 7y ago
I know apple isn't the company it used to be and with all the FUD going around I was reluctant to install the latest version but it works perfectly. This is article of +3000 words, don't take the time to write this and then compla
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by wrnr 7y ago
It's a tragedy this divorce, our wife is leaving us and we get to keep the kids.
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by wrnr 7y ago
I've had insomnia for as long as I can remember and wish there was another culture about sleep. I saw this documentary about the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) wherein a physicist was staying awake for 48 hours so he can focus on hi
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by wrnr 7y ago
Haha, but in all seriousness I'd like for the social sciences to conduct a study on how widespread the adoption their ideas is.
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by wrnr 7y ago
There is great value is maintaining old software, from an evolutionary perspective it is often the critical systems that have a reason to exist. An organism that has been around for a hundred years has a bigger change of surviving to the ne
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by wrnr 7y ago
The EU paid 6 billion to help Turkey with its migration crisis[1]. In addition to this, they also receive money from other funds like Horizon2020, funding for industry innovation, as part of the pathway of Turkeys to get full EU membership.
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by wrnr 7y ago
Most grows is not exponential, rather it is shaped like an S curve. A novel phenotype/technology flourishes by taking advantage of some free energy, but after the low hanging fruits have been picket the multitude of offspring has to co
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by wrnr 7y ago
It is? If so, the same market dynamics not are pushing people to pick service X by amazone/google/microsoft. Its a fools aren to compete with Atlassian on developer productivity software. Think you can find a better offering then
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by wrnr 7y ago
Maybe software developers (secretly) hate programming. We have a 2 minute standup meeting at the end of the day. Believe me, that's the least of it.
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by wrnr 7y ago
Why call the others "normies"? The others are normal and just normal, while I am special and therefore special. Does that sound like a slave to you?
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by wrnr 7y ago
This is a well-observed phenomenon in the care-industry. After a patient is diagnosed with a disability there is a danger of overfitting other behavior to the disease profile. Its called a "second/third order disability" depe
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Open Source Implementation of the Wolfram Language in Go(github.com)
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by wrnr 7y ago
See my other reply in this post why I thing he is wrong about universal grammer. I don't have any problem conceiting that humans are the only species with advanced language skills ;)
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by wrnr 7y ago
There was a paper on HN some years ago that in my mind settled the old question whether humans share a universal grammer to process language. The gist was that a visual image is parsed the same way as language is, with noun phrases and verb
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by wrnr 7y ago
There was a post on HN a week ago that was agreeing with some statements Greta made about climate change, it has flagged and removed. I don't always agree with everything she says but found little objectionable about the article. Stran
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by wrnr 7y ago
The original article can be described as "standard spiel that your old cranky uncle writes in their FB page"?
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by wrnr 7y ago
Its often forgotten that it was the liberal consensus that grew during the seventies out of an aversion for gunboat diplomacy, where the US as global policeman was forced to enforce trade of resources vital to us all, that instead should be
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by wrnr 7y ago
Very much to the contrary, why go over the network to get a value from a key-value store when you can have a mutex protected map that only hods the values that where accessed by that node. The "lets have a shared memory between our ser
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by wrnr 7y ago
The data on how to access a location with a wheelchair is also valuable for drones
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Wallenius Bayes(linkedin.com)
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by wrnr 7y ago
With we you mean you? You should read "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance", it a autobiography of a man who develops a meta-physical system existing of the holy trinity of a thing, the representation of a thing and the esse
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Mind Is Eight-Dimensional [video](youtube.com)
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by wrnr 7y ago
There is a great video serie by infinite series[1] that goes into detail how the neural network of a brain processes information. The way I understand it is that the more abstract thoughts can are represented as higher dimensional structure
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by wrnr 7y ago
I've configured my mac to read-aloud any text I've selected when I press the option+cmd+v keyboard shortcut. It's available through the accessibility settings. There is also the option the increase the reading speed. The stan
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by wrnr 7y ago
I've recently interviewed at a startup that was into functional programming. The coding challenge was: transform a pair of an optional string and optional integer, into a optional pair of string and integer. My solution was to just che

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