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by bgribble 6y ago
For me Vim’s value is as a great programmer’s editor, not so much as an IDE. There are a few things I have made or installed that I just could not live without: * CamelCaseMotion, allowing select/delete/change of just one or a num
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by bgribble 6y ago
I’m a Vim user and proponent so don’t get me wrong here, but is “creep” in the title intended to be a description of what Vim does, or of the Vim user/protagonist? :)
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by bgribble 6y ago
According to her Twitter feed, Timnit was asking for the same transparency that normally goes with Google pub reviews -- where all the reviewers and their feedback are known to the reviewee. This red-stamp "review" did not follow
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by bgribble 6y ago
Funny you pick that as an example! I do seem to recall a very large cohort of programmers (LOCALE=en_us) finding themselves dumped through a rabbithole of wonder which turned the black-and-white scenery of the Land of ASCII to the kaliedosc
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by bgribble 6y ago
Interesting stuff! In the world of equipment for making this kind of music, there’s a device called Mutable Instruments Grids [1] whose maker did this same sort of analysis just for drum patterns. She designed a “topographic drum sequencer”
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by bgribble 6y ago
Not noted in the article that usage of car share, hotel rooms, and parks are all already highly correlated with local conventions for work holidays. Sure, you can get an easy car share 95% of the time, but the 5% of the time that you actual
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by bgribble 6y ago
I can't find any author information in the linked doc but it reminds me of the work Donovan Kolbly was doing about that time on RScheme. I think RScheme was initially intended to be a teachable implementation and I seem to recall a boo
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by bgribble 7y ago
It has always annoyed me that they call the product "Firefox" but the animal in the branding is a red fox and not a firefox. The firefox (aka red panda) is a totally different animal more closely related to a raccoon than to a fox
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by bgribble 8y ago
It's one of the things I'm most pleased about at my current gig that reviews are in general collegial rather than adversarial. I wish I had a magic blog-post-length formula for how that happened. I don't. I know I personally
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by bgribble 8y ago
There are "bad people" throughout the startup investment ecosystem, including but not limited to: * just plain jerks * serial harassers, misogynists and the like * supporters of various evil/hateful politics * white-collar cr
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by bgribble 8y ago
I've been lucky to find companies where I could honestly say, "look, I have managed (up to CTO level) and I don't like it, I know myself well enough to know that I will just try to find excuses to write code. I want to be a
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by bgribble 8y ago
I'm 47 and got my first programming job at 19. I still love it and look forward to a good number more years. I have a few guidelines/principles that seem to have worked so far: * Do meaningful work, whatever that means to you.
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by bgribble 8y ago
In the US at least, the regulation of software in medical devices regulates the process by which the software is developed and tested. The qualifications of the people developing the code are somewhere down in the process-stack; there are n
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by bgribble 8y ago
I know it's not exactly scientific, but the front page of https://downdetector.com shows a number of services that have problem spikes starting anywhere from 3am US/Eastern to 9am US/Eastern and continuing through
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by bgribble 8y ago
Maybe unrelated, but my AWS-hosted websockets-using app had an outage starting at the same time. Also a third-party API provider we use for handling inbound phone calls. So this smells like a wider outage than just Slack.
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by bgribble 8y ago
We aren't paying for the work-product, we're paying for the time and inconvenience. It's more to show respect for the candidate's time than to actually "hire" them to do an interview. I mean, even "disco
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by bgribble 8y ago
I like to use whiteboards for non-coding design questions, like talking through how you would architect an app, drawing DB schema diagrams, etc. It's a tool that we use for collaborating on things like this in the office, so demonstrat
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by bgribble 8y ago
At my startup we pay interviewees a decent hourly consulting rate for take-home problems or full-day followup onsites (after the first interview). We only do them when we are pretty excited about a candidate but need more information to mak
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by bgribble 8y ago
For wine at least, any sommelier at a high-end restaurant has been through a course that you don't pass until you can perceive them. I know a couple of people who have been through it, it's for real. They teach very specific sen
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by bgribble 8y ago
> I enjoy great wine and it seldom costs more than $8 a bottle. You can definitely get really good wine cheap. But! Sometimes it's worth it to bump up. I drink a lot of whites these days because my wife can't tolerate red. I
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by bgribble 8y ago
I’m in a fast-growing small startup. In my experience, there’s no such thing as “culture fit” in a 10-person company, because every single hire is going to change that culture. To me, it doesn’t matter if the candidate “fits in” with today
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by bgribble 8y ago
Maybe they are getting better, but for a long time German cars' cupholders were breathtakingly bad. I remember a Mercedes SUV a family member drove that you pushed a button and up popped this complicated structure with arms that unfol
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by bgribble 9y ago
I have used a wadded-up piece of aluminum foil for this purpose for years. Works better than a bristle brush and no bristles!
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by bgribble 9y ago
IME it's the "completely brilliant" code that your future self will hate you for, and needs the most comments. Moreover, when the weight of those comments trends towards 50% being justifications for why you did it that way, i
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by bgribble 9y ago
The Secret Service is the law enforcement branch of the Treasury Department, like the FBI is the law enforcement branch of the Justice Department and ICE is of the Dept of Homeland Security. The President-protecting stuff is the weird part
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by bgribble 9y ago
I’ve worked as a software developer for 20+ years and have hired others many times. People lie on their resumes to an extent that is difficult to believe until you see it. Sometimes they can talk intelligently about coding in a way that c
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by bgribble 9y ago
It's well-known among low budget international travelers (and those that go well off the beaten path) that when s--t gets sketchy you just eat what's deep-fried. Hot enough to fry is hot enough to sterilize. Mickey D is not high
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by bgribble 9y ago
When a less-powerful entity owes a more-powerful entity money, the debt obligation works to ensure that they get their money back. Like when you owe a bank money. When the more-powerful owes money to the less-powerful, the debt obligation
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by bgribble 9y ago
So there are definitely printer dots in the posted images, but how do we know they are from a printer at NSA? They could be from a printer at The Intercept, a public copy and print shop, or anywhere else, intentionally left in as a red her
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by bgribble 9y ago
I'm the last person to want to really defend ORMs. But there's a flavor of Greenspun's Tenth Rule [1] that applies... it would go something like "Any sufficiently complicated database-using app has a buggy implementatio

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