DavidWoof

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by DavidWoof 4y ago
It's not mentioned because OP asked for documentaries from the last 4 years, and Hoop Dreams must be over a quarter century old at this point. Great film though.
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by DavidWoof 4y ago
This is a welcome move, but I keep trying to figure out how this is going to effect Libby users (which is probably 80% of my kindle usage these day) and I can't find any info at all. Does anyone have any idea?
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by DavidWoof 4y ago
I don't see any indication in this article that she's in the software or STEM industry. Glancing over the rest of her articles don't give this indication at all, nor does her feeling that she's lacking knowledge of &quo
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by DavidWoof 4y ago
Is it really all that unprofessional? We're completely missing context here. Maybe I'm just too forgiving of people's quirks, but I've definitely had people smile/chuckle when I've said my favorite language wa
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by DavidWoof 4y ago
So a psychologist who wrote a book condemning the original twins IQ study now publishes a paper where she purportedly refutes that study's most famous findings based on the analysis of a single set of separated twins? Isn't this t
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by DavidWoof 4y ago
That may be, but this is the first time I've heard of coc.nvim and I've used neovim for years. So I'll bookmark this and at some point I'll look into it and do some research and figure out how to configure it and compa
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by DavidWoof 4y ago
> The 100% full reason for me was that I had a job where I needed to SSH into our prod server Statements like this are common, but they confuse two usages: (a) learning vi/vim well enough in order to use it in any unix environment
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by DavidWoof 4y ago
I could ask the opposite: why do people choose terminal vim when you can easily add nvim integration to editors like VSCode and get 98-100% of what vim gives you along with much easier configuration of all those extras you mention like au
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by DavidWoof 5y ago
I think that's more true in the negative sense. It's not that it attracts the "right" people, it's that it repels the "wrong" people. There plenty of clever efficient devs working in Java or JS but they&
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by DavidWoof 5y ago
The "last 3 rounds" part is obviously metaphorical. It says he used teams of observers for a month to record up to 20,000 spins, not that he literally looked at 3 spins to determine the fourth. It all sounds unlikely in today&#x2
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by DavidWoof 5y ago
The cumulative effect of tipping shouldn't be ignored either. Individual tips may not incentivize a server to do a better job, but the cumulative effect of tipping makes restaurant server a fairly well-paying entry-level job that attr
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by DavidWoof 5y ago
I feel this way about Haskell, and I understand why someone would feel this way about F#. No matter what language I use, I now constantly think about how to avoid side effects, how to minimize mutability, how to ensure my code flow is rea
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by DavidWoof 5y ago
POV: Skip the list and immediately search for Erlkönig... Found it under Transcendent, Erlkönig: Never loses its power, no matter how many times you hear it. OK, I endorse this list.
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by DavidWoof 5y ago
It works on Hacker news since the vast majority of people here share the same interests. The same is true in theory on reddit, where the voters on a single subreddit share the same interests, and importantly reddit has rules against brigad
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by DavidWoof 5y ago
I don't have a dog in this fight, but it's pretty revealing that RSF's concerns seem to be limited to the jailing itself and they implicitly accept that he's guilty of a serious offense and deserving of some level of pun
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by DavidWoof 5y ago
> 1885...Two eggs, fried or boiled, accompanied by the invariable boiled potato, fetch from 10 to 15 cents; steak 15 cents; sirloin, 25 cents; plain omelet, 25 cents; 10c for two fried eggs, but 25c for a plain omelet? Did omelet mean s
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by DavidWoof 5y ago
TLDR; Most are owned by Bob Ross, Inc., who aren't selling them currently. Also, some unknown number is in the hands of individuals who don't know they own a Bob Ross, the article is very vague about this. Not in the article, bu
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by DavidWoof 6y ago
I'm roughly the same age, and while I can remember all the brick-and-mortar places I've gone to work, there was a period where I did temp work and I'm sure I couldn't name all the agencies I worked for and certainly not
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by DavidWoof 6y ago
Every time I see that clip I feel obliged to point out the green shirt guy who shows up around 1:50 on the far left singing the harmony. He's essential to the richness of the sound of the chorus. Which always leaves me wondering how co
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by DavidWoof 6y ago
Nobody should be writing one-off command line parsing code. If you don't want something fairly heavy like Spectre, then just pull in a lighweight library like CommandLineParser.
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by DavidWoof 6y ago
Not OP, and I think never using a debugger is silly, but IMO if I need a debugger to figure out a problem then I'm missing either sufficient unit tests or sufficient logging, and spending my time on that rather than in the debugger w
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by DavidWoof 6y ago
Code coverage is an excellent tool but a terrible metric. It's basically the lines-of-code of test driven development. It's useful as a general guide for developers, but its use as a management metric is extremely destructive.
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by DavidWoof 6y ago
Unit testing and TDD Code Complete 1st edition Maybe Domain driven design as well
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by DavidWoof 6y ago
I agree with this, learning Haskell was transformative for me. It changed the way I approached problems in every other language. I treat learning it as one of the 2 or 3 things that has most influenced my development skills. But the truth
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
"Fired" and "laid off" are two different things entirely. OP was laid off, not fired, and I think it's reasonable to assume that the pandemic was the immediate cause of having to cut staff. There's really no
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
We're all just guessing based on partial evidence, but every time I've mentioned that people should talk up more in meetings, it has had nothing to do with their leadership skills. It's always been as part of a discussion ab
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
> But opinions of the case, by my recollection, fell along predictable racial and political lines. Just racial. Hard to believe now, but polling on racial scandals in the 80s and 90s, including OJ, Rodney King, Goetz, etc. didn't sh
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
Looping isn't "cheating" if you know what you're doing. But if you blindly do that from the beginning without ever learning how rhythm really works, then you're going to be lost when things get more complicated. An
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
I honestly can't remember a time in my career when I've looked at a codebase and thought to myself "what this dev really needs is a more thorough understanding of CPU pipelines and virtual memory". Ed Yourdon once wrote
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
I read it when it came out. I thought it was absolutely amazing. At the time, I'd say that the vast majority of my computer-ish friends had read both GED and Lord of the Rings. I find it interesting that so many people here are saying

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