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by _dwt 3y ago
Find something on the map that you know you like. Now look around it to see similar (i.e. if you like this, you're likely to like that) books.
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by _dwt 4y ago
I think most new parents have semi-wished for, like, a life-size cutout of themselves attached to a Roomba that could roll into their nursery at 3am when the baby randomly wakes and make vaguely reassuring noises to soothe them back to slee
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by _dwt 4y ago
I think lenses/optics have stolen some of zippers' (very localized) thunder in recent years, but I still enjoy finding excuses to use them every once in a while. (OK, so really just a couple Advent of Code problems.) I have never
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by _dwt 4y ago
I had a whole rant queued up on "Pandas and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race" (well, at least for newbie programmers), but I think instead I want to focus on the damn dictionary splats. I just don't ge
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by _dwt 4y ago
I find the legal and ethical implications more interesting than the technology as it stands. Maybe I just don't do the kind of work it's suited to, but I didn't find it terribly useful when I gave it a go. I had an experience
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by _dwt 4y ago
That's R (and S/S+ before it), for better or worse.
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by _dwt 5y ago
What, you’re not persuaded that the concept of immutability popped into existence in the late 2000s with the appearance of Clojure?
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by _dwt 5y ago
Oooof, SAS (in the author's dad anecdote). If they get hooked young, it's expensive hell to get them to quit. I'm not sure how that colors by analogy my view of the main point of the article, but it's tempting to reach f
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by _dwt 5y ago
I know a little about cars and I'm still confused - I think I just have a very different view of the relative "it factors" between each pair of languages. De gustibus...
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by _dwt 5y ago
From experience, no, but your 5th-least-favorite post may somehow make it to the front page of HN over many more interesting ones, where it will be nitpicked to death by some guy who thinks the solution to the world's problems is XSLT.
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by _dwt 5y ago
Any good resources (or even search term hints) you could recommend on the more modern/async approaches? I’d love to read about them.
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by _dwt 5y ago
Without quibbling about the particular (adding a month) example, I can vouch that this is a great way to help the people for whom the software is being built refine their thinking. I help clients often with inherited/legacy/hacked
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by _dwt 5y ago
I am not sure that concern over "AI risk" is fungible with concern over climate change. In my experience, people concerned over superintelligent AI seem to be of a philosophical and cultural orientation which is entirely aware of
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by _dwt 5y ago
One great thing about offering training and workshops is that, especially if you can partner with another company to handle the sales, marketing, online platform, etc., online courses built from this material make a great first "produc
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by _dwt 5y ago
"Back in the day", some of us used to deliberately alternate pronouns for these sorts of hypothetical people. The idea was to help nudge people toward perceiving "gender-atypical" occupations/situations/etc. as
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by _dwt 5y ago
It's a real pain. I work with lots of "data science" types who are often trying to concurrently learn JavaScript and d3 - often with JS as their first or second programming language. It's difficult enough for an experien
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by _dwt 5y ago
I think that Repl.it can pound sand unless they've got an enforceable non-compete in their intern contract, and that the CEO seems a little unhinged, but it does seem unwise to e-mail them unprompted with this kind of project. Falls un
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by _dwt 6y ago
There are so many things I like about this - leaning in to the idea that spreadsheet formulas are a functional programming language, and enhancing that with inferred static types, plain-text persistence, (semi-)structural editing. And then
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by _dwt 6y ago
"Disruption is a theodicy of hypercapitalism." Ok, after a minute's reflection, I think I can parse that: just as medieval theologians wrangled with how a just God could permit bad things to happen to good people, and often m
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by _dwt 6y ago
The future is here now, for the last ~week or so, on nightly Rust: #![feature(const_generics, const_evaluatable_checked)] fn append<T: Copy + Default, const N: usize, const M: usize>( xs: &[T; N], ys: &[T; M])
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by _dwt 6y ago
It seems a bit extreme (and, frankly, dangerous) to give every idiot on Twitter access to salary information on every W-2 employee at every public company. Especially in our current culture of online discourse and with our current norms (or
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by _dwt 6y ago
Have you ever been able to solve a problem at work that nobody else could, or solve it faster, or cleaner, or more robustly, by virtue of having learned previously about some random topic which you had no idea would one day be applicable to
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by _dwt 6y ago
I get puzzled by how often projects whose ostensible user bases are composed entirely of technical professionals seem to make vast sweeping branding changes on the basis of "simplifying" the "confusing" naming, so that w
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William of Rubruck's Account of the Mongols(depts.washington.edu)
1 points by _dwt 6y ago|0 comments
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Fun with Simulated Typestate in Python 3.8(usethe.computer)
1 points by _dwt 6y ago|0 comments
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USSR detonated a nuclear bomb to put out a burning gas well [video](youtube.com)
12 points by _dwt 6y ago|0 comments
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by _dwt 6y ago
Is it possible that there are places in the United States which are neither the Bay Area, nor NYC, nor Oklahoma? Surely at least some residents of these places, if they exist, might in fact dispute the broad-spectrum superiority of our mo
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by _dwt 6y ago
It just made me more cognizant that people respond to incentives rather than intentions. It's not enough to propose new "corporate values" or state that a policy proposal must be passed because it "addresses" some p
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by _dwt 6y ago
Why not check out the K&R C book and work through that? It's still an amazingly self-contained book that manages to be a language tutorial (and almost a reference), while still being approachable without programming experience. C c
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Typing “Group By”, Revisited(usethe.computer)
1 points by _dwt 6y ago|0 comments

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