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by scryder 4y ago
While it may be difficult for someone in their 50s, I found indoor rock climbing, particularly bouldering and top-rope climbing, helped a great deal with a mild personal fear of heights, because it breaks old negative associations with heig
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by scryder 9y ago
Companies comfortable offering loans to risky candidates will feel far less comfortable doing so. There is because there is some point where the ratio between amount of money requested, and expected postgraduate earnings for the chosen degr
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by scryder 9y ago
As a preface, I’m not saying that those are inherently bad choices per se, because the underlying ideas are obscure enough that anyone who knows them at this moment probably knows other things you care about. That said, never forget that ul
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by scryder 9y ago
This is anecdotal, but there are different forms of test prep which the wealthy have access to that are way better prep than private tutors. For example, Kaplan training offers 4-8 (you can pay for more) fully proctored fake SATs, written,
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by scryder 9y ago
This idea you had, interestingly, has nasty traps. 1. You need to specify an “origin” which is (0,0). This is hard because there is more than one good choice (base or top of a brick?), the structure base may be more than a single brick wide
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by scryder 9y ago
> It’s time for them to get creative and adjust their business models to become relevant again You’re assuming that at present small businesses can do this, or, at least will be able to make this transition before companies like Amazon h
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by scryder 9y ago
That's definitely something which you can tell employees if you're making an app like that, but it's tolerable to use on customers too, in a pinch. They probably won't believe you, but it's better sounding than noth
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by scryder 9y ago
Well, in the most trivial and banal sense possible, it is: there's now another message app that wasn't there before. I tried to unpack why this phrase is overused. I think it is because it's one of a few things that both soun
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by scryder 9y ago
Statistics arises from a set of axioms, assumed truths, which can be used to prove all other things in the field. You can take a look at the three axioms people use to justify statistics. If you are willing to accept them, all else that rel
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by scryder 9y ago
> You can choose your own rate, so you can go as low as $10, or go as crazy as, jeez, I dunno, $500.. although the higher you are, the more difficult it is to land a client. I'm concerned about sites like Toptal and this price-cutti
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by scryder 9y ago
If company politics won't allow it, there are several possible reasons why which I can come up with: >Possible Good Reasons >They don't want to divert resources from guaranteed useful development to fix the possibility of a
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by scryder 9y ago
I am not saying Apple is a bad brand; their computers are of high quality, are great for personal use, and are more than capable of productive work. However, statistically Apple computers certainly are not, in aggregate, established as work
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by scryder 9y ago
This looks like a preliminary move by Apple to establish itself as a viable work computer. Windows and linux environments currently appear to reign supreme over the workplace, the former because of programs like Skype and outlook integratio
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by scryder 9y ago
If "smart person" is a proxy for "scientists and engineers", the answer seems obvious; it's not included in their education. Not in primary school, not in secondary school, not in their major, and not in graduate sc
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by scryder 9y ago
>At some point, enough developers/managers will begin to take advantage of the system until executives wise up. They only wise up if they have data that tells them they need to. Who is the source of that data? Developers and manager
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by scryder 9y ago
You're not being naïve and if you're thinking in terms of maximizing positive company financial impact, you're correct. At the scale of most major, non-startup tech companies, however, 99k worth of work is miniscule: it is le
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by scryder 9y ago
This logic is wrongheaded, as it ignores the context which causes information to expire: >Socially: I'll expand this one the most, because a similar argumentative line will apply to all the other ones. Current events stories are a c
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by scryder 9y ago
>I don't think of a reading TODO as "food" such that you should eat the old food before the new food. (The old food will expire so it makes sense to consume that first.) Based on this explanation, maybe you should. News an
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by scryder 9y ago
Codecademy's model tends to be very poor for topics that are sufficienty theoretically complex, as the turnaround time between exercise beginning and conclusion appears to be about 5 minutes for non-project work. Repetition/drilli
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by scryder 9y ago
If I can be extremely frank, you don't HAVE to force someone gullible enough to do it willingly. And though this is conjecture on my part, even if you find refactoring and rewriting interesting, if you had the 50 hours back from doing
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by scryder 9y ago
Trivially: fire you, and hire another poor shmuck at your starting salary to spend 90 hour weeks in time for the next launch. If they are willing to do that once, rewriting everything using a coding pack animal, it is pathological and they
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by scryder 9y ago
This is because many European city were designed in a time preceding pubicly-accessible transport and thus were - and are - designed to be almost completely traversible on foot. This makes coverage gaps in public transport less obvious or p
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by scryder 9y ago
>Every time I've heard from someone who has switched from a manual feature engineering approach to deep learning I've heard the same results ... dramatic improvements in accuracy, generally within a few days of work It bothers
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by scryder 9y ago
"The easiest way to avoid loopholes" and "frequency of use in real life" are not equivalent. I'd certainly argue there are plenty of vague, overbroad laws, regardless of the frequency of strict liability's usag
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by scryder 9y ago
>Law ... monstrocities We already have that, though, and "sufficienty written" is a very dangerous standard. The easiest way to guard against "all" malicious input is write a vague law without clauses that demand mens
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by scryder 9y ago
>I can go just about anywhere for a random mix of subject You're not wrong that this is short-term easier to establish an audience, but your long-term goal is to get to a point where a hypothetical reader of your blog will say &quot
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by scryder 9y ago
>Everyone goes through 'my life is hard because X' - the solution is to work around it. It's pithy to say, but telling someone to work around memtal illness is just not in the same category of standard woes - the fundament
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by scryder 9y ago
I'm not sure about this article's core assumption that sharing this type of knowledge in clear and understandable forms is a good thing. Just as magicians often agree not to share how a trick is done, because doing so kills the jo
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by scryder 9y ago
I think you may be overthinking how seriously your interlocuters take interpreting the behavioral questions. The vast majority of CS interview questions are really just one or both of two categories: 1. Say something entertaining or that ma
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by scryder 9y ago
But saying playing politics is a good idea so that you "don't get fired" seems to directly contradict why you said politics playing was a good idea in the first place: >"...[Y]our direct supervisor does not want you t

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