chipuni

The easiest job to replace must be the CEO.

Look at Musk. He's CEO of six companies (or so), yet has time to run DOGE and constantly post on X.

Elsewhere, you said the you're not into tweaking your OS.

Then I agree with Mindcrime: Try PopOS. It's very easy, it's full-featured, and it makes installing software easy.

Compare and contrast: https://qz.com/tesla-layoffs-confusion-elon-musk-1851416343

$56 billion for Elon. Layoffs for the people who made his cars.

And here is the source code for Anki: https://github.com/ankitects/anki

If you want to convince people to use your spaced repetition software over Anki, you need to tell us what's so wrong with Anki that can't be fixed with plugins and that's worth $10 per year.

You must demonstrate value above what Anki does.

I look at your list of projects in https://0xdev.gumroad.com/ and they're all pre-order of things that already exist elsewhere. To me, this smacks of "give me money, and I'll give you promises." Especially the project https://0xdev.gumroad.com/l/HelpFundMe?layout=profile

You want something for free? I'll give you something for free.

Anki absolutely can be improved. For new users, it's very confusing: having multiple decks, the separation between cards and notes, and the search interface are hard for new users.

Combine something that is simpler for new users with a demonstrably better algorithm and you might have a minimally viable product. But you need the product FIRST before you request money.

Give us something that we can run for one week and know that it's better than the free software that is Anki.

Yes. Yes, it is really about dragons.

How do you deal with superiors at your organisation that appear to be without direction, strategy, awareness and action?

Supply direction, strategy, awareness, and action.

Location: Los Angeles, CA.

Remote: Yes!

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Mostly centered on data science and data engineering in Java-based languages and Python. Please see my LinkedIn for all the details.

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenteedwards/

Github: https://github.com/chipuni

Email: chipuni at comcast net

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What excites me? Discovery. Finding significant patterns that no one recognized before. Predicting what's going to happen. My knowledge of computer science and statistics helps me discover new information from mounds of data.

To get my interest, express how much data science (especally statistics) are in your positions.

Streaming is constantly removing movies. There were fewer movies on Netflix streaming in 2022 than there were in 2015 (source: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/netflixs-movie-library... ) And, according to the same source, Netflix has almost no movies from before 2000.

People might start looking to DVDs for more variety in their movies!

Faced with this sort of argument, a lot of people will pay lipservice to the need for things like body language, facial expressions, and eye contact, but as an antisocial autistic person, I am afraid that I can't bring myself to understand the importance for such things (if it even exists.)

That sentence is the key to the whole article. Koshka doesn't understand that multiple, simultaneous channels of information give richer information than the strict meaning of the text.

If you don't believe that information is conveyed through body language, facial expressions, and eye contact, then try watching a movie in a language that you don't understand, without subtitles.

Up until June 30, Neopets had been owned by Jumpstart Games. They didn't do much with their IP.

The IP has been purchased by "World of Neopia", who have $4 million to modernize and re-open Neopets.

Source: https://people.com/neopets-launches-new-era-website-7563280

Cool.

1. What factors in ADHD is this product supposed to treat? 2. How are you measuring the effectiveness of this tool? 3. What other tools for ADHD are you comparing against? 4. How do you manage HIPAA protections? What physical, network, and process security measures are you using?

I use Anki every day. I throw in everything that I've learned during a day, broken into tiny pieces.

All the specific terminology that a new technology uses and the exact keywords that it uses goes in. Any time that I need to look up something and I'm convinced I will need it again goes in. All of the company-specific tools go in.

People are complaining that GoDaddy is randomly redirecting their sites, often to porn websites.

What "other investors"? Twitter is now a private company.

Engram v2.0 (“Engram”) is a key layout optimized for comfortable and efficient touch typing in English. Letters are optimally arranged according to ergonomics factors that promote reduction of lateral finger movements and more efficient typing of high-frequency letter pairs. The most common punctuation marks are logically grouped together in the middle columns.

You might have written that as a joke, but Logo's turtle graphics are polar coordinates and made sense to young students.

I interview a dozen people every month.

If a good candidate brought me a coding exercise, I would schedule a time to do it.

Why? Because I want them to know the quality of the people they're working with. I want to sell my company.

(I would not do this for a bad candidate.)

I use one other technique: I keep a diary of what I most want to remember of the day.

Writing things down helps fix them in memory.

I naturally have a bad memory as well.

I haven't found a way to improve general abilities, but Anki has worked well to keep my memories fresh.

(The cost is that I spend an hour a day refreshing my memory. The benefit is that I recall everything that's in Anki.)

Hello.

Painting.

God loves museums and art galleries, and she often hangs around them, sipping a cup of coffee (one cream, two sugars).

[citation needed]

A good measurement of whether a language is "dead" or not is the TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Is Perl dead? No, it's still among the top-20 programming languages.

Is Perl dying? Yes; it dropped 8 places among the top-20 programming languages.

Good information. Terrible editorializing.

The single best thing I ever did to level up my knowledge:

I left a (huge) company that I had been working with for seven years, to work for a tiny company. It taught me just how little I really knew.

If you want to level up as an engineer, once your current company runs out of things for you to learn, change companies to the exact opposite. Shift from a large company to a startup. Shift from education-based to finance-based. Shift everything that you can, so that you get completely different problems.

random.org definitely uses that process.

See: https://www.random.org/statistics/source-purity/

I'm going to agree with @dempedempe , and throw out examples of questions (not company-specific) that I've added in the last week:

The git command that returns the .git directory that's controlling the directory you're in is git rev-parse --absolute-git-dir .

In Scala, you have an array, a. What's the best way to turn a into a String? a.mkString(" ")

In HTML, how do you tell an li tag to start at 3? <li value="3">

In Scala, how do you do exponentiation? Use scala.math.pow(). Do not use Math.pow().

In Scala, you have a variable "val l: List[SNid]". How do you convert l to a ListBuffer[SNid]? "l.to[ListBuffer]". Note that it's not "l.to[ListBuffer[SNid]]" or "l.asInstanceOf[ListBuffer[SNid]]"

In multiple linear regression, is it better to have a large or a small RSE? A small RSE is better. RSE is the Reducible Standard Error.

These questions came from things I got wrong in the last week.

Here's my system, when I want to know something forever:

1. Get a good article or book about the topic. Not a video.

2. Read it multiple times. Each time, highlight and leave notes in the margins. By the third read-through, there's usually nothing more to comment on. (I can't do this with videos.)

3. Turn those notes into new Anki (spaced repetition software) cards that go into the unseen pile.

4. Every day, Anki adds ten cards from the unseen pile to the cards I'm reviewing.

I've been doing this for twelve years, and it works very well for me.

That sounds a lot like what https://www.random.org/ does to create random numbers.

I just use the XKCD random number generator:

https://xkcd.com/221/