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by Jach 4y ago
Remember it's probabilistic, not certain. There are still companies out there where you'll get hired with just a casual 30 minute conversation about your past work and how it should help you deliver value for this new work, maybe
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by Jach 4y ago
People just say things. Graphics takes are particularly bad... Here's a modern hot take I just find ridiculous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31385749 I don't know if I'd agree with you about most of th
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by Jach 4y ago
I think it's more about comfort in familiarity than discovering something new (Frozen isn't that deep), but whatever the case, as external media there's always some intrinsic "I want this for reasons I think are my own&q
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by Jach 4y ago
How can you recognize the huge variance of games in one breath but then suggest in another they're in any real sense becoming (parenthetically already became) the equivalent of casino games? In what sense, exactly, because it can'
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by Jach 4y ago
You're not wrong in terms of how much time people can spend on something that doesn't take much thought (it can be a comfort, even), but your diagnosis of the problem is way off. There's nothing about modern video games that
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by Jach 4y ago
I suspect variety feeds into burnout more, instead of lowering the risk, as you become aware of all the other things you could be doing instead. Especially if one of those things is money-making, vs. your expensive college credits you'
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by Jach 4y ago
I was almost with you up until the end then I had to just shake my head. I mean, it's readable syntax and doesn't require some crazy new sigils or operators, it's "fine" though I'm also shaking my head at the s
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by Jach 4y ago
I've been partial to this sentiment for a while but I like a simpler expression: it's just the virgin no-coiner vs. the chad bitcoiner. Dismissive? Absolutely. But these posts and comment threads deserve to be dismissed. If I felt
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by Jach 4y ago
I mostly agree with this, and would add that thoughts on Elon make a great Rorschach test (and a less great but still interesting test on what bits of misinformation have stuck to a person). But I disagree with the "enlightened disinte
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by Jach 4y ago
The word you're looking for is eccentric .
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by Jach 4y ago
> The biggest downside to staff IME is that you are almost constantly reminded that you are a cost and at danger of being cut. It seems like this shouldn't be an absolute that applies to all staff roles, just a sign of a company wit
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by Jach 4y ago
For me the more useful distinction has been: how close are you to the customer? If you never interact with them, not even indirectly through a team manager directly interacting with them, you're probably working more in a "staff&q
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by Jach 4y ago
The answer is by having carrots and not just sticks in the whole ecosystem. Modern video formats and screens are much higher resolution (to take but one important dimension), even for old movies that get an HD re-release, there are many inc
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by Jach 4y ago
It's also a rather unconvincing argument when there are so many blatant instances of service abusers getting away with it on platforms that can afford very talented employees. In short, whatever it is they're doing is already quit
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by Jach 4y ago
Even back in early Node days we figured this out with ideas/libs like async.waterfall, which let you turn nesting into a serial flow: async.waterfall([function(callback) { callback(null, 'one', 'two'); },
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by Jach 4y ago
Eh, the JVM startup time is much less these days (read: these last several years), however loading Clojure is quite slow comparatively and that's what ends up dominating. On my machine, here's a hastily written Fact.java: im
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by Jach 4y ago
It seems some people in this thread need a reminder of what the Great Filter is: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html
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by Jach 4y ago
Part of the joy is finding them serendipitously on your own though. Still, if you're not too fixated on the age and more interested in a place being a personal site, here's a thread with a random collection from a couple years ago
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by Jach 4y ago
Many things tech people do are basically equivalent to having a little garden in the back yard. Gardening isn't for everyone either. Especially if weeds keep you up at night, or the idea that an apache 0-day might drop any second and b
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by Jach 4y ago
Someone did: https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture
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by Jach 5y ago
It's just some lingo, dog. (Not actually calling you a dog.)
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by Jach 5y ago
For "how things work", I recommend the book Code by Charles Petzold. After that, Jon Stokes's Inside the Machine will give a lot of details on CPU architectures up to Intel's Core 2 Duo. You can also try following al
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by Jach 5y ago
Java's type system is just powerful enough that sometimes you can approach a problem in a way that resembles a different paradigm than normal, i.e. you solve it with the type system itself much more so than what's expressed by par
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by Jach 5y ago
Well, there are lots of "do x" libs that I don't think a C programmer could easily copy, but hey, we're all Turing complete here... As for language features, historically Lisp was not always first for some particular f
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by Jach 5y ago
I don't know about that one, but it wouldn't surprise me either way (still in Lisp or reimplemented/replaced by something else) since such things seem to be hit-and-miss and unless you do some digging it's probably unlik
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by Jach 5y ago
Was going to say the same for some implementations of Common Lisp, notably SBCL, which by default treats type declarations additionally as assertions. Subject to limitations it can use declared types and infer more types at compile time to
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by Jach 5y ago
What's the process look like for Python these days, after you install Python itself (or are made aware of the system Python if there is one)? IDLE was pretty bad back in the day and even though it was 'easy' I wouldn't h
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by Jach 5y ago
> my little brain doesn't think far enough ahead to naturally use prefix math Nor mine, it's the only Lisp-ism I choose not to try and integrate apart from trivial expressions. (I do rather like not having to type extra +s when
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by Jach 5y ago
They're not obligated to, just as I'm not obligated to accept a check from your bank and can demand cash or some other form of payment. Your question is like asking what if no one wants to talk to me with PGP or some other secure
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by Jach 5y ago
I find the GP's comment tenuous but I also find the environment-damaging rhetoric you and a sibling (and thousands of others) give on proof of work even more so. If you want to bite the bullet and say people shouldn't be able to p

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