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by bambataa 4y ago
I’m going to go out on a limb and claim that the large majority of big tech workers would be perfectly happy with a few promotions over a career and annual inflation-matching pay rises. Except you rarely get inflation-matching pay rises, so
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by bambataa 4y ago
It occurs to me that I've never seen a startup try to tackle runbooks. There must be lots of interesting things you could do here. Common problems: - really disorganised - information frequently gets out of date - missing relevant info
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What Is an API?(thecomputersciencebook.com)
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by bambataa 4y ago
> Do not pitch your stuff, let him speak. Find out his infrastructure, software and such, and the contract renewal times. Ask how frequently they replace servers, ask them if they are happy with the hypervisor ware etc. Do heads of IT re
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by bambataa 4y ago
Oh thanks, I didn’t realise things had migrated. It’s been years since I was on the forum but I remember it being very helpful and pretty active so I’m glad it’s still going in another form.
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by bambataa 4y ago
I recommend the content and especially the forums on http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html . Different languages have different best resources. Assimil are normally a good bet in my experience.
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by bambataa 4y ago
I do the same and agree, though I’m trying to push myself to be a little more sophisticated. The beauty of doing it that way is that it takes no thought. I want to select from here to just after that letter P. With hjkl and visual mode I’m
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by bambataa 4y ago
> Japan had a "Fifth Generation" project, trying to do AI with Prolog. All that stuff hit the upper limit of what you can do with that technology, and it wasn't a very high upper limit. What was the limiting factor of the
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by bambataa 4y ago
I had the exact same reaction. I did a bit of reading about Datalog and I get that it’s useful in things like static analysis where you get the fixed point analysis for free, but apart from that I am not really sure why I’d use it.
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by bambataa 4y ago
I wonder about this too. The UK has lower salaries than west coast US and a large pool of suitable workers. Big tech has a presence but why haven’t they moved their main operations to the UK?
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by bambataa 4y ago
Are we conflating “cool” with “high status”? I really don’t think they’re the same thing, even for a type-A MBA grad. They know that living in a warehouse and making art is cool, they’d just rather make money and have a socially-acceptable
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by bambataa 4y ago
Yes, that complaint just tells me they’d probably enjoy the book! I especially liked the section on Discordianism.
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by bambataa 4y ago
What I Learned This Week had an interesting paper a few months ago about this. It seems inevitable that freezing other countries’ assets will prompt them to create alternatives.
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by bambataa 4y ago
At one point I had the idea to tag each section or paragraph with a topic ID and list the topic IDs directly referenced. Then you could build a graph with the referenced topics as edges. After refactoring it into a DAG, you could do a topol
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by bambataa 4y ago
The Leanpub link provides a DRM PDF. Email me if it’s unaffordable for you.
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by bambataa 4y ago
Author here! Thank you to whoever posted this. My 2023 resolution was to market it better so this is a great help :). The overall intent was to create a single, fairly concise volume sketching out the main areas of computer science so that
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by bambataa 4y ago
I’ve been taking it too. How quickly did you start seeing that effect? I guess I have felt better but also coincides with taking time off at the end of the year etc.
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by bambataa 4y ago
Actually the author has another post about dealing with negative self-talk: https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/how-i-attained-persistent... And later posted about jhanas. Having read those, I do think his understanding
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by bambataa 4y ago
Relatively few do, but for those who make use of it, the compounding benefits are immense. Sometimes I think whether someone makes profitable use of the internet is the real social division these days.
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by bambataa 4y ago
Interesting insight into the life of a spam writer. I despise SaaS companies that funnel me into some kind of 30 day email journey when I’m just registering with things my company uses.
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by bambataa 4y ago
To be fair though the hippies were the counterculture. Reagan voters were the silent majority.
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by bambataa 4y ago
There’s a great documentary available on YouTube just called “Hippies” or similar. One of the main things I took from it was how earnest those young people were about trying to find a better way of living than their parents. They’d seen how
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by bambataa 4y ago
What are you using for full stack Typescript? I’m not aware of anything as batteries included as Rails.
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by bambataa 4y ago
I haven’t tried Copilot but I’ve used ChatGPT to help with doing Advent of Code in Python (which I don’t use regularly so I forget bits of syntax). At first I found it very useful to ask it to parse the input. Much faster than looking up th
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by bambataa 4y ago
Another way of phrasing it is “sharp STEM grass with strong interpersonal skills”, which seems like a good thing?
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by bambataa 4y ago
He really doesn’t seem to get it, does he?
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by bambataa 4y ago
I’ve seen colleagues share this or link to it in their Slack status. It feels a bit… odd to me. Yeah it’s maybe a bit annoying when people do this, but does it really need a whole campaign website? Not everyone is going to communicate in ex
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by bambataa 4y ago
The Times Literay Supplement is high quality and always interesting. Everything is through the prism of book reviews so perhaps not as much current affairs as you’d like. But still worth looking at.
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by bambataa 4y ago
Once I read an article about a guy who got arrested because he’d put child porn on his Dropbox. I had assumed he’d been caught by some more sophisticated means and that was just the public story. I’m amazed that anyone would be stupid enoug
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by bambataa 4y ago
> Single common thread has to be poor governance. Certainly in politics and the civil service and also, from what I hear, amongst business leaders. Strongly agree. I used to work in the civil service and there are many good individuals b

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