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by jpz 2y ago
This article doesn’t define onion layering, I am none the wiser from reading it. There are near identical sentences within it, it gave me the sense I was reading AI generated content, or at least heavily AI post-processed content.
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by jpz 2y ago
Great article - thanks.
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by jpz 2y ago
He worked as a conduit for Russian interests.
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by jpz 2y ago
I think the idea this was HUMINT operation by a state sponsored intelligence service is more likely. The twitter thread here was interesting. https://x.com/thegrugq/status/1774392858101039419 Raging about these be
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by jpz 3y ago
Good luck! I think these new drugs might be very effective intervention for a lot of people, and I really hope it helps you.
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by jpz 3y ago
I don't know how they know that they'd they'd love a job programming a functional programming language, if they were not passionate enough about Haskell to self-learn (not hard, there are books). It seems so paradoxical. It&#
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by jpz 3y ago
The IT employment industry has been growing steadily since 2008 also. That graph which is shown above the fold is cumulative graph is, well, misleading.
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by jpz 3y ago
"I'd love to work in Haskell - can you tell me if I should read a book on it?"
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by jpz 4y ago
Sounds like a bad fit - find something new. Learn in a new place and experience. If the pattern follows you around, maybe start to look inwardly at whether your bringing the same problems from place to place. You can’t escape yourself..,
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by jpz 4y ago
Sounds extremely subjective. How do you measure it and where do you draw the line? All marketing is somewhat coercive. How do you get economic and business growth (things which are good for people - jobs and employment) without marketing
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by jpz 5y ago
You can’t understand much about statistical inference without calculus. It’s all integrals over pdf’s. A lot of integration by parts and other things in the core curriculum.
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by jpz 5y ago
Zero. They boycotted international shipments due sales tax changes, before they built local fulfilment centres and a local website.
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by jpz 5y ago
I agree with all the points you make here, we’ll said.
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by jpz 5y ago
Software isn’t math. Don’t agree with the patent system particularly, but I just object to this specific categorical statement.
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by jpz 5y ago
First 60 second impression - this looks like powershell with not-insane syntax. Looks quite revolutionary, it breaks the traditional paradigm for UNIX shells and appears to artfully refine the good concepts in Powershell (which seem to be
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by jpz 5y ago
Sounds like your experience is with small organisations. Management is required in large enterprises.
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by jpz 5y ago
Tt was the CIA that infiltrated the communists in Italy for the exact purpose of shaping the politics of the continent to their design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Italy See also: https:/&#x2F
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by jpz 5y ago
The EU project has always been a project rather paternalistically cultivated by US foreign operations, including intelligence operations, so I believe. It allowed them to remove a heap of troops from forward bases in the region.
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by jpz 5y ago
I've worked all through many London investment banks, mainly front office tech, I have rarely seen traders working weekends, and I was not compelled to work many hours greatly exceeding 40-ish. I don't know what these jobs are tha
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by jpz 6y ago
You are doing it wrong then. I was making 100k GBP a year in 1998 in London as a C++ developer, the jobs are out there if you have the talent.
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by jpz 6y ago
Mongo is obviously not competitive with KDB though, if you are talking of timeseries data as you suggest. I would think it is in fact very much the wrong tool for the job. Time series data screams structured storage, not unstructured.
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by jpz 6y ago
If you hire a room full of developers at high salary and nobody is capable of acquiring "the correct understanding/skills" then maybe it's not such a straightforward technology. It is reasonably straightforward to deal w
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by jpz 6y ago
I mean, don't love the macros - but that still looks like a load of typing to me - and it even reads less well than __LINE__ if you are looking at from a literate programming perspective. It's tidier for the compiler though, but t
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by jpz 6y ago
It simplifies the expression of if/then/elsif/elsif/else, even if it's not total. Why not steal it?
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by jpz 6y ago
Sad that the Dark Crystal was cancelled - didn't know that. It did look awfully expensive to produce though, and it was not kid friendly at all (all that sucking the soul out of cute little puppets would scare the crap out of my young
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by jpz 6y ago
This kind of blog post is not the kind of blog post that gets you hired. It's the opposite... :)
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by jpz 6y ago
Pareto's Principle arises everywhere.
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by jpz 6y ago
There is a difference between producing reporting on the basis of a whistleblower of conscience, and conspiring to exfiltrate a top secret data dump in the hope of finding some embarrassing details to publish.
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by jpz 6y ago
The front of any exponential curve will always feel like the time of most significance. More generally, everything else is grist for the mill - now is all that counts. We are always at the "hinge of history", surely.
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by jpz 6y ago
They seem to be pushing the barrier on innovation on GPU compute. It seems a little unfair to call that pathetic, whatever strategic reasons they have to find OpenCL unappetising (which simply enables their sole competitor in truth.) Their

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