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by cjf4 3y ago
Can you make a pitch to a Python/R user to give this a try? What you’ve built looks very nice and heard nothing but good things about elixir elsewhere, but would take a lot to leave those much more robust ecosystems. Do you hope to gro
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by cjf4 3y ago
That's half the story. The other half is that it's under the influence under an antagonistic authoritarian government. If tiktok were a japanese app, this would play out very differently.
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by cjf4 4y ago
If you take the thread's stated pros (low barrier to entry, experimental scripting workflow) and cons ([not] fast, compilable, no GIL) at face value, it's interesting evidence for what really matters compared to what needs to be m
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by cjf4 4y ago
This post mirrors why mad men isn’t nearly on the same level as the sopranos/breaking bad/the wire. For all the visual richness and unique period dynamics, the story wasn’t particularly compelling and the show winds up feeling emp
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by cjf4 4y ago
The nice thing about bogleheads is it starts pretty simple but scales into the minutia of various tax efficiency techniques, fund selection, real estate, and so on when you need it. The other thing I like about it is that the forums have lo
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by cjf4 4y ago
Tangential to the discussion in the thread, this is a nice reminder of some of the nice things from the blog era: - medium form essay that's not SEO optimized - simple, fast loading websites - real discussion in the comments It&#x27
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by cjf4 4y ago
Most of the answers here are pointing to things like inefficiencies, short-sightedness, and over engineering, but I'm not seeing the positive side. The web is an incredible distribution channel. With decent engineering, anyone can make
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by cjf4 4y ago
While I don't think centralization of media is a good thing, the anti-competitive argument doesn't make sense given the amount of viable competition. Microsoft is probably in 3rd place in console sales, lower if you include PC and
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by cjf4 4y ago
One of the things that always sort of annoys me about complaints that "management doesn't listen to data (science)" is the lack of awareness they consist of. It turns out that data work is limited by all the same things every
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by cjf4 4y ago
Many thought it was not only possible but inevitable: The Schlieffen plan, French revanchism, general military buildup across Europe, and of course Biskmark's 1888 comment: "One day the great European War will come out of some dam
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by cjf4 4y ago
I started out thinking RDR2 was immersive, but the theme park ride on rails main plot missions absolutely killed it, and diminished all the cool world stuff they did.
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by cjf4 4y ago
This was a good survey. The nature of historical books (and especially grand macro books such as these) tends to lead to an acceptance/rejection debate on a particular perspective, which can be tedious, but this did a good job of takin
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by cjf4 4y ago
The stock market does two things crypto doesn't: - generates consistent cash flows - produces real economic value
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by cjf4 5y ago
Another eclectic fractal not listed here is the novel Infinite Jest. David Foster Wallace specifically noted the plot structure as a Sierpinski Gasket. You could think of the tennis academy, the halfway house, and the international assassin
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by cjf4 5y ago
Hire a lawyer.
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by cjf4 5y ago
GE Honeywell was a huge one. https://www.rferl.org/a/1096891.html
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by cjf4 5y ago
The article says the old way was the cbs way (blue colors, stay out of the way)
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by cjf4 5y ago
Anything that moves away from the CBSness is a good thing. Their broadcasts have been second rate mediocrities since they’ve had the rights: - Completely bland theme music. - Half-witted former QB analysts (other than Romo). - The worst stu
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by cjf4 5y ago
I think the key to Kenji's success was bring Cook's Illustrated's scientific approach to a younger generation.
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by cjf4 5y ago
They really hit a sweet spot of ease/accessibility, flexibility, and efficiency (Jupyter lab for me specifically)
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by cjf4 5y ago
>for many of us, money is only experienced through our phones, as a number on a screen. You pay your rent with one app, you buy put options with another. The number goes up, it goes down, it lives in the little portal we hold in our hand
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by cjf4 6y ago
I agree with your point that companies should provide more room for individualism, but there have to be some kind of boundaries and recognition that you are part of a team. It seems like more and more that emboldened employees don't th
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by cjf4 6y ago
I'm sure someone has done this before but Hemingway app ironically has a lot of feedback for this random passage I pulled from the Old Man and the Sea. https://imgur.com/a/5vheg0w
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by cjf4 6y ago
The overall point Taleb makes is a good one, but he out kicks his coverage here: > The (Protestant) Puritans who inhabited New England and the Salafis of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf have nearly identical theologies, based on shared
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by cjf4 6y ago
For paid options, the best is the ATK/CI site. The reason they're head and shoulders above anything else is quality control. You don't have to worry about a recipe being good or not because they test them so much. Even the NY
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by cjf4 6y ago
I'm not sold. I acknowledge that these are real issues, and commend the authors for attempting to address them. However, these issues rarely cause any real friction for me - I generally find SQL among the most ergonomic languages I use
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by cjf4 6y ago
Taking CS50 feels similar to watching a movie that has an auteur’s fingerprints all over it. Every word in the lecture, every technology, and every problem set has been carefully crafted to fit together to create a cohesive experience. Col
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by cjf4 6y ago
I'd add multi-paradigm. It's really powerful that you compare teach/compare/mix OO, FP, and others without leaving the language.
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by cjf4 6y ago
To me, Art Deco stands out in modern skylines in part because it is distinctive. I don't think the glass covered skyscrapers that are sprouting up in every growing city are as ugly as their detractors say, but they do all look the same
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by cjf4 6y ago
This is easily my favorite Python visualization tool. The declarative nature is intuitive, and the way it integrates with vegalite provides a lot of flexibility. The docs are also great. If you are missing ggplot2 in Python, I’d say look he

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