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> Nowadays, my primary criteria for joining a team is the quality of the people and of the manager. That's mine too, but nowadays teams and especially managers last about 6 months …

Totally a preference thing. I strongly prefer pandas to dplyr having worked with both.

How much of success is luck? I honestly don't know. It feels like another feel-good mantra coming out of SV culture. Most successful people I know or have heard of do not fit the p…

> bilateral clash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

What makes reddit and now HN think Ataturk was some sort of beacon of democracy? > In January 1920, Mustafa Kemal advanced his troops into Marash where the Battle of Marash ensued …

> Defining the set of real numbers is very different from defining all real numbers. I'm saying that ^ sentence makes no sense to me, I don't know how to parse it formally. If you …

Then we mean different things by define. I am saying the set R (with all its elements) is an uncontroversial, well-defined construction within ZFC. I am leaving out any linguistic …

I said "and other groups that reject all infinite constructions". Some schools of thought within that general intuitionist/constructivist/etc branch of mathematical logic do reject…

Oh it's definitely more real, as in it belongs to R and not to any of its extensions. You guys realize that the definition of R is non-controversial in modern math, right? There ar…

No, my "ill-defined" means "will lead to contradictions if you look too closely", not "I haven't exactly specified what it means".

Yes but you defined the number just fine, right? "Compute" is a separate issue from "define", you can't compute a lot of things. Is this going in the intuitionistic logic direction…

Still not sure I follow. Set of non-kings is not ill-defined, not in the same way as set of numbers non-describable by any formal system is.

My example is incomplete, not faulty. I left it as a question (does the inf belong to the set?). If the answer is yes, we reached a contradiction. If the answer is no, we have to c…

Wait, you're agreeing with me that the set in question is ill-defined, but still somehow comparable to other sets? I am not sure I follow. My statement is that you cannot meaningfu…

"Real numbers that cannot be defined with language" is not a well-defined set though. Just like "integers that cannot be described in less than 100 words" is not well-defined (I co…

$25 - two sandwiches from Toasties baby :o

Do the esteemed downvoters care to substantiate their position with anything other than "my daddy said so" anecdotes?

Is this slave mentality or what? If I make 350k+, and a startup is telling me I should take their 150k base + worthless options deal, or else I've "pigeonholed myself in the curren…

This whole discussion is setting off my BS detectors (your comments specifically, dad with HS degree vs 'the Chinese', etc), and to be honest, the whole tribal knowledge thing may …

It's just that the answer to the question posed in the headline is a definite 'no'. This type of silly inquiry into "is Azeri related to Sumerian", "is Georgian related to Chinese"…

> It looks like every kind of screening of immigrants will deter the more desirable ones As someone who self-selected the name 'bayesian_horse', can you please cite the evidence yo…

Strange not to see Nietzsche here. Twilight of the Idols was his first book I read, then I ended up reading all the others without taking a break. Can't agree with everything he sa…

Your annoyingly patronizing tone aside, I'll try to address what you're saying. > ...the class hierarchy: as an example, in Pharo Smalltalk you have the following hierarchy: ProtoO…