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by paracyst 7mo ago
The guy who wrote the post is a billionaire
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by paracyst 3y ago
Machine Learning Is Still Too Hard for Software Engineers* * who are not 23 years old, have real-life responsibilities, and do not have infinite free time to devote to the latest hotness of the week
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by paracyst 3y ago
Because it sucks. I tell it to turn off all of my alarms and instead it ends up calling my mother at 4 in the morning, causing her to panic, thinking there's an emergency.
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by paracyst 4y ago
After nearly slamming my mind-bogglingly slow, gimped, company owned Dell Precision 5530 against the wall today, I've decided I want to work for a company that values my time and developer experience and provides a M2 machine. Working
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by paracyst 5y ago
Boulder, Colorado
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by paracyst 5y ago
I don't have anything to add to the conversation other than to say that this is fantastic technical writing (and content too). Most of the time, when similar articles like this one are posted to company blogs, they bore me to tears and
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by paracyst 6y ago
A lot of people in this industry are not going to like it, but this post needed to be written and is 100% spot on. Wake me up when I can go to an "about our team" page for any of the companies posted on here and not see virtually
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by paracyst 6y ago
Thank god.
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by paracyst 6y ago
On today's episode of "Stop Liking Things That I Don't Like"
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by paracyst 7y ago
This sounds like a good idea that I would really like to try, for my own sanity if for nothing else. For me, the issue—imagined or not—would arise in the Friday morning daily stand-up. I’m not sure it would go over well if I said that I int
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by paracyst 7y ago
A lot of this story was told in "The Quants" by Scott Patterson: https://www.amazon.com/Quants-Whizzes-Conquered-Street-Destr...
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by paracyst 7y ago
Tried this for a few minutes at work (very heavy SQL Server shop). It doesn't play well with databases that have different schemas but the same table name. schema1.users schema2.users schema3.users schema4.users The auto-complete seems
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by paracyst 11y ago
This kind of reasoning is exactly why we have even more bloated, crap software these days
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by paracyst 12y ago
"Microsoft killed my pappy. And my pappy's pappy."
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by paracyst 12y ago
And this is different from what everyone else on HN does...how?
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by paracyst 12y ago
I have long since switched to Ghostery ever since Disconnect frequently broke YouTube videos and nothing was ever done to fix it. Does anyone know if this problem still persists?
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by paracyst 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by paracyst 13y ago
Here's another one (not written by me): "My Story: From Lawyer to Ruby Hacker" http://coffeespoonsofcode.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/my-story-... It's always interesting to see these types of posts on HN. I disliked the whole 'law thing' so
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by paracyst 14y ago
I was reading this just last week for fun, can't remember why :) Worm source code: http://www.foo.be/docs-free/morris-worm/worm/ Mailing list from 1988: http://securitydigest.org/phage/bythread