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by bquinlan 2y ago
That's awesome! I'm not surprised about the angle-of-attack needing correction. The angle-of-attack is defined as the angle between the average chord (an imaginary line running from the leading edge of the wing to the trailing edg
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by bquinlan 3y ago
> IMO a teacher being paid $90k a year for 7 hours a day of work, > 10 months a year, should be working hard to improve. I don't disagree that she should work to improve, but you are using $90K as if it were a lot of money. Accor
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by bquinlan 3y ago
In my social circle there is a perception that the BART is increasingly unsafe and some people who previously used the BART to commute from East Bay to SF are now driving. Their perception seems to be born out by the data: From the Bay Area
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by bquinlan 5y ago
I think that the comment that you relied to meant that it is easier for scientists to collaborate using a single language rather than many. For some domains, Python has emerged as that single language. That doesn't mean that Python is
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by bquinlan 5y ago
Google App Engine originally used a custom containment strategy. Back in the day, I was on the team that added Python 2.7 support to App Engine and we were experimenting with a different containment approach. But Python is a complex languag
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by bquinlan 6y ago
Work for Google - have never worked on Tensorflow I tried: inputs = { 'matrix': [[10, 20, 30], [5, 5, 10], [2, 2, 1]] } output = [[85/10, 85/20, 85/30],
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by bquinlan 6y ago
>I could be a cog in a giant corporate machine, or I can have a measurable impact where I work. I think that point can support working for either a big company or a small company depending on what type of impact you are looking for. I&
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by bquinlan 7y ago
Bias alert: I work for Google. I enjoyed the write-up but I have a small correction to make about "Frustrating moment #2. You can pass every interview with A grades and still not get a job, because a senior Googler decides that you&#x
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by bquinlan 7y ago
I created word cloud as a Valentine's Day gift this year: - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brianquinlan/word-cloud-va... - https://github.com/brianquinlan/word-cloud-valentine/blob&#x2
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by bquinlan 7y ago
Nice! My approach is very similar except that I have width mappings for non-ASCII characters. Also, since DejaVu Sans (the font that shield.io, pybadges and healthchecks use) is heavily kerned, I have a table of kerning widths. You can also
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by bquinlan 7y ago
I created an equivalent project for people who wanted to create the same style of badges from Python (or from the command line): https://github.com/google/pybadges Python example: from pybadges import badge s = b
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by bquinlan 7y ago
I don't think this can be overstated. If you don't enjoy the interview process, you probably don't want to work there. I disagree with this. The interview that I enjoyed the most was with founders who took me out for beer.
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by bquinlan 7y ago
My dad has a friend who was a fish wholesaler. So, when he went to the docks to pick his own fish, he picked out two large coolers for me (I wouldn't know how to pick quality fish myself so that was a huge value-add).
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by bquinlan 7y ago
They were Python conferences but they aren't being held anymore. You could check out PyCascades, which happened in Seattle this year.
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by bquinlan 7y ago
I've been a co-convener for two Python conferences in Vancouver. The conferences were small (<200 people) but I don't remember the organization being as stressful as the article describes. For me, the key sources of stress were
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by bquinlan 8y ago
The declining motivation with increasing scope really resonates with me. I often feel the same. And I feel that his career trajectory is pretty typical - you start building cool stuff in a small team and you end up trying to coordinate larg
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by bquinlan 8y ago
If that is the scenario that you care about, then you can use profile guided optimization in statically compiled languages. Clang has instructions on how to do so here: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#profi
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by bquinlan 8y ago
Also, the space and time complexity analysis is incorrect for Trie: https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/blob/master/data_str...
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by bquinlan 8y ago
I'm a friend of Rafael and talked to him just before he announced that he was leaving LLVM. I actually disagree with many of Rafael's political views but I think that some of the comments in this discussion are unfair. For example
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by bquinlan 8y ago
I think that classifying Rafael as a member of the right would be a gross simplification. Rafael is actually a member of the BC Green Party ( https://www.bcgreens.ca/ ), which I'd say is firmly on the left.
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by bquinlan 9y ago
The disposition makes it look like Levandowski was very difficult to work with: Q. "Anthony threatens to leave the team if he isn't the single leader." Do you see that. A. Yeah ... Q. Sebastian says: "If he is the single
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by bquinlan 9y ago
Isn't 129MWh of capacity a bit low for 100MW of peak discharge? That would provide 77 minutes of power at peak discharge. Does anyone have any insight into the rationale for this capacity?
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by bquinlan 9y ago
I disagree that free speech is binary. For example, I think that a country can be said to have free speech if it disallows people from promising to compensate someone in exchange for murder.
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by bquinlan 9y ago
Are you claiming that Module-2 is memory safe? What about: MODULE Boom VAR Foo : POINTER TO INTEGER; BEGIN Foo^ = 123; END Boom.
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by bquinlan 10y ago
I wanted to learn Rust but didn't have a good project in mind. So I solved a bunch of interview problems: https://github.com/brianquinlan/learn-rust Solving those problems gave me a reason to touch lots of parts o
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by bquinlan 10y ago
100 Moffett, Mariposa Heights, and 1101 West are all four-story of greater condo complexes. There are probably others that I'm not aware of (I work in Mountain View but don't live there).
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by bquinlan 10y ago
You can iterate over Grapheme clusters using the standard library: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.3.0/std/str/struct.Graphemes.htm...
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by bquinlan 10y ago
When I read that sentence, I assumed that the author meant that the computed hash for an input must be deterministic. But she doubles-down on the uniqueness claim later: Each hash is unique but always repeatable The word 'cat' wi
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by bquinlan 10y ago
It took me a while to find the license. To save others time: http://cx.codaxy.com/CxLicenseAgreement.pdf I don't understand whether this license is reasonable or not (setting aside price) - which is a problem. Most dev
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by bquinlan 10y ago
This might be too much like Project Euler but I started by solving some common interview problems using Rust. Try solving the problems without looking at the solutions first: https://github.com/brianquinlan/learn-rust

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