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by bcbrown 9y ago
I have dry eyes, and I've been been working as a developer for close to a decade now. I use eye drops several times a week, and about once a week, in the shower, I use this: http://www.theratears.com/sterilid/ . It
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by bcbrown 9y ago
That looks right up my alley, I've added it to my reading list.
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Mind And Nature - A Necessary Unity, by Gregory Bateson, and I Am A Strange Loop, by Douglas Hofstadter. They're a great combination, as they're both attempts to define the concept of "mind" through patterns. Bateson is
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by bcbrown 9y ago
> The Design Patterns guys were often saying that design patterns and other kinds of common incantations were often symptoms of deficiencies in programming language design. When I reread the GoF book a few years ago, I was struck by the
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Same article, not behind paywall: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/06/14/why-tight-lab...
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> The biggest threat they faced was from erosion I've always thought that was incredibly cool. These trees live so long that a primary cause of death is the mountain literally eroding away from beneath them .
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> In the worst case, an option is going to be worth 0 and in the best case it's going to be worth > 0, so the value of an option is always positive until the company actually dies. That's only true as long as you're sti
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What wasted effort? Sure, not all of my initiatives gain traction, but to expect otherwise would be unrealistic. Perhaps I've just been lucky to work at companies that are receptive to personal initiative, improvements and ideas. Regar
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The personal fulfilment from contributing to a constantly-improving work environment is what makes it worth it.
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Yeah. I'd chop a couple of the oldest jobs off my resume and look for companies with a culture of mentorship and training.
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I took a year off to travel in my late 20s. Five years later, it hasn't been an impediment in my career. My timing was in part because I was about to move out anyway, and hadn't yet bought much furniture, because I had roomates. I
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by bcbrown 10y ago
Here's my favorite quotes from Meditations: "Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts." P59 "Awaken; return to yourself. Now, no longer asleep, knowing they were only dreams, clear-headed again, treat everything aro
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I would do both, but prioritize learning by doing. For theory, focus on what is commonly tested in interviews, namely algorithms and data structures. I would also suggest auditing an online course on operating systems. That shouldn't t
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> The main reasons for choosing Hadoop were scale, a desire to unify data, and technical curiosity on the part of Blackboard engineers. > Blackboard was moving JSON data exhaust from a relational database into Hadoop and then back out
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> Netflix doesn't weight those ratings any more highly than the 5-star ratings of someone who rates nearly everything as 5 stars. Is that fact or speculation? It's a common recommendation technique to find the mean rating for a
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by bcbrown 10y ago
If you're looking for work, you should put contact info in your profile here. If you're in Seattle, email me.
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> it's like reading a description of a painting in book form. Interestingly, that's exactly how I would describe reading Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. It's very hard to read at first, until you can get into the
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by bcbrown 10y ago
I'm not a super advanced Vim user (I mostly use hjklbw with numeric prefixes to get around) but it's all muscle memory, and I don't ever feel like I'm context switching.
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I am not my employer, and that policy is not mine to set.
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If you're looking for a job, where do you live, and why don't you have your email in your profile? If you're in Seattle, send me an email; my email's in my profile.
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by bcbrown 10y ago
I've had a similar experience. I will now decline all online take-home coding evaluations. I want the process to require a symmetric amount of effort from both sides.
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I love that book. Have you read https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-General-Systems-Thinking... ? It's similar, but a bit more rigorous.
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I once got an email from a recruiter, a week or so after phone screening for the exact same position, through the exact same recruiter.
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That was something that really bugged me about this essay. It says it's for "leaders", but it's really addressed to CxOs. I was hoping to get some useful insight into becoming a better informal leader, but there was very
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I've heard it said that Buckminster Fuller described fire as "sunlight unwinding from tree trunks", which struck me as a very poetic way to phrase it.
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No. I am not my code.
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I'm skimming through Effective Python, and so far I think it's a pretty good "best practices" guide for intermediate Python developers.
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What did you think of 48 Laws of Power? I read a couple pages, but found it to mostly be excuses for being a jerk. I enjoyed Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and Elegant Universe.
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I only read paper books. I like the physicality, and I like being able to write in the margins, if I own the book.
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Have you heard of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man? It's somewhat similar.

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