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by stkni 2mo ago
Great analysis! I used to ask a fairly open ended elevator system design question for engineering interviews. There is a lot of mileage in this topic and everyone has an understanding of the basics so the setup costs for the question are m
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by stkni 1y ago
Think I'm with Larry on this one. Someone should chair the meeting and there should be some expected outcome (decision) from it within the alotted time. If we're 45 mins in and no closer to an answer it's time to assign som
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by stkni 2y ago
This is seriously impressive. I asked it to create 3 different databases: - a customer orders database with products with a timeseries of prices, and multiple fulfilments per order. - an issue tracking system with a reflexive user/man
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by stkni 3y ago
I'm genuinely baffled by this, why are the tax filing options in the US so fragmented? Here in the UK there are probably some situations in which you can't use the online, government provided, free service. But I'm going t
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by stkni 3y ago
>> And then there's the competition - I early discovered that I could never outperform my competition. 100% this. I'm a bit competitive, but only a bit :). After 20 years of being a dev I realised I didn't want to com
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by stkni 3y ago
I have a sort of off-topic question. The marketing for this claims not using STL containers as a selling point. Does anyone know what makes STL containers unsuitable for this use case? Clearly they're not a one size fits all but I&
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by stkni 4y ago
This is a good point. If the users know the difference the costs and benefits between using GPT and not using it then it certainly has value if those users are also willing to accept that not every answer needs to be 100% accurate. In my e
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by stkni 4y ago
This was my take too. The break-down in communication might not be WHAT is being said but HOW it's being said. This is certainly my experience of being a dev and a manager, sometimes people just seem a bit rude and it's hard to
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by stkni 5y ago
Interesting. For two reasons. In the many years that I developed software this was known as the producer/consumer problem [1]. A name that is somewhat (to me) more expressive than back-pressure. But that's just my opinion! Wha
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by stkni 5y ago
This is a great question! When I was a developer I used to develop software the way you were told not to. I did it that way because the requirements were always very vague and a lot of gaps needed to be filled. But when I was a project m
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by stkni 6y ago
Absolutely. Picasso's journey was to transition from stunning realism to a child-like surrealism in later years. In some respects he was trying to unlearn form but keep the aesthetic. And to be honest some of these MOBA pictures do t
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by stkni 7y ago
My first experience of Tcl/Tk was circa 2000. The finance house I worked at had used it to implement a real-time order management system. Even better was the ability to attach to the running ui or server (yes we had both), replace som
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by stkni 8y ago
>> But if you tweak the hypothesis just a little, the data suddenly confirm it This is 'data mining' right? And I've occasionally wondered about this, since I don't work in a scientific field but did once make use
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by stkni 8y ago
This would be a great win-win! But wouldn't the sequestered CO2 get released back into the environment and potentially the atmosphere?
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by stkni 9y ago
But doesn't the comment above yours suggest that the 'yellow' dot thing may no longer be an issue and that now there's variation in the dithering parameters. Suggesting extra ink is not required. More annoying are the p
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by stkni 10y ago
>> My question these days when I read such article, "What has the author done that is equivalent?" Well I happen to (vaguely) know the author and have worked with him in the past and he has done a lot of great work, not all
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by stkni 10y ago
>> It's actually pretty difficult to eat back those 1750kcal if you don't go out of your way to stuff your face with sweets. Disagree. Over the course of a week it only means over eating 250kcal per day. What's tha
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by stkni 10y ago
Absolutely, but without stating the blindingly obvious the calorific content of some foods is so high that exercise can not be the dominant factor of that function. This article [1] from last week seems to support that view. There was some
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by stkni 10y ago
This topic is explored in Michael Sandel's book Justice[1]. IIRC his conclusion is that we are products of our environment and as such we owe a debt to the environment that helped create us: university, school, parents and not least
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by stkni 10y ago
Yep, I made the same realization as the OP in that changing things to any large extent required being part of the management. I got my break 10 years ago then 6 months after that I quit to go and work overseas to be with my wife & fam
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by stkni 10y ago
Full disclosure: I'm not female but I have two daughters :) This is bang on the money to me. The important part is having the interest/curiosity & opportunity to take tech apart and see what makes it tick. We need more wom
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by stkni 11y ago
This seems pretty close to my experience. I remember thinking when I first encountered SQL Server Integration Services that this is 'visual programming'. It didn't take very long to realise that as a solution SSIS was well
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by stkni 11y ago
> - it's not unknown for kids to have relatively poor reasoning and decision-making skills Agreed. And one way to get better at decision making (if you're a kid) is having the opportunity to try and fail at it. So this isn&#x
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by stkni 11y ago
Uploading a URL of white noise from Wikipedia gave it a high-memorability (0.82) with lots of areas of interest. Secondly uploading a purely white image [2] produced high areas of interest in the top corners and a mediumly interesting ima
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by stkni 11y ago
Without wishing to detract too much from the greatness of these books it feels like they should be out of copyright. But no, we can look forward to another 40 years of Random House rent-taking and calendar - 'tie-in's before that
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by stkni 11y ago
Original paper was linked from article and is here [1]. Although I'm vaguely familiar with MCMC and Metropolis, it's not nearly enough to pass comment on this advance. [1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.1694v4.pdf
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by stkni 11y ago
>> Why can't people simply publish negative results? The journal's peer review process tends to reject them. Or so I'm told by a researcher friend of mine.
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by stkni 11y ago
That, and the fact that outliers can often be discounted due to measurement/instrumentation error. Moreover, the fact that Carlos entered your restaurant may be a significant event depending on the analysis that you're attempting
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by stkni 11y ago
I don't think this is that surprising. A lot of those firms would already have large-ish engineering teams already but managing the complexity of the mail servers is just not a good use of that resource. Mail is a mostly solved tech
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by stkni 11y ago
Meh, but the scale change is too quick to see if it's going higher or lower (at least to me) so I don't think it gives that much of an advantage. Even trying to use that information I can't seem to get much better than the 50

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