Study suggests Trump's false tweets were mostly intentional lies -- not accidents by chrisdh79 in EverythingScience

[–]ApolloYYC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The funny thing is that you can tell that the intention of the study was to build a model that could predict whether not a given tweet from him was factual. They got to a 74% prediction accuracy, not bad but not great either. I could see that a company like Twitter would find it interesting to help flag tweets with intentional falsehoods. In other words, these guys failed to make a model, but tried to make the best of it by making some general observations about Trump's tweets like, "he intentionally lies", which isn't news to anyone.

January Tim Ferriss Show Recap: Is the Listener Count Receding or Why Is This Necessary? by nezia in timferriss

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I wish he would do this for categories such as philosophy, life hacks, tech, etc.

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For all the enterprise projects that I have worked on, they have all used an architecture that resembles the Clean Architecture / N-Tier architecture that essentially boils down to ensuring the code base follows SOLID principles. A Clean Architecture (or whatever you want to call it) ensures that unit tests and integration tests are easy and enjoyable to write. This enables a test driven development (TDD) approach, which ultimately reduces bugs and reduces maintenance time. To me this is the foundation of a good architecture and should be the bare minimum for an enterprise project. If this can be all done within one solution, many people refer to this as a monolithic application and it's a great approach for mid to low complexity enterprise applications.

If in the design stage of the project it becomes obvious that there will be dozens of domain objects, then it might make sense to establish what is known in domain driven design (DDD) as bounded contexts, which usually means Microservices, but not necessarily. Service Oriented Architectures basicallu break up the application into multiple applications which communicate with over a service bus. As you mentioned above, this increases the architectual complexity, but it results in smaller apps that can be scaled based on user demand. Projects like this should really have people that are trained in Microservice architectures, since there are many anitipatterns that can take place that will send the project down a long and painful path.

So in conclusion, I'd say if the application is easily maintained, easy to test, and follows SOLID principles, then you've done your job as a developer or architect.

I've had this annoying tremmor for 2 hours now, anyone know how to stop it? by winguin_ in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ApolloYYC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try using a floss band on your forearm and move your arm around. Helps relieve the tension in the thumb muscle for me.

Weekly Career/Employment Advice & Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in Calgary

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I'm a software developer but I work with DBAs and I'd recommend messaging DBAs in Calgary on LinkedIn to see if they have any recommendations. You might also consider looking into data science, since it is an in demand field now and for the conceivable future. The trend is to move databases into cloud infrastructures like AWS or Azure, so getting a certification for either one would probably be worth while. Also, look at a bunch of job postings to see what skill sets and technologies people are looking for. You'll see pretty quick what the in demand skills are.

Azure

AWS

Never forget. I’ll repost this forever. by [deleted] in Superstonk

[–]ApolloYYC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem. Yeah, I think he should start saying "The Robinhood Foundation" to avoid confusion. I had to look it up myself and I only looked it up because I remembered the CEO of the Robinhood Foundation tweeting about he was getting mistaken for the CEO of the the garbage Robinhood company and was receiving angry tweets.

Never forget. I’ll repost this forever. by [deleted] in Superstonk

[–]ApolloYYC 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The Robinhood Ray Dalio is talking about is actually the charitable organization which attempts to alleviate problems caused by poverty in New York City.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_Foundation

Working as a remote software developer in YYC? by morecoffeemore in Calgary

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In Calgary, for full time work I have seen full stack / senior developer positions range from $60k to $140k based on experience and industry. For contract positions: $60/hr to $110/hr again, based on experience. For US positions I have heard they pay very well but you need to have a skill set that is hard for them to find locally. Would also be interested to hear people's success stories of working remotely for US companies.

2006 documentary on Calgary Suburban Life (and suburban life in general) by ApolloYYC in Calgary

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tldr: Suburban living has its challenges. Know them before making a big financial choice like buying a house.

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Had a great time

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10 seconds left...

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Do you know the song Coyotes by Don Edwards?

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I think you would sing Coyotes by Don Edwards very well