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Jsharm

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A quantitative analyst.
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Jsharm··on The Lawyer Whose Clients Didn’t Exist
This is almost exactly the plot of a John Grisham novel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rooster_Bar
Jsharm··on Organizing a Group Buy of Flour
I was just thinking why doesn't this exist!
Jsharm··on FDAAA Trials Tracker
Minor typo with dates as next update is before the previous update at the bottom of the FAQ: When was the data last updated? The current data was taken from ClinicalTrials.gov on 14 February 2020. Our next update of the data is planned for 11 February 2020.
Jsharm··on A guide to freelancing in Finland
This is awesome, if only there was something like this covering Ireland...
Jsharm··on Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
Having thrown countless hours into zoneminder I had to give up. It's just too buggy. Does anyone have any other alternatives they've got to work? Open Source or otherwise
Jsharm··on Show HN: What Animal Am I? – An Alexa Guessing Game for Speech Development
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B081GV8Y7V/
Jsharm··on Why to use ‘python -m pip’
Pip is so bad vs rivals, conda is so much better I'm amazed it's not the recommended package manager.
Jsharm··on Twitter analysis: identifying a propaganda bot network
If it's possible to do this analysis why does twitter not routinely shutdown these networks?
Jsharm··on I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced
Is there a way to detect a spoofed phone number?
Jsharm··on Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car sales in The Netherlands
Whats the UK incentive coming next year they are referring to?
Jsharm··on The “mail is hard” myth
I never hear Zoho Mail mentioned, I migrated from Fastmail, 1/5th of the cost and if anything slightly better interface as a bonus!
Jsharm··on Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
Yes, and in the vein of this git became way less scary after learning how it works this course helped a lot (unfortunately paid but a lot of businesses have a licence - https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/how-git-works).

I also use magit (https://magit.vc/) - inside spacemacs (http://spacemacs.org/)

Jsharm··on I Sell Onions on the Internet
My understanding was that the actual domain name doesn't make much difference? I setup http://www.drivinglessonslimerick.com for a friend (I'm not a web dev) and it is on the second page of results when I search for Driving Lessons in Limerick. $2200 seems way too much, the value here is in this Onion business not the domain.
Jsharm··on BBC podcasts on third-party apps
I don't know why BBC pushes it's sounds app so hard. I get nagged to use it every time I listen through Alexa too. There's no BBC sounds smart speaker so why do they care? What do they gain from me using the app?
Jsharm··on Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out
A flavour of this exists in Ireland, where the Government help to buy scheme offers up to €20,000 towards your new build house purchase if you are a first time buyer and commit to living in your home for the first 5 years.
Jsharm··on Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on what the roller-coaster ride felt like
Is there functionally anything bad about getting fired vs resigning? In this situation or any?
Jsharm··on The Serverless Framework Wins Best Microservices API at the API Awards
What does serverless offer over just vanilla lambda functions?
Jsharm··on Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers
A little embarrassed to ask but why would normal sails not work?
Jsharm··on Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast misses
In Western society maybe but in emerging markets Facebook is still huge. And for many em small businesses it is their only online presence.
Jsharm··on Our Approach to Employee Security Training
I was thinking about this, is a good hashing analogy something like mixing paint? Ie a defined set of constituent colours will produce a particular colour paint. But you can't go from a mixed colour back to the constituents. The only way to find out what constituents are required to create a colour is to try lots of constituents.
Jsharm··on Our Approach to Employee Security Training
You're right there's some contradiction, but overall I agree technical subjects are nearly always too dumbed down. People are smart! Give them a chance! Boring!=technical. And you can definitely explain hashing in an easy way.
Jsharm··on My ancestor died of a splinter
Agreed! Unreadable!
Jsharm··on Parallel tasks in Python: concurrent.futures
Does anyone have a recommendation for what to use for a cache shared between processes? Would hdf5 work?
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