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by autarch 4y ago
Test2 is a Perl distribution that replaces a bunch of older test stuff. See https://metacpan.org/pod/Test2 But unlike TAP, it's fairly Perl-specific as opposed to just being an output format. I imagine you could a
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by autarch 4y ago
TAP is better than some things, but it has some serious issues that I wrote about on my blog a while back - https://blog.urth.org/2017/01/21/tap-is-great-except-when-it... Basically it's nearly impossibl
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by autarch 4y ago
That's exactly how they work in the US too.
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by autarch 4y ago
Not GP but I highly recommend visiting the east coast of the island. The population density is much lower and it's really beautiful. You have to visit Taroko Gorge, which is a canyon with marble walls. It's amazing!
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by autarch 4y ago
Hisaishi is one of my all-time favorite film composers. I think his style mixes neoromantic with a lot of early modern French influence like Debussy and Ravel. He also has some strong jazz influences and I think there are aspects of his mus
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by autarch 4y ago
I think atonality (via serialism) fell out of fashion in the 80s or 90s. For the last few decades the most-played living composers seem to be writing neoromantic and minimalist music. This makes sense, since those are much more listenable t
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by autarch 4y ago
The "R" stands for "relations", as in "relations", which is a mathematical concept. SQL calls a "relation" a "table". The "relational" is RDBMS has nothing to do with relationships
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by autarch 4y ago
https://archive.ph/o1vnP
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by autarch 4y ago
I've seen every Ghibli film except the Earthsea film, and I'd say the best are Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Princess Kaguya, and Totoro. That said, I've liked pretty much every film they've made except Kiki's D
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by autarch 4y ago
> there are only like 2-3 brands that make vegan cheese (Miyoko, Daiya, maybe 1 other?) Off the top of my head: Miyoko's, Daiya, Kite Hill, Violife, Forager, Field Roast (Chao), Nuts for Cheese, Dr. Cow, Vtopian, Parmela Creamery An
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by autarch 4y ago
I've been vegan for c. 27 years and I like these products. I grew up eating meat and dairy, and I still like the flavor and mouth feel, but I hate the cruelty.
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by autarch 4y ago
Yes, this is a great business idea! Would you like to fund my "vegan cheese from dairy" company? I'll give you a 10% stake for $10M USD.
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by autarch 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words. I ended up at MongoDB and I've been there about 7 weeks now. I don't think my blog posts had too much of an impact on my offers, although of course I guess some places could've just said no and not
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by autarch 4y ago
> But someone with an active open source project on github and a popular blog seems like an easy interview, but I've never had the opportunity to speak with anyone like that. I have many thousands (tens, definitely; hundreds, maybe)
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by autarch 4y ago
I was recently looking for a new position and I found internal recruiters were quite useful. My experience with external recruiters was mixed, though at least a couple did get me interviews at places that seemed decent.
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by autarch 4y ago
I've served on two nonprofit boards with a combined time of about 22 years or so on them. Both were/are much more engaged than the boards described in this piece, but I think they are an exception. The other thing I'd add as
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by autarch 4y ago
Check out GiveDirectly ( https://www.givedirectly.org/ ), a nonprofit which does what it sounds like. They give money to the poorest people, directly. You can browse the site to find out why that's incredibly effective a
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by autarch 4y ago
I upvoted this because it's well written, even though I disagree with the conclusions. I'm not sure the suggested alternative coding challenges are any better. The text preview one starts ok, but introducing HTML raises the comple
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by autarch 4y ago
> There's merit to the idea of having a writing sample from a candidate. If you want to know that a candidate can communicate effectively, you'll want to both hear them talk and read their writing. Absolutely. I'm all for
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by autarch 4y ago
I think it's for all of the engineering roles. Not sure what "full-fat" means here, though.
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by autarch 4y ago
Yeah, it's not as ridiculous, for sure. But I think it'd be better to allow people to apply first for an initial screening and then ask for this stuff in pieces over the course of the process. It's really not right to front l
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by autarch 4y ago
I'm surprised no one else has brought up Oxide's process, which has a similar writing-heavy stage as part of the application. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xtofg-fMQfZoq8Y3oSAKjEgD... for what
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Restoring Window Positions in Gnome After Switching Monitor Inputs(blog.urth.org)
2 points by autarch 4y ago|0 comments
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by autarch 4y ago
Here's a rust example - https://github.com/autarch/channel-select
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by autarch 4y ago
> Has GitHub introduced some “showcase” feature, ... Yes, you can pin repos to your profile. But you can also create a profile repo. See https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an... I wrote a
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by autarch 4y ago
Anyone else read The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi? It's a near future SF novel about water shortages in the American southwest. It definitely made me sure I'd never want to move to Arizona or New Mexico.
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by autarch 4y ago
That's not what a protected class is. A protected class is something like "gender", "race", or "religion". It's not "women", "black people", or "Jews". Discriminating bas
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by autarch 4y ago
FWIW at my last job with ActiveState we _did_ let people skip the take home if they could point us at a public project.
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Software Job Search 2022 Retrospective: Coding Challenges(blog.urth.org)
2 points by autarch 4y ago|3 comments
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by autarch 4y ago
Ah, the mysterious ways of the New York Times. For some reason I didn't get paywalled. But regardless, it's not readable on archive.ph, unfortunately.

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