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by phrenq 2y ago
I will grant there are better denominators, but I wouldn’t say it’s useless , especially if we could assume we’re comparing similar services to each other (e.g. city rideshares), and particularly when there’s no denominator at all currentl
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by phrenq 2y ago
Yeah, number of crashes is absolutely useless as a data point without something like miles driven as a denominator. Not to mention, even without that, this data is apparently suspect: > The agency notes that the listed crashes may be hig
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by phrenq 2y ago
I’d very much like to see some citations for those numbers, but my intuition is that the premise is likely valid, and that AI based personalization will likely lead to increased conversion rates for ads while decreasing production costs. Th
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by phrenq 2y ago
Generously, I think the article is presenting it as a thought experiment to make sure you’ve thoroughly explored the solution space, while not literally recommending that you necessarily implement the “gun to your head” solution.
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by phrenq 2y ago
Yes, which the article mentions: “So you get maybe 2x higher quality code for 1.25x the time — this trade is usually a good one to make on projects you'll have to maintain for a long time. N.B. Obviously, don't write literally eve
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by phrenq 2y ago
Did: read to them every day. Purchased: their firstnamelastname.com domain name.
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by phrenq 2y ago
I know Karpathy explicitly says that learning doesn’t have to be not fun either, but it reminds me of the book “A Theory of Fun for Game Design” by Raph Koster [0], which offers a counterpoint. It’s been a while since I read it, but Koste
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by phrenq 2y ago
Fair enough. In general, I think the interview is a pretty lousy way to measure how good a software developer is.
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by phrenq 2y ago
I suspect the interviewer would have likely been fine if they’d been able to explain chained comparisons and how they work. I would probably consider the interviewer using them without understanding them to be a negative signal.
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by phrenq 2y ago
That’s funny, I hadn’t thought of that. It very well might be true that turning pages is easier for people with more moisture in their skin.
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by phrenq 2y ago
At a former company, we were all issued YubiKey Nanos, which just never worked for me. None of my coworkers had a problem, but I couldn’t get the damn thing to register a touch no matter what I did, including swapping keys. Eventually I ca
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by phrenq 2y ago
As a woodworker, I wouldn’t say those six cuts would be “easy”, unless you weren’t especially concerned about keeping all of your fingers!
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by phrenq 2y ago
This is a list of diseases, not data about how many people get sick from contact with dogs.
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by phrenq 2y ago
At one point in my career, I used Microsoft SourceSafe, which is a pretty descriptive name. Seems like the exception here, though.