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by ackfoobar 5y ago
> Some of the prior employees enjoyed playing with advanced language features and writing libraries for the most general possible case Scala the language is quite fine, but it attracts this kind of programmers. The damage they do to a co
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> Go was a niche language suitable for 10x programming. At first I read this as "suitable for programmers who are 10x more productive than average ones". But they must be able to judge when/how to use generics. Do you mean
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I've read "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" by ESR when I was young. It had a rather big impact on me. Of course now I realize people who need the message won't read it.
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> of biological traits or genes I saw a visualization of the clustering on twitter. https://twitter.com/rokomijic/status/1426614501856751620
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> Like make up a characteristic where women differ statistically from men, but have the difference be about 1/2 the standard deviation for either group. > there's no useful generalization to make from the clear evidence. Unl
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I am the someone who "understand whats going on". My experience of the knowledge transfer was not pleasant at all. Maybe it's my ability of explaining, maybe it's my teammates, maybe it's ZIO having better names for
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For the team that I am in, I can see a huge productivity boost if my teammates can write in direct style instead of wrapping their heads around monads.
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> Where is the complexity in Go to have a pool of workers looking for jobs on a channel exactly? This is just one kind of pipeline. If this is all you have done, you may have the impression that concurrency (in Go) is easy. BTW, this is
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by ackfoobar 5y ago
"Educate yourself" is often thrown by the left in heated conversations. But when a academic term (that is closely related to a negative word) is used, some on the same side refuse to understand and get butthurt instead. E.g.: htt
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/ Male: 2.68 SD: 0.65 Female: 2.94 SD:0.67 d: 0.39 Non-native English user here, it seems the word "neurotic" has some connotation that the trait
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> Despite full Maoist Communism in China, descendants of former landlords and rich peasants today earn 16% more than descendants of others. > They couldn't inherit wealth from grandparents, parents were barred from university in
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Here's what I expect will happen when an average developer is "to learn C++ on the job": The inexperienced developer will write code that is subtly wrong. The senior developers will spend more time debugging than the time wou
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https://darrendahly.github.io/post/2017-09-12-sex-difference... Looking at it quantitatively, the greater male variability hypothesis mattered less than I expected.
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Most people don't have a strong enough grasp of statistics. No matter how careful one is with the wording, some can only hear what they are capable
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tailrec only handles "tail" recursion, i.e. tail calls to itself. This is far weaker than general tail "call" optimization required by the technique in the article.