KrisAndrew

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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
It's more of a response to the market. Beginning about 5 years ago I was increasingly asked to do more numerically oriented things. Prior to that I was mostly writing applications that generated SQL and wrapped the results in some HT
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
It's a critique, impassioned and curt albeit; and here's the most powerful metaphor you'll hear in regard to the topic of non-standardized formats. Non-standardized formats/languages are the jive ( http://en.wi
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
I agree with the author in general. However, I would write an article about a more general and insidious fashion (fashion repeats itself). That fashion is "I hate typing" or, alternatively, "typing less makes me more produc
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
Not to disrespect, but at 71 isn't he on Medicare? That and co-insurance won't cover his medical treatments?
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
My advice is to completely downplay your [lack of] education. If they ask you about it, just tell them you are self-taught, and wait for the next question. You should focus on what you've done at your job and outside projects. Emph
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
We'll agree to disagree then. I've heard several complaints about lithium but none of them was "it turns me into a soulless robot." The way lithium works is by stabilizing mood, not by inducing a different mood like ot
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
Lithium is not like you describe. I've taken half a dozen SSRI's, which at times made me feel totally empty and without motivation. I've taken one antipsychotic (risperidone) and it made me feel like an utterly stupid zombi
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
Too little too late. The "usefulness" of that ephemerality feature hasn't stuck. One of the reasons why many of my friends quit using disappearing photo apps was because they actually wanted to keep many of the photos they
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
Just a guess, but it's probably a similar situation in the US when the same cohort is compared to their ancestors. My mom (66 years old) is certainly way better off than her mother was at 66+. My friends' parents seem to be simi
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
In GRASP this is called "Pure Fabrication" - a thing that is not directly modeled in the problem domain. Initially, adding a search method to Product seemed sensible by using "Information Expert" (another GRASP term), b
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
My depression didn't respond well to five SSRIs, one SNRI, two tricyclics and one tetracyclic. It turns out I didn't have major depressive disorder, but bipolar 2. The only medication that worked to alleviate my depression was L
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
My qualm isn't with the pharmaceuticals companies, oddly enough. I have issues with the psychiatrists mostly. They rely far too much on literature and don't listen to their patients. Also, the patients are overly supine and conti
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
They can have the cake, but not eat it, no? They don't have the option to enroll or not. They have to or they get penalized. The penalty is small; $95 per person, but this is really just another tax on a growing margin of society t
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
No. Imagine you're a gig worker who makes $2500/mo. $750 goes to your apartment, $500 goes to taxes, $200 goes to your car payment and auto insurance, $200 goes to groceries, $180 goes to your cell phone and utilities, $120 for s
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
It depends on the style of the college. Computer Science is certainly much more than math. I'd sooner employ a CS major who took foreign languages than one who supplemented his coursework with tons of math classes. Those special&#x2
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
All of programming can be self-taught. The problem with finding people who have "skills" already is that they might only be able to use libraries and frameworks to build things, but they can't really solve problems. Can the
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
My friends who used Snapchat have all moved on to Secret. Gossip always wins. No messaging app I've used yet does much better than group MMS.
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
Amazon is a pretty good fit for Twitch. Why? 1) Digital distribution is becoming the norm for video games. Amazon already sells physical media and purchase codes for many game platforms. It's a tie-in to sell product. 2) Amazon is
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
You should make that a bit clearer in your copy. Having "proprietary" and "secure" so close to each other in a single sentence can drive more saavy users away. Other than that, what are you doing to increase trust withi
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
They receive the bitcoins immediately* (in 10 minutes, after it's confirmed by the network), which the IRS considers property. If they want money they have to convert the bitcoins to local currency and wait for a payout to their/a
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
That instantly turned me away. After reading Applied Cryptography when I was 16 the lesson that stuck with me was "don't create your own security system/cryptosystem." It'll have more holes than a block of Swiss ch
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
Wittgenstein would say that the Buddha and Schopenhauer were playing a quite similar language-game.
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
I find the crossover between philosophy and mathematics/logic extremely interesting. I've read both of Wittgenstein's major works ("Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" and "Philosophical Investigations") and
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
Also, if you went to a top tier school for your subject, most of the rules are ignored. My profile is partially completed, and I haven't updated most of it in a while. I always get a callback when I submit a resume; even if it's
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by KrisAndrew 12y ago
I gave up on Twitter several months ago. I never really got much out of it. I also quit using G+ after I stopped playing Ingress. Facebook is time-limited to 1 minute per day using the StayFocusd extension in my browser. I've also
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by KrisAndrew 13y ago
Most people don't know this. I usually just leave the items I was going to buy on the counter if they tell me there's a minimum. Most of the time they'll change their mind and take my card, after first trying to slap me wit
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by KrisAndrew 13y ago
Managers and executives often care about languages. It actually is pretty difficult to find developers who can easily pick up new languages. Most of the places I've worked at, the average number of languages known by individual devel
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by KrisAndrew 13y ago
You can't process a context-free grammar with a DFA.
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by KrisAndrew 13y ago
A lack of women in a given profession usually means there's no work-life balance there.
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by KrisAndrew 13y ago
Wait until they're rescripted to perform phone sex.

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