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Oh wow that's conclusive data then.

Or, is it because it is something that a middle aged middle managers can keep using in their interviews without learning anything new for decades?

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…

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. Su…

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{}. …

1) Get Saudi money. 2) Maximize revenue, minimize profit. 3) ??? 4) Profit. Am I missing something?

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 (se…

"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…

This kind of idea is why I'm not going to let my kids major in computer science (at least not just CS). The brains behind this startup could be doing something at least superficial…

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…

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, collectivis…

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 o…

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, s…

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

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