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then ban me

But, is it effective? It seems many of the the 'gig' companies are simply floating on Saudi (aka venture capital) money and have yet to turn a profit. And it's not like gig-workers are much better off than minimum-wage workers.

Selfish gene is a popular science book, not a text book. You want to learn something? Get a dense, highly-regarded text book with lots of problems and work through the problems. Supplement it with lectures, or more importantly, office hours at a prof or grad student who knows the subject cold. Maybe even get a mentor to give you a real problem and struggle through it for several years (aka go to graduate school). That's how its been done for centuries because it works. Why else do you think there are so few self-taught (real) engineers and (real) scientists out in the wild making an impact.

I wrote a PDF parser in golang a few years ago and it was an extremely unpleasant experience. No polymorphism means I essentially have to cast everything to void* aka interface{}. Rewrote it in C (the rewrite was quite easy actually) which at least made the lib accessible to other languages.

I predict nothing will change. Flaws in p-values and confidence intervals have been apparent since almost their inception. Jaynes spoke out against it strongly from the 60's on (see, for example, his 1976 paper "Confidence Intervals vs Bayesian Intervals"). Although I can't find it right now, there was a similar statement about p-values from a medical research association in the late 90's. It's not just a problem of misunderstanding the exact meaning of p-values either. There are deep rooted problems like optional stopping which render it further useless.

The problem is that with all its problems, statistical significance provides one major advantage over more meaningful methods: it provides pre-canned tests and a number (.05, .01, etc) that you need to 'beat'. The pre-canned-ness/standardization provides benchmarks for publication.

I once worked in a computational genomics lab. We got a paper into PNAS by running fisher-exact test on huge (N=100000+) dataset, ranked the p-values, got the lowest p-values, and reported those as findings. There's so much wrong with that procedure its not even funny.

"First they laugh at you, then they fight, then you win" -- Elizabeth Holmes.

Yes, I can see it now. So, we have a bunch of millennials that have no idea how to manage a pantry because they only eat at their company cafeterias or dine at restaurants. Instead of thinking "gee I'm almost out of coffee I'll go buy some", they get a bunch of wifi scales. And then a better one with more features comes out, and the old ones get shipped to SE asia so a 5 year old can try to recover some recyclables from it. Then the company that makes it goes bankrupt and every scale becomes useless. And more electronic waste gets shipped to the 3rd world.

If only there were trailer parks or other cheaper housing options around here. Fuck NIMBY's.

So, where's data?

Sounds like he was just trying to hit on you.

what kind of MBA brain washing are managers receiving that make them think most people wouldn't prefer working from home, if given the chance?

Anything written by federal contractors, and anything written with state funds are not in the public domain. National labs flat out refuse to release some of their source code.

Special cases are a sign you have a business problem that is worth solving.

Says the data scientist? Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot.

FYI if you're buying the £1k phones £3.5k laptops, you are the fanatic.

Aside from a critical mass of developers, another reason is: Because it can. I can access new, proposed features not yet implemented in any browser with polyfills and transpilation. Distribution is not a problem (sans file sizes) because the user downloads the newest version every visit. Now, if IE users would just go in a cave and die peacefully...

Don't. SF is covered in feces, needles, and bodily fluids. There is absolutely nothing to do in south bay except work. The entire area is an intellectually homogeneous, collectivist wasteland.

Is it your goal to be a junior IT plebian throughout your 40's competing with eastern bloc/south asian workers? Because that's what a bootcamp and half-baked knowledge in a bunch of random trendy technologies will get you, especially outside of silicon valley. A degree at your age won't get you far either -- tech companies what 22 year old grads, not 44 year olds (unless you already have a CS degree and are talking about a PhD).

Why completely throw away your experience as a lawyer? I am starting a company in the legal-tech domain and it'd be very valuable to have someone with experience in both sides of the world.

visual studio code and browser are about 50 mb each. That brings a complete web dev setup to maybe 300-400 mb. Oh and I can build desktop apps and mobile apps too with web tools, still never coming close to 10+gb.

Nah, what they really need are crappy fisher-price laptops, one per child.

wait... `/>` and `|>` are python operators?

I once attended a talk about humanitarian aid during an ebola outbreak a few years ago in africa somewhere. My favorite part was when he went down the list of professions that could help out... from the obvious medical staff, to architects and mechanical engineers for building infrastructure (for building things like containers for storing contaminated feces), etc. He ended with "every kind of engineer can help. except software engineers. you're all useless".

I switched a long time ago when tensorflow decided to change a few of it's low level functions' parameter orders, for no f'ing reason. The only reply on the bug report was "why weren't you using named parameters". Became clear to me that the devs don't care about users.

So, how many people is an acceptable number of people that can be killed by driverless cars?

C is equally bad, but it can be used anywhere -- it can be compiled into a dynamic lib and used in any language/framework, which is exactly what we did.

My first Go project was a PDF parser. Rewrote it in C a similar number of lines because Go's capacity for polymorphism is as primitive as in C.

Oh look a bunch of academics telling developers how to do their job, again.

Doesn't clicking on ads reward google, instead of punishing them?

Yeah, I've had friends who buy iphones in the US and take it back home to china for relatives, because it's cheaper abroad..... How does that work, exactly? Is it because of some sort of luxury tax in China?

it's beyond me why anyone would risk criminal prosecution for reporting a bug for free.