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by bcbrown 7y ago
> iTerm2 automatically identifies paths in the stack backtrace, so I can mouse click them and open in TextMate at the correct line. That sounds super convenient! How do I learn more? A quick search didn't turn up anything relevant.
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by bcbrown 7y ago
I was camping in Badlands National Park when a thunderstorm rolled through and lightning struck about a thousand feet away. The next day I went exploring to try to find where it hit. After crossing a stream and hiking up a small butte, I wa
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by bcbrown 7y ago
If you're interested in trying Campari in other settings in order to acquire a taste for it, I would suggest trying a Jasmine: http://drinkboy.com/Cocktails/Recipe.aspx?itemid=88
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by bcbrown 7y ago
Fantastic books. I highly recommend Mind and Nature.
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by bcbrown 7y ago
https://github.com/bcbrown/bookreviews/tree/master/2016 https://github.com/bcbrown/bookreviews/tree/master/2017
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by bcbrown 7y ago
I attended a talk at Strata a few years back by a Spark committer who was talking about how Spark was stretching JVM memory allocations far past how the JVM was originally designed. Do a couple searches for "spark JVM OOM" and you
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by bcbrown 7y ago
Someone's already doing something like that: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/this-florist-s...
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by bcbrown 7y ago
I use index cards to write out quotes I want to preserve.
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by bcbrown 7y ago
You might find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence interesting.
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by bcbrown 7y ago
You're not. Market makers really like filling orders for small-time investors because it's really unlikely that a small-time investor knows more then the market maker. They don't like filling orders for big institutional inve
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by bcbrown 7y ago
Italo Calvino isn't an exact match, but you might want to try out The Nonexistent Knight or The Cloven Viscount to see if it's close enough.
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by bcbrown 7y ago
I have two answers to that: Measure and adjust: Find a source of high-quality code reviews; the easiest source may be the high-level engineers at your employer, but if that's not possible/helpful, I'm sure there's free&#
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by bcbrown 7y ago
> Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Neruda, Borges, Italo Cavalo, Umberto Eco, Marukami, Junichiro Tanizaki I know and love all those authors, but have never heard of Junichiro Tanizaki. Where should I start with him?
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by bcbrown 7y ago
Read "How To Read A Book", it has a lot of good techniques.
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by bcbrown 7y ago
That doesn't mean they had that amount of capital under investment. If you bet $10 every week, and every week you win $11, at the end of the year you've bet $520 and made a profit of $52. But you never had more than $10 "inve
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by bcbrown 7y ago
Systemantics/The Systems Bible, by John Gall, for a lighthearted, whimsical introduction through real-world examples across a range of industries. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, by Gerald Weinberg, for a more rigorous&#x2
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by bcbrown 7y ago
I'm a pretty decent touch-typist, but I have some hiccups when using the symbols on the number bar (@#$%^ etc), or brackets, or other stuff that's common when programming but uncommon in most texts used by touch-typing programs. S
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by bcbrown 7y ago
> We have looked for more Elixir developers. They are rare beasts. But we have a lot of Python developers. Was there any consideration of training up the Python developers on Elixir?
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by bcbrown 7y ago
That's one thing that the concept of federalism addresses. The ability for cities and states to experiment with different policies allows the federal government to wait and see which experiments bear fruit before rolling them out natio
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by bcbrown 8y ago
The best way I've found to handle that is while scheduling the final interview. The one that's further along, ask for the in-person to be a week later then they'd proposed. Try to schedule the two in-persons at the two compan
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by bcbrown 8y ago
Ad-hoc polls, for one. Also useful for quietly acknowledging a message without sending a noisy notification. If I report an update to a supervisor during a production incident I'd rather get thank-you reaction then a reply that trigger
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by bcbrown 8y ago
Do you have any resources or suggestions for better types of questions to ask, especially for individual interviewers without control over the overall process? I try to avoid those sorts of questions, but it's hard for me to come up wi
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by bcbrown 8y ago
> But for example, when I write a particle system, how would I test that? Do I test all combinations of parameters and then compare them with images, which takes a million years? Look up pairwise-independent combinatorial testing: https
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by bcbrown 8y ago
I added Lost Languages to my reading list, thanks for the suggestion.
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by bcbrown 8y ago
If you're in Seattle, (or don't mind buying online) check out https://www.davidsongalleries.com .
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by bcbrown 8y ago
Note, that last link is to a crappy "unofficial" copy of the book that looks like it was printed from Notepad; every page has a header of "On War.txt". Do not buy it, it's practically unreadable.
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by bcbrown 8y ago
One of the things I really like about this approach is how well it lends itself to separating what needs unit testing from what is unsuitable to unit testing and should instead be validated by higher-level end-to-end/functional testing
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by bcbrown 8y ago
> js "wat" lightning talk (which I now can't seem to find...) https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by bcbrown 8y ago
Have you heard of the ideas in https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct... ? Essentially, his position is that it's only worth unit-testing those tricky bits, and the rest is inherently not
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by bcbrown 8y ago
This seems like a good place to plug one of my favorite pieces of writing on communication and how it can go wrong: http://jkorpela.fi/wiio.html

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