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by aparsons 5y ago
In my retirement, watching programming streams has been a guilty pleasure (drives my SO crazy), and this is one of my favorite channels. I especially loved their other video on making Minecraft from scratch* * - https://www.youtu
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by aparsons 5y ago
Because Google turned the computers into a commodity. These employees swap out broken machines for the most part, but the software stack is so redundant that you can pull out a machine running a key job and the scheduler will simply retry i
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by aparsons 5y ago
I don’t think Amazon stack ranks per se. at least for engineers, I found their perf process well-thought-out. For example, “meets expectations” is usually good enough for a promotion or pay raise, unlike the practice at similar companies wh
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by aparsons 5y ago
Is making more money legally inherently evil? Tax avoidance is ugly, but I’m strongly of the opinion that one must “hate the game, not the player”. Yes, tax avoidance is evil in the sense of “someone else is paying for it”, but I don’t see
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by aparsons 5y ago
Chamath is one of the most self-serving-pretending-to-be-altruistic salesmen to ever set foot in SV. If you were still a “follower” after doing even the slightest bit of due diligence into the man, you deserve to lose money.
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by aparsons 6y ago
I could never quite put my finger on it - but some of the best programmers I’ve worked with illustrated this. They seemed equally open to simplifying systems as towards extending them. Not “time for this week’s rewrite” kind, but they weren
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by aparsons 6y ago
Funny you mention meshes. I’ve always thought that self-organizing maps are a good model for neurons, more so than deep neural networks.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Do you think something like fMRI would have enough resolution? Can’t pick up activity directly of course, but perhaps by picking up fluid flow differentials?
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by aparsons 6y ago
Imagine the wonders it would do for interrogation /s
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by aparsons 6y ago
Why boomer? Are millennials or any other generation looking forward to paying more to avoid Chinese-made products?
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by aparsons 6y ago
Looks like whoever made the logo thought it would be funny
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by aparsons 6y ago
Thanks for the insight. I strongly suspect the COBOL compiler buyers are really just buying ongoing support and updates. Open sourcing should result in minimal revenue impact, but shared code might make it quite problematic license wise. Wo
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by aparsons 6y ago
You’re not alone - I worked with COBOL a decade or five ago.
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by aparsons 6y ago
COBOL will always have a soft spot in my heart as the first programming language I learned. I did not use it much - 2 years max - but when reading COBOL it was really clear that there were some programmers who just saw code differently - in
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by aparsons 6y ago
The anxiety is really noticeable in some people. My cousin - early 50s in age - recovered from Covid in late 2020. One of the most “happy go lucky” men you will meet, but now sounds constantly anxious. One year of quarantining may be a conf
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by aparsons 6y ago
From a lot of bittersweet experiences, I tend to be very wary of “drastically simple” API products. We often say APIs are forever - so it is so critical to build the right abstraction. When I saw the demo on their page, yes it’s magically (
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by aparsons 6y ago
Title should be edited to disambiguate
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by aparsons 6y ago
Author touches a number of things but two messages resonate loudly: - accessible != easy - having the hard work done for you != easy The “easy” myth was largely started by bootcamps trying to make an easy buck (NPI). More power to them, bec
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Why people get happier as they get older (2016)(medium.economist.com)
2 points by aparsons 6y ago|0 comments
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by aparsons 6y ago
I think some of this has Python to blame. It’s very difficult to write idiomatically maintainable code in dynamic, scripting languages. Now also consider that data wrangling is almost always highly coupled to one or more input formats, lots
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by aparsons 6y ago
For most programming (ie - web services), no. For anything that makes system calls within 1-2 layers of abstraction (graphics programming, shell utilities, etc) it is a godsend
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by aparsons 6y ago
Can also attest to this. One of the companies I advise looked into them recently before realizing the “open source” is marketing folly. Quite disappointed in YC not doing their due diligence with them.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Slightly edited title to fit char limit. Mods, feel free to change to fit.
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USA Today editor alleges 'white authority' after being fired for a tweet(cnn.com)
6 points by aparsons 6y ago|15 comments
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by aparsons 6y ago
If you flip some NUMA switches so tasks on the other core don’t add overhead, I’m inclined to say yes. But then modern schedulers are also so low-overhead that this case really only applies if you have a hard real-time requirement - in whic
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by aparsons 6y ago
Great book (as with all of Bob’s work) but would hardly suggest it as a starting point. Perhaps good to visit after a few months of programming games.
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by aparsons 6y ago
Other way around, no?
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by aparsons 6y ago
The cost to win the arms race may be prohibitive for the generators. Of course, that isn’t a problem for large/state actors
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by aparsons 6y ago
Presumably, fund A places a limit buy at price - $n and fund B places a limit sell at price - $n - $0.1
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by aparsons 6y ago
OneDrive?

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