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by throwawayjava 6y ago
A good review article is worth its weight in gold for both the researchers who write it and the research community. Remember that research communities are extremely transient because of the professor : phd student : practitioner ratio and t
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
problem is somewhat ill-posed, but see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bgruber/zip2fips/master/zi...
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Not all self promotion is good self promotion. I've nuked candidates because their online portfolios demonstrate bad technical judgement, questionable professional ethics, a fundamental misunderstanding of core ideas, etc. Put more sim
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Oh, I think it's completely fine to play with the data and talk about it with friends. But SEOd medium posts have different reach potential than a facebook comment/phone call with friends/family. That's kind of the whole
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
"Oh boy, I can hear the sophomore software engineering studio students firing up their word processors from here" works just as well. I don't think the critique was of self-learning or bootcamps. It was a critique of a cert
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
This comment is a tad ironic. My monthly expenses are $N, and I keep at most $N + 1,000 in my checking account. Often much less e.g during the first half of the month. I keep my checking account balance as low as possible precisely becaus
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
I've encountered exactly two people in my life who were perfectly healthy, both mentally and physically, but just sat around all day doing nothing for years on end. Both were landlords.
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by throwawayjava 6y ago
Are you aware of a quantitative model relating economic losses to loss of life / quality-of-life? I see this claim repeated over and over, but after hours of searching I can't find any quantitative models. If such a class of model
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Based on issue polling, we know that a majority of people who are opposed to the individual mandate also strongly support a ban on pre-existing conditions clauses. And also those same people oppose any form of universal healthcare. But abst
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> If not, but the environment is okey, I keep going. If you're a strong developer and willing to live in certain areas -- at least for a couple years before you're trusted enough to go remote -- you can make $200K/yr. It
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Consumer data brokers are a legal (non-criminal) business and they would definitely reidentify then well information if it weren't illegal.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> passes up 50K If the author had another job lined up already, the severance package wasn't worth much of anything -- it only paid out until he had a new position. So, probably closer to passing up $0 than to passing up $50K. Sti
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
There are some mathematical definitions [1], but the fundamental problem is that with enough cross-referencing between databases it's hard to say anything for sure [2]. You never know what data other people might publish in the future.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Sorry, this still seems like a terribly hacky way to think about code. Again, if you write a template engine or a SQL engine, the code the library's developer writes to determine how holes are safely filled is literally sanitizing inp
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> (hack cough cough hack)... there is no fundamental solution presenting yet. Because people think those hacks are fundamental solutions (see: this blog title). But really, the fundamental solution is finally at long last treating prog
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> "Sanitize inputs" means modifying the input before you even know where it's going. Okay. That's not how I've ever used that term or seen it used. Prepared statements are a form of input sanitation. HTML purif
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Output filtering is input sanitization. wtf is is that you think you are filtering? Inputs! > the developer who builds sanitization has to guess at all the possible output domains. No they don't. They need to carefully understan
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
...so the blog post boils down to "sanitize all inputs that don't get piped to /dev/null; also, there are some good libraries that will do that for you (...by escaping outputs... but oh btw those only work sometimes of c
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
This feels like a distinction without a difference. Escaping outputs is just one way of sanitizing inputs. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. The author of this post even realizes that their prognostication is not general and th
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
The linked paper is a very nice overview. Of course there problems are known and there are people trying to fix all of the issues (mostly in the relative obscurity of non-overhyped corners of academia), but the concise example-guided descri
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> Your problem is you can't define meritocratic in a way that everyone will agree with Of course you can't. One man's merit is another man's vice. The very notion of a meritocracy is literally a sarcastic joke [1].
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> Software is hard Traditional engineering companies don't respect software. You can tell by the fact that they pay well below market rates.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
The author of this piece is a computer scientist (as opposed to a humanities professor), and in that domain their advice is quite reasonably universal. It's almost unimaginable to write a (PhD) thesis in computer science without an ext
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> I can totally imagine that for a beginner developer it can make the difference... I believe in writing every character of my code and testing it thoroughly, I wrote many bug free codebases with it, that's my experience. I'm
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Requirements to become a professor of Mathematics at Cedarville University include: • Commitment to biblical integration of faith and science in and out of the classroom • Qualified applicant must be a born-again Christian • Qualified app
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Yes, that's true. But if I'm opening up the terminal because the UI is glitchy I'll just use Ubuntu...
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
It's not true. They define a discrete list of "outdoor activities" that are relevant to their members -- mostly equipment provides for niche sports/activities with expensive equipment needs (climbing, skiing, cycling, ca
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
That headline is wrong. Nearly half of Americans didn't participate in a list of 42 outdoor recreation activities that this particular trade group profits from , which is quite different from "didn't go outside for recreatio
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Pew did a comprehensive study of urban, suburban, and rural communities (link below). Their empirically-backed findings are pretty divergent from these common stereotypes. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> It is in essence a type of culture war hiding behind a so-called diagnostic manual Right, OP was complaining that DSM changed because of politics, and my point was... "yeah, no shit, politics is inseparable from what the DSM is

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