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Sounds like you've never worked a computer help desk. Lots of times people would call in and the problem would stop as soon as they got halfway through explaining it. They just weren't patient enough.

Sometimes people would call in and through the process of describing the issue they would figure out exactly what they needed to do, they just needed to talk it out.

I think this is true for lots of things.
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I lived in 3 different countries (Italy, France, Germany) and yes, this rule is everywhere. The details may change, but the core is the same.

But I'm not not sure about those yankies up north in Britain :)
The great thing about Firefox is that if something is so obvious, you could also contribute to the development effort...
Pretty sure there's an EU directive covering this but whether or not it is implemented into law in all member states, I don't know.

That said I have a lot of friends across Europe and I can say that they all live in a country where effectively being made redundant invokes some minimum number of weeks of pay that must be given as a lump sum.
It's up now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475879
It's funny he thinks Twitter isn't asynchronous? Is he really getting more work done if he's checking twitter every five minutes?
You are probably perceived as a dick, as am I these days but it doesn't mean you are wrong. This is an unfortunate side effect of office politics and double-standards.

My particular perception switcher was when people started starting side conversations by forwarding JIRA ticket email notifications to me with comments etc and emails with ticket references in asking questions.

I rejected these with a simple filter [A-Z]{1,3}-[0-9]{1,6} with "write it on the damn ticket, peon" (in slightly friendlier language).

Everything turns up on tickets now and I get 4-5 emails a day compared to 80-100.
As Wilya says, 20 isn't much. A single branch of my tree-style tabs is saying that it has 25 child tabs; and I have ~30 top-level branches (admittedly about half of them are a single tab).
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I think you could make the same argument about computer science, especially relating it to the actual practice of professional programming, which resembles pop culture more than science.

And while both fields have mathematical underpinnings, the foundations of data science -- probability and statistics -- have deeper roots and a longer history.

I guess I'm saying you shouldn't impugn the field itself because of its popular practice.
Saying that something is blogspam can be surprisingly controversial hereabouts. I find it safer to passive aggressively link to the original source.
This WSJ video is a good overview of what happens in different social media when the user dies - http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/14/when-you-die-does-you...
The post was written as a single-draft rant and published in a hurry.

If you want constructive criticism, here is some: don't do that. Particularly not if you are basically complaining about other people doing that. And even more particularly not if it isn't just a quick comment on HN, but a separate post on your own blog; blog posts are expected to have more thought and care behind them than comments.
Data science is about building testable models, which fundamentally is what science is about.

What probably makes you uncomfortable is that Data Science (unlike most scientific fields) doesn't have a requirement for the models to make intuitive sense to humans.
Do you know if the tabs run in separate processes yet (like Chrome) or will a crash/memory leak/long running script cause the whole browser session to close?
I'm doing something similar for Japanese and English, though there's no machine translation involved.

Instead, it's a pure wikipedia-style site[1], where anyone can post their best attempts. Multiple translations are allowed per sentence, and the best (as voted by expert editors) are shown first.

Even if you don't speak Japanese at all, you can take advantage of the parallel texts in both languages[2], both online and as pdf files you can download.

[1] http://www.macaronics.com/

[2] http://macaronics.com/translated_articles
Hacker News has a spot in the Jeering----Constructive spectrum. You can't complain about the outcome if you know going in where the board is on the spectrum. Better to find (or create) a spot for more constructive advice if this isn't to your liking. (And yes, the internet is filled with assholes)
To expand: Sunlight makes the body stop producing melatonin and start producing serotonin, which improves your mood and alertness. Being deprived of sunlight for extended periods can result in seasonal affective disorder.
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I am OP and the author of the post.

Yup, you are right. I picked some poor examples to showcase my experiences and I should have drafted/edited my post better. I have nobody to blame but myself. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll keep this in mind for the future.

As for the lack of self-confidence, I am working my way through that. I kept thinking it was merely a manifestation of the impostor syndrome. Reading your comment, it seems I have over-estimated myself and I am actually suffering from a lack of self-confidence more than anything else.

To tell you the truth, as an utter newbie, I am never entirely sure if I am doing the right thing so I am cautious with almost everything. Unfortunately for me, the same does not seem to apply with my rants. I really should edit my posts better. My escapist brain tells me to excuse myself by saying, I never expected to get on to the front-page of HN. It is definitely a slow news day, I guess.

Also, the project that I chose as an example in the post isn't mine. I should have made that clear in the beginning itself. It just caused my anguish to bubble over.
> but surely that's worth it to save gigabytes of memory

I'm not sure _save_ is the right word here...using available memory has no particular cost to me over not using it. Of course, the _available_ modifier is relevant, so I take your point.
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You are showing exactly why we are in trouble. You refuse to look at facts and, instead elect to engage in personal attacks. I have news for you: reality does not change in any way as you do this.

Please launch your favorite spreadsheet and do a little work to understand the financial mess we are in. It really doesn't take that much work to speak from a very different reference frame, one armed with facts.
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I've been programming for years & years. I juuuust missed the punch card era. Whenever I'm approached by a new learner, I remember a story my mother told me.

