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On the way to being the most downvoted post ever on StackOverflow:Meta(meta.stackexchange.com)
99 points by scardine 7y ago|101 comments
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I guess you can have heated lens just like you have heated mirrors (I'm living in Brazil so I don't have this problem). I like to use darker film in side windows, but it makes hard to use the side mirrors at night, I would love to
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by scardine 7y ago
Right after finishing Electronics vocational school I spent the next year working as an intern at Unicamp (Campinas University in Brazil). The job was at the computer lab of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering[1]. This was bef
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It is a catch 22: unless you are spending at least half your time prospecting new clients it is hard to keep a steady income, but it is hard to invest that much time in the commercial side of your "one man show" if you are not cha
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by scardine 7y ago
It may come as a surprise, but neurotypical people also show stereotypical movements (stereotypy is the term used formally in scientific literature for this behavior). There is a neural pathway that triggers this to occur in about any human
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by scardine 7y ago
I'm OK with GMO products, what I hate is: * GMO that don't produce viable seeds so I have to buy seeds from you every season. * GMO that only works with some other supply available only from the same provider (think of a car that
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by scardine 7y ago
Python is kind of a strange beast - definitely imperative but with some FP-ish features: functions first-class citizenship, list comprehensions, generator functions/expressions (and there is the functools module). It is gaining more an
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by scardine 7y ago
Have you tried Python's SQLAlchemy, the ORM parent posts are praising? The `sqlalchemy.sql` module is awesome and pretty much maps 1:1 to raw SQL. Composing SQL expressions using this library instead of using string interpolation/
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by scardine 7y ago
The space elevator itself would be something outrageously expensive and dangerous to build - but there will always be people willing to take the challenge.
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I just finished reading the "Mars Trilogy" by Kim Stanley Robson where there is a tension between the "red" and "green" parties (first group want to keep Mars pristine, the other want to terraform it). The red
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The moon has ideal conditions for solar energy harvesting: no atmosphere, no weather... Since Project Apollo in the 1970s it is known that all the materials needed for manufacturing photovoltaic cells are present in lunar rocks and dust. No
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Leaving moon's gravity well may be cheaper than getting to space from earth but it is far from free. With a space elevator in the moon you can use raw material from the moon to assemble huge stations and ships in space.
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by scardine 7y ago
In Brazil there is a concept called Business Entity Disregarding (Desconsideração da Personalidade Jurídica) that can get both ways: make partners liable for company debts or companies liable for partner debts. It can be triggered when the
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by scardine 7y ago
As I understood, once you hire someone in France the labor code makes it virtually impossible to terminate the contract. In Brazil employers have to pay a fine if they fire a worker without a "fair cause" (~ 3.2% over the sum of a
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by scardine 7y ago
Interesting, so in France you can't fire someone but can legally make his life miserable through constant relocation? Brutal...
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Interesting, in Brazil all the companies in the chain are liable in a labor-related law suit. Before the 2017 Labor Reform[1], frivolous law suits by former employees were a billionaire market because it used to be a risk-free gamble - afte
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You can flag it for reopening (but you need at least 3k rep IINM).
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If you run a terminal multiplexer like byobu you may want to run it only for the ssh connection, not for every sub-shell (otherwise you may get a warning about running a multiplexer inside another multiplexer session).
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by scardine 7y ago
If you are on 3.7 you can add this import: from __future__ import annotations And then forward references don't need to be strings. I wonder if this could fix the generated page.
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I think transcription (even if not perfect) helps a lot when English is not your first language and you are still training your ear. Remember not everybody processes audio the same way, think ASD or ADD people.
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It is like JavaScript: I don't hate JS itself, I hate spaghetti-code people write with it (but I do hate automatic type casting). I don't hate C, I hate dangling pointers and buffer overruns. I don't hate OOP, I hate over-eng
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Sound reasons but there is nothing preventing you to adopt this pattern with Jinja. :-) I'm glad that Jinja2 templates are now first-class citizens in Django as I care about performance and don't feel like patronizing template des
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It is a design decision from a time where the general belief was that template designers played in a lower league compared to "real" software developers. It is 2019 and personally I see no reason to think professional template de
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> Also, you don't get much by switching Django templates to Jinja. Well, you gain a lot of performance - as much as 10x depending on the complexity of your template. Also, Jinja is a lot less crippled than Django Templates (for exam
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Have you watched "The Expanse"? I like that explosions in space does not make sound and inertia look right in this show, how would you classify it?
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> A candidate might reasonably assume that they can look better than the other candidates by spending more time on the problem The same is true with a take-home, candidates see the (often underestimated) statement "this should not t
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Exactly. And it is way easier to fake a resume than fake public reputation. For example, looking at a stackoverflow profile I can tell if someone knows how to ask and how to answer (a good question is 90% of the answer). [1] https:/&#
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Exactly, many people complain about about not being hired because they lack experience and they can't build experience if they are not hired. My advice is always "build experience contributing to FOSS projects in your spare time&q
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My companies do something a bit different: we ask people to pick any issue from any opensource project in our tech stack and try to land a patch closing it. We think this is better then wasting the candidate's time on a toy project - a
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Well, regarding South America there is a generation that grew up reading "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" (even the author Eduardo Galeano has criticized his own work). Blaming all the re

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