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It's just time really.

The amount of time will vary depending on your background, degree, existing experience, and sure enough, luck. But it's just time.

In the current state of the industry, a senior is just "someone who's been around and did/saw some stuff".

It gets a lot trickier after that step. But for a junior, just keep doing what you do and try to do it better while learning/seeing as many things possible. Basically, just give it time.
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Interaction. It's what one does, and what the environment does and how the interaction goes. What ever you do in the wrong environment, will not help, and vice versa.
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>There is no "fake world" with "fake world" problems

You've never met a number theorist.
Not really. We're directing this more towards a completely automated use-case of forecasting with no human interaction, so it's not on our plans to release internal parameterization of the forecast.
Would it be possible to train a DNN
...To re-do the mouth movements of a movie or anime in accordance with the new audio track?
I think questions like this aren't really going to get you the answers you're looking for. There's no one-step fix to becoming a better employee, just like there's no one-step fix for anything. You've likely already heard the advice that will help you improve: be perseverant, work smart _and_ hard, stay organized, and be empathetic.
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Take the time to understand the whole system you work within, not just your little stovepipe.

That system may not be technical, but procedural. It will include other business functions. It may include your customers. In any system, there is a clear "start" and "end" that encompasses a complete process and reason for being.

You'll find that in most organizations, people stay in their little corner, do their little thing, not caring much about what happens to the left and right of them. That leads to inefficiencies and missed opportunities.

If you understand the larger system, you'll be able to see opportunities others are blind to. Point a couple out and -if you're both respectful and right - it won't take folks long to think "man, this guy really gets it!"
Well if you read the article they did not attack the client. Compare that with the inflamatory language used in her article such as "Centelink terrorised me", "Terrorised by Centrelink, I began to behave as the bureaucracy saw me: angry, emotional, confused, dependent and idiotic"

Secondly the only additional information released seems to be the actual date of when she seperated from her ex and failed to lodge the change of circumstance which lead to the overpayment. She already stated her break up in the original article.

Also have a look at her other articles in her blog. Poems about "blowjobs" and "Pussy" mixed in with the usual radical feminist nonsense. I thinkwe know exactly where she's coming from.
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You can reason about classes of theories instead of theories, and then rank them. "Ugliness", as you write, might be one of the ranking criteria, but there are others, for example "predictiveness".
Note that "Finish shit on time" is almost a subset of "being able to estimate well". Having mentored and hired more than a few junior devs, if I could stress ONE thing to make them better developers, it would be to focus on figuring out how to estimate accurately.

Estimating accurately has a variety of criteria, like knowing the system you're developing against well enough to understand pitfalls and hurdles, knowing how much time will be spent discussing the task at hand, etc. It's not just "this is how long it will take me to write <x> function"... but it is absolutely critical to getting shit done on time, as it literally helps you define what on time is.
I would advise strongly against that kind of snarky or funny responses. It is a no-no. Give a standard answers the lawyer might have presented you.
I think the most important factor for my own professional growth has been working with people who know more 'stuff' than me. Every job I've had I've learned _tons_ from my coworkers. I wouldn't know frontend if I hadn't partered with a guy who was a CSS pro, I wouldn't be good with Azure if I didn't work with a guy who was already really good with Azure.

Obviously it takes a lot of legwork on your own part, but having the guidance helps a whole lot.
In my experience, a familiarity with the command line along with the associated general systems/server exposure will elevate your career faster than anything. For those with such exposure already I'd recommend diving deeper and become an expert in the tools your existing team uses for systems, release, and deployment. These skills also open up new career paths you may opt for in the future.

While most of us are probably comfortable enough running make/grunt/gulp/etc, that comfort typically stops there. Knowing how to set up and manage your own systems will both make you more useful on your team and visible in the org. This is especially true for junior front-end folks.
100,000 hours of practice. The easiest way is to ship products. When you feel like you've somewhat mastered whatever you are currently doing look for opportunities to learn a new framework, language, platform, etc.
Not even in the same ball park as 2008. Auto loans are a lot easier to recover than a home loan. If you don't pay your auto loan they just come pick up the car. Then they get to resell the car again. This is completely different than a home loan in both value, and the process for the lender recover the collateral.

Home loans right now are still very tight. I had to provide more documentation for a simple refi with the same bank, than I had to provide in 2011 when I purchased the home. When I asked why, they responded that regulations have continued to tighten since them.

