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aurelianito

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http://aurelianito.blogspot.com

mail me at aurelianocalvo at gmail dot com.

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aurelianito··on Learning to program is getting harder
Probably both are correct. But which one is more useful in this context?
aurelianito··on An Interview with Tom Quisel, Former CTO of OkCupid (2017)
How to use OKC matching questions in your favor:

1. Answer a lot of them. Always answer very abruptly (all the questions are very important).

2. Look for interesting potential partners.

3. Remove the questions where you disagree.

4. Enjoy your 99% match and message him/her.

aurelianito··on Microbe Emoji
We are witnessing the birth of a new ideogram language. Amazing!
aurelianito··on U.S. tests nuclear power system to sustain astronauts on Mars
Q
aurelianito··on The Effects of Computer Use on Eye Health and Vision (1997) [pdf]
It is also anecdotal, but I feel exactly the same. CRTs are far more fatiguing flat monitors for me.
aurelianito··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
If you charge by week, how do you keep your consulting pipeline full? Do you engage in contract negotiations while working for someone else?
aurelianito··on Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
I think that c++ is an horrendous collection of disgusting hacks. I also work as a c++ developer. If I were hiring for a c++ Dev role I wouldn't hire someone who cannot point out several problems with c++, as the main difficulty of the job is to avoid those tar pits.
aurelianito··on Estonia, the Digital Republic
I believe he means dividends.
aurelianito··on Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016)
Yes, there is. Move the entire content of each repo to a directory and then force-merge them all in a single repo. I did this a few years ago with 4 small mercurials repositories that belonged together.
aurelianito··on Unit Testing Doesn’t Affect Codebases the Way You Would Think
Being proud of your lack of understanding is quite sad.
aurelianito··on SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling
Shows available on Netflix depend on location.
aurelianito··on Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm”
It reminds me of the hack Microsoft did to make simcity work in Windows 95. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281932
aurelianito··on Ray Kurzweil thinks we could start living forever by 2029
Who wants to live forever? https://youtu.be/_Jtpf8N5IDE

Ray

aurelianito··on Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works
Even kyus like myself play more conservatively when winning. Alphago just takes this to the extreme but it is common on most levels of play (from single digit kyus to the best professional players).
aurelianito··on Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
Things I would love to make but I cannot find time to:

* Syntax-tree aware version control system. Do merges taking into account the syntax tree of the code being managed.

* Real time stats of the judicial system by real-time analisis of the sentences.

My standard ideas license is: the first $100 millons you make, are yours. I want 1% of the rest. If you make less than $100 millons, you owe me nothing.

Good luck!

aurelianito··on Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain
Maybe the jungle had something to do with it. And also in the 60s and 70s USA did not had drones.
aurelianito··on Ask HN: What are your views on India based development agencies?
I would like to second this. If you are in the US or Europe there is no way to meet via conference call/video with Indian developers and make the meeting be in office hours for both India and you. This makes the communication much less agile and/or generates a really poor work-life balance for the people that is forced to work at night, and this impacts directly on the quality of the development. For US and Europe it would be much better to hire from Latinamerica instead.
aurelianito··on The Logic of Risk Taking
Just not true. Let's say I do a bet of 1 dollar, and I have 50% chance of winning, and I can make 1000 bets every day. If start with 100 dollars it is much more likely to die with a lot of money than broke.
aurelianito··on Breast-cancer death rate drops almost 40 percent
A dead sibling post mentioned tomatoes. It is apparently supported by some research but seems to be not conclusive. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23883692
aurelianito··on Baffling ABC maths proof now has impenetrable 300-page ‘summary’
> so is it just me, or is the "work" of the normal proof only took 1/5th of the time it took for the automated/formalized proof?! that seems counter-productive imho...

It took 5 times to make it not a hunch but a real demonstration. If that's counterproductive or not remains as a something opinable.

aurelianito··on [dead]
Great parody of this site! Are we able to handle criticism or the post will be kept as dead?
aurelianito··on The Legion Lonely
We need to begin to discuss the issues that affect men in greater proportion, like solitude and suicide. I applaud the existence of this article. Thanks for posting it.
aurelianito··on Our Copyfish extension was stolen and adware-infested
To make it mor difficult to analyze the script. A simple string search will fail to catch the offending code.
aurelianito··on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop in the Classroom
Even better, just remove the surrounding classroom of the laptop. Now we can learn anything anywhere. Having to go to take a class were a professor recites something is ridiculous.
aurelianito··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
Please up-voting posts with salary information. Let's make this market more transparent!
aurelianito··on Your own company? You can do it (2011)
How do I get a part-time Silicon Valley salary for a part-time job remotely? I would love to. Please let me know who would be interested in hiring me in these conditions.
aurelianito··on Fractal planting patterns yield optimal harvests, without central control
The stone soup is explained in wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
aurelianito··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)
I am up-voting the messages that explicitly tell a salary or salary range. Would you like to join me?
aurelianito··on Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
Are you talking about the Dennis Rodman that worked for the Detroit Pistons and then got a second chance with the Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls?
aurelianito··on Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013)
I usually change "one machine" with "my notebook" and "fit" with "can analyze". It is big data if I cannot analyze it using my notebook. So it depends both on the size of the data (a petabyte is big data), the performance requirements (10GB/s is big data even if I keep 1 minute of data in the system) and also depends on the kind of analysis (doing TSP on a 1000000-node graph is big data, even if it fits my notebook memory).

I also define "small data" as anything that can be analyzed using Excel.

It is usually dramatic enough to get buy-in :).

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