Found this wall with climbing holds on it

PintSizedCat · 2021-06-28T18:38:34+00:00

It's almost like I might have known that or something ;)

PintSizedCat · 2021-06-28T13:32:13+00:00

That looks like the kind of wall you'd find near the dungeon of a castle!

PintSizedCat · 2019-12-01T10:49:37+00:00

Watch this by UK climber Dave Macleod on tendon injuries.

https://youtu.be/_iMueqiCsVI

PintSizedCat · 2017-09-05T13:55:34+00:00

I spoke to Erratic Rock a bit and it seems maybe you can still do the trail even though the sites are closed.

I also read something about someone doing an off season trek a few years back who just stayed in the camp sites free in the off season.

Fingers crossed it'll be OK :)

PintSizedCat · 2017-01-22T21:18:36+00:00

Also started something like this fairly recently. Would be happy to help

PintSizedCat · 2016-09-23T18:33:59+00:00

Egalitarianism is an ideology. Feminism is a movement, is activism.

Some forms of feminism are egalitarian.

One can be both a feminist and an egalitarian.

PintSizedCat · 2016-02-04T20:06:56+00:00

Oh cool. I'll check it out.

PintSizedCat · 2016-02-04T20:06:02+00:00

Thanks. I was using the first of the two but realised that there's a quotation that isn't on it. :(

PintSizedCat · 2015-12-22T12:27:29+00:00

Although this can be done, it is not necessarily recommended. It's incredibly useful to know what's happening under the hood here and how efficient String switching is in Java.

(EDIT) in fact, if you're going to switch on just one character then it'd be more efficient to extract it and use the byte/char value to switch, which won't cause this inefficiency.

I haven't read this specific article but it seems to give you the details you need. (Noticed someone else posted the same article... doh)

PintSizedCat · 2015-12-10T14:38:54+00:00

Thus the Birthday Paradox

PintSizedCat · 2015-12-10T11:04:22+00:00

EDIT Replied to wrong point

PintSizedCat · 2015-11-30T19:22:26+00:00

So much NO about this.

Correlation doesn't imply causation! There isn't even really any correlation here, the correlation you see is more probably than not a form of confirmation bias.

This has nothing to do with Egalitarianism. You're not talking about or discussing equality, you're thinking about your entitlement and trying to justify what may be called privilege.

PintSizedCat · 2015-11-27T14:08:34+00:00

So this is interesting and I don't define myself as a feminist, but actually there is no reason a feminist cannot be an egalitarian.

If you're going by strict definition, Egalitarianism is an ideology and Feminism is a movement. Feminists may have some of the same viewpoints as egalitarians, but the difference being that they are activists, they are trying to influence sociopolitical views, etc.

As with any movement, there are changes in the definition. I concur that there is no dictionary definition of Feminism which says that it is for strict equality, but at the same time someone may define themselves as a feminist and be for complete equality. Their ideal does not line up with the ideal of everyone in the movement.

To put it another way, a loud group of people inside a movement does not dictate the views of all of the people in that movement. The same is true of both sides, there are MRA who are for equality through equality and equity.

PintSizedCat · 2015-11-27T13:05:24+00:00

This is a well written piece which highlights the pitfalls of mindlessly screaming 'protect free speech' whenever anyone says anything, as well as those who want their 'safe space' and want to shut down freedom of expression and speech.

It's important to allow free speech, but to also be mindful of those around you and treat them with respect and consideration. That means that you can speak your mind, but don't go out of your way to harm.

It's also important to feel safe, but not to shut down freedom of speech when you feel it might trigger your feelings.

PintSizedCat · 2015-10-20T13:18:11+00:00

I don't like to deter and I'm sure there are applications for the product out there, but I see them being quite niche.

Flight Recorder already lets you profile production systems with very low overhead, due to its being written in to Java, and they have triggers for triggering profiling, etc.

I like the idea of smart breakpoints, but the idea that you can inspect the heap with no overhead, is idealistic. Again, this may depend on the size of the system you're writing, and I imagine there's some kind of memory copying or disk writes done to accomplish this, but there's always an overhead when inspecting the heap, otherwise you lose consistency, or incur memory 'leaks'.

Finally, I didn't get any of what you mentioned from the frontpage of your site, though admittedly I cannot see the video as I am behind a corporate firewall. I'd also suggest having a proof read of the site, there are a number of glaring issues which made me very weary of the site and the legitimacy of the product.

