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by avinium 8y ago
I was thinking exactly the same thing!
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by avinium 8y ago
Great stuff - like many things in the business world, fairly simple and common-sense but it’s highly valuable to run through.
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by avinium 8y ago
Usually these articles are nothing but fluff, but this was an interesting one. I realize that's (ironically) a fairly empty statement to make, but I'm sure the author will be pleased to hear it.
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by avinium 8y ago
If a consultant could jet in, diagnose and fix up some issues in a couple of days, that means the team did a pretty awesome job to begin with. A truly inexperienced team would have created a spaghetti monstrosity that was practically unsalv
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by avinium 8y ago
> Lately I spend more time on acceptance tests, which I do often write first. I use unit testing for non-trival logic. What's the difference between acceptance tests and integration tests?
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by avinium 8y ago
Any suggested resources/books for getting a better understanding of TLA+?
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by avinium 8y ago
Wouldn’t happen to have a link to that DailyWTF would you? Would love to read the discussion.
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by avinium 8y ago
I constantly remind myself that HN does not actually represent what most customers want and/or need in the real world. Most routine jobs/contracts at the coalface are still Java/.NET (possibly with a bit of Kotlin thrown in)
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by avinium 8y ago
I do, and while it's not perfect, I find it fairly serviceable. AWS, on the other hand, I found an absolute nightmare (though to be fair, I haven't touched it in 2 years).
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by avinium 8y ago
Really? I hadn’t read that, I just assumed it was based on Tacotron/WaveNet.
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by avinium 8y ago
What a marvellously British pontification.
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by avinium 8y ago
100% this. I’ve been physically active for my entire life, but I’ve also suffered from postural issues for the past 5 or so years, which I ascribe to a combination of: - extended sitting due to long days at the office - a weights routine t
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by avinium 8y ago
If you ever needed proof of the negativity in the tech community, this thread is it. Google actually delivers a real world product incorporating the most advanced AI we've had the chance to experience, and half the HackerNews comments
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by avinium 8y ago
Learning Clojure was, IMO, the best thing I could have done to improve my development skills. It helps you realize that programming is simply about data, and how you manipulate it. Design patterns, OOP, conventions, etc are all just seconda
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by avinium 8y ago
The cleanliness and "refactorability" of my code improved significantly when I drastically reduced the amount of subclassing I was doing. I wouldn't go so far to say "never subclass", but I'd say most of the
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by avinium 8y ago
Great article. I don't agree with 100% of your points but testing is a field where everyone has their own opinion shaped by their own experience, and I think you've covered every approach (along with its pros and cons) exceptional
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by avinium 8y ago
I always wondered how Quanta put such high quality material out in a traditionally low-profit industry. Now I know!
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by avinium 8y ago
Damn, I just wrote almost exactly these words before scrolling down to your comment. Could have saved myself a few minutes by upvoting yours instead.
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by avinium 8y ago
Hold up - you also have to tread very carefully there. I read your blog post above about "racist" NLP models and I agree it makes sense to debias inputs for certain purposes . However, many people in this thread aren't talki
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by avinium 9y ago
I've been in love with the Bloomberg redesign since it was launched, not sure I'd call it "brutalist" though. Strong/high-contrast, yes.
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by avinium 9y ago
That's the curse of dimensionality in effect. In very high dimensions, the probability that two randomly chosen vectors are orthogonal increases, and conventional distance metrics become less useful since most vectors end up very far f
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by avinium 9y ago
> You basically asked how to architecture a security aspect of your software. And you asked for other people's experiences to boot, instead of a canonical solution. That's exactly what I want to discuss on SO. Most SO questions
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by avinium 9y ago
What's your experience trying to bring the same approach to Australia? In my experience, Defence/military here have been incredibly close-minded and resistant to change.
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by avinium 9y ago
Not saying I disagree with you - but assuming what you say is true, what would you propose?
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by avinium 9y ago
> Is their $1000-an-hour lawyer just incompetent, or is the pro tem judge here allowed to make up the rules as she goes along? Neither. It's just typical corporate lawyer arrogance in trying to bully and bluff someone into submissio
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by avinium 9y ago
Governments everywhere would function a lot better if there were more people like you in them. I'm probably preaching to the choir, but government managers are deathly afraid to stick their necks out and say "no" to the ridic
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by avinium 9y ago
Is that just scripting, or does that include the engine? If it's just game scripting, then I could imagine it's possible to squeeze 2 mil lines out of junior devs. I assume there are very few things that can go drastically "w
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by avinium 9y ago
DDG results are great, but it still pains me that it's (relatively) slow compared to Google + Chrome, which is as close to instantaneous as far as I perceive.
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by avinium 9y ago
> 1. We always commit to the master branch where automated unit tests use to run. We threw out all of our unit tests because of some design mistakes that I made as the first time Dev lead. We were too dependent on brittle Mock based test
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by avinium 9y ago
#clojure, #machinelearning and #math on Freenode have been fantastic resources. I always try and encourage people to use IRC over Slack (which I've found to be a bit of a timewaster).

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