Theaetetus

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Boiling Water(natemeyvis.com)
5 points by Theaetetus 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
I'm grateful for all the notes here. I seem to have been insufficiently clear on the subject of boiling water, so I've written a follow-up post: https://www.natemeyvis.com/on-boiling-water/
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by Theaetetus 10mo ago
Yes, that's an important part of any system. It sounds like we agree that the traditional diagram, with some boxes and some arrows between boxes, is quite inadequate when you actually have a tough problem that needs solving.
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Designing software you're not working on(natemeyvis.com)
3 points by Theaetetus 10mo ago|2 comments
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Kitchen optimizations(natemeyvis.com)
96 points by Theaetetus 10mo ago|236 comments
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by Theaetetus 10mo ago
Some alternatives: - Finger to the wind ("this feels like a big change"). - Domain-specific versioning scheme (so Ruff uses [this variant]( https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/versioning/#version-changes ) that se
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Against SemVer(natemeyvis.com)
2 points by Theaetetus 10mo ago|3 comments
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What Follows from Gall's Law?(natemeyvis.com)
3 points by Theaetetus 10mo ago|0 comments
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What Happened to Quantified Self?(natemeyvis.com)
2 points by Theaetetus 10mo ago|0 comments
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Error-Handling and Locality(natemeyvis.com)
2 points by Theaetetus 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Theaetetus 11mo ago
I basically agree with this. Extra objects do carry costs. That said, usually the extra objects are necessary to make your code conform to reality. N things with N names in N files definitely carries overhead, but if the alternative i
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by Theaetetus 11mo ago
(2)-ish patterns are more what I have in mind, but note that as soon as you're expecting the same `db.query(hats)` to give you the data you need for both (1) and (2), you might already be pretty far down the wrong road.
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by Theaetetus 11mo ago
I agree that following expected patterns is a _prima facie_ reason to do something. That said, in this case: 1. The downsides of following it are severe, and 2. People often expect slightly different things, so you often don't get the
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by Theaetetus 11mo ago
I really appreciate this comment. I have some passing familiarity with Clojure, but I don't understand it (and its motivations) fully and would like to understand it better. Thanks for the YouTube link; I'd love some reading mater
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On Having a Data Object(natemeyvis.com)
40 points by Theaetetus 1y ago|16 comments
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Front-End Maximalism(natemeyvis.com)
9 points by Theaetetus 1y ago|2 comments
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A simple way to improve spaced repetition scheduling(natemeyvis.com)
8 points by Theaetetus 1y ago|2 comments
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How to Ramp Up(natemeyvis.com)
1 points by Theaetetus 2y ago|0 comments
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On Actually Reading the Book(natemeyvis.com)
4 points by Theaetetus 4y ago|0 comments
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by Theaetetus 4y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I address it (briefly) in a follow-up: https://www.natemeyvis.com/on-studying-for-your-upcoming-job... . People might not know what the code base is actually like; they have incentives to ove
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by Theaetetus 4y ago
Author here. I certainly have a lot of opinions about what to study more generally! This was a short note for people who are specifically trying to make it likelier that they'll succeed at a job they're about to start. Lots of peo
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A common trap for people entering programming jobs(natemeyvis.com)
145 points by Theaetetus 4y ago|169 comments
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On improving data-adjacent code(natemeyvis.com)
1 points by Theaetetus 5y ago|0 comments
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by Theaetetus 5y ago
[Author here.] Thanks for the note! Unfortunately Eric's reference is not publicly available (as far as I know). I'd love for more people to collect and publicize sets of commonly used code review notes. Others here will know much
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by Theaetetus 5y ago
[Author here.] There are definitely other ways to represent this data! I think a useful exercise is: (1) Sit down and think of a very basic representation of this data (in whatever language you prefer). (2) Figure out where in the current S
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by Theaetetus 5y ago
[Author here.] Yes, I agree. I hope I was sufficiently clear about that. My motivations for writing this up were that (1) it's a wonderful example of a lot of things I often find myself saying about databases; (2) peoples' Anki de
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by Theaetetus 5y ago
[Author here!] I'd guess that (2) is more important than (1) here. Or, at least, it seems anecdotally right to me that programmers are very hesitant to do migrations. As for (1), you must be right that a disconnect between a design and
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On Anki's Database(natemeyvis.com)
178 points by Theaetetus 5y ago|48 comments