AndyPatterson

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by AndyPatterson 4y ago
I think the sincerity of this makes this the funniest thing I've read on HN.
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by AndyPatterson 4y ago
I don't think it is. For a start, it's not the lean/agile way to have a large capital cost for your idea. If the idea dies, so does all that money you've wasted. Secondly, the example given is quite naive in design. You
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by AndyPatterson 4y ago
The problem facing these tools is a catch-22 really - diagrams are useful when understanding big messy codebases but big messy codebases are hard to visualise. For instance, I frequently build small paper diagrams of different code paths th
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by AndyPatterson 4y ago
Just learn python, it has general applicability and is fairly easy to pick up.
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by AndyPatterson 4y ago
Housing market is screaming out for a lot more regulation than this, so I welcome it.
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by AndyPatterson 4y ago
Build it the stupid way first is short sighted imo but this might just be an exaggerated way of saying premature optimisation is wasteful. Just putting it out there, but I think Knuth’s aphorism is being used and abused to the point that so
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by AndyPatterson 4y ago
IMO a lot of teams can do CD but chose not to as they don't have the risk appetite or maybe the resources to handle problems occurred at deployment time. (Tests, however many we have, simply won't cover every scenario that could b
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by AndyPatterson 5y ago
SOAs when implemented correctly don’t have any of the issues Michael describes; for one, cascading errors shouldn’t happen and devs should test for this in their game days.
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by AndyPatterson 5y ago
Years ago when I first graduated went to an interview for a Java dev role. Spent the full day there getting pulled apart by whiteboard interviews, exam papers, and daft questions that would have no real day-to-day use in a dev role. Even w
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by AndyPatterson 5y ago
I work using R almost everyday and I think many of the problems that are unique to R could be solved by having a couple of experienced SWE in the core team to point R in the right direction. As it stands, I think R will be left behind until
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Ask HN: What does your Kanban look like?
2 points by AndyPatterson 5y ago|2 comments
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by AndyPatterson 6y ago
I wish folk would move away from the world war two nostalgia, it's debilitating and wasn't at all hard and fast, even if a 90 minute movie cut leads you to believe that.
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by AndyPatterson 6y ago
Not familiar with game development but how would a continous delivery approach work in this case? surely the MVP that could be delivered is the complete game?
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by AndyPatterson 6y ago
I’ve got one criticism in that the over generalisation remark shouldn’t really exist in well designed DRY code - if two function calls and one doesn’t even use most of the parameters then these aren’t covering then these should be separate
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by AndyPatterson 6y ago
I don’t see how it can be both 1 and 9 though. In my mind it can only be 1 because anything to right of the division sign should be fully evaluated first before using the result in the division operation.
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by AndyPatterson 6y ago
Its a certainty that given any prompt there will be likely one gnarly output, especially the longer that output becomes. What I'd like to see is an estimate of the uncertainty of the output.
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by AndyPatterson 6y ago
Skimmed the paper so couldn't possibly give it a fair review but I always feel there's something off when people make comparisons of ANNs to actual biological brains. Even more so when it's the other way about.
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by AndyPatterson 7y ago
This simply isn't needed, and if it is it can be done by a charity or any group of people, not something that should be built into the infrastructure of the web itself. You have to remember that while the little that the web provides i
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by AndyPatterson 7y ago
No idea where you got this statisti, but I guarantee no user would be happy to wait hours or (god forbid) days on a search result.
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by AndyPatterson 8y ago
Off the top of my head I'm thinking that there's a serious lack of thought in these use cases, especially string manipulation which I could imagine becoming painfully slow as the database grows; any manipulation of the projection