benrbray

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by benrbray 5y ago
Tests are useful, but the big reason that comments are useful is that they are co-located with the relevant code. At the moment, I don't know of any tools that allow you to 1) specify which lines of code are directly relevant to a par
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> And yet the amount of money going into research and pedagody hasn't really grown at all Indeed. At the big research universities that many people aspire to attend, students are paying tens of thousands of dollars for the part-tim
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I really like your point about losing our "second place". It's a great way to verbalize the feeling I've had that permanent WFH on a major scale takes American individualism to the logical extreme. Rather than learning
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Why a whole new protocol? Why not start a collective of like-minded users who design plain HTML/CSS websites that work for users who have JS disabled by default? As far as I can tell that would be a strict improvement over Gemini.
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I think that mandatory training is useful for everyone, not just immigrants. It's not like American high schools / colleges are teaching about finance.
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https://hackage.haskell.org/ down as well
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Buses take the place of 20-40 cars. Trains take the place of hundreds of cars, are quieter than the highway they replace, and only pass by every 5-15 minutes, compared to the constant drone of highway traffic.
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Yes please! It's unfortunate that this article and so many others focus on how we can design roads to be safer and more convenient for drivers , often requiring larger traffic control devices that make cities even more unnavigable fo
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I see quite a few unsubstantiated claims like this being thrown around in this thread. Can you help by clarifying 1) which activists? 2) which groups to which they do not belong are they speaking on behalf of? 3) in what way do they thin
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I think this is yet to be determined, but even if you're right, it still promotes a different kind of inequality. Remote work is strongly biased in favor of those with the resources to have a nice, distraction-free office setup at hom
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Howdy 4ur :) Nice article, I'm pretty sure I got dinged once for making this point in a job interview, so good to see you spreading the word.
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Of course, there's interesting work to be done at all levels of the stack. However, not every company will allocate time for solving frequently-encountered problems with creative solutions. Often, it's "ok, what's the
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I feel an analogous pain on the flip side of interviewing! I would kill for a job that lets me exercise some of these skills, rather than the brain rot of a typical software job which doesn't demand that one thinks too deeply about th
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For me learning Haskell has been a great way to expose myself to things that were previously "unknown unknowns". I do a mix of coding, for intuition, and reading papers, for theoretical context. The papers written by SPJ et al i
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For my entire time as an undergraduate, the large top-ten research university I attended offered no courses in programming language theory, nor were these topics woven into the computing curriculum at large. (actually, there may have been
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I love the idea! I have a UI suggestion: There is way too much wasted space. Information density is crucial for a search engine. It should be possible to see 20-30 results at a time without scrolling, at least on desktop. Right now only
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You might like Typora, which will handle image pasting for you. Some other software to look up: Foambubble, Obsidian, Dendron, Neuron Zettelkasten
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You can turn off the "issues" tab in your GitHub repository via Repo Settings > Options > Features > Issues.
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The point is opening it up so users have a choice. Third party stores will emerge, and it is up to the consumer, not Apple, to decide whether the extra features are worth the new apps being a little rough around the edges like they are on
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Verbal and emotional abuse are certainly major problems faced by children today, but physical abuse is so so so much worse. Physical abuse has strong emotional / social repercussions as well.
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> I got beat up a lot too As someone born in the 90s I'm always shocked to hear about how culturally accepted it was for children to be physically abused at school in my parents' generation. People talk about getting beaten up
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Possibly of interest, Edward Kmett posted [1] his thoughts on the issue to r/Haskell today as well. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/nfqw0t/thoughts_on...
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Oh, I hadn't heard the news about Canonical, that's neat! Last I checked desktop support for Flutter was unstable and I got the impression from the docs that mobile is the main priority. Maybe it's worth another look.
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Yup. Many people including myself are waiting for a viable Electron alternative to emerge, but until then Electron is leagues ahead of the rest. React Native is a missed opportunity for true cross-platform UI, but they chose not to suppor
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What would you say in response to someone who believes that widespread belief of a coverup would do more to sow distrust and division than a transparent admission of the truth?
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It's one of those tradeoffs we make to save time. I get practice tracing program logic by reading poorly organized code written by others, but for my own purposes, I have a standard, consistent way of organizing/formatting things
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As a tabs user I generally prefer this for multiline function calls, using a tab for alignment. I only use spaces for alignment for whitespace that isn't at the start of a line. void foo() { connect( this, ac
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> I hate it when developers try to break up code in weird ways to align all the equal signs together for example. I do this in cases where I have many similar lines, for instance calling the same function many times with different argume
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Probably needs a (2017). Past discussion [1,2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14560042 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20718031
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> Disclosing benchmark results is forbidden by the licensing How on earth is this enforceable? Talk about anti-competitive!

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