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by Test0129 4y ago
Seat of pants definition is that a library is something with a single function. Add postgres support, logging (sort of a grey area sometimes), etc. A framework is something that provides an ecosystem for you to develop in. Rather that usi
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by Test0129 4y ago
> Some brilliant folks are just bored by usual rather generic work, and their idea of 'fun' is to keep reinventing the wheel that specifically fits current problem. Actual benefits to business be damned, intellectual fun is mor
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by Test0129 4y ago
When I was briefly on a Go project when go was still relatively young we decided to use a framework. I can't remember what it was...GORM + something possibly. Three months later we find a few game breaking bugs. Do the right thing and
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by Test0129 4y ago
I do appreciate how you're lambasting someone for providing sources by commenting on how a guy won't provide...more sources. Incredible. Yeah... "just an extra couple thousands dollars". The government pumped in excess o
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by Test0129 4y ago
I've been burned by so many frameworks I am hesitant to use one unless the advantage is abundantly clear. Even something as mundane as an ORM can cause massive problems down the line if you're not careful, or you forgot to anticip
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by Test0129 4y ago
Everything about this just reads...weird. The spacing, the conclusion, the cause... all of it. The author got mouthy on twitter (by their own admission) about company information. I don't think this person got "bullied" out o
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by Test0129 4y ago
I think the GP is getting misinterpreted. The devil can be found in how you interpret "emotionally invested". I try to stay emotionally detached from everything I do for a company. Even recently this helped me through a layoff and
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by Test0129 4y ago
The cool thing about numerical linear algebra is, as far as numerical analysis is concerned, it's probably one of the most accessible fields to the would-be citizen scientist. It's been a long time since I've taken linear alg
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by Test0129 4y ago
Numerical algorithms have always been a fascination of mine and I spent quite a bit of time studying them. Linear algebra has always seemed to provide some of the most rich content (followed by differential equations, imo). To me linear alg
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by Test0129 4y ago
I don't think this is the case. The point of science as one commenter pointed out is a lack of trust (or faith). Hence the need for pages and pages of sources, concerted efforts on reproducibility, etc. In certain fields reproducibilit
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by Test0129 4y ago
> But you should also remember that "science" doesn't guarantee that _every_ paper is good. That's correct and I agree. Actual Science doesn't require trust. As you aptly pointed out it's excellent at weedin
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by Test0129 4y ago
I mean it was an example I chose because the name recognition in HN. I would doubt Knuth would publish garbage. Then again, how would you know? If you've never been in academia it's understandable to think that way. But if you hav
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by Test0129 4y ago
HN isn't a journal and so academic sources of evidence really are overkill. However, I'll throw you a bone. Go to your favorite major journal and start looking at the "conflicts of interest" and "grants" sectio
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by Test0129 4y ago
Very common for anyone who has ever spent time in academia. When I was still in grad school I noticed a trend in some major mathematical and CS journals where a lot of time it would be the same N people writing articles. This was driven hom
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by Test0129 4y ago
An average human isn't overweight enough to make this matter. That's why it's an average. For a morbidly obese person they burn more calories standing up and walking around the house than I do. The thing is once you're p
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by Test0129 4y ago
On one hand I believe the theoretical patent is very important to promote innovation. If you, the inventor, can get guarantees on your sales for 10 years (which is reasonable, imo) then it'll encourage people to make more stuff. I don&
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by Test0129 4y ago
I still drink on occasion but now I can go months without when I used to drink 3-4 nights a week. Sometimes I'd put down a 6 pack on those nights. Honestly, I got tired of being tired. LFPs were normal but my cholesterol and stuff was
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by Test0129 4y ago
A little early in the week for a list of things written by an executive about what engineers should do.
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by Test0129 4y ago
It's not an oversimplification if it is a common use case. Yes, the crypto purist will cringe at considering the entire system a ponzi but if you're that deep into crypto you probably can't see outside. From the outside persp
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by Test0129 4y ago
Not to shove Emacs into a Vim thread but Emacs file browsing is actually pleasurable. You can have a tree if you want (neotree) but C-x C-f with Ivy fuzzy search makes navigating really easy. It's one of the things I wish Vim had for a
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by Test0129 4y ago
I can see Helix replacing Vim and Neovim for the most "normal" user. It's great, and it's a better alternative than VSCode for Vim users that aren't quite power users but also not exactly the most basic user either.
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by Test0129 4y ago
I love this comment. The sarcasm is so thick. It turns out, in my opinion, we solved most problems in software engineering decades ago. All this high flying non-sense, web3 petabyte scale cloud powered type safe microservices, is pointless
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by Test0129 4y ago
> Also drop hints that a larger technical team would help. If you’re doing things that matter, then sooner or later you’ll find yourself with a team because it’s the stakeholders pushing for it. Never works. If there's one thing the
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by Test0129 4y ago
In my case I have regularly found myself deep inside the bus factor zone because I had a lot of knowledge acquired through working on so many things. Raising the issue "I'm a roadblock" or "I'm overburdened" do
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by Test0129 4y ago
> The dastarty act of providing military, police, firefighting, law, justice, social services - all the things that make you live in a modern society instead of living in the former late feudal society where you wouldn't even have t
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by Test0129 4y ago
> it's beyond ludicrous to claim that Steven Pruitt Someone with millions of edits does not de-facto have the systems in place, the time, and the power to influence any article he puts his mind to? What I posted is inference, not mi
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by Test0129 4y ago
Is there a correlation between Fish Oil and prostate cancer? I haven't heard of it. Could you send some links?
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by Test0129 4y ago
I guess you could say I have my shit together. It's strange how true grass-is-always greener is. People who did a lot of "fun" stuff growing up wish they were more serious. I wish I had time to be less serious. Life is funny
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by Test0129 4y ago
It's transparent and unfortunately that's exactly why we know we can't trust it. If you want an eye opening experience pick something in the news that might be scientific. Say, COVID. Then run a correlation between the releas
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by Test0129 4y ago
Cool, yet another reason to take good quality fish oil. I take a good quality Fish Oil and get yearly blood work. Noticed a DRAMATIC decrease in Triglyceride levels. Now I have yet another reason to continue keeping this ritual.

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