When dogs can get a 500k home loan and then sell the house a month later for 600k I might start believing we are back in 2008.
I just wanted to chime in and say I hate buying furniture from Ikea. I think they have have a few decent items, and the real wood bookcases looks sturdy but most of their stuff is laminated MDF. I have a real wood changing table that they unfortunately discontinued years ago that has held up well over the years, except for the drawer rails. Ikea doesn't sell replacement parts for it and it is a custom size, so can't go to Home Depot to find a replacement. Thankfully I was able to find a site that seems to specialize in Ikea replacement parts and it was almost an exact fit. I only plan on buying used furniture or making my own in the future.

I was in the market for a large dining room table and looked at their offerings, and with the table and benches was over $600. I went to Craigslist and there were several wood workers who could make you a farmhouse table out of quality, furniture grade hardwod for that price. Ended up fixing the antique dining room table I broke during the big move and using that instead.
>Maybe it fits more if you think of it as a vote "against the left" instead of a vote for Trump.

With the problem that if by "the Left" you mean Hillary Clinton, then...

* The "Left" are more of the country, by 3 million votes.

* The "Left" aren't even all that left-wing. Hillary said $12/hour was a high-enough minimum wage. Nancy Pelosi said, "We're capitalists." Obama dropped the Employee Free Choice Act in 2008.

So in this context, a "vote against the Left" comes across as a vote to suppress the already-suppressed political majority.
Is this where AI hits the accelerator?
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You don't, but there are jokes and jokes (and they certainly do joke sometimes)

From stories I heard airport security is more serious than CBP though
Yeah. http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/board.asp?p...
It seems cargo culted though and IMO using a lut makes it more annoying, why not just suffix or prefix the hash with a delimiter and type?
> A high noise floor is not even close to being the same as dither, never mind noise shaping.

Dither is noise. Well chosen noise, very quiet noise, but noise nonetheless. Whether the signal is noisy for one reason or another, the consequences at the point of decimation/quantization are the same. Either way the least significant bits are filled with stochastic values and the desired signal isn't plagued with quantization noise artifacts.

> Have you actually heard the difference between simple dither, noise-shaped dither, and non-dithered 16-bit audio? A test tone is the worst possible way to hear what they do.

...is the sort of thing someone who hasn't done a blinded listening test would say. Stop assuming the commercially successful "experts" are also technical experts, because few are. I doubt more than a tiny fraction could describe what a least significant digit is.

(Cutting vinyl, a hilariously lossy process that requires compression and EQ to avoid the needle jumping the groove, doesn't need a 24 bit master. Barely needs a 14 bit master. But since an extra hundred megabytes of really accurate noise floor doesn't make anything worse, they do it anyway.)
2011 didn't have as widespread Clang/LLVM usage. Now that it is so ubiquitous, probably a good time to revisit for C...

C needs to defend its reputation now!
The things I have seen work:

* Solve the problems other developers are unwilling or incapable of solving.

* Create helpful (and portable) tools

* Learn analytics and increase your communication skills

* Be helpful
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The "next level" is for you to define. For me, it was communication and design. For you it might be a new language or simply better test coverage.
Watch a talk explain perfectly why humans make music with technology
Water is 1000kg/m^3. Cast iron is 7300kg/m^3, so there's a substantial density difference. More important, though, is geography. A place with long, steep, relatively straight slopes isn't necessarily a good place to build a reservoir.
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> He might have to provide more info. When I looked up Billy to find out what it is I found over a dozen variants/sizes: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?query=BILLY+Bookcase

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00263850/ is the one most people mean when they talk about "a billy": a neutral person-tall thin enough to be flexible bookcase.

> Personally, I love these and have a few: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30275861/#/102758....

I also like Kallax, not the 4x4 or 5x5 though (too inflexible imo) but I've got multiple 2x4, 1x4 and 2x2.
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"One of the problems with the American rail debate is you have people who like rail and people who like low taxes."

US citizen here, in the highest of all possible US+California tax brackets, who is very enthusiastic about rail and non-bus public transportation.

It's not that I don't want to pay taxes for rail - I do - it's that we already ramped the tax collection all the way up to 11 without doing any rail.

Once you're at >50% effective tax rate[1], where do you go from there ? I can't possibly favor any tax increase - it doesn't matter what for - since we are already past (what I would consider) "peak" taxes.

