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by sargram01 7y ago
Exactly, one of our teams in China decided to use a popular Chinese web framework, and when the rest of the team out side of China and customers looked at it, the English was grammatically confusing, code had Chinese comments, GitHub was mi
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by sargram01 7y ago
I find I spend most of my time debugging R, which is astoundingly difficult since it doesn’t report line numbers on errors. Most of my code is in C++, so that helps, albeit it’s still overly complicated to start up R in gdb. Amazingly Julia
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by sargram01 7y ago
It’s figurative, but unfortunately people do kill Buddhas, and continue to try and do so today. From physically attacking them, to poisonings, little has changed in 2000 years.
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Solar-Powered Plant in Kenya Gives Drinking Water to 35,000 People a Day(interestingengineering.com)
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by sargram01 7y ago
Yeah exactly, I think a small percentage of people do and they lead the innovation. The overwhelming majority don’t understand even the most basic reasoning behind almost anything since they never rest and reflect on what they’re doing, but
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China introduces mandatory face scans for new mobile users(france24.com)
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by sargram01 7y ago
> Unexpected issues – in addition to routine suffering, long distance live transport can also result in fires, delays or sinking of livestock ships causing the suffering and death of large numbers of animals. Apparently sinking ships wit
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by sargram01 7y ago
Has anyone ever been able to make a reservation on that site? Anytime I look at locations they’re either closed, or booked, or you have to plan a half year in advance.
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by sargram01 7y ago
As long as you don’t have more than one person picking up produce from a bin at the same time you can just measure the change in weight from the bin it’s taken out of. That has to be super cheap technology at this point.
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by sargram01 7y ago
Interesting, at my Trader Joe’s they always ask, and when I do say I couldn’t find something they just shrug and apologize. Ironically this is the TJ’s up the hill from the new Go store mentioned.
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by sargram01 7y ago
That makes sense, do you have any annual spikes too? Like Uber has Halloween, which I wouldn’t have guessed as being the worst.
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by sargram01 7y ago
So when does Yelp see spikes in traffic needing a custom Autoscaler? I guess just the daily time zone based sine wave type load?
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by sargram01 7y ago
Not everyone does, the UnrealEngine doesn’t for example, you can see project code words in the commit history.
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by sargram01 7y ago
There’s also the class of pointless meeting where nontechnical managers don’t understand what they’re responsible for so use them to as a way to “manage by feel”. They call them to see what people’s reactions are to fishing questions to jud
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by sargram01 7y ago
Actually I think it should be ok, because you’d enter the name in the nomative case and then when you write it on the screen you’d declinate it based on the language you’re displaying it in, which would be the same for every name regardless
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by sargram01 7y ago
I’m pretty sure it’s solvable, the main problem is that we break up names into first and last to identify the parts and we do bad data quality checks. Let’s say we did just have one field and a service that was trained on each counties’s v
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by sargram01 7y ago
We used to have problems with non-ASCII chars in names, we fixed that with UTF, we had problems with currencies and numbers, we made libraries that understand locales and even directions of writing, time zones same thing. So it’s time for u
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by sargram01 7y ago
I have a hyphen in my last name that caused the California DMV to make one of my last names a middle name, and the Social Security Administration can’t verify my name on their website also due to it. I feel like it’s time software needs to
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by sargram01 7y ago
How is this different than a web server reporting itself as Jetty? Or a web browser repotting it’s Chrome?
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by sargram01 7y ago
I don’t see why there is a technical vs management path at many companies, you want management to be a support for the product that’s being delivered and your teams should be skilled in and embody the product they’re making first. Manageme
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by sargram01 7y ago
It would be interesting to see which countries voted for and against the ban. If Italy was against the ban for example, to stop ripping off travelers, that would be amusing. :)
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by sargram01 7y ago
Roaming prices are the equivalent of scamming tourists, I don’t think there’s any body that can prevent it internally unfortunately, it’s just somehow acceptable for companies to shake down travelers for stupid amounts of money.
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by sargram01 7y ago
Search and a lot of the AI based systems these days feels like talking to a hard of hearing grandparent; as long as you’re saying about what they expect then it’s fine, but if there’s any nuances or homonyms it turns into a comedy routine.
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by sargram01 7y ago
> But, they do wield weapons that us engineers often don’t have the time not desire to sharpen... Right, this is something more engineers need to get better at, this is nothing more than first year law school debating which is teachable
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by sargram01 7y ago
Yes, exactly, that’s the point I was trying to get at.
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by sargram01 7y ago
You see this at startups too, middle eng management were actual engineers and as the startup grows career managers creep in and skew the alignment of the engineering departments away from engineering solutions, the “product” they make, to p
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by sargram01 7y ago
The article says he was a brilliant leader, anyone know what he did to be a brilliant leader specifically?
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by sargram01 7y ago
TIL graft = political corruption, using ones political office for personal gain, misdirecting public funds to private interests. Shocking! (not really)
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by sargram01 7y ago
I used to think power outages we’re mainly a developing country problem, this definitely changes my understanding of the tiers of maturity of countries.
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by sargram01 7y ago
> Current state of the art seems to be using graph-based Do you know how this compares to UMAP?

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