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drfunk

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    Comment #48643522

    sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !

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    Comment #48540766

    Rick-and-Morty-esque title

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    Comment #45978096

    In my head I read "okara.ai" as "okarai", which sounds an awful lot like "o caralho" in Portuguese, and I had a good chuckle out of it...

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    Comment #45548269

    Very cool, I thought about building exactly this a few months ago! Glad to see someone did :)

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    Comment #44501638

    Very good summary / starting point to better understand what makes OLAP databases get far better performance than OLTP DBs on analytical tasks!

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    Comment #44106190

    Started reading the thread, and stopped because I realized I was hyperventilating

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    Comment #43430369

    Of course she's doubling down. Anything else would mean facing the extent of her responsibility in the death of her child, which would be absolutely crushing to her ego and self-im…

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    Comment #43278717

    Looks really interesting! I've been looking for resources on how to ask better questions, it'll surely come in handy. I wonder if there's a PDF / single-file version somewhere, for…

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    Comment #43136286

    Wtf that's incredible

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    Comment #42829823

    Ha! I went through half of the Turkish course but stopped around two years ago, thanks for the reminder, I resumed my progression! I'll be looking at the new courses too :) And tha…

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    Comment #42245779

    One point for Cory Doctorow!

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    Comment #42194336

    Worth noting that the article dates back from April

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    Comment #41989162

    Use a journaling app, and write a few notes on what you did everyday. Each week, write a summary, grouped by topic: on project A, did 3 MRs, assisted pre-sales team on product X...…

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    Comment #40934926

    Nice project! I have a few qualms with the instructions (sometimes misleading or unclear) and the implementation. For instance some problems fail, because 0. is considered differen…

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    Comment #40873452

    Nice work, I really like it! Do you plan on adding a small explainer as a blog post? That would be neat!

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    Comment #39928530

    Mostly good for talent pipeline imo. I try to look for curiosity and autonomy when interviewing prospective interns. That way I can let them explore cool topics that we don't have …

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    Comment #39304877

    I find that most nice resources are paywalled unfortunately... (commenting to hopefully get pointers)

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    Comment #39091248

    You can play with Guesstimate, a spreadsheet-like tool handling uncertainty. Here's an example of estimating the duration of a task (shopping): https://www.getguesstimate.com/model…

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    Comment #38951710

    3blue1brown's visualizations made a lot of things click for me, years after learning algebra and calculus. In my opinion they're the perfect companion to a more formal study with t…

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    Comment #38002948

    Excalidraw is good when you need a virtual whiteboard. No login required, so I've used it a lot for remote job interviews. https://excalidraw.com/