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NumberCruncheron A researcher on how to live a happy life

The stoics developed tools you are asking for. You can find a good summary of them in the book A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy.

NumberCruncheron Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews

> I think that seeing how someone reacts unprepared is a lot more valuable

I share your unpopular opinion, because the truth is generally told between the lines. At my last job I was the only one excluded from interviewing new candidates, because I am silly enough to throw ad-hoc technical questions into the discussion. My colleges managed to hire really nice people lacking basic technical skills, e.g. data analyst with 17 years of experience not knowing how to make a left join or a sub-select or PHDs not knowing what python or even a "programming language" is. We had some "fun", I can tell.

And this goes both ways. I remember as an "unprepared" candidate facing the ad-hoc question "how would you deal with time series data". Through well placed questions I figured out that they have - after removing the obvious seasonal effects - only 5 data point. After my answer "I wouldn't even fit a regression line on it" the interviewer said "no one here does time series analysis, not even I" and left the room with some made up excuse. Or when the interviewer was bragging about "valuing work-life balance and having a lower churn rate than the industry average" and I figured out he is with the company since 9 months. He was just smiling and left the room with some made up excuse.

Basic rule for hiring: don't let fool yourself AND don't try to fool others.

NumberCruncheron Shirt Without Stripes

it works on google pretty well for me

NumberCruncheron Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner

I don't want to be that guy, but looking at the first photo on this site made me think "you can eat whatever you want if your hobby is running in the mud with a sandbag on your shoulders".

NumberCruncheron Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)

Dropbox did the same on ubuntu

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: Any open source drag drop tool for tensorflow/pytorch?

https://www.knime.com/deeplearning/tensorflow

Dataiku integrated Tensorflow as well but I don't know whether it's available in the free version.

NumberCruncheron Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights

Forecast was doing that, quite successfully (115 m$ exit).

NumberCruncheron Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights

There have been hedging services for the public. One of them was bought and killed by M$:

https://www.geekwire.com/2014/farewell-farecast-microsoft-ki...

NumberCruncheron The Psychology of Prediction

Title should be "The Psychology of Guessing".

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: Have you built a house?

My father and our relatives built the house I grew up. My father worked in the construction industry as a construction supervisor and made blue prints for family homes as a side gig. My uncle was a professional roofer. I can't remember them saying anything like "that was a nice thing, let us do it again". Finishing it took almost 10 years and some parts had to be rebuilt because of lack of proper isolation.

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: Why is hackernews so old-fashioned?

don't fix what ain't broken

NumberCruncheron How to avoid humiliating newcomers: A guide for advanced developers

If I am a great guy but not interested in cooking maybe I should not work in a kitchen?

NumberCruncheron How to avoid humiliating newcomers: A guide for advanced developers

It is easy to stay calm if you do not care.

NumberCruncheron German entrepreneurs celebrating their mistakes

German startups are like American beer.

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: Have you successfully done a career do-over, and how did you do it?

Everyone should read

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...

Tl,dr: do not be the guy who writes code in x language for y bucks / hour and applies to vacancies online. Be the guy who generates business value and talks to people in the industry. Start doing it today!

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: My strange pain point – is it a startup idea?

What about sendin an automated massage to the landlord like "top floor with nice view?". What about not giving a fuck about such unimportant things and spending your time more wisely? I mean if I want to live every month in a different accommodation I can not expect having the same comfort than in my dream flat. It's like expecting that the food at a restaurant tastes like being cooked by my mother.

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: Best project management practices in 2018?

After following the principles of XP in the last 18 months and getting things done on my own that lets our dev team look live a bunch of lazy noobs I realised that someone with a T-shaped skill set can make a decent living without being involved in so called "projects". I do not know the answer to the OP's question but am happy to say "I can allow myself not to care".

NumberCruncheron Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed

Zuckerberg's Switchblade: Make it look like a side-effect of trying to combat fake news.

NumberCruncheron A man will launch himself in a rocket designed by himself to prove Earth is flat

>>The Most Innovative Man in NASCAR History

Remembers me of the South Park episode about NASCAR...

NumberCruncheron How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later

It is a good example for solving problems without overengineering them.

NumberCruncheron Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)

>> The majority of my job consists of maintaining about a dozen legacy Rails 2 / Ruby 1.8.7 applications, written between 2008-2010, with essentially zero tests amongst them (when I started).

One can write unmaintainable code in any given language/framework. I am not a fan of OO but in this case I would not blame OO but the one who developed this messy app.

NumberCruncheron Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why

Because money does not stink.

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: How do you moonlight (and career advice)?

Just flip a coin! If you like the outcome, go with it! If not, go with the other one!

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: Why do you believe that your religion/faith/worldview is correct?

Your religion/faith/worldview has not to be correct, until it works for you.

A lot of people believe the world was created by God and he placed the fossils into the ground to test our faith. Are they right? It doesn't matter much until it works for them.

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: Is it poor form to clone a startup with little to no competitors?

Rocket Internet answered this question already.

NumberCruncheron Facebook acquires anonymous teen compliment app tbh, will let it run

If she bought her own phone and pays the monthly fees she can do whatever she whants. If not, what imaginary phone are we talking about again?

I know, I know, this may be a reason I do not have kids. They would throw me out on the first day...

NumberCruncheron Facebook acquires anonymous teen compliment app tbh, will let it run

>> “If we’re improving the mental health of millions of teens, that’s a success to us.”

Amplifying attention bitching is a good deed again.

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: How do I find meaningful work?

Just imagine you are sitting on a lonely island till the end of your life, alone. What would you do? Punching characters into the editor or listening to the birds and waterfalls?

Does punching characters into the editor make more sense if you are not sitting on a lonely island alone, as long as it pays the bills? Do your friends, spouse, children, humanity like you less, if you hit the wrong characters?

NumberCruncheron Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles?

I am writing SQL/PLSQL for my living and I like how learning Elixir changed the way I accomplish my daily work.

NumberCruncheron Ask HN: How do I find meaningful work?

Get married and have children. Make them happy and let them grow to happy adults. Or adopt children who weren't lucky enough to born in a happy family.

Start an own company, treat and pay your employees well that they can provide a happy and secure life to their children.