gumballhead

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by gumballhead 4y ago
I don't think I have. I was an early employee at a startup that made it through a few rounds of funding. Somewhere in there the ship started sinking and it was pretty obvious. In the beginning, we routinely worked 60+ hours a week and
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by gumballhead 6y ago
What's cool about this is now that you have a date generator, you can apply all kinds of fun things to your date ranges with Python's standard library. Apply generator expressions, format them with map, filter out weekends, anythi
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by gumballhead 7y ago
I worked at a startup that operated for over five years with a similar amount of funding. We had a web app, webpage, native mobile apps on both platforms, marketing, customer service, sales, and our own office that was pretty dope. We had s
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by gumballhead 7y ago
I've never gotten burned out from working too hard. I get burned out by having no say or control over what we are working on or how it's done, and by getting stuck working on low-value tasks for prolonged periods of time. Those pr
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by gumballhead 8y ago
This is pretty accurate when compared to my own experience, which really surprises me.
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by gumballhead 8y ago
Another benefit is establishing team norms and best practices, which is also a goal of code review, but pairing accomplishes it in a bottom up way rather than a heavy top down way. I've worked on teams where review was a very important
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by gumballhead 8y ago
I have major gripes with it too and don't use it unless a project enforces it. The main ones that get me are the whitespace (4 characters) and restrictive line length (79 characters) rules. They don't work well together, and also
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by gumballhead 8y ago
The old options were worthless because the acquisition price per share was below your strike?
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by gumballhead 8y ago
Not the last, but near it. Also not the first, but near it. There's a huge difference between the two. In my experience a sinking ship doesn't start floating, so don't stick around for that reason. It was also depressing to b
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by gumballhead 8y ago
I've often wanted to write a compiler that would accept a schema definition like protobufs or graphql as input and generate the required SQL to update the database if a schema change was committed. It would also be read by the applicat
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by gumballhead 8y ago
Do you think it's necessary to have a rigorous understanding of all of those topics before creating a machine learning model? And that you don't learn from interacting with it, even if you don't fully understand how it works?
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by gumballhead 8y ago
Thank you for creating these courses and putting them online! I started part 1 a few weeks ago. I couldn't agree more with your teaching style. I'm someone who started college as a computer science major and couldn't finish,
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by gumballhead 8y ago
Same, there have been several times I have had a question and someone thankfully asks the exact one I had. And Jeremy does a great job explaining it. It really helps to get at some of the why's behind the magic.
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by gumballhead 8y ago
Hiding the name of the company and what they do is my biggest annoyance. Yes, I really care about that. More than their tech stack, and way more than a buzzword soup that poorly describes their tech stack. Second biggest annoyance is keywor
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by gumballhead 8y ago
I'd be happy to. Can I ask first what you've tried and what you had trouble with? I think a lot of why d3 is considered low-level is that there are lot of external things you do need to know. For example, for me, it wasn't d3
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by gumballhead 8y ago
I will say though that it's been a side-project idea of mine for several years now to build a JSX-like templating language that would generate d3 code. Never got around to it.
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by gumballhead 8y ago
I guess I'm one of those people who thinks that d3's api is an amazing level of abstraction. It took a bit for it to click for me, but that was mostly because it was my first exposure to functional programming. If I ever have to m
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by gumballhead 8y ago
Huh... I had a Precision 5510 running Linux and I loved it
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by gumballhead 8y ago
My first experience with programming was making a "dump file" editor for my Diablo character in 8th grade with Visual Basic. Someone had built a utility to dump the memory for your character to a file, where if you knew or could f
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by gumballhead 9y ago
I would think the company benefits from a purely financial point of view because they don't need to provide an office or any of the other amenities that go with one. I personally hate working remotely. Most people don't though so
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by gumballhead 9y ago
My Precision 5510 (last year's) gets almost 7 hours, and I have the high res screen too. I also have the GPU but only run it for compute. I did go for the m2 drive so I could fit the upgraded battery, which is about the max size you ca
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by gumballhead 9y ago
There was a story a few years ago around my area where a kid who was in trouble with his parents took his father's work truck without asking to get cigarettes. His father called it in as stolen to teach his son a lesson. Well, he ran f
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by gumballhead 9y ago
Probably money and time. If they are common shareholders they likely had to pay out of their own pocket to exercise their options and also had to pay taxes on it. Not great news at all.
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by gumballhead 9y ago
With rent at $230/ac and land prices at $7k+, it's about a 3% annual return. So it's more like 30+ years to break even.
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by gumballhead 9y ago
It is high, but typical. With rent around $200 an acre, land only generates around 3% annual cash flow at that price. And even that rate is killing farmers right now.
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by gumballhead 9y ago
That price per bushel is for soybeans, not corn. Soybean yields are much lower, like in the mid-50s to low 60s on average. The marketing year average price for corn in 2016 was $3.30. That cuts your revenue number to $670. With production e
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by gumballhead 9y ago
“I don’t want financial planning people spending their time importing and exporting and manipulating data.“ That is literally all I did when I was a financial analyst and is how I became a programmer. This should be automatic, I thought.
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by gumballhead 9y ago
I often get sympathetic comments for being an Android developer because of this. It's honestly not that bad. Android provides backwards compatible support libraries for whatever SDK you're supporting, and was designed from the beg
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by gumballhead 9y ago
Exactly what I was thinking when I read that. Original Android didn't go far enough, then RxJava and clean architecture went way too far. Fortunately the new architecture components like LiveData and ViewModel coupled with kotlin (espe
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by gumballhead 9y ago
Commoditization and industrialization is also just not good for farmers. Why are we growing all this corn? No one seems to want it. Farmers can't make money when corn is down at $3.50 a bushel (futures). And local prices are much, much

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