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mlpiniton Remote work statistics for April 2017

Do you have any tips for where to find open source X12 specifications? Seems like EDIFACT is nicer from this perspective.

mlpiniton Kitty Hawk is accepting waiting-list signups for its electric personal aircraft

If you like this you might also like Lilium. https://lilium.com/

mlpiniton Too much sitting, too little exercise may accelerate biological aging

This [1] book has great reviews and it addresses the body fat issue. It mentions that fat is actually good for building strength/muscle. So if health and strength are your primary reasons, this book may help with that.

1. https://goo.gl/OrXMdJ

mlpiniton Ask HN: What to do after failing final interviews twice?

I don't think it has much to do with genetics. You just need to develop a certain mindset. (I lean heavily on nurture) We live in a world that doesn't cherish failure... Reframe failure to mean one step closer to success. After all, not every experiment will prove your hypothesis, but if you want to make progress you have to keep trying.

mlpiniton Why Feynman Diagrams Are So Important

This is a fantastic resource! The writing is really enjoyable.

mlpiniton The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain

I feel silly. I guess I fell for the same trap. I think he meant to say he did 3 miles for every dollar...

mlpiniton The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain

I don't think he did. 250k/80k ~ 3

mlpiniton The World's Newest Major Religion: No Religion

Although I sympathies with your first point this claim "Religion is not the source of all evil" really dims down the evil.

mlpiniton Seafloor Features Are Revealed by the Gravity Field

paraphrasing: Underwater mountains exert a gravitational pull on the water above and around them causing small but measurable bumps.

This is very cool! I never thought about the ocean as being bumpy.

mlpiniton Free Springer math books

https://gist.github.com/bishboria/8326b17bbd652f34566a#gistc...

There's a comment with a curl command for that on the repository.

mlpiniton Grace Hopper Academy

There is already Ada academy: http://adadevelopersacademy.org/

mlpiniton On Being Smart (2009) [pdf]

There's a book called "Thinking, Fast and Slow" that mentions some of the concepts covered here.

mlpiniton Scm_breeze – enhancing your Git CLI workflow

I don't think the `gs` abbreviation is the big win here. Doing `gs` and getting a numbered list of all of your modified files is a big win though. Doing `git add 1,2,5,8` or git add `3-9` is really convenient.

mlpiniton Ask HN: How to apply agile to a team of 5-7 without annoying the talented?

my understanding: instead of driving by writing tests first, they first write the implementation and then they test.

mlpiniton Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive

The market doesn't always move in that direction. Your friend could have been in a much different position if he invested at a different point in time. If you take into account the real estate commission + recordation fees, your friend probably payed about 120k-130k. Also take into account the mortgage interest and the opportunity cost of the money he could have otherwise invested in this crazy bull market and your friend probably just barely broke even. This is in a great market, imagine what would have happened in a bad market to him...

mlpiniton Taste for Makers (2002)

The book I mentioned above, Concrete Mathematics, talks about how to develop an intuition when it comes to induction. One of the advice mentioned is to always start with smallest cases possible because that makes the problem easier to understand. I suppose the more you practice the better your intuition becomes.

mlpiniton Taste for Makers (2002)

Oh - He's talking about the proof not the actual result. Thanks, that makes sense.

mlpiniton Taste for Makers (2002)

"In math and engineering, recursion, especially, is a big win. Inductive proofs are wonderfully short. In software, a problem that can be solved by recursion is nearly always best solved that way."

I don't make use of recursion very often but this statement doesn't sound right to me. Actually the opposite seems right. If you read the chapter on recursion from Concrete Mathematics (I'm thinking about the The Tower of Hanoi, Lines in the Plane and The Josephus Problem here, it seems obvious that a closed form is much faster, simpler and according to the blog post more beautiful. Does anybody with more extensive knowledge on the topic care to comment on this?