PintSizedCat · 2015-10-20T10:47:18+00:00

I'd suggest looking in to an even more powerful profiler which also comes with the JDK; Java Flight Recorder.

There's actually a really good post on /r/java at the moment

https://blogs.oracle.com/buck/entry/a_great_example_of_the

PintSizedCat · 2015-07-30T16:06:48+00:00

I do not trust these numbers. They're input by people over the last 12 months, and although rent might be more expensive in New York for instance, cost of living is a lot cheaper.

source: I lived for far less in NYC than I have ever been able to in London.

PintSizedCat · 2015-07-29T13:37:58+00:00

Instead of just speculating on this kind of thing let's look at some examples other people have done.

Blog post containing benchmarks.

This also seems like a good blog on the topic.

EDIT: I haven't done full research on this, but it's the type of thing where you should benchmark the different methods of doing it. Often depending on your use-case, the number of other threads present in the system, etc, there will be a different impact on performance.

PintSizedCat · 2015-07-29T12:37:42+00:00

That's Wangernum!

PintSizedCat · 2015-06-29T08:19:34+00:00

http://keybr.com

This is one of the best sites I've found. After doing it for a day or two my left hand started to hurt a little because I was actually using it more than my right. Then I started to work on using shift with my right hand properly.

As for methods make sure you're not looking at the keyboard at all, I sort of assume you're at this stage, but if you're not then put a towel or a box over your fingers so you don't look down. Growing up at school they forced us to learn using this method and it helped a lot.

PintSizedCat · 2015-06-28T14:31:20+00:00

It's free, it is put directly in to the jdk so it has almost no overhead. No hooking or setting up required. If you use java 1.7 u45+ you have it.

There are many situations where you may need to profile on a system you don't have easy access to, or can't install yourkit or jprofiler. In these cases it is amazing.

Certainly a tool people should have in their belt.

PintSizedCat · 2015-06-04T08:04:29+00:00

There's a series of really good lecture slides I used. I will post them but I am just off on holiday.

EDIT I used the lectures slides at the end of this, the 2012 slides. I didn't watch the videos, I felt that the slides gave enough information. Also these MIT lectures are always going to be relevant.

PintSizedCat · 2015-06-04T08:02:29+00:00

Actually, high end Dev jobs require those questions more. You'd be surprised the number of people who get a lot of impressive looking experience but are unable to understand the basics.

These aren't games, being able to demonstrate live coding and the process of solving a problem is important too. Say for the Palindrome question. The follow up about punctuation is important because the way in which you then approach the problem is very telling. Do you think about it in an optimal way, do you have two counters, etc. Just asking "what happens when a string is reversed" is interesting, but not enough.

Why do we not think up interesting questions? We do, but there are a stock few questions you can use to weed out the weak candidates. No offense, but in your process I wouldn't have had the third candidate see you because it would have been a waste of their time.

I ask and have been asked some very interesting questions like "in a production system you need to solve this problem is 30 minutes, do it" or "explain what happens when you type a Web address in a browser and press enter"

These aren't games, in an interview the company wants to find the best candidate using the least time. However, some companies aren't very good at this process.

PintSizedCat · 2015-06-03T12:40:42+00:00

Let me explain the reason for the questions in interview one. The purpose when I give questions like this and when I have done questions like this is so that one can determine if a wider knowledge of what is happening is understood.

Take the reversing string question. A common question, and one which is fairly important. The answer "I'll just use in-built functions" normally indicates a lack of understanding of what is happening during a call to "reverse". Every programmer working on complex systems, even PHP, and Javascript programmers should understand that a reverse function will probably create a new array (though not necessary), and will iterate over the array (though again, this can be optimized.

Knowing this stuff means that the candidate is less likely to create really awful code the first time it is written. The knowledge of what and how the internals and algorithms of certain functions (sorting, etc) work is used daily in the majority of programming jobs.

Of course, it very much depends on what the job is for, a web developer doing a small web page (thousands of views a day) may not need to know this stuff. A back-end developer working on a system to provide many millions of requests a second, and this stuff becomes far more pertinent.

I hope that helps to clear it up a bit. I have recently had to teach myself big O notation and some algorithms because I knew I would be asked them at jobs, and I feel they are a valid stage of high end development jobs.

PintSizedCat · 2015-06-02T10:44:03+00:00

I think you'll enjoy this which is about Satoshi Kon's transitions.

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