[1] 53% - although in my case, closer to 48% due to minor things like 401k and HSA, etc. Yes, I am one of the suckers who is in the highest bracket but pursues no exotic tax avoidance.
The models of the universe with and without dark are fundamentally different, it is not inventing "invisible stuff to explain that the model is still right". The nature and composition of fundamental particles are an integral part of models of the universe. There is also a long track record of predicting the existence of particles and then later discovering these particles, for example the Higgs boson. Of course far more particles have been predicted and not (yet) discovered, such as theories of super-symmetry, but these predictions usually don't have the same type of consensus that the Higgs or dark matter has. While dark matter is invisible in the classical sense, it is observable by its gravitational effects. We have also observed what looks like clumps of dark matter, which modified theories of gravity have great difficulty explaining. With that said, until someone actually experimentally observes dark matter it is still a theory and could well be wrong. But this is true of all competing theories - there is no experimental evidence for theories other than dark matter.
I've currently got one product up on Gumroad and they seem to add VAT to the overall cost in countries which use it. I did end up getting a few complaints from customers about their lack of handling VAT IDs though.
Apparently he's Jewish, and left Egypt decades ago due to anti-semitism there.
You probably want to parallelize the browser for energy efficiency. Then you can distributed the DOM across the scratchpads of hundreds of cores maybe?
> Most researchers probably can't afford to pay an outside lab to duplicate their research.

This cost would be built into the grant that funds the lab, and I bet everyone would get used to it after a few years of complaining.
This is super awesome! I had a lot of fun with this, and the visualization was simple and enjoyable to follow along.

I think I found a small bug: cars don't seem to have much ability to estimate the size of a gap between obstacles, so they'll attempt to squeeze through gaps that are too small for them.
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10,000 maybe? 100k hours is 11 years @ 24 hours a day / 7 days week.
> It already did. Sophie Wilson said [0] its 28nm for ever.

That's not quite what her slide said. It's that the transistors on 14nm are _currently_ more expensive than those at 28nm, although that may change.

And then she states that only some things will make sense to do at less than 28nm. But a lot of the really big players are already at 14nm or will be there very shortly. Apple, Intel, Samsung, AMD and Nvidia are at 14nm now, either for their newest products or ones to be introduced later this year.
The national conversation on this topic is entirely wrong. The supreme court has clearly stated a number of times over the the years (http://afer.org/blog/14-supreme-court-cases-marriage-is-a-fu...) that marriage is a fundamental right. So what we should be asking the government is if it's a fundamental right, why do we require a license to get married? Fundamental rights are not supposed to require anything to exercise since we derive them not from the government but from our mere existence as human beings.

I don't require a license to exercise my right to free speech and publish something online or create a film. I don't have to apply for a license to practice religion. Why the hell do I need permission from the government to get married, especially when such a ceremony (for most people) is a religious one? Sure, some people go to the justice of the peace to get married. But nearly everyone has a religious ceremony or they hire a neutral officiant (or have someone they know get ordained).

Historically marriage has always been a religious ceremony. If we want to deem it something else, I'm fine with that. We can still allow people to get married and not have the government be involved. Why can't we just decide who we are going to get married to, and simply fill out some paperwork to declare (not ask permission) ourselves married and notify the government of our status change.

Asking permission is obscene and defeats the entire purpose of declaring it a "fundamental right".
I believe that's the point: you never notice a Billy, it turns into part of the wall. You can build a wall of storage with shelves in various places, and it's fully extensible.
Or maybe it leads to people more clearly receiving the intended message.
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Cars are funny. In the usa it's easy to get a lease on even an expensive car.

Determining "stuff" on car ownership may be misleading.

Examples. Mercedes acquired by co worker. He said family was so poor he had to wear his big brothers clothes.

Another person I am working with now used to live out of his car. Within his 2nd paycheck he leased a new BMW.

Cars were used to "feel good" and perhaps elevate class self perception.
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There are some models out there which could be used but i'm not sure that forecasting is actually what you would use.

I would think if you're already assigning credit ratings, you can set that as your dependent variable and use things like company revenue, number of employees, age of company, etc. as your independent variables. You can use a number of different models to assess credit worthiness based on this data. Evaluate several to determine the most accurate.
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Nothing like a little "look it up yo damn self": Looks like it's about 1 hydrogen per m^3 [1] (via SO [2]), about 1 million times less dense. Damn.

[1]: http://www.universetoday.com/30280/intergalactic-space/
[2]: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/25378/how-vacuous-is-intergalactic-space/25379#25379
I was curious even before seeing your comment so I checked and found this: Mechanical printing press was not widely adopted in East Asia until the 1800s. Woodblock printing was probably much less efficient and the number of books available was perhaps one or more orders of magnitude fewer than in Europe until the 19th century. [1]

My hypothesis: A lack of inexpensive and widely accessible books before the 19th century slowed down China's scientific and technological progress substantially. (Other cultural and governance factors undoubtedly played a role as well.)

By the way, I am not sure if we can say China did invent the modern world. Most of the scientific methods and mindset we inherit today largely evolved and took a mature form in Europe. Without which, most advanced technologies cannot be built upon.

Your 9-factor framework appears well thought out. Any plan to publish its details in full?

