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by agbell 5y ago
Thanks for reading! I actually wish I had a better term than thought-leader, because there are people who use that term non-ironically who do have contingent and useful advice. But yeah generally it't not a good sign if that is how you
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by agbell 5y ago
Author here, thanks for sharing this. Let me know what you think. I'm trying to connect the dots on research on expert advice and our fields 'thought-leaders'. The connection is a bit tenuous but I think contingent advice can
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by agbell 5y ago
Thanks for sharing! A question I had with APL was how do you actually type it in, and it turns out you just use a back-tick as a prefix, like a leader key in vim. Conor walked my through solving something with TryAPL in this video: https:
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by agbell 5y ago
The guest of this episode is working on porting J to modern C++. Someone also shared this javascript implementation of APL: https://github.com/abrudz/ngn-apl#readme
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by agbell 5y ago
Thanks for listening and thanks for encouragement. I really appreciate it.
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by agbell 5y ago
That image manipulation example is really cool! Not knowing much of either J or APL, I do like how the non-ascii symbols can visually represent the operation in APL, but using ASCII does seem more practical.
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by agbell 5y ago
I have heard a similar story or two and they all have involved google. I'm not sure when these leetcode style interviews became pervasive but it makes sense that recruiters would figure out quickly where to find people that would excel
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by agbell 5y ago
One reason for learning APL mentioned in the interview is learning to solve problems without branching. Conor's knowledge of solving problems in a data parallel fashion using masks and such in APL helped him with his day job of buildin
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by agbell 5y ago
Host here. I came into this knowing more about competitive coding than APL but I found both interesting. The way these ICPC teams compete as a group and train is fascinating to me but this connection between APL and GPU programming was rea
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by agbell 5y ago
I love my job, and I love working from home. I have been doing it for years. Working on a fully remote team is not the same as working on fully co-located team. Some will say it's worse but for me its better. One thing is for certain -
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by agbell 5y ago
So I've had the reverse issue. With hardware encoding on and external monitors plugged into my intel macbook, everything would overheat and I would get kernel throttling of everything. The external monitors cause the GPU to draw more p
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by agbell 5y ago
That seems unfair. Even after warm-up time Jruby and truffleruby are still slower and the truffleRuby folks are investigating it. I thought looking into why something was slow was worth writing down as a blog post. https://github
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by agbell 5y ago
Author here, thanks for sharing. I was confused about why JRuby was slow in the Jekyll CI and also in my own Jekyll blog when compared to just standard Ruby. This post is my investigation and I've gotten a couple pointers since on redd
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by agbell 5y ago
It seems like this is somewhat in that direction. It looks like it is using merkle trees to store the history.
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by agbell 5y ago
If I can plug my own podcast then CoRecursive. I try to find people with interesting experiences building software and turn them into an episode. Signal Vs Noise is also great and Arraycast is brand new but great so far. http://
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Smart Contract Rescue(corecursive.com)
1 points by agbell 5y ago|0 comments
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by agbell 5y ago
Yeah, refined types are a great solution to this problem, but can lead to slow compile times. Just having private constructor for a case class and a public apply method that is an Option or Either or something can go a long way in my exper
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by agbell 5y ago
In some areas it is explicitly the opposite that happened, and in a way that is for the best — see implicits. Scala 2 is a very flexible language and a lot of outsider complaints seem grounded in this flexibility. Scala 3 is more opinionate
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by agbell 5y ago
That is my understanding of what they did. "Scala 3 takes a slightly different approach [from Scala 2] and focuses on intent rather than mechanism. Instead of offering one very powerful feature, Scala 3 offers multiple tailored languag
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by agbell 5y ago
Rumor has it Kotlin was inspired by frustrations getting Scala edge cases to work in IntelliJ.
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by agbell 5y ago
I totally agree. I love the direction of Scala 3. This quote says it all I think: "Scala 3 takes a slightly different approach [from Scala 2] and focuses on intent rather than mechanism. Instead of offering one very powerful feature,
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by agbell 5y ago
Arrival: The short story its based on it amazing and explains things not just using linguistics but also physics. I love the movie, but it's sadly not as good, especially how it ends.
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by agbell 5y ago
My coworker wrote this tutorial for using JSDos and docker and old dos shareware games together. I had never heard of JSDos before but it seems to work very well. Its crazy what you can run in javascript today. He is planning to do a VNC ve
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DOS Gaming in Docker(earthly.dev)
2 points by agbell 5y ago|1 comments
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Ethereum Smart Contract Rescue(corecursive.com)
1 points by agbell 5y ago|0 comments
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Ethereum Rescue(corecursive.com)
3 points by agbell 5y ago|1 comments
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by agbell 5y ago
Reply All is great, though I think it is embroiled in some controversy right now. Corecursive is my podcast about the stories behind software development. I think hn readers would like it.
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by agbell 5y ago
I'm the podcast host. This is an interesting story about trying to get someone's money back on the Ethereum blockchain. There is also a discussion of the ethical dilemmas and game theory of a truly decentralized world. I'd lo
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Ethereum Rescue(corecursive.com)
1 points by agbell 5y ago|1 comments
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by agbell 5y ago
I'm the author. Its not as if I've never heard anyone say how amazing new language X is. That seems to be about the only thing I do hear. I love programming languages and play around with them all the time and have interviewed cr

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