110jawefopiwa

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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
C-level - sets highest level strategy (We're going to the moon!) VP - Tells directors to work faster Director - Tells managers to work faster Manager - unblocks team ICs - do real work
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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
> I had a horrible problem with procrastination. "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." -Douglas Adams
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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
Fine - for each industry "X", when will a CEO of a company who is given oligopolistic control over software which is deeply entrenched in a stranglehold over "X" decide to fund desperately needed improvements to said sof
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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
I think the main problem is that Rust doesn't allow for basic data structures like graphs or doubly-linked lists without extra effort, which is why I've generally always preferred pseudocode.
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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
> There's plenty of actually useful projects I could do in this time to learn new things instead after all. I suppose. I do actually useful projects at work. AoC reminds me of why I personally loved programming in the first place -
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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
I guess, but it's not really a fundamentally different programming paradigm, which is what I was getting at.
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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
It's best for me when I do something that I ordinarily don't do for AoC. I find no particular pleasure in using an everyday language like Python for it, because as you said it's too easy. I have used Haskell, Racket, and in s
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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
I assume this is satire, but for those who might take this seriously, please avoid doing tricks like this. You're doing so much extra work here. Creating many new arrays, running a bunch of extra function calls, creating extra closures
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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
> IMO, the Kindle is the premium e-reader when it comes to look and feel. It's just a fantastic experience. Interestingly, I switched from Kindle to Kobo because it was lacking various basic features that made it not feel premium. *
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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
> Advent of Code, are so heavily focused on making clever use of math, data structures and algorithms I've done a fair amount of Advent of Code and I wouldn't say it's at all "focused" on this. The vast majority
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by 110jawefopiwa 2y ago
> You still have the precise output if you want it, it didn’t go away. For now. Given that most new devices seem to be fully hostile to the concept of general purpose computing (see phones, VR devices, TVs, etc), I wonder how long it wil