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That's awesome! I'm not surprised about the angle-of-attack needing correction. The angle-of-attack is defined as the angle between the average chord (an imaginary line running fro…

> IMO a teacher being paid $90k a year for 7 hours a day of work, > 10 months a year, should be working hard to improve. I don't disagree that she should work to improve, but you a…

In my social circle there is a perception that the BART is increasingly unsafe and some people who previously used the BART to commute from East Bay to SF are now driving. Their pe…

I think that the comment that you relied to meant that it is easier for scientists to collaborate using a single language rather than many. For some domains, Python has emerged as …

Google App Engine originally used a custom containment strategy. Back in the day, I was on the team that added Python 2.7 support to App Engine and we were experimenting with a dif…

Work for Google - have never worked on Tensorflow I tried: inputs = { 'matrix': [[10, 20, 30], [5, 5, 10], [2, 2, 1]] } output = [[85/10, 85/20, 85/30], [85/5, 85/5, 85/10], [85/2,…

>I could be a cog in a giant corporate machine, or I can have a measurable impact where I work. I think that point can support working for either a big company or a small company d…

Bias alert: I work for Google. I enjoyed the write-up but I have a small correction to make about "Frustrating moment #2. You can pass every interview with A grades and still not g…

I created word cloud as a Valentine's Day gift this year: - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brianquinlan/word-cloud-va... - https://github.com/brianquinlan/word-cloud-valentine/b…

Nice! My approach is very similar except that I have width mappings for non-ASCII characters. Also, since DejaVu Sans (the font that shield.io, pybadges and healthchecks use) is he…

I created an equivalent project for people who wanted to create the same style of badges from Python (or from the command line): https://github.com/google/pybadges Python example: …

I don't think this can be overstated. If you don't enjoy the interview process, you probably don't want to work there. I disagree with this. The interview that I enjoyed the most w…

My dad has a friend who was a fish wholesaler. So, when he went to the docks to pick his own fish, he picked out two large coolers for me (I wouldn't know how to pick quality fish …

They were Python conferences but they aren't being held anymore. You could check out PyCascades, which happened in Seattle this year.

I've been a co-convener for two Python conferences in Vancouver. The conferences were small ( For me, the key sources of stress were: 1. hoping that tickets and sponsorship would c…

The declining motivation with increasing scope really resonates with me. I often feel the same. And I feel that his career trajectory is pretty typical - you start building cool st…

If that is the scenario that you care about, then you can use profile guided optimization in statically compiled languages. Clang has instructions on how to do so here: https://cla…

Also, the space and time complexity analysis is incorrect for Trie: https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python/blob/master/data_str...

I'm a friend of Rafael and talked to him just before he announced that he was leaving LLVM. I actually disagree with many of Rafael's political views but I think that some of the c…

I think that classifying Rafael as a member of the right would be a gross simplification. Rafael is actually a member of the BC Green Party ( https://www.bcgreens.ca/ ), which I'd …

The disposition makes it look like Levandowski was very difficult to work with: Q. "Anthony threatens to leave the team if he isn't the single leader." Do you see that. A. Yeah ...…

Isn't 129MWh of capacity a bit low for 100MW of peak discharge? That would provide 77 minutes of power at peak discharge. Does anyone have any insight into the rationale for this c…

I disagree that free speech is binary. For example, I think that a country can be said to have free speech if it disallows people from promising to compensate someone in exchange f…

Are you claiming that Module-2 is memory safe? What about: MODULE Boom VAR Foo : POINTER TO INTEGER; BEGIN Foo^ = 123; END Boom.

I wanted to learn Rust but didn't have a good project in mind. So I solved a bunch of interview problems: https://github.com/brianquinlan/learn-rust Solving those problems gave me …