Tagore

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by Tagore 8y ago
I remember when my mom's machine started sending spam with my name in the address field. Clever Trojan.
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by Tagore 8y ago
Parsing C++ is a nightmare....
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by Tagore 8y ago
Yep- I'm actually a pretty old hand when it comes to git, and I know most of what git can do, but... I'm lazy, so when I use git at the command line I do caveman git. Magit lets me remain lazy and do subtle git things,
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by Tagore 8y ago
No... I mean I hear you about not liking emacs/vim/evil-emacs. I happen to like evil-emacs, but I can see why other people would prefer VSCode. That's a matter of taste, and I won't tell people to switch. But when it com
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by Tagore 8y ago
It's an interesting award. Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for denying the holodomor, and he was awarded a Pulitzer for his work, a Pulitzer that the Times has yet to address. The reality that Duranty denied was comparable to the holocau
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by Tagore 8y ago
Awards could be made to matter, I suppose, but if they are simply a matter of culture war signaling I'm not inclined to take them very seriously.
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by Tagore 8y ago
Note that the linked story is _about_ the fact that a female philipino undergrad won a Pulitzer, but does not explain much about about the story she reported on that won a Pulitzer I'm not arguing that she shouldn't have won a Pul
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by Tagore 8y ago
I've been thinking about striking out on my own, having both run a contract software business and worked for a startup recently. I'm inclined to think that the best way to find fit is to make sure people are willing to _overpay_ y
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by Tagore 8y ago
Yep- I was reminded of how much I like magit by this thread so I just made a $100.00 donation to its development. I hope it inspires other people to at least give magit a try (if I'll donate that much it must be good, right?)
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by Tagore 8y ago
There's an old joke: "Emacs is a great OS, but it lacks a decent text editor." Only vi users are allowed to tell that joke with a straight face, IMHO. Evil-mode solves that, and just as magit is better than git evil-mode seem
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by Tagore 8y ago
I'm an evangelizing convert to Prettier. I was hesitant about it until I tried it, but... I am sold on it now. Prettier has costs- there are cases where I'd like to format things based on semantics not syntax, to show intent, and
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by Tagore 8y ago
I keep hearing good things about VSCode. If I weren't essentially married to emacs I'd definitely try it out. I'm not sure I'd recommend emacs to everyone at this point, though I think it remains a really solid choice of
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by Tagore 9y ago
Interesting. I prefer to write in high-level strongly dynamically typed garbage-collected languages when I can. But of course I can't always do so and get the performance I want. My approach is generally to prototype in languages like
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by Tagore 9y ago
Who's 'she'? Anyway, I think you ought to rethink your claim that Chomsky is the father of cognitive science and of modern linguistics.
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by Tagore 9y ago
I think it's pretty clear at this point that citing Chomsky in cases like this is like citing Velikovsky when discussing celestial mechanics. Wrong and inapposite.
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by Tagore 9y ago
Hmm- gonna get flamed here, no matter what I say, so... I'll try to be a bit delicate, but not going to put too much effort into delicacy. I understand loving CL. CL was, I think, the first programming language I really loved passionat
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by Tagore 9y ago
Indeed. But I'll be dead, wicked old, or immortal by then, right?
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by Tagore 10y ago
See above.
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by Tagore 10y ago
Except that is what it means. The term is used mainly in certain contexts these days, so you might have gotten the impression that it only applies in those contexts, but 'fiduciary' has a broader meaning. To quote from Wiki (I kno
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by Tagore 10y ago
New England (not a state, but let's not get too specific here,) but off the beaten track. Small town with a big University. There are really only about four companies around here who could credibly offer me offer me a job doing somethi
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by Tagore 10y ago
You don't build a network at a company. You build a network in an area, perhaps more than one. You can be a complete idiot and still be well-known among local programmers (some of whom might not realize that you're dumb, and might
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by Tagore 10y ago
Probably not. But, in practice, yes.
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by Tagore 10y ago
Yeah, seriously, don't do that, unless you enjoy it. Almost certainly a waste of time.
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by Tagore 10y ago
Yep- don't hate the player, hate the game. I'm legally obligated to do so in some cases. That's what fiduciary means.
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by Tagore 10y ago
Are there programming meetups where you live? If there aren't you need to move. If there are you need to go to every one. If you have something interesting to say you ought to volunteer to give a talk (I just gave one on Redux, despite
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by Tagore 10y ago
Dunno- I got my current job through exactly one connection. I wasn't even sure I wanted a job, at the time, but he kept pestering me to come in and interview, and eventually I did. I'm not unhappy about it- it's nice to have
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by Tagore 10y ago
The issue here is that it's very, very difficult to figure out if someone can code, at all, from a resume. You might have a masters in CS and still be hopeless when it comes to actually writing even very simple things. You'd be su
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by Tagore 10y ago
I've literally never gotten a job by sending out resumes. Every single job I've had I got through some connection or another. I actually refused to send my current job a resume. The conversation went like this: Can you send them a
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by Tagore 10y ago
At 45 I might not be as quick, in some respects, as I was twenty years ago, but I know a lot more now. A _lot_ more. That's enough to make me far more valuable, even if I've lost a step here and there.
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by Tagore 10y ago
As an older programmer, here's one drawback to hiring me: I'm unlikely to live in the office, and I'm unlikely to sleep under my desk. I'll put in extra hours, when actually necessary, but if I'm perfectly honest I

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