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by alphanumeric0 5y ago
It's always good to ask the person about the context surrounding their question, but I also don't see much harm in seeking how to do Y, for the sake of Y. What is a 'strange problem to want to solve' anyways? To me, th
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by alphanumeric0 5y ago
I had a coworker once who was proud that he didn't know how to use a debugger. It was something about being able to statically analyze a program without dropping into a debugger that conveyed his superior skill. He only used print st
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by alphanumeric0 6y ago
I personally would not make this choice for new projects. I only use technology that is appropriate for the domain I'm using it in. Although, I am hoping this trend encourages better tooling and more modernization of SQL. As others s
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by alphanumeric0 6y ago
Now Microsoft just needs to update their flight modeling to use blade element simulation like X-Plane.
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by alphanumeric0 6y ago
Research software dev here. This came as a huge shock to me when I started at my job. I work with very smart, dedicated people performing cancer research, why would they put up with this affecting their productivity? Humans really are ad
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by alphanumeric0 6y ago
I think about this all of the time. When I pay attention to little decisions I make throughout the day it usually makes sense why I've chosen one path over the other. For instance, food choice. I can't count how many times seeing
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by alphanumeric0 6y ago
Having too much abstraction is a problem. Having too little is also a problem. There is also the case where even a well-abstracted codebase will suffer because of the particular feature requested. Even the best codebases will need changes
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All People in Canada are the Same Age (1997)(math.toronto.edu)
132 points by alphanumeric0 6y ago|91 comments
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by alphanumeric0 6y ago
https://youtu.be/vL00KEB1H50 - Freeman Dyson's theory of the origin of life, as explained by him.
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by alphanumeric0 6y ago
This is similar to what I've done recently with a project of mine using Django + Elm ( https://github.com/ereadingtool/ereadingtool ). I wrote an adapter of sorts, between Django and the frontend, which is a Django
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by alphanumeric0 7y ago
I've worked remotely for several years, and more recently in an office and my gut feeling is that people tend to use presentee-ism as a proxy for deciding whether someone is producing work. As for most things, it's highly contextu
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Ask HN: Why Aren't Political Views/Affiliations a Protected Class?
7 points by alphanumeric0 8y ago|10 comments
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by alphanumeric0 8y ago
Why not have discrimination protection for political views first?
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by alphanumeric0 8y ago
That Linus Torvald quote comes to mind: “Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
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by alphanumeric0 8y ago
Find a job where the people defining the software direction have experience doing so. Find a lead who has a firm grasp of how software evolves and can hand you software specifications that make sense and don't have bugs built in to th
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
I'd be interested to see more at-home test kits for these sorts of biomarkers.
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
Are you looking for local candidates or those that would be interested in relocating?
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March towards a Type 1 Civilization(youtube.com)
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
Thank you!
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Ask HN: What book would you recommend for learning basic database theory?
3 points by alphanumeric0 9y ago|3 comments
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
Hi, I'd suggest finding a local Python or Django user group and asking for help. Also it's worth joining #django on irc to ask questions.
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
May I suggest taking notes by hand? There was at least one study that determined taking notes by hand forces you to summarize the information, and so you end up increasing your recall as a result. ( https://www.scientificamerica
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
A smaller ecosystem.
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
Wow that's great, thanks for the tip.
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
I would like to ditch insurance and find a doctor who would allow me to pay a monthly subscription fee, much like a gym membership, for preventative care. Isn't the primary purpose of insurance for exceptional and accidental situations
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
Very easy to follow explanation. Thank you for the responses.
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
Serious question, and maybe this is more for r/askengineers, but why was so much failure tolerated to successfully land a rocket upright? Is it feasible to land a rocket on its side?
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Wow mystery signal explained [pdf](planetary-science.org)
1 points by alphanumeric0 9y ago|0 comments
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by alphanumeric0 9y ago
Hi, fellow remote worker here. I am in somewhat the same boat, as I'm not really working on large scale software projects, more just plumbing for our frontend devs (I am a backend developer for a design company). As a result I often f
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by alphanumeric0 10y ago
Purescript.

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