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by avinium 7y ago
I co-organize a handful of Meetup groups, and we already pay a non-negligible annual fee. There's definitely money to be made. Most people seem happy shelling out $100-200 per year for a membership. $2 per attendee per event is simply
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by avinium 7y ago
That was my initial reaction, too. Or is long distance running much less of a "young person sport" than others?
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by avinium 7y ago
Are you me? 95% of my diet is broccoli, zucchini, spinah, chicken, beef, walnuts and peanuts. I'll usually indulge in a carb/sugar binge once a week. Any more than that, I feel rubbish physically - bloated, sluggish, hungry, irrit
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by avinium 7y ago
I'm amazed at how fresh they've stayed - testament to Matt and Trey I guess. Most comedies are beating dead horses within 5 seasons.
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by avinium 7y ago
Certificated is definitely a valid word, though perhaps not in "layperson English". In (Commonwealth) legalese, share holdings are referred to as either uncertificated or certificated.
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by avinium 7y ago
Even the median income comparison is probably too favourable - Wuhan and LA are apples to oranges. I'm sure LA is one of the higher-income cities in the US, and Wuhan is one of the lower.
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by avinium 7y ago
> Sorry but remark only reveals lack of knowledge of what Forms, WPF and UWP are capable of, their related tooling and component libraries from the likes of Telerik, DevExpress, ComponentOne, among others. I'm fully aware of WinForm
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by avinium 7y ago
> It's about the value you deliver for the company. Well, yes, but $1 in Malaysia goes a lot further than $1 in SV. So "equal pay" isn't really equal at all. COL-adjusted salaries are perfectly reasonable in my opinio
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by avinium 7y ago
In all fairness, I haven't touched Visual Studio (for either F# or C# dev) in at least 18 months, so you're probably right. That being said, UI isn't a strength on .NET to begin with, so I think it's unfair to point that
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by avinium 7y ago
That's fascinating, and exactly the type of working environment I'm looking to create. Outside the US, I think we (rightly or wrongly) view American working culture as blunt and direct. From what you've said here, Intel seems
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by avinium 7y ago
Yes, this is a recent-ish change. FSI is available under .NET Core 3 Preview, and someone recently mentioned that it's working under 2.2 too.
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by avinium 7y ago
I think that's not entirely fair. While MS could definitely invest more resources in F#, I wouldn't say it's been neglected (or dying). Just to mention a few developments in recent years: 1) IDE support via Ionide in VS Code
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by avinium 7y ago
This approach is really appealing to me, it sounds like a good way to cut through all the dancing around egos. In retrospect, though, is this effective?
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by avinium 7y ago
What makes you say that?
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by avinium 7y ago
I find the stroke anecdote fairly unconvincing. The man clearly still had the capacity for language - he was miming the action of a tennis racquet. Sign language is still language. Just because something went haywire between his brain and h
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by avinium 7y ago
Curious to know if you're a drug user?
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by avinium 7y ago
That's not really the point. Your diet works for you - great! Noone's saying it's biologically impossible. But most people won't find it easy to regulate their caloric intake eating ramen and chocolate. They will find it
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by avinium 7y ago
It's pretty common to cut 5-10kg in preparation for wrestling/judo competitions. A natural 6kg fluctuation isn't inconceivable. I'm fairly sure I could get there starting dehydrated/carb-depleted and pounding a carb
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by avinium 7y ago
> It's not so easy to binge protein bars, despite companies doing their chemical best to make them taste like candy. Amusing anecdote - for some reason, after a night on the town in Hong Kong, I ended up back in my hotel room, rave
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by avinium 7y ago
It does matter what you eat. Not in the sense of "calories in, calories out" - which, as you mentioned, is simple biology. But it is important in the sense of "which diet is easiest to follow?". That will vary person t
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by avinium 7y ago
I consider myself a seasoned dieter (meaning I can manipulate my weight +/-10kg fairly easily). Over at least a dozen weight cuts/bulks, the most effective practice I've found is writing a meal plan, and writing down everyt
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by avinium 7y ago
While you're right, I also wonder why anyone cares if a bunch of cash-rich, overconfident private equity funds get fleeced? They're more than capable of taking care of themselves. "Counterfeit capitalism" in the era of c
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by avinium 7y ago
I'm not saying that intelligence and bias are orthogonal. That discussion requires a much deeper consideration of human cognition and psychology :) I'm just saying that model bias is a very easy thing to explain (usually, data imb
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by avinium 7y ago
Fairly limited, but anonymous pipes might fit your use case: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/how-to-u...
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by avinium 7y ago
I strongly prefer they keep the bias. It shows plainly that these models have zero intelligence, they're just pattern matching over specific datasets. I don't want the appearance of fairness (introduced by human dataset curation)
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by avinium 7y ago
For the uninitiated, what happened with Guido van Rossum?
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by avinium 7y ago
I have a pet theory that our brains are hard-wired to store information "better" if it bears some kind of personal/individual imprint. In other words, we can "store" knowledge more efficiently when written in our ow
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by avinium 7y ago
Logically, you could be completely correct. Had I taken the other path, I may well be sitting here today saying "I massively regret not giving myself enough space to achieve". And you're right, finding satisfaction on your ch
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by avinium 7y ago
> I remember in my 20s I had this constant anxiety about running out of time. That if I didn't accomplish whatever I wanted to accomplish soon I'd never be able to do it. The emotion gradually disappeared during my 30s. I had t
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by avinium 7y ago
I worked in commercial property for some time, which allowed me to understand why certain things happen that seem irrational from the outside. Everything in real estate is driven by the valuation. This dictates lending terms, tenant acquisi

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