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by autarch 5y ago
What you're describing is a Staff or Principal Engineer title and should be compensated accordingly.
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by autarch 5y ago
I've been buying masks from Armbrust since early in the pandemic. I didn't trust anything on Amazon, and I wanted something made in the US, on the theory that the high-quality stuff made in China would be less likely to be exporte
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by autarch 5y ago
I wouldn't call it a "facade". It's 4-day weeks where in some weeks you have to be on call on Friday. If there's enough people that means being on call every month or two. As long as they're up front with us wh
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by autarch 5y ago
> This attitude is a major reason why public education is so utterly messed up in the US. All of the social and mental work that should be done elsewhere is simply not done. Time after time, the schools (and police) are called on as the
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by autarch 5y ago
I'm not following. The vast majority of people in school are younger than 18. I agree with you that it should be fine for most parents to leave an older kid (say 14+?) at home alone. But again, some kids just want to go to school to ge
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by autarch 5y ago
Freddie de Boer just wrote something on his Substack about this - https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/many-kids-dont-have-a-w... The quick takeaway is that school is that for the most vulnerable kids, school is about
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Ask HN: Have you used resume or comp negotiation services like levels.fyi?
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by autarch 5y ago
> Any issues of style should be in the style guide. Anything not in the style guide can be ignored. Or the style guide should be updated. I'd say any issues of style should be caught by required code formatting and linting tools,
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by autarch 5y ago
I think the word "trust" is covering a lot of ground in this piece and the discussion here. There are a lot of different things we may or may not trust about our colleagues and ourselves. Here's how I think about it: * I trus
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by autarch 5y ago
You might enjoy Jacqueline Carey's duology The Sundering. It's sort of LoTR told from the side of the "bad" guys, though it's set in its own original world, and the story isn't an actual retelling of LoTR.
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by autarch 5y ago
I wrote a blog post comparing tools in this family a while back that may be of interest - https://blog.urth.org/2020/05/08/comparing-code-quality-meta...
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by autarch 5y ago
I go to a lot of classical concerts here in the Twin Cities, MN, and the audience basically gives a standing ovation every time. I don't mind it. I'd much rather be part of an enthused, appreciative audience who celebrate the incr
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by autarch 5y ago
There are official Sqitch Docker images - https://hub.docker.com/r/sqitch/sqitch/ But I don't know if they have pgTAP on them. Edit: I just checked. It doesn't look like they do - https:/&#x2F
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by autarch 5y ago
Have you seen Sqitch ( https://sqitch.org/ )? It does exactly this, it's a battle-tested system with a decent number of users, and it supports many database. I didn't dig deep into this new system, but it looks very
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by autarch 5y ago
These are both things where practice can help. For rhythm, as skybrian noted, try counting and clapping along. Then try writing down the rhythm of a melody or some other part of a piece of music. Have your teacher or someone with better rhy
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by autarch 5y ago
I'm the creator (often with others) and maintainer of some very popular Perl distributions that are used either by many other libraries, many applications, or both. The most notable are probably DateTime ( https://metacpan.or
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by autarch 5y ago
Also noting ... when people ask me what the shirt is about, it's really hard to summarize. I can say it's an idle game, which many people recognize, but explaining what the game is _about_ is challenging. Basically I have to start
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by autarch 5y ago
Yes, that's the shirt I'm wearing.
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by autarch 5y ago
I love Universal Paperclips. I've played through it a few times over the years. In fact, I'm wearing a UP t-shirt right now. I won't say what the text is, since it's a spoiler for one of the best moments in the game.
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by autarch 5y ago
Maybe the best option is just to give people a choice.
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by autarch 5y ago
If you really want to test someone's coding, let them do some coding in their own time with their own tools and send it to you. This isn't ideal, since it can be time consuming, but I think it's more humane than live coding i
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by autarch 5y ago
I really love those suggested questions. I made a note to come back to this next time I have to do some interviews.
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by autarch 5y ago
Yeah, "for some reason" is a good summary of many Go decisions. Rust has both (traits are somewhat like interfaces) and I don't feel like it's too painful, though using the trait type in function signatures is a lot more
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by autarch 5y ago
> But then you need to write all the setters, and something that was supposed to be simple, a function, becomes a whole contraption with a bunch of auxiliary code. Personally I would avoid that, and I definitely wouldn't make it a
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by autarch 5y ago
I feel like strong typing _helps_ when exploring a new domain, as it forces you to really think about the data you're operating on. In a language like Perl or Python, it's so easy to just throw around a bunch of hashes/dicts
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by autarch 5y ago
> You can kind of do that by passing a struct as an argument, and represent the optionalness by having a pointer in the struct. That's still awkward, you can't easily make a pointer to an integer or string literal, you need a
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by autarch 5y ago
A bit OT, but how does 4x10 work for developers? I feel like realistically no one can write code for 8 hours a day anyway, so what does a 10 hour day look like? More meetings? More browsing Hacker News? More hanging around on Slack in case
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by autarch 5y ago
> *I could divide my house into 2 units with a few walls and electrical work. Lots of houses have unused or underused attic/garage/conditioned space that can be converted relatively cheaply. A few walls, some electrical work, a
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by autarch 5y ago
Is the ROI on that worth it? Again, I think we're looking at $200k in construction costs for $2,500/month in rental income. Also, one other thing I forgot is that this construction will probably increase your property taxes, furth
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by autarch 5y ago
(Stealing this argument from a friend who I discussed something similar with ...) It's hard to see how allowing duplexes will do _anything_ to address housing issues. We have a similar law here in Minneapolis which allows triplexes on

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