I would add Biological-medical systems which allows us to harness the nature of other living beings (taming, breeding, etc.), mitigate their harms (pesticides, antibiotics, etc), and deeply alter them and ourselves (genetic engineering, CRISPR, etc.) [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing_in_East_As...

[2] http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/super_intelligent-humans-ar...
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I would say that getting the right internship will make a huge difference.

In 2009 before I went to university I was still living at home, splitting firewood in the middle of nowhere in New Brunswick, Canada to make a bit of extra money. This turned out to be an activity with an effective wage of about $10/hour.

In 2012 I was interning at NVIDIA in Santa Clara. Interns get lots of special treatment to indoctrinate you into the company, so I got to meet the CEO and he invited all the interns over to his house. Of course, he would probably never remember me, but I can't think of many other ways to move so quickly into a place where you could actually have some influence.
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"timestamp": 1458000000,
"value": 63.422235
},

dear lord, why? this reminds me of the old "xml binary format" joke:

<byte>
<bit>0</bit>
<bit>0</bit>
<bit>1</bit>
<bit>0</bit>
<bit>0</bit>
<bit>1</bit>
<bit>0</bit>
<bit>0</bit>
</byte>
talk to your manager or find a mentor. what's needed to move up can vary based on where you work. for more general advice, or if you are self employed, there's a lot of other good comments here.
one of the main issues in asynchronous design is the idea of gate delays, i.e delays in individual logic gates that compound inside of a circuit.

there are ways of dealing with this. delay-insensitive circuitry, QDI circuitry, micropipelines...

if you're interested as to the "state of the art", as I learned it, look no further than Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design[1], a fantastic book. a PDF[2] is also available. another fascinating piece of work are Micropipelines[3] by none other than Sutherland.

the main benefit for asynchronous architectures is their ability to be expressed in software. the primitives used (as you'll read) function very much like traditional software constructs based around control and dataflow. this is very easy when your entire architecture is based around pipelines, which can choose to hold and "re-transmit" data.

asynchronous design isn't dead or disadvantageous. we just forgot about it for some reason.

[1]: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9780792376132
[2]: http://www.orbit.dtu.dk/files/2775719/imm855.pdf
[3]: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b840/ae4b928964eff41206f89f...
I dunno, when I was coming back from Europe a while back the homeland security guy in the airport asked me if I wanted a full cavity search. I was like "no?..." And he was like, ah, you don't fit the profile anyways.

I've found American Border Patrol and Customs to be fairly relaxed though. I am a white American guy from the Midwest, so that may have something to do with it. I find the TSA to be more of a pain.
Hmm, I think at the minimum, the variance of the forecasted results should be obtainable. I'm not sure how many people would use a black box model without knowing some sort of performance/statistical confidence metric.
Are you talking about something different here? Kaby Lake is 14nm.
I've now reached a point where the compiler reasonably stable and you can actually do some useful tracing with it.

For now, there's only kprobe/kretprobe and tracepoint support. uprobe/uretprobe support is at the top of the todo list.
I'm a big fan of rail. I wish we had a bullet train going from E to W coast through Kansas City. I would happily pay more taxes for it.

The thing for me is ive never understood why the cost per mile is so freaking outrageously stupidly full retard high for rail. Road doesn't cost nearly as much.

Is it the material? Labor? There isn't much material per mile. Why is it so high per mile? Who has done extensive looking into this and can explain it?
Written communication. Writing concise, direct, accurate, and easy to read emails/jiras/etc.

If you're a dev or not this holds true. Your boss and your bosses boss are busy. Help them understand what you do by writing your thoughts clearly.

The other is finishing. Work on things you can finish. Don't aim to rebuild Rome in an afternoon. Doing the dirty work to take something from 90% to 100% is HARD. Finishing things adds so much value and for some reason people are bad at it.
Have you looked at the main plots? They're terribly noisy. And because of the difference-in-difference design, a pretty strong covariate for adult suicide (economy / labour participation) is not taken into account.

Take perspective of the modeller. What would be the first circle of influence in teen suicide? Probably direct social interactions (family, peers). Second circle? More abstract things like succes in school, relationships, the absence of bullying. For a regulatory change to have a meaningfull and measurable effect on suicides (literally the most drastic step available) is hard on first sight.

And then the step to research design. How would one expect to find a determinating factor by a DiD-design with only some regulatory measure as an explanatory factor?

For me, after looking into this study. First explain me the state by state differences in teen suicides over time adequately, before you start explaining the effect of gay marriage on teen suicides.
Why would you have to immigrate _now_ for a marriage certificate? Do you think the situation will worsen even more for couples married after the cut off date?
So wouldn't the sensible position be universal contraception to prevent a fetus from forming?