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by chuckcode 8y ago
+1 to this post by koliber. Only thing I would add is to plan as detailed as you can everything beforehand. Draw it up, visualize it. What sort of hinges on doors, how will the cabinets swing, etc. etc. Before you even start building a wall
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by chuckcode 8y ago
I really like notebooks as a way to share an analysis or data visualization. For me the biggest benefits are: - Integration. So nice to have access to the compute, data and libraries all in one place. There is a surprising amount of hassle
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by chuckcode 9y ago
Completely agree about missing the actual benefit to society of focusing on better education and opportunities for all. Amazing how quickly things can go off the rails when you start evaluating middle management off some metric like "n
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by chuckcode 9y ago
I think we can all agree that bad managers suck and managers who pretend to be technical particularly suck. However it feels the me though like we greatly underestimate the difficulty of being a technical manager and grievously under train
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by chuckcode 9y ago
I like this idea. I wish more of the places I have worked had explicit guidelines around how to work as a team (e.g. don't trivialize work that isn't). It doesn't take many poor timed comments to shut down a team's discu
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by chuckcode 9y ago
Would be nice if authors compared to some of the existing linear algebra packages with SIMD support like Eigen[1] which I've found to be very useful and easy to use. Header only includes, additional functionality and cache sensitive al
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by chuckcode 9y ago
I currently use it for java and c++ builds inside a largish tech company. Build systems are definitely not one size fits all though so I would encourage you to pick one that meets needs of your project. If you want to build for different pl
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by chuckcode 9y ago
+1 for bazel. It also scales to large builds and handles java as well. We've seen big decreases in build times by using it as it does caching, parallel execution and good dependency analysis. Getting up to speed can take a little doing
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by chuckcode 9y ago
Agreed. Useful but documentation is minimal, uses some non-standard naming conventions.
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by chuckcode 9y ago
Love this idea!! Verify backups or some portions of backups randomly from time to time would be great. This is one of the biggest problems I've seen with backups. A number of cases where "it used to work" but now it doesn&#x2
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Pinterest's policy is to hire people on what they can do, not who they are. Hire the best person for the position not a specific gender or other trait. My understanding is that Candice's role is to help ensure that we're avoi
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Pinterest has a Head of Diversity [1]. Her name is Candice and she's great. I can see how people are sensitive to diversity issues as humanity has a long history of various forms of discrimination. Let's try to be data driven here
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by chuckcode 10y ago
My experience has been that my H1-B coworkers don't get paid as well as US counterparts sand that there is significant friction for them to change companies or even get a big promotion if they are in process of applying for green card.
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by chuckcode 10y ago
In my experience learning is not a "one size fits all" product product, or even fits most. I'd really like to see schools have more resources and expertise to address different kids learning styles and aptitudes as I have yet
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by chuckcode 10y ago
The pain for me here isn't that process can take some extra time, it is that the developer doesn't know what is expected and keeps getting surprised at every step. It can soak up a lot of calendar time and developer motivation to
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Even if relatively small in market size compared to current Android install base I think Google would like to grab some of Apple's profit from the high end. While Apple has around 17% of unit sales in smartphones they earn something li
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Reverse debugging is a nice feature but just skip to 9min in to watch the demo of reverse debugging. Surprised to see so much of the video talking about the UI of gdb which certainly didn't change my opinion of it. I've found emac
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Report from I cited TomTom says SF in particular has second worst traffic in the US[1]. I think lots of other cities have terrible traffic and ranking would certainly change depending on how exactly one evaluates traffic and what are the li
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Really appreciate the note on public transportation. Limited housing gets a lot of the press currently but other infrastructure including public transportation is pretty overwhelmed currently as well. The traffic is already the second worst
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Agreed. And this article could just as easily be run with the headline "Schools do almost nothing to stop known cheating" which would make for more bad press.
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by chuckcode 10y ago
I went to grad school with a lot of Chinese visa students. It was pretty clear about a week in who was the real deal (absolutely brilliant students) and who had worked the system to get into the school. The ones that had cheated their way i
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by chuckcode 10y ago
While the cost of housing in the bay area gets a lot of press the entire infrastructure of the bay is getting stretched by the current tech boom. The traffic is already the second worst in the nation [1], and existing public transportation
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by chuckcode 10y ago
I would add SQL to your examples of subject specific languages. Great language in a very specific application that lots of developers know and are familiar with but would never write a web server with it even though it is arguably turning c
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Completely agree that standardizing notation takes decades as a lot of it is how textbooks and tutorials from experts are written. I for one though am really glad that we standardized on Leibniz's notation rather than Newton's for
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Might be a little premature to call for retirement of sigma. The mathematical concept of standard deviation is super useful but I agree that the name is confusing and that we need to improve the naming and ideally the notation and teaching
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by chuckcode 10y ago
More data points do help the individual know their baseline range for when they feel healthy compared to range when they experience a health problem. Looking at second order effects like when a value suddenly changes for a particular indivi
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Completely agree. False positives are a fact of statistics, what we need is more data to establish baselines for people and populations and understand when is the right time to worry. I'm genuinely surprised that doctors aren't le
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by chuckcode 10y ago
Pretty disappointed with 538 on this article. The basic argument is that we shouldn't do more medical testing as doctors aren't sure how to interpret the results, public isn't sophisticated enough to understand and too lazy t
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by chuckcode 10y ago
I'd be interested in what you liked with other task trackers that felt bewildering in Asana? I've been using computers long enough to remember when window managers were a big innovation but my experience with Asana was the opposit
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by chuckcode 11y ago
I think that an exchange that places less of a premium on speed like the IEX is an way to evaluate claims that HFT is hurting markets. Let the market evaluate by providing different options to investors. If HFT is providing benefits in term

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