postgeographic's comments

postgeographic | 6 years ago | on: “Python's batteries are leaking”

Not who you asked, but I work for a large international company, a big 4 professional services firm. I wanted to install anaconda and Jupyter on my machine (data science is not a part of my 'official' job description, but I wanted to see how much of my data exploration workflow I could speed up or automate). I had to go up three separate hierarchy ladders to get sign off. First, my own team, then IT, then our risk and quality team (thanks to our audit practice and a few historical issues with whistleblowers and leaks, the risk guys are pretty much the final arbiter of... Everything)

After about 9 weeks of emails, meetings, and pitches, I finally got Anaconda up and running. A week later, I tried to upgrade the 3rd party packages.. No dice. Blocked by the corporate VPN. I'd need the sign off every time I wanted to `pip upgrade` anything

Needless to say, I do not bother anymore.

postgeographic | 7 years ago | on: How London thieves exploit organisational silos

so where does the line between a crime being small enough not to warrant police attention and being big enough to warrant it get drawn? seems pretty arbitrary to me

postgeographic | 9 years ago | on: Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

By ignoring things like this I suppose - https://econoblog101.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/income-inequal...

postgeographic | 9 years ago | on: “Banks are no place for coders”

You've clearly not spent any time in London. Your ignorance is showing.

postgeographic | 9 years ago | on: Uber’s vice president of product and growth Ed Baker has resigned

Information cascade does not necessarily mean no nefarious actor or actors. While I'm not saying there IS a vast conspiracy to take down Uber, I too have felt that there is a concerted push for negative PR on Uber, with the timing of the releases of bad news a bit too neat. Uber's troubles have been on top of the news cycle for a few weeks now for various things.

postgeographic | 9 years ago | on: Game theory in practice (2011)

You need game theory to realise people are shitty?

postgeographic | 9 years ago | on: LastPass Multi-Device Access Is Now Free

Yeah, have we gone from paying for the product to being the product, as the saying goes

postgeographic | 9 years ago | on: Skypeopensource2 – Skype client based on reversing Skype 5.5

That's a pretty bullshit generalisation about Russians. Or as it's. More colloquially known, racist.

postgeographic | 9 years ago | on: Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B

Yeah, that's called a buy-and-build strategy, or a bolt-hole strategy. A large number of industries or market segments that are fragmented end up consolidating this way. For example, Lumison is a data center business here in the UK, and they got bought out by Bridgepoint Development Capital. Subsequently BDC and Lumison went on to buy a few other data centers, making one larger data center with the attendant economies of scale