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Programming is Hard, Let's go Scripting (2007)(perl.com)
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
> In other words, I say "SICP considered harmful" because thrusting it upon an eager newcomer as a trusted neutral guide to beginner coding (without offering any counterpoint) could set them back by a decade, filling their head
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
> What computer science doesn’t teach you is how memory caching works in CPUs. Your fancy graph algorithm may have good runtime complexity but it completely hoses the CPU cache and you may have been able to go faster with an array with g
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
Isn't scheme with close to zero syntax so easy to learn? Why did someone think it was a good idea to switch to JavaScript? I think the person who'll get value out of SICP will not have any problem picking up scheme syntax on the f
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
Maybe this was a stress test for the NFL games? I'd expect the NFL games to have a largely American audience, but today's boxing event attracted a global audience.
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
An engineering manager who thinks his engineers are morons and dumb? I have questions..
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
True. Also, the LLM will give you the most widely deployed versions encountered in the wild (during training). That means one might find themselves using deprecated but still supported features. If LLMs came out during the Python 2/3 s
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
This is a very funny comment given the context. https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/pull/89#pullrequestr... A quote from the Christian Bible Luke 5:36,37
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
> To your comment about politics: I would say that from a high enough viewpoint "happy customers" should converge with "happy leadership" even if it doesn't happen every single time you ship something.. To look a
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
That is before a smaller and nimbler movement, company or entity surpasses the now large, slow-moving and fossilized incumbent, which then starts the gradual process into irrelevance.
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
There was a time, upto 10-15 years ago when tech company culture was largely anti-corporate. Now corporate-y things like playing office politics is order of the day in medium to large tech companies. My (maybe uninformed) hypothesis is that
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
It's much easier when 'upper management' is 3 individuals you can have a normal conversation with, than a hierarchical hivemind above you that does inexplicable things for random reasons.
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
> I don’t see how you can achieve any meaningful goal without collaborating with people in power. Depends on how you define meaningful. Raising happy & healthy kids, helping someone in need etc, can be meaningful to many people, but
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
Majority of HNers are obviously left-leaning, and left-leaning political views always get much more support than right-leaning political views. HN not abstract entity, it is full of living organisms with biases and majority view carries the
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
I wish there was less focus on AI replacing humans and more focus on AI helping humans do better i.e. Intelligence Augmentation. IA drove a lot of the rapid progress in the earlier days of computing that made computers usable by non-experts
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
Reminds me of Learn x the hard way series by Zedshaw
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
I'm a Brave Search enjoyer for similar reasons. It's easy to switch between normal search and LLM-powered search when you prefer one over the other.
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
I've read that in some families, especially from Asian cultures, you're started off with math tuition as soon as you can read. And some people are just lucky to have the right environment. I happened to have had access to some mor
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
I'm responding to makerofthings' comment that data is about as safe as it can be, because there are so many controls and checks in place. If there were many controls and checks in place, would data loss of such a high profile cust
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
How do we explain the deletion of the $135 billion Australian pension fund data that happened to UniSuper? Due to "an inadvertent misconfiguration of the GCVE service by Google operators due to leaving a parameter blank"? https:&
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
What are some other examples of startups that 'failed' because their model was not VC friendly i.e. were unable to sustain hypergrowth, but were profitable at a small-scale?
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
I was curious about this and did some casual googling. It spawns an interpreter per thread. However, it seems this is not advantageous performance wise. From docs [1] The "interpreter-based threads" provided by Perl are not the f
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
One of the reasons I decided to self-host emails for my domain names. There's no reason it should be hard to host your own email in 2024 even if you're just mildly technical. An Ansible playbook that sets up Debian to host email,
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
I wonder what the original plan9 designers ken thompson, robe pike etc think of the 9front people. Maybe find them amusing - or happy to see their creation being pushed forward
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by 0xpgm 3y ago
I wonder if there's a way to prevent the growth at all costs that is demanded by the financial markets. Maybe become profitable and pay off the VCs then don't go public? Then you can resist the pressure for growth quarter by quart
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by 0xpgm 3y ago
An environment that makes it very easy to tinker will produce more potential creators resulting in more things to use
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by 0xpgm 3y ago
I'm currently playing with Pharo Smalltalk and everything is very accessible. I wonder why Smalltalk Environments did not catch on as operating systems, let alone just as languages, where everything can be tinkered with and modified on
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by 0xpgm 3y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Though it could work both ways here
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by 0xpgm 3y ago
> popularity of Python has as much, if not a lot more, to do with the available libraries and frameworks as the language itself > What seems to have bootstrapped the success of Python for ML and scientific use was early adoption by pe
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by 0xpgm 3y ago
Maybe the better term for go would be server-systems programming.

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