codeonfire

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by codeonfire 9y ago
Java was one of these Ivory tower languages created at a big corporation, Sun Microsystems. Not unlike Go is today with Google. They will never add obvious features because of corporate bureacracy. And, adding a feature is admitting the
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by codeonfire 9y ago
I would never trust any IP or business docs to a third party storage service. And definitely code including secrets would not be stored on things like github, codecommit, etc. Have known too many corporate executives and learned no one ca
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by codeonfire 9y ago
php, javascript, python, languages with ad hoc data structures and no compilation, no jars, no dlls, no .o[bj], no .h People hate these because they like structure over speed and ease and what they perceive as high quality. Those people ar
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Downvoted for truth. I don't like it either, but the world is not fair.
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by codeonfire 9y ago
They understand perfectly. They are hoping for rich, well connected kids from rich families that can bring in money and power into the organization. They may have tried some "ordinary" people before and were befuddled when it di
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by codeonfire 9y ago
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_324.10.a... https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_323.10.a... This is US only and not for all years.
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Of the 5-10k CS professors out there , only a fraction are researching AI. There are postdocs, grad students, undergrad researchers. Students are not likely to make any ground breaking discoveries. So yeah, under 10k sounds reasonable.
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by codeonfire 9y ago
I don't understand why people have a problem with hard-coding features. The argument is that it creates more work later. But this is a fallacy as the work "later" is not guaranteed to be necessary or requested. The idea th
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by codeonfire 9y ago
poor form old chap... Nobody cares about form. I heard on a podcast that Ring has 100+ copycat competitors. If anything, no competitors might be a warning sign.
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by codeonfire 9y ago
I like the dell except for the power adapter bs. Just don't lose the adapter. Otherwise I would probably get a MacBook Pro.
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by codeonfire 9y ago
4K is worthless on a 15" screen. Text is too small and many UI components are unscalable on linux. I run at 1920. I had an Inspiron and it took some kernel hacking just to get 4K to work in Ubuntu (seems to be fixed now) Only good t
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by codeonfire 9y ago
We used Haberman. I think you can find a solution book. I'm not really sure what constitutes a gentle introduction. Half the class probably flunked or should have!
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Grep + sed or replace in Files for the changes. And gitall to commit them all. There is no need to get fancy if simple tools will do the job.
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Recent articles about Windows 10: "Windows 10 is essentially spyware" "Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made" "Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do" "You still can't turn off
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Yes, imagine all my devices, home, car cell phone all sending my data back to Satya. No thanks. Microsoft doesn't even try to hide it desire to put spyware in everything. They are the spyware company now. Yes valuable insights wil
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Amazon has burned through thousands of employees trying to keep their dumber managers in power. Amazon HQ is not American friendly either. Americans can quit and therefore are less valued there. Amazon has a large population of immigran
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Cheap Dell, add 1TB ssd, max the ram and install Ubuntu. Toshibas are never compatible, used lenovos have nasty shiny keys where the previous owner wore off the plastic. MBP costs a fortune.
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by codeonfire 9y ago
As someone who recently quit a new job soon after starting (my choice) you need to make sure your current employees are not dicks or they are managed. There are people out there whose dickness far exceeds their background and capabilities.
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by codeonfire 9y ago
I guess I meant data-wise. The image of the catheter and blood vessels would be superimposed in the AR device and the doctor would look at the patient instead of a monitor.
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Nothing is keeping someone. Probably the depth sensor is not high enough resolution. The camera is not high enough resolution. The phone battery will be dead in 45 minutes. I imagine the high end AR market would be for things like surge
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Well it is rooted in basic anti intellectual thought. How can computer nerds possibly understand business? Therefore we will create fox pro and eliminate the nerds. In reality non programmers have to do guerilla tech work in secret. Yes
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Their main problem is they recommend jobs that people already have. Why would someone quit for an equal job?
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by codeonfire 9y ago
These languages were supposed to eliminate programmers by having analysts do all the tech work. However, doing tech work is career suicide for any non programmer. What if a future VP was caught cleaning the toilets... The curse of framew
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by codeonfire 9y ago
In Seattle, there have been taxiway landings in 2005 and 2015 because the taxiway looks similar to the runways. Presumably the ILS system should align them with the correct runway, but I guess that in these cases, ILS is not being used. Ev
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Then hire some engineers and let them decide. If they don't immediately know what they want to use then you are not hiring engineers, you are hiring wannabe's or college kids.
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by codeonfire 9y ago
Why don't you let the actual engineers decide on the engineering questions, ffs? If you were making aircraft parts, would you ask the internet what software you are going to decide for them to use? No you wouldn't even be allowe
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by codeonfire 9y ago
BigQuery is like a midrange luxury car, easy to do anything, looks great, and good performance. Redshift is like someone's turbo boosted Honda Civic. Athena is maybe like a Camaro, You dislike the concept, but they maybe made it powe
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Google culture is all about arrogance and elitism. Their coder/snobs are definitely not pro python any version. They have their own internally developed ivory tower languages with horrible tooling and features to champion.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
In my opinion Google hiring is corrupt. They are under federal investigation and a civil lawsuit. The reason recruiters contact a large number of people that won't be hired is they need a lot of no-hires to make their stats balance o
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by codeonfire 10y ago
The intelligence agencies are not under "the presidents control". They are authorized and funded by congress. They exist to provide intelligence to various congressional committees like the senate intelligence committee.

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