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by 1penny42cents 6y ago
I know what they meant here. The touch bar seems like a keyboard but it's not, because of the sliders and customization. My original touch bar layout mirrored the pre-touch bar layout out of familiarity. Recently I've learned how
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by 1penny42cents 6y ago
Warning: this specific post is not about how bread was made. It's about the economics of the average farm in ancient society. Was on a road trip with my girlfriend and thought she might like to learn about how bread was made. 30 min of
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by 1penny42cents 6y ago
This talk turned an inflection point in my career. The physical metaphor of a braid and having that braid straightened out applies to so many areas of software. "Unbraidedness" is a very useful (albeit informal) measure of quality
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Organic Proposals(camhashemi.com)
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by 1penny42cents 6y ago
Right, I recognize that thermodynamic entropy can be indifferent to human-scoped definitions of order and chaos. But if we take shoes (or number of values in a type, or number of components in a design) to be the atomic unit of measurement,
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by 1penny42cents 6y ago
Right, there is the concept of essential complexity. This is addressed in the post: > Sometimes, our problems are essentially complex. In these cases, our solutions need some essential complexity to match. But when does essential complex
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by 1penny42cents 6y ago
If we take `cleanliness = number of valid states / number of total states`, then using DateTime vs String is strictly cleaner. Yes, there are still many invalid states within a strong type and static typing is just one form of reducing
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by 1penny42cents 6y ago
We overengineer when we overestimate how hard it is to modify details. As juniors, we wrongly learn that changing code is hard and must be avoided at all costs. As mid-level and seniors, these refactors are much simpler, but the painful mem
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Software Entropy(camhashemi.com)
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Ask HN: What's the simplest way to run a cron script on the cloud?
5 points by 1penny42cents 7y ago|7 comments
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Ask HN: Previous HN post about incident or catastrophe management in hospitals?
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by 1penny42cents 7y ago
One goal of mindfulness and meditation is to reduce the amount of noise in our heads so that we can see things clearer. This allows us to take more _effective_ actions. The author seems to have a clear bias that radical == good, and this pu
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by 1penny42cents 7y ago
@pg: hyperlinks aren't visible on mobile web
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by 1penny42cents 7y ago
Someone who is interrupted will almost never listen to the interrupt. Instead, they maintain whatever they were going to say "in cache" and replay it once the interrupt is over. I've found this to be universal. So I've l
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by 1penny42cents 7y ago
As this article clearly states, it's _not_ good for making even a bit of money, let alone the most.
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by 1penny42cents 8y ago
https://youtu.be/JdAKO3b8oLc
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by 1penny42cents 8y ago
Could someone explain these recommendations more in-depth? (5) Manage Resources Symmetrically (10) Let the Code Make the Decisions What does it look like when you do the opposite of these rules? I think I'm unfamiliar with the problems
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Ask HN: What's the salary range for senior software engineers in Berlin?
2 points by 1penny42cents 8y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What are your best practices for editing other people's code?
1 points by 1penny42cents 10y ago|1 comments