superbcarrot

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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> I’m hesitant towards C++ as it seems an ancient programming language and I don’t know for how long it will be around. It will be around for a long time. This shouldn't be a reason not to pick up C++. > I‘m currently part of a t
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Sometimes I get shocked by these numbers and it reminds me how little I know about business. Like if you showed me the wikipedia page for Zapier and asked me give it some value, I would be way off. Or if you pitched the business idea to me,
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> thank you AWS, Azure, GCP... This might be your answer. She can look for ways to transition to being a cloud engineer. There is a lot of complexity there and plenty of work to be done for the foreseeable future. As a DBA she should fin
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I know. It's a figure of speech, not a reference to the demographics of emacs users.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
How could it possibly? Is there a way to do this without requiring all open-source software?
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
This has been my limited experience with everything related to Emacs - fragmented tutorials on how to do x that work with someone's specific setup. And when you start looking around for fixes you get solutions for "this is how I d
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> My better memories were all from places I stayed for over 2 months, and all have more to do with people I met than the place itself. How did you go about meeting people in the first place?
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Is it just bitter people who missed out on making a lot of money? Or is it sober and relatively informed people who are assessing Bitcoin correctly? How do we tell the difference between the two?
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Ask HN: In what ways can the current financial market high end?
16 points by superbcarrot 6y ago|9 comments
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Seriously, what are the possible outcomes (positive or negative) that we can see play out? By what mechanisms can the currently inflated markets end and how will that impact the rest of the economy?
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Hotz is kind of doing his own thing at comma.ai. If I founded my own company, I'm sure they would hire me for anything that I applied for.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> It’s still not clear to me a person of this cadre need a PhD in a technical field in this day and age; they might contribute just as much faster if they chose any other route. They might be able to contribute technically but they might
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> but it's hard to argue that Bitcoin isn't the best on many of those measures Seems pretty easy to me. What is Bitcoin best at apart from having the largest market cap?
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Magnesium and Vitamin D - as far as I can tell there is plenty of evidence about the need for supplementation and effectiveness of both. Currently experimenting with L-theanine to see if it helps me work better.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> R is arguably easier for someone with little coding experience to learn, but Julia isn't that much more difficult, and it's much more intuitive to code in than Python. Having some experience with all three of these languages,
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I did. I still don't get how the author's decision to not use the language is enough to declare it dead.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Is the post only based on TIOBE? The same index that currently ranks JavaScript below Visual Basic and SQL below Assembly? That ranking is off by so much that anyone who takes it seriously loses at lot of credibility from the start. I'
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
You can although the specifics depend a lot on what you're swtiching from. A mechnical engineer, an accountant, a history teacher and a blue-collar worker will need to approach this in very different ways.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
And you can also freeze when you should fight. With only 1 or 2 all-nighters to pull off before finishing my degree, I just froze and couldn't write a single word. I would stare at the screen not being able to type even one more charac
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
People have been doing stuff like this for a long time - trading cards, the kid who was selling pixels on a web page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage ), astronauts were taking items in their pe
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> is it a terrible idea to hedge that crypto is better or as good as gold during crisis? Cryptocurrencies are still too volatile and untested. Maybe Bitcoin behaves like gold during a crisis, or maybe it's everyone's play money
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> but where's all the love for analysis & PDEs? That would be getting too close to stuff that's actually useful.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> or met any wives on this site The wife has negative ROI anyway. If she isn't getting me more money, a new job or another wife, there is no tangible benefit. Also feelings, life satisfaction, love as benefits etc. don't count
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> Basically money, power etc.. None of those, personally. I'm sure that some people have benefited by finding business ideas and opportunities or new jobs but there are other ways to do this and it's hardly a good reason to spe
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Speaking as someone from Europe - I would make the subject/major system much closer to the way it's done in American universities. Picking your subject before you even apply doesn't work nearly as well as the idea that you&#x
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> If it turned out to be the wrong decision to have made, you'd at least be fun at dinner parties. Or you'll regret it for the rest of your life. This advice only works for easily reversible decisions.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I'm totally on board with learning a lot of deeper technical material by myself but I feel that it's because my background isn't in a technical field from a top university so I've been putting in extra work to compensate
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> Otherwise.the lesson is just a bunch of facts, as dry as memorizing a phone book. Not in my experience. It's a system of interconnected pieces that often build on each other. With each piece you usually get some justification and
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I can anti-recommend Brilliant. It might be okay if want to pay for a subscription to solve puzzles but it's not a good environment for learning. In your case I would start with Khan Academy - they have material from kindergarten level
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
The topic is kind of broad but to focus on standups, I have a couple of firm beliefs: - Standups don't need to be daily - it's too much. Twice a week is okay (this can be adjusted depending on team/product dynamics). - They s

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