nicholasjon

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by nicholasjon 2y ago
The Omnibus Project (Ken Jennings and John Roderick) did a podcast on this back in June: https://www.omnibusproject.com/episodes/the-western-washingt...
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by nicholasjon 2y ago
Just ran into the fiddlyness of crosstab this week attempting to extend an existing query that used it. I ended up converting the query to use filters instead, which was a failure on my part to get through that fiddlyness -- but I'm co
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by nicholasjon 5y ago
"Asking for a friend." I kid. If it were to come down to a single person, that's really a failure of the whole organization system and not of the individual. This apocryphal [1] punchline to the Jack Welch story also sums up
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by nicholasjon 5y ago
The gem of this article is: "Messages that are difficult to process are less compelling." The best thing we can do when communicating is make it easy -- in both message and medium (with apologies to McLuhan) -- for the folks we
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by nicholasjon 6y ago
I wish I knew! I'm not in the field, and while I was close with this professor back in school we haven't kept in touch. The paper doesn't seem well cited, but I'm not sure what well cited looks like in this case.
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by nicholasjon 6y ago
Along those lines, I had a college professor who had just published a paper (now 25 years old?) talking about why "the 20 amino acids." He was equal parts bombastic and brilliant, and for some reason this paper of his stuck with m
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by nicholasjon 6y ago
Came here to say this. This video of his really opened my eyes to what Blender can do ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY8Ol2n4o4A ) and makes a cool entry point into that world.
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by nicholasjon 7y ago
Same. I come from a long line of prematurely gray haired folks. I'm 42 and my hair and beard are almost entirely white. I definitely have a problem with stress, though given the number of family members (distant and otherwise) that hav
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by nicholasjon 7y ago
Douglas Adams: "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/250456-anyone-who-is-capabl...
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by nicholasjon 8y ago
I really enjoyed this. I'm not a shooter, but it's hard not to be excited by the analysis you've done. I learned a ton.
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by nicholasjon 8y ago
What about Kotlin? (Or were you thinking of avoiding all JVM languages?) We're very happy using it to power our server-side services.
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by nicholasjon 8y ago
Lemans Corporation | Madison, WI (ONSITE) | Full-Time | Multiple Engineering Positions Lemans is the worldwide leader in aftermarket powersports equipment (think motorcycles, atvs, snowmobiles, and the like). Our Digital Services team is ta
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by nicholasjon 8y ago
As the saying goes, "old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill." (I tried to find a citation, but the googles were less than helpful.)
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by nicholasjon 9y ago
Lemans | Madison, WI | Javascript Application Engineer (latest Angular) | Full-time, ONSITE If you would wear it while riding (or bolt it on to) a motorcycle / ATV / Jetski / Snowmobile -- we sell it. Lemans is a global leade
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by nicholasjon 10y ago
Lemans Corporation | Madison, WI | Full-Time | On-Site Lemans is looking for engineers to be part of a new team that will build products to amplify our forty year success story. We're heavily investing in the future of our company as w
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by nicholasjon 10y ago
Reminds of the "Seven Minutes of Terror" video that NASA put out ahead of the Curiosity landing explaining how they intended to make it safely to the surface. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s (Note: I g
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by nicholasjon 10y ago
Lemans Corporation | Madison, WI | Full-Time | On-Site Lemans is looking for world-class engineers to be part of a new team that will amplify and build on our forty year success story. We're heavily investing in the future of our compa
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by nicholasjon 10y ago
This gets posted here every so often, and it's a great resource. I felt like I understood Markov Chains before I read it originally, but being able to see them visually was a real "a ha!" moment for me.
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by nicholasjon 10y ago
> As simple as possible, as flexible as necessary. That really resonates with me.
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by nicholasjon 10y ago
Lemans Corporation | Madison, WI | Full-Time | On-Site Lemans is looking for world-class engineers to be part of a new team that will amplify and build on our forty year success story. We're heavily investing in the future of our compa
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by nicholasjon 10y ago
I recently unlinked all my Dropbox sessions that were older than one month, which was a staggeringly high number to tell the truth. It would have been nice (and faster!) to have had a "panic button" that let me unlink everything a
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by nicholasjon 10y ago
Wow: "If you have to ask, you're doing it wrong." This is a ridiculous statement. First, pedantically, they're the same words you used initially so they're not really "other words." Second, someone at OP&#
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by nicholasjon 10y ago
... and then, in all likelihood, a murder.
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by nicholasjon 11y ago
Yup, my two kids here watched with me. Afterwards we talked about how difficult it is to do some things in life, and how we should keep trying even when things don't go our way.
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by nicholasjon 11y ago
> Nowadays, running out of coffee capsules (for example) still requires some interaction, via your phone or your laptop. Just taking a moment to enjoy that the above quote would have sounded exactly "like the future" to childho
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by nicholasjon 12y ago
I also had it pick out my wife by an order of magnitude over everyone else -- and that's the best I can say for the rest of the list: it included everyone else. I can't see any particular order or pattern there. My last place, t
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by nicholasjon 12y ago
Just finishing up the Fall of the Roman Republic now, it's a fantastic series and podcast. Unrelated to Rome: Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on the Mongols is equally awesome. http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.ph
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by nicholasjon 12y ago
Same here: A friend and I actually batted around the idea of launching reader called "Every 3rd Tweet" -- seems to be a common problem.
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by nicholasjon 12y ago
Seconded. If paper form is more your thing, I've found his compilation book "Managing Humans" ( http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engi... ) to be a great place to start.