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I love 5/3/1 but I don't know if I would recommend it to a beginner. The progression is just too slow compared to one of the daily progression programs like 5x5 or StartingStrength…

Hey all. This post looks at standardizing a time-series for machine learning. The idea is that when you have a running sensor, you have to batch standardize your data to remove any…

I would say it depends on what you are trying to learn. These types of problems will give you a good intro to a language, but won't introduce you to the more advanced libraries whi…

Also, and this is a major oversight on my part - I was specifically looking at fitting data generated by an affine function, not “linearly fitting data”. How I titled this is defin…

Hey, I’m the author of the post. You’re completely right. I investigated this as a means for solving the phase-unwrapping problem I was working on, and while it worked relatively w…

I also balked at it, but for the opposite reason. Everyone should be able to sit down to a terminal, make a change to a repository, and commit it. I mean even if you don't know the…

I see a lot of the note apps popping up - what is the fundamental problem that people are trying to solve that hasn't been solved by all the other apps? Is it collaboration or sync…

That's only true if you don't lose capable talent due to the low salaries. If most of the talented French engineers move to Germany to get higher pay, then the low pay will hinder …

Personally not a huge fan of two-way binding. As someone who has come from the C#/XAML world (where two-way binding can be abused), I found the pure-functional component strategy f…

1. Hacker News 2. Reddit /r/programming 3. Indiehackers 4. Twitter 5. NYTimes

That is a pretty good walkthrough of the "harder" parts of functional programming. Although, I always found it telling that the language designers needed the "do" imperative notati…

I agree, but feel that this is something that only comes with experience. It's very easy as a new grad to not value your time as much as it's worth (imposter syndrome maybe?). I si…

I'm a big fan of productivity engineering, but I find this article is a bit light on actual suggestions for increasing the productivity of teams. I find automating the simple tasks…

Funnily enough, GDPR explicitly requires you to have a representative (which for many companies will take the form of a lawyer). https://gdpr-info.eu/art-27-gdpr/

Hey there are tens of us.

I seem to be using a variety of methods for keeping notes on what I'm working on and upcoming tasks. * Paper / pencil * Email * Text documents None seem to be great at capturing id…

a=1, b=2, c=3, ... ac = 1 + 3 = 4 bb = 2 + 2 = 4

Bezos addresses this in the letter, mentioning that leaders have to accurately teach the "scope" of the high standards, where scope is a measure of the time required to achieve the…

The CDC [1] considers up to 2 drinks a day for a man to be "moderate" alcohol intake, which would be up to 14 drinks a week. This doesn't sound like alcoholism to me but that's may…

If this were true, wouldn't radio have had the same affect?

I've made a similar (albeit far less capable) react framework Dorian.js. https://github.com/jasongforbes/dorian-js Takes markdown and yaml to generate a static web-page (designed f…

You might not necessarily want something like code-editors rely on external servers, while still taking advantage of the UX of web-development. VSCode gets around this by running a…

I feel like the "we" in that article is obviously the group of entrepreneurs and not everyone... especially as the subject of the leading sentence is first-time entrepreneurs.