mbizzle88

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by mbizzle88 9y ago
I disagree. Neither of them is saying anything is "the answer". They are merely putting emphasis on different things. From that perspective, I would say that Uncle Bob is more wrong. It doesn't make sense to emphasise discipl
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by mbizzle88 9y ago
Marking a math test is only objective when an answer is entirely correct. What mark do you give a student who makes a minor arithmetic error on a single step of a multi-step problem?
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by mbizzle88 9y ago
I recently experimented with the Idris JavaScript backend and it is not ready for prime-time. In particular, the FFI doesn't handle functions well. I was unable to call into Idris code from JavaScript which is a deal-breaker, IMO.
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by mbizzle88 10y ago
Thank you for this.
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by mbizzle88 10y ago
I have the same problem with these analyses from interview.io every time I see them: they are making many of their inferences by fitting linear models to data that is non-linear. Is getting a 4 twice as good as getting a 2? If not, don&#x27
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by mbizzle88 10y ago
> However I feel the most valuable thing a company can do for their employees is to provide them with an environment that lets them feel like they have ownership of the company’s mission and empower them to execute it. I strongly disagre
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by mbizzle88 10y ago
When you study undergraduate philosophy you aren't instantly bombarded with the current state-of-the-art in philosophical thought. On the contrary you spend a lot of time studying the musings of ancient philosophical ideas that have si
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by mbizzle88 10y ago
> And if “usable” has any additional meaning besides “is not null”, this entire machinery is useless because one STILL has to figure out the state of the data! That's inaccurate. In fact Optional makes this situation (having to chec
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by mbizzle88 10y ago
> As a logical, clear-thinking engineer, I recognize that if my wife is emotional and needs to vent, that the best way to improve her mental state is to listen and give emotional support and ask her if there's any way I can help. Th
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by mbizzle88 11y ago
But the problem with R-squared in this case is that a linear model isn't appropriate for ordinal data. These rankings are ordered categories, not numbers.
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by mbizzle88 11y ago
I think the problem with the author's analysis is that she treated the rankings as numerical values when they are in fact only ordinal.
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by mbizzle88 11y ago
This seems like a meaningless metric to me. I'd care a lot more about the number of repositories of projects using Swift.