amirkdv

15 ms·

91.
by amirkdv 6y ago
Years ago I spent a lot of time (arguably too much time) writing (ba)sh scripts and this document was a great resource! But my main lesson from that period was that bash pitfalls are readability/maintenance nightmares, confounded by th
92.
by amirkdv 6y ago
Funny how everyone here, myself included, assumed the numbers were integers! I like the follow up question of "what if they are floats?" to see if the interviewee knows not to use `==` with floats.
93.
by amirkdv 6y ago
> > given a list of numbers, return two numbers such that one times the other results in 220 > > is the list sorted? > this barely qualifies as a clarifying question in my opinion. Maybe I'm being too charitable but whet
94.
by amirkdv 6y ago
> given the choice between building the current system and some alternative, there is no way you'd say, "for sure, build again what we have now, it's great". > Yet that's what we kind of do every year implicit
95.
by amirkdv 6y ago
Can't upvote this enough! Virtually every paragraph of the article _only_ makes sense from a middle-class perspective.
96.
by amirkdv 6y ago
> I've become less fussed about the tools and more focused on the process This has been my conclusion after years of trying different tools or even trying to make my own. Once I started focusing on the process I realized that not on
97.
by amirkdv 6y ago
I'm not the original comment author, neither am I fluent in Perl. But I suspect they meant nested hashes and not a hash whose values are arrays of arrays. As you point out, the latter is trivial. To be clear, even a nested hash is all
98.
by amirkdv 7y ago
I have an agreement and a disagreement with your take: * I agree that reducing salaries for academics will only make the currently misplaced incentives worse. It will deprive society from the valuable research that more competent and tale
99.
by amirkdv 7y ago
It would have been odd if corporations were democratically run and had internal mechanisms for reflecting the values and aspirations of the large group of people that work for it. At a traditional corporation however the emergent "mind
100.
by amirkdv 8y ago
Streamline Genomics | Montreal | Onsite We are a growing team of scientists and engineers with startup experience working on a genomics analysis platform to help bring the power of bioinformatics directly to clinicians. The company has secu
101.
by amirkdv 10y ago
I don't see how it got it wrong (and it would be surprising if it did given the sentence is not syntactically ambiguous). It does use a visual notation which, AFAIK, differs from the standard in linguistcs [0]. [0]: https://
102.
by amirkdv 12y ago
Same here. FF + DDG + FastMail is a quite low action path away from Google for individual users. Migration took me only a day (FastMail's mass migration is truly a breeze) and after almost a year: no complaints (maybe minor wishes, but
103.
by amirkdv 13y ago
I would add a minor footnote, namely the only part of the story that can be concievably considered morally relevant to us: what can be done here? And by "here" I mean the countries to whose jursidiction these multinational giants