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by Singletoned 10y ago
> I am frustrated by the fact that I have to keep looking up syntax for particular loops or method calls. Have you ever tried to deliberately memorize the syntax? Just repeating the same action for 10k hours doesn't make you an expe
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by Singletoned 10y ago
Most linters would have suggested correcting it to: validated_items = [_ for _ in items if is_validated(x)] where _ is used as a safe variable that can always be clobbered. (Though this does also clash with its use as a gettext function fo
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by Singletoned 10y ago
I don't find either of the Ruby versions clear at all. Both contain unnecessary syntax. Ruby seems to be going down the same path as Perl in trying to make all possible combinations of characters valid programs.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
> Ironically, I've have an English bachelors degree I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that was a clever and subtle joke.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
Just cause one thing is more important than another, doesn't mean the other thing is unimportant. You appear to be arguing against discussing tools, because they aren't as important as other things.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
Have you tried https://feedbin.com/ ? It came out as a response to the closure of Reader, and I actually prefer it. They've kept everything very simple.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
Sadly you are right. In person, an unskilled manager can tell if it looks like you are working hard, even if they don't understand what you are doing. Remotely, they can't even tell that, and are effectively blind.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
To be fair, the premise of the story is that "Programming Doesn’t Require Talent or Even Passion", and I can confirm that I've met plenty of untalented and unpassionate programmers. Obviously the talented ones will outperform
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by Singletoned 10y ago
Electric sheep?
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by Singletoned 10y ago
And that is the funniest thing I've read for a long time.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
I have lots of iOS games where the IAPs are shared with my family. I believe the developers have a choice of whether the IAP is long term or temorary. EG the "restore purchases" button you often see to use it on a new phone.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
> If you hype it, they will hate it. This. People really seem to struggle to learn that if you massively hype something in advance, a lot of people are going to be disappointed. Even if it's good, but just not as good as they were
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by Singletoned 10y ago
I have a lot of doubt about a time library that defaults to UTC at all. Having spent a lot of time dealing with timezones, I have a strong feeling that naive should be the default unless explicitly given a timezone, and your code should blo
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by Singletoned 10y ago
Which of those do your non-seniors not have to have? Are your ordinary developers unable "to write modular, well-tested, and maintainable code"?
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by Singletoned 10y ago
https://antrix.net/static/pages/python-for-java/online/ seemed quite good, but I didn't go into it in any depth because I already know Python.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
I doubt there is any 100% reliable way, or any way that works for everyone (cause people are different), so it's partly a case of finding out what works for you. A useful discovery for me was that emotion is a greater driving force tha
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by Singletoned 10y ago
Do you have any evidence that all habit methods are bogus? It's quite a big claim to make, so would imagine you'd have something strong to back it up. Also, do you have any evidence that there are "no shortcuts or hacks for
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by Singletoned 10y ago
You're not allowed to do jokes on HN. You have to save those for Reddit.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
It's a bit weird for an interview titled "How to Master an Accent" to start with the quote: > “For me it’s not an accent. I know people who do brilliant accents. But I don’t know how to do that.”
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by Singletoned 10y ago
> Those who started back in python1/2 are the ones with problems moving to python3, while young people who started with python 3.x are already running 3.5/3.6. I'm not sure this argument works in your favour. You appear to
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by Singletoned 10y ago
> Not nice. 100% agree. It reminds me of the "yes, and" rather than "yes, but" thing from improv and stuff like that. If what you've done helps a single person (and it did me), then it is valid. It might not be
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by Singletoned 10y ago
As part of the target audience (I didn't previously understand matrix multiplication, but now I do), you are definitely wrong. This does help the target audience understand what is going on. I think your core fallacy is that all peopl
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by Singletoned 10y ago
> the goal is simply universal interoperability No, the goal is that "GNU Emacs should never offer people a practical reason to use some other system instead of GNU". Universal interoperability is just a side effect.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
That's an interesting point, but my reading of that is that Google would be fine. They can't accidentally delete your data, but they can do it deliberately.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
> What a bunch of scammers. Not only did they deprive people that actually wanted the phones for their personal use, but they also engaged in a coordinated effort to profit from them. That's pretty harsh. They weren't deprivin
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by Singletoned 10y ago
I'm not judging anyone. I'm not anti-religion, but I do think his point that religion is harmless and "what is there to be afraid of" is naive at best.
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by Singletoned 10y ago
It has been quite common when wanting to use a dictionary as a cache or counter such as a function cache or to count how many times a function is called with certain arguments. If the values of the arguments aren't hashable it doesn&#
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by Singletoned 10y ago
> What are you afraid of? Christmas? Accidentally going to mass? Bombing abortion clinics? Protestors holding signs saying "God hates fags". Systemic child abuse?
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by Singletoned 10y ago
> I'm a Python programmer. I fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitrary objects. I'm a Python programmer too, and I also fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitary objects, and I get really frustrated with the fact
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by Singletoned 10y ago
This is utterly brilliant! Thank you. I've been looking like this for quite a while. I'm still looking through it all, but I don't suppose you have a solution for setting System Preferences, particularly Trackpad settings a

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