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blueside

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My name is John. I am a programmer in Oregon
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blueside··on A billion reasons never to buy IBM services
As a general rule, if a work task lands on your desk that involves working with a IBM/Oracle/SAP product, preemptively apologize to those regularly around you for your miserable attitude in the near future.
blueside··on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
Don't worry, that feeling will pass and you'll feel like an imposter again in no time.
blueside··on Standardizing lessons learned from AMP
Excellent lexical analysis :) Glad to know I wasn't the only one who couldn't help but cringe while reading this.
blueside··on Machine Learning Crash Course
we recommend that students meet the following prerequisites:Mastery of intro-level algebra. You should be comfortable with variables and coefficients, linear equations, graphs of functions, and histograms

Any book suggestions to getting up to speed in this area?

blueside··on CSS Grid changes everything [video]
The intuitiveness of CSS Grid is the major appeal for me.

I've worked with Flexbox for the last few years and still regularly have to look up the Flexbox reference pages. Perhaps it's just me, but I have found the whole Flexbox naming scheme anything but intuitive.

blueside··on Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc in 2017
A good list, however quite voluminous. If I went through that much material in one year I would never have got any work done.
blueside··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2017?
I'm sure I have an unpopular opinion on this, I have read How To Win Friends And Influence People a few times and I can't get over the fact that the skills taught feel very disingenuous and superficial. "act interested, use the person's name, etc". It's extremely cringe inducing when you see somebody blatantly using the tactics.

If there's a reason that everyone should read this book, it's more so that they are aware of these tactics.

blueside··on Bitcoin hits a new record high above $5,100
I don't think there ever has been an asset in the history of mankind that has appreciated so fast and so high like this.
blueside··on Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe
Not a popular opinion, but should insider trading be legal?

It seems to create a false sense of security, that people inside the company aren't going to do bad things. Many people have made their fortunes on some degree of insider trading that they wouldn't have made otherwise.

Wouldn't the markets be more efficient without this mirage?

blueside··on Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check
This sounds no different than my experience with some Oracle and SAP products that we had the unfortunate pleasure of supporting.
blueside··on Behind the scenes with Tezos, a new blockchain upstart
An uncapped fundraiser for yet another cryptocurrency? This reminds me a lot of pump and dump penny stocks.
blueside··on Turn your website into a Progressive Web App
is going full "Progressive Web App" worth really the time investment right now given Apple's lack of support in mobile Safari?
blueside··on “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”
> if go into any downtown anywhere in the world at 7 pm to 8 p.m. you will see people drinking beer in bars.

Those people are still working, they just don't know it

blueside··on Chris Lattner: “Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me”
Immediately, you are wrongful to assume it's a failure on his part.

If it's not a good fit, why can't it be a failure on the employer side?

blueside··on Amazon Prime Wardrobe lets you try on and return clothes free
I remember reading about a large company in Russia doing something at least 4 or 5 years ago (I think it was Lamoda?) where they sent along a "fashion assistant" with your selection of clothes.

The fashion assistant drives to your place with all the clothes you want to try, waits for you to try them on, perhaps offers some suggestions, and then leaves with whatever you don't want.

Has this type of idea ever been explored in the US?

blueside··on A History of Starcraft AI Competitions
don't worry, they made up for it in Starcraft 2
blueside··on Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
until the competition is completely annihilated, jeff is not content.
blueside··on The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014)
depending on your audience, most of the time you still can't use flexbox today due to ie9/10.

it's really something that after all these years, in 2017, microsoft browsers still find a way to hold back web features.

blueside··on Learn C Programming with Open-Source Books
As this list is of open source books, no...K&R C shouldn't be on there.
blueside··on AI Beats Four Top Poker Players
I'd really be interested in whether intentionally showing your cards instead of mucking them was taken into account by the AI. (e.g. showing your poor hand after a successful bluff)
blueside··on AI Beats Four Top Poker Players
I disagree and it's not ignorance on my part. Due to the nature of the poker and heavily weighted component of luck, a terrible AI can theoretically win.

I am sure the AI they built is a mighty and spectacular achievement, but poker is about the only game I know where the worst player can easily beat the best player. Prove me wrong and I'll happily accept your insult of "ignorance"

edit I should have been more clear, as I am extremely impressed with the AI's results of hands over time. I am referring to the context of a standard tournament where the loser is eliminated after losing their chips.

blueside··on AI Beats Four Top Poker Players
Unfortunately this fails to impress me, merely because you could theoretically build a terrible AI and still win.
blueside··on DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?
I think Rails is always worth learning, but is it worth learning right now if you want to find a job?
blueside··on Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging
I switched to a standup desk 5 years ago. I got a dog 3 years ago. I don't sit anymore and she forces me to take her for two walks almost everyday.

I don't exactly have more energy and I don't feel like I'm going to live forever, but I have noticed I am aging slightly slower than my colleagues who are forced to sit down in their offices for over 12 hours a day.

blueside··on Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless
I strongly agree with this sentiment; the fact that "competitors" can penalize you, the back link component should be removed from the ranking algorithm all together.
blueside··on Who’s on Your 2016 Web Development Thank You List?
Laravel and Vue, to all the people who have worked hard to contribute and make them better
blueside··on C for Python programmers (2011)
I love Zed but I couldn't recommend Learn C the Hard Way to a beginner. The book starts out good, but then greatly ramps up complexity around chapter 17 (heap and stack memory allocation) without a good introduction to many new concepts, explanations are just completely missing. Most people I know who've all tried to go through the book ultimately start to lose interest and give up there unfortunately.
blueside··on C for Python programmers (2011)
I well remember that if how arrays decay to pointers was properly explained to me in the beginning, I would have "got" pointers a lot sooner
blueside··on Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch
I would suggest to the author to put a "This is not satire" disclaimer at the top of article to discourage users from leaving.
blueside··on Distro Chooser
asking for the preferred package manager is a bit too much of a giveaway
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