Caillebotte

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by Caillebotte 8y ago
20% coding is very sad. I hate to think how many great minds are being wasted this way. After starting work at a startup, I feel more fulfilled in my daily life. I can easily say I spend around 80-90% of my time coding and feel I contribute
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by Caillebotte 8y ago
I agree. This article is a case for an alt-economy more than giving evidence of the decline of Silicon Valley.
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by Caillebotte 8y ago
Don't build rocket fuel in your house.
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by Caillebotte 8y ago
Haskell is fantastic. In fact, it is by far my favorite language. Strict types and functional programming come together in a perfect union. Monads are very similar to JavaScript callbacks, actually. After extensive use of the language, I fi
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by Caillebotte 8y ago
Back in my high school days, I made a beautiful damascus blade from 5160 leaf springs and 1095. After having worked in the labs at https://www.scotforge.com/ , it is apparent damascus has very little large scale use due to w
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by Caillebotte 8y ago
Yes, I agree they are helping people. But who are they helping? They don't seem to be helping the little people like that Tanzanian hospital the way the developers did who found a free software solution. It seems we weaponize situation
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by Caillebotte 8y ago
In my CS education, very very little of what I learned was directly applicable to the outside world. My school did not offer classes teaching languages and frameworks. That was left up to us in our free time. Much of what I did learn in sch
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by Caillebotte 8y ago
Glad to see ZFS adoption increasing. It is such a great filesystem and is one of the main reasons my home servers run FreeBSD.