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Are we going to see a small market for artisanal thought emerge?

People consistently like free stuff more than they dislike ads. Another instantiation: people like cheap goods more than they dislike buying foreign made goods

SEEKING WORK | Pittsburgh | C++, Python, Robotics/Automation Need help building or scaling your robot software? Need to rearchitect a prototype into a product and pay down some tec…

Oddly, the worst response rate came from “no response needed.” Better not use that one the next time you want a response!

At least in C++11 and later, many classes of these memory bugs are eliminated with more modern container and pointer types. It’s not uncommon to have a company policy of not using …

Pattern matching is one of my favorite things about Haskell. But seeing it done here in a dynamically typed language is a more than little clunky (three indents needed to get to an…

You need a friend to join you on the call to be able broadcast? I’d have a very hard time doing that, but would love to just talk into the ether solo. Creates an unnecessary networ…

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Could it become a violation of their API TOS if too many people use it (ie too many api calls in a minute)

The server is written in JavaScript, yes. But I don’t believe there is any client-side JavaScript

I agree —- I find the Haskell IRC very friendly, even to the point of helping people do research and figure things out instead of just dropping answers. And there’s a beginners IRC…

I track my budget in Sheets. I have some AWS Lambda functions that IFTT calls to update the sheets with new data

Excellent. That sounds like something I'd really enjoy. I don't work in the space, but I'm more interested in the trading systems than the algos, primarily. After all, I'm a little…

Do you recommend that book and/or any others? Interested in automated trading + functional languages

You should rebrand it illusion.app. A trick is something a who... oh nevermind

Considering his background in the academic study of city planning, I got an immediate whiff of bias myself.

Whenever I try to do a ‘5 Whys’ analysis on a belief I have (“I believe X.” “Why?”) I almost always have multiple answers (“Because Y and Z”). Then I have to recursively apply anot…

Something about this article strikes me as a thinly-veiled complaint about poorly designed object-oriented systems. Take, for example this comment by the author: >Even if the money…

I will often tell candidates on the phone screen that I don't want to go forward for XYZ reasons (always technical). At one point one of the guys I gave feedback to like this turne…

First paper I thought of too.

Any idea of what material overlaps or which to read first?

That's like a company saying "We make a product, but 99.999999% of our target market want some feature we don't have. IDIOTS!" Guess what, in this scenario, you (specifically your …

This reminds me of a famous quote by Chuck Jones[1]: "Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out." In the same way, …

One thing I don't understand about net neutrality. Say I'm a toll road. I built the road when cars were relatively small and light. Now, some cars are getting really heavy and big …

Any tips for coming up with good projects to do? Something like this is obviously beyond the scope of most novices.