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by adamzerner 4y ago
There is something I've never understood about this. Actually, I suspect that it is just plain old wrong. It looks at what ages people died in the year 2019. If you die at age 80 in 2019, that means you were born in 1939. But if people
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Show HN: Video chat with like-minded developers(connect-developers.netlify.app)
1 points by adamzerner 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Video chat with like-minded developers(connect-developers.netlify.app)
3 points by adamzerner 5y ago|0 comments
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by adamzerner 5y ago
I'm really sorry to hear about those traumas and your current difficulty. Shoot me an email, maybe I can help: adamzerner@protonmail.com. https://adamzerner.bearblog.dev/ if you want to internet-stalk me first.
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by adamzerner 5y ago
Things like skin color are different from things like leetcode ability. Looking through a veil of ignorance, I definitely would not want hiring decisions to be made based on the former. But looking through the same veil of ignorance, I woul
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by adamzerner 5y ago
> I'm not fast at reasoning about code, and I often make trivial mistakes just trying to get a "first draft" of a program out. If I get behind or the interviewer starts interrupting to ask about the bad code I'm writi
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Why Racket? Why Lisp?(practicaltypography.com)
30 points by adamzerner 5y ago|2 comments
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by adamzerner 5y ago
Through whatever quirk of my psychology, looking stupid has always been something that I have been 100% ok with. There are various stories that come to mind, but the two that stick out the most happened in middle school science class. One t
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by adamzerner 5y ago
No worries. And I gotcha, your comments make more sense to me now. What I was going for in giving the examples was just to build up from the most simple to stuff that is more complex. Like: "Here they aren't the simplest tool for
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by adamzerner 5y ago
I am confused. Is there something you disagree with? Or are you saying that the points are obvious and thus not worth making? (FWIW, I wasn't too happy with the writing quality when I published it. I think it is fine, but not great. I
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by adamzerner 5y ago
> I don't find the end result to be significant for anything other than code cleanliness/readability. Agreed, I think. But isn't readability a very important goal? "Programs must be written for people to read, and onl
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by adamzerner 5y ago
I agree! I actually wanted to include one, but as I started to explain it it started getting too wordy, which made the post feel like it was more about composition vs inheritance than classes vs alternatives, thus distracting from the main
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by adamzerner 5y ago
Ah, you are right. I didn't realize this when I wrote it. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Classes often aren't the simplest tool for the job(adamzerner.bearblog.dev)
39 points by adamzerner 5y ago|59 comments
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The Secular Therapy Project(seculartherapy.org)
22 points by adamzerner 5y ago|10 comments
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by adamzerner 5y ago
> In 2015-2016 the site underwent a steady decline of activity leading some to declare the site dead. In 2017, a team led by Oliver Habryka took over the administration and development of the site, relaunching it on an entirely new codeb
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by adamzerner 5y ago
That sounds like freelance work, not product development. Am I mistaken?
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by adamzerner 5y ago
> I could go on: the point is, there are many situations where an estimate is required. Please do! I'd find it really valuable. (Not necessarily OP. I'm happy to hear from others as well.)
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by adamzerner 5y ago
Eric Normand has a great podcast episode where he talks through the paper, summarizing and commenting on it in a way that targets a more general audience. https://lispcast.com/can-programming-be-liberated-from-the-v...
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Think like an educator about code quality(adamzerner.bearblog.dev)
2 points by adamzerner 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamzerner 6y ago
I'm currently going through Haskell Programming From First Principles ( https://haskellbook.com/ ) and am liking it a lot. It's only been a few weeks so I can't say for sure, but it seems like it's compreh
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by adamzerner 6y ago
That is only true if you know you're going to be working on something for a long time. But if you're taking the lean/fail fast approach, it isn't something you can know ahead of time.
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Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (2014)(betterexplained.com)
270 points by adamzerner 6y ago|45 comments
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The Pricing of Painscience.com E-Books(painscience.com)
1 points by adamzerner 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamzerner 6y ago
Yeah, I have learned a few things from the comments here and my understanding isn't perfect. Previously I thought of `n` as arbitrary; that it can be whatever you define it to be. I see now that you're right that technically it ha
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by adamzerner 6y ago
Usually N has to be really, really big before it matters, right? If so, it seems easy enough to tell when it won't reach that point.
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by adamzerner 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, how can it be constant? You have to check each element in the array and there are n elements in the array.
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by adamzerner 6y ago
Author here. Ah, that makes sense. I always took it for granted that such a scenario of everything hashing to the same bucket wouldn't happen, but I understand now that in such a scenario it would take linear time, which means that tec
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by adamzerner 6y ago
Author here. Yeah that makes sense. I didn't realize it at the time. However, I think the example still demonstrates the larger point that I was making. `.includes` takes linear time proportional to the array that calls it, but the fac
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Big O, Little N(adamzerner.bearblog.dev)
81 points by adamzerner 6y ago|139 comments

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