My mother was studying to be a nurses assistant. She was learning to draw blood. Her first real human patient was a frail, elderly lady. My mom was apologetically poking this woman's arm. "Don't worry, dear," the lady told my mother. "We all have to learn somehow."

Whenever I get poked by a newcomer to the field, I try to help as best I can. We all have to learn somehow.
There is such a law in the UK and it is based on a minumum number of weeks pay plus a week for each year worked. Something along those lines, anyway.
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Weirdly enough in the long run you want to blow up stuff to keep orbits clean. MUCH better surface to volume ratio means faster de-orbit. This is a classic short term vs long term thinking problem. In the short term you're better off with fewer trackable objects but in the long run you're better off with no trackable objects at all.

If you're really bored you can run calculations on deceleration vs mass per surface area. From memory there are (admittedly extremely low) orbits where a rail-car shippable steel construction I-beam, actively pointed end-on, will orbit for months but a hot air balloon would deorbit in less than one full orbit.
A Priori rationalization based on Argumentum ad Ignorantiam. Conflated with A Fortiori of the evidence. (Just my guess)

edit: could also be labeled a non sequitur.
Thank you for helping with a clarification.

I would add the following: If there had been a federal government, then that government would not even have had to do anything that looked like "printing money" in public discourse.

This is because this federal government would not have had any trouble issuing new debt in the form of bonds. Why not? Because everybody would have known that the European Central Bank would effectively guarantee those bonds under any condition, and therefore there would not have been a panic about the debt in the first place. It's all a psychological game.

As evidence, consider that the fiscal policy part of the US federal government has not done anything that looks like "printing money" up to this point. All they have done is issue bonds, i.e. get loans from creditors.

Yes, the Fed has done things that look like "printing money", but that's monetary policy which has nothing to do with social safety nets.
Yes, I wish that cleanup was a portable C feature! Glad to see that GNU is trying something here, as it would serve as a prototype for standardization. Perhaps in a future version of C...
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IM is worse.

Frankly though, deal with it - because a phone call is even worse (if you have phones in the office anymore, I don't think I have).
While using an animated GIF is a cute idea, a simple "Yes" or "No" would suffice and be quicker to process/interpret.
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Firefox will never ask you to sign-in for the best browsing experience like chrome does. That's when I switched back. You can tell google is an ad company and users are secondary by their default choice of 3rd party cookies. I'd rather not have an ad company developing my browser. The incentives are all wrong.
To quote a song from my childhood.

"I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down."

Right? ;)
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Stretching the analogy a bit too much? The crux of point was - simple ideas can become excruciatingly complex to impossible solutions in practice.
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Or perhaps I underestimated them...
I was not overly precise due to time constraints. The "questionable" part refers to the problem of the military-industrial complex that tends to arise.
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I find the don't-go-to-school-just-do-it mentality that pervades tech blogs, article, discussions a bit short-sighted. I fully appreciate the importance of getting "hands-on experience" in addition to book learning, but what I don't get is the black-and-white perspective that formal education gives you NO EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER.

As a PhD candidate, my perspective is quite definitely skewed, but my experience in school so far has not given me the impression that all I've been doing is book learning with no transferrable, real-world skills to work with data. I've had to work with plenty of data sets during my Masters and PhD research. I firmly believe that the experience I've gained from applying what I've learned in the classroom and from surveying existing literature on data mining and statistical methods stands me in good stead to tackle "real data" (whatever that means).

Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick, but I think that something more than the "odd stats class" can be of value to a budding data scientist ...
They also should include a List-Id and mail servers are not supposed to reply automatically to those either.
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Russia here. Not only this, but if you're terminated by the boss, you have to be paid triple your monthly salary as a compensation — remnant of the soviet social-oriented legislation. Of course, a lot of people (and almost everyone in IT) gets most of the salary off the books to save on taxes, and if the company wants to fire someone, it would offer him to resign and then find some violation that he committed if he won't (to fire him on this grounds), but the laws are still in place
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If you think those comments are harsh, try dealing with actual users.
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"It is _incredibly_ infuriating when people are out for 2 weeks and don't alert you to this fact."

Email is a great "electronic mail" system but a miserable trouble ticketing system. None the less, just like "Excel" is the corporate standard database system, in practice email is the corporate standard ticketing system. Of course it doesn't work very well, but incorrect application of the tool, is not the fault of the tool.
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The operative word is "some". The OP was not implying that "All" problems resolve themselves, surely you must have experienced something that you thought was a problem only to discover a bit later that it was not?
To be honest, 8.1 is OK. It's not perfect but it sits in the rankings between XP and 7. It's also going to be a free upgrade.

Basically you can turn off most of the crap and use the start screen as a start menu and it's bearable. I'd take it over XP but not 7 (which it looks like I'll be using until 2020)
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Useful, maybe. Constructive, no. Especially to someone who didn't understand enough not to do this in the first place.

Just because you should expect the internet to be full of douchebags does not mean you need to contribute to their number. It doesn't hurt to be nice.
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(I'm replying late to this so you may never read it.)

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So when I write code I write it as simple and direct as possible. I stay away from clever and I stay away from cute or smart. Because I know that the idiot that will be maintaining the code and need to understand that code will be me.
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