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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Wow, this is just like that dude running around calling himself the inventor of the chromebook.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Commonly understood in the field^ is that 60,000 examples is the sweet spot for training and validation data, 50k for training 10k for test/validation. I don't understand how this could be true. Shouldn't the sweet spot
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Tests against both historical and synthetic datasets.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
The culture of transparency. Google is enormously transparent internally. The more there are leaks, the less incentive there is to be transparent.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Guns are responsible for killing people, but they're not responsible for the decline of human population during a plague or a drought. (It's easy to be snarky.)
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
> the colloquial definition of multi-cloud. I know you can use multi-cloud to prevent lock in, but I've never heard the term used to strictly mean that. Almost everyone I work with uses the term multi-cloud as "workloads on mul
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
Big ones for me are Google Drive and Evernote.
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
> The configuration is only as complicated as you make it to be. Sure, I understand that, and it's tricky maintaining a balance between simple configuration and features. My point is that with VSCode, there's just so much I get
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
All this looks really great, however I think I just can't deal with the effort of maintaining these complex editor configurations anymore. I've been a multi-decade Vim user, until I switched to VSCode last year. It made me realize
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
For stuff like this, it usually starts from the bottom. Engineers have ideas, convince others to help them work on their ideas, build prototypes (alone or with others), sometimes get help from product managers to develop a business plan, th
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
Just because you specialize in a field doesn't mean that you can't be a good generalist.
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
You know you can actually improve year-over-year without chasing a new fad. (I'm saying this as someone who's been coding in C++ for over two decades, while still finding lots of room for improvement in my older code.)
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
Humans are typically the weak link in a security strategy... so I think this would make them harder to hack.
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Scheduling on SMP Hardware (2007)(0xfe.blogspot.com)
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
Some IMAP providers like Gmail use a more sophisticated auth mechanism where a secret token is shared over the encrypted link after the first password auth. This token typically has a long lifetime and is used for future sessions.
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
> As an immigrant, I've seen many immigrants who have absolutely no interest in the culture or society of the country they immigrated to. Okay, if you say so, but that's not what I was disputing. > Most people just want to g
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
> It is a much better form of help if you were to help them fix their own countries. As an immigrant, let me tell you that immigration had a huge positive impact my family's lives. Of course fixing my country would be great... if it
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
I don't think traversing binary trees satisfies the criteria for "algorithms expert." It would have been different if he was asked questions that only algorithms experts could answer, but really these are really basic questio
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
> This same exact argument could be used to require every interview candidate to know assembly. Yes, and that argument could be used to require every interview candidate to know quantum physics. At some point you draw a line, and Google&
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
A controlled fast is not an eating disorder. It's like calling prescribed medication drug abuse.
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
Mission critical can mean critical to one's mission. And if that's your photo sharing startup, then so be it. Use whatever language you need to get you through the day.
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
You either disagree and walk away, or (as the page says) you get a third person involved.
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
So how do you define "fully attempt"? Both projects made immense progress over many years -- they just weren't able to justify the costs. IMO, they were actually really good attempts.
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
> Your employer could easily poach those engineers by calling them up and offering $225k or more, offering housing vouchers, etc. I'd dispute the "easily" here. IME, it's extremely hard to get senior engineers to relo
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
> Or the U.S. could stop locating its biggest software shops in the most expensive zip codes in the country. The U.S. isn't a person that decides to put software shops in locations. Entrepreneurs setup shop in locations where they a
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
Speaking as a New Yorker, $130k is not "barely a living wage", unless you have a really distorted definition of "living." You do not need to commute 2h for reasonable housing -- I lived in Brooklyn (which, for me, was a
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
Couldn't they have just generated this dataset themselves? Why do you think they used yours?
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
Given that there were lots of companies that abandoned Window's phone, I'm not convinced it's related -- I suspect Waze would have abandoned it either way.
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
For one thing, an open source project typically has a stable set of one or more core contributors, who really care about the project.
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by zeroxfe 10y ago
This is a clickbait site that perpetuates thoughtless slander against toddler art.

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