abdulhaq

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by abdulhaq 3y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We are running out of fuel and may not reach the nearest airfield. If any of you now feel like crapping yourselves, please do so at your earliest convenience.
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
No, because you're teaching someone how to frame their problem so that they can start to work their way out of it. No blaming is taking place.
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
As soon as someone spells it QT and not Qt, I dial down my valuation of their opinion
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
Dave C was a key player in developing Windows NT, which was key to jettisoning the virus-riddled hot mess of Windows prior to that. You're attacking the wrong guy.
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
you're missing what the summary says: teams often make worse decisions than individuals by relying too much on widely understood data while disregarding information possessed by only a few individuals
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
python already has asyncio
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
I do get a sense from this article, due to the presence of stories I never heard before, that this is how history gets slowly rewritten. But an important aside for me is how exciting and awesome these developments felt to the users. Modern
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
ah, that's a shame. The careless disbanding and/or corrosion of what was a highly effective team is all too common in larger companies.
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
set aside 10% of your team's time to do these unwanted jobs. Say yes to the bulk of them but explain that it will take a long time to complete the task. Ignore all complaints that these tasks are taking too long. If they complain to se
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
I'm wondering if those who have hundreds of tabs open in their browser suffer from a similar condition
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
I'm so over these Unreasonable titles
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
I'm really struggling to think of a scenario where that makes sense
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
For a nihilist this feels like a lot of verbiage about meaning
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
for me it's just above the solar plexus
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
> Being survived by my spouse is one of my greatest fears Interesting, one of my greatest fears is my wife dying before me
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
brilliant
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
Passive Voice Considered Harmful
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by abdulhaq 3y ago
I'm inclined to try and analyze with ML how typefaces evolve over time in particular domains
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
Most HNers, and sadly I include myself in this, couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag. We read Sun Tzu because it is recommended reading in the intelligentsia's mindset. It seems cool to learn battle technique from an ancien
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
Sorry that you had to shut down, but your real take and honesty makes me think you'll do well in the future.
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
the 6502 was only used as a 'bad person' detector, so it's ok
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
The production of prejudiced content by "AI"s is a real issue and not just a problem of click-bait headlines
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
The thing about last straws is they're usually just a small bit of straw
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
Work life balance
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
I learnt Lisp sometime around 1986 (from library books and later, on the Sinclair QL LOL), I do love it in some ways, but found distribution of final code to be an issue. I don't think it's suitable for all tasks.
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
the hard part about a web browser is the rendering engine, which is why it was raised as a challenge. Sticking a Lisp front end over an existing rendering engine doesn't answer the challenge.
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
this uses a C++ rendering engine
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
The sound of 1000 leetcode warriors printing out 2 pages of tumbleweed, sobbing over their multifunction copiers, then rushing home to record a YT video of why they left their faang dream job
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
I feel that this could have been written by a charlatan. The interesting thing is, I'm not sure if anyone could tell the difference.
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by abdulhaq 4y ago
It's usually called constructive dismissal.

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