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by a-saleh 8y ago
I think the smug "I am probably more intelligent than them" comes from seeing that the mental model, even though it is mostly product of my up-bringing, requires less mental energy than theirs. I.e. I had many friends in evangelic
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Before I started a new job I had myself read: 1. So good they can't ignore you 2. Deep work 3. Mythical man-month 4. Power of habit Now I am reading Tools of titans by Tim Ferris. I never thought I would get into the genre of self-impr
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by a-saleh 8y ago
We got my 80yo grandma a low-end android (I think it runs 3.x android?) tablet with keyboard-cover. It took some learning on her side and sometimes answering some really confusing tech-support questions on my side (i.e. I was reading news a
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by a-saleh 8y ago
By "unless you become a CS Professor." you probably mean "unless you want a career in academia" :-) Being a post-doc in a good research institution can be fine, and with a good project even rewarding :)
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by a-saleh 8y ago
My sleep cycle is fairly standard, most of the time 11:00PM-7:30AM ... I can manage 1AM-9AM ~twice a week without too muhch of a performance hit, and if I am getting sick, I can usually mitigate by sleeping 9PM-8AM. When tired I did experim
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Maybe the "habitual" is the diferentiator? I am not really sure what does the word mean in this context and how it would differentiate from non-habitual use.
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Actually, if you addopt a mindset where you don't care about the ecosystem as much, you don't need to wait for rust-wasm to mature. For example, a friend of mine just shipped a web-app for a client, that wanted something to help t
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by a-saleh 8y ago
High-tech & Low-life enough for me ;-)
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I almost had. It actually really hit me. Even though it was 5 years ago.
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If I were you, I would try to go through the vue tutorials first and then probably try something like https://bootstrap-vue.js.org/ . The bootsrap itself [2] is kinda industry standard among saas applications (and reason why
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I am of two minds. First, if you want to earn money, choose the stack you know best already. Figuring out how to do business will probably be tricky enough. Talk to your prospects. Maybe start consulting first, and then convert recuring pai
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by a-saleh 8y ago
This is awesome! Order of the Phoenix has a special place in my heart as well, because this was the first book I have read in English :D Me and my mom didn't want to wait half a year for translation. But actually on-upping professional
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I remember being floored by APL few months ago when I learned about co-dnfs and watched the stream by Aaron Hsu [1] with quotes like "This code is perfectly readable, it just isn't in English". Thing is, when I was thinking a
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by a-saleh 8y ago
It depends. If I would have at least one other developer excited about more advanced static types, I would try to sell to the project lead something along the lines "Hey, me and $OTHER_DEV would like to take $SMALL_PART_OF_THE_APPLICAT
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I have just signed a contract to do this. 32 hours a week. I will still need to hash with HR out how this will work with i.e. bank holidays and such, but I am looking forward to that :-)
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by a-saleh 8y ago
"Streams of solution trees" kinda reminds me of mikro-kanren [1]. When I was using Clojure roughly 3 years ago, kanren was quite popular embedded logic. W.r.t. Datafun, i learned about it from a talk its creator gave on strangeloo
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by a-saleh 8y ago
I think it will be better if we figure out how to do embedded catalog in other languages. I.e. I really liked The research here https://github.com/rntz/datafun , where we start with "datalog=relational algebra+fixp
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by a-saleh 8y ago
You can approach this from two sides: 1. bloom and its descendents/companions are research projects first, so far, in the future, somebody probably sits down and creates a super-optimized reactive database based on this research in Rus
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Oh, good to know. From the horror stories you usually read in the news it seemed that "try to haggle down my $5000 bill with this huge hospital" is something you just don't get to do, if you are a patient, I will remember tha
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by a-saleh 8y ago
As far as I know, point of the exorbitant fees is the weird process of collective bargaining between the care-providers and insurers. I.e. you, as the hospital, inflate your price, by X00% margin over what you actually plan to charge the in
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by a-saleh 8y ago
Last time I asked aound this, the replies I got were roughly: 1. this is not the focus of TLA 2. TLA is for high-level protocol specification, there probably wont be 1 to 1 mapping to code But I know i.e. some AWS team used TLA in their pro
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by a-saleh 9y ago
Thinking about it in the current context, I might say that there is something like a prodictivity counter-culture? For example Deep Work seems to value high-poductivity focus on one hand, but being lazy and completely switching off workis l
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by a-saleh 9y ago
Well, in my professional life, there is a lot of untyped Python on the horizon :P And for side-projects I think I prefer PureScript anyway?
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by a-saleh 9y ago
I thought about this, and kinda came to a conclusion, than I would take a language that has generics, and doesn't have interfaces (i.e. Elm) over a language that has interfaces and doesn't have generics (i.e. Go)
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by a-saleh 9y ago
I think this might be, because the definition seems to stem from mathematical notion of logic. And logicians usually want to have their logics sound, because if you can prove false statements, what is the point of your logic, right? So to d
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by a-saleh 9y ago
I am using nikola: https://getnikola.com/ The main reason is, that I really like jupyter notebooks and my blog began as experiments in Jupyter that I wanted to somehow preserve, i.e. http://notes.asaleh.net/
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by a-saleh 9y ago
In my case, I work 8 hours because I still get pay by hour :) If, one day I would manage to get into consulting, I probably would work less on average work-day.
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by a-saleh 9y ago
Hm. One reason why I prefer Json to XML (and I actually like XML) is, that JSON is simpler. The fact that XML has schema definitions out of the box, and that these schema definitions can reference other definitions would lead to more comple
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by a-saleh 9y ago
I did this in tearooms. There usually were ~3 sections in a tearoom, one with tables and stools, one with cushions and one where you could smoke nargile/hookah. Sitting at a table for two with a laptop was fine. There usually would be
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by a-saleh 9y ago
We kinda did. This is because we like to hire interns. Usually intern in our area: * studies programming at a university * costs around a 1/2 of a junior * is part-time with really erratic schedule * work output still on on par with fe

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