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‘Advent of Code’ Builds a Programming Community Around Puzzles(thenewstack.io)
2 points by Dowwie 6y ago|0 comments
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Astronauts harvest radishes grown aboard the International Space Station(cnn.com)
5 points by Dowwie 6y ago|0 comments
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Updated Rules for Flying with Service Animals in U.S.(transportation.gov)
1 points by Dowwie 6y ago|0 comments
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The Dark Factor of Personality(darkfactor.org)
2 points by Dowwie 6y ago|0 comments
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by Dowwie 6y ago
It depends on whether you are paid regardless of the outcomes beyond your control.
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by Dowwie 6y ago
Don't ever work on a COBOL modernization project. It is a career killer with little to no upside. COBOL systems and the people directly using them are Chernobyl. Both government regulators and operations personnel have made careers o
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Covid-19 and the Cost of Vaccine Nationalism(rand.org)
1 points by Dowwie 6y ago|0 comments
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HKS Misinformation Review(misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu)
1 points by Dowwie 6y ago|0 comments
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by Dowwie 6y ago
The open source ecosystem isn't there yet. Actix web and rocket are best positioned to get there soonest. There comes a point where people invest effort into convenience projects such as command line boilerplate generation, but I don
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by Dowwie 6y ago
Well, you have to start somewhere! It may as well be web dev.
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by Dowwie 6y ago
It is absolutely an overstatement and people should be more careful with misrepresenting what the Rust language and ecosystem offers. Rust has its strengths just as Python does. None of the authors of the web frameworks are aspiring to bu
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by Dowwie 6y ago
One person's trivial 1-day of effort is another person's month. There's a solid jsonwebtoken library that could be used in a custom token authentication middleware, if the one in the ecosystem is unsatisfactory. It's n
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by Dowwie 6y ago
You're in a position right now where you probably ought to continue using Python. It's a great tool for many jobs, the community is super helpful and very capable, and the ecosystem is tremendous. Tech decisions are hard to make
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by Dowwie 6y ago
I'll try to focus on a reason that Steve hasn't touched in his response -- investing in one's future. I'm a generalist who wants to use great tools for my work. I've built a variety of systems, not just web applica
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by Dowwie 6y ago
People are making a mistake of evaluating Rust web development exclusively on the basis of performance. If you're doing web development professionally, using Rust will make you more productive and happy. The first few months onboardi
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by Dowwie 6y ago
Following this blog post, the author teamed up with Ryan Levick and broadcasted a livestream about the subject, turning it into a two-part video series. Videos are avail on YouTube. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by Dowwie 6y ago
Learning Rust is a lot of fun. There's a large community of people who enjoy using it and helping others solve their problems on Discord, Reddit, and Discourse. Experienced embedded developers are saying really positive things about
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by Dowwie 6y ago
Rick Beato explains on his YouTube that a child can learn pitch perfection but it must be trained before 10 years of age https://youtu.be/816VLQNdPMM
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Venture Capitalists and Covid-19(corpgov.law.harvard.edu)
4 points by Dowwie 6y ago|0 comments
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by Dowwie 6y ago
Some of the more advanced postgres SQL blog posts over the years have come from the Heap team. I'm curious what their good enough, optimized postgres solution was that they replaced with this project. :)
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by Dowwie 6y ago
One aspect of systems programming that doesn't get enough attention involves tracing memory leaks (with valgrind, massif, etc). While it may be challenging for you to create realistic examples, doing so would help expose students to c
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How to Build a Better Dinner(nytimes.com)
1 points by Dowwie 6y ago|0 comments
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by Dowwie 6y ago
Thank you for your kind comment
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by Dowwie 6y ago
Grit. Don't give up on hard problems. Manage your feelings. Overcome obstacles. Practice patience.
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by Dowwie 6y ago
Endurance is absolutely a great life skill. We can do so much more than we think we can when we learn how to manage our thoughts. It is what enables people to become navy seals, cardiologists, pioneers in one's field, or all of the a
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by Dowwie 6y ago
Among my top recommended life skills that I think may help people is the ability to manage one's feelings. You can train yourself to respond to fears and anxieties in productive ways, navigating through challenging life situations wi
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Actix-Web v3.0(paper.dropbox.com)
4 points by Dowwie 6y ago|7 comments
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by Dowwie 6y ago
The Dune subreddit community (/r/dune) organized a discord server featuring two reading clubs that will begin book 1 very soon. One club is for first timers and the other for those who are re-reading and potentially spoiling in d
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by Dowwie 6y ago
I run at a nearby state park several times a week. After running past litter for months, but doing nothing about it, I decided to take two handfuls of trash to the trash bin during most visits. After barely inconveniencing myself by picki
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by Dowwie 6y ago
This seems like the tip of the iceberg for their work. The authors automated document collection but are left with the task of searching through the docs and crawling onward to linked documents. What kind of libraries are available today

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