brhsagain

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by brhsagain 4y ago
I don't know about this. If what you're saying is true, strictly speaking, novel thought would be impossible. I think the whole game of thinking is picking a set of existing words and concepts you inherit and independently reasoni
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Related comment that you made 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143575
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I use HN to test my internet. If other sites don't load, I don't know if it's because they're just down, taking forever to load 20 MB of crap, etc. If HN doesn't load, my internet is broken.
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Thank you!
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by brhsagain 4y ago
This is extremely interesting to me. I looked at the papers tree-sitter referenced but they were all written assuming an LR/generator-based parser and I couldn't figure out how to adapt it to recursive descent. Let's say I&#x
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by brhsagain 4y ago
What does that have to do with what the field is rooted in?
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I don't understand the argument around microservices purporting to fix scalability. Say your system has modules A, B and C in one app, and that A requires more resources while B and C are relatively unused. Won't B and C just run
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I think there's actually a big difference between morality and truth, and what you're saying applies to truth and not morality. If you went around telling people about germ theory, you could say, I'm objectively right and you
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by brhsagain 4y ago
The whole point is that it's only "obvious" now in hindsight that slavery is wrong. Now that our society treats that as an axiom, you can say, well, there are some things that are obviously just axiomatically wrong, let'
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by brhsagain 4y ago
This has to be the analog of "the first amendment only protects you from government restrictions on speech" in this conversation.
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Didn't Shkreli get released significantly earlier than 85% of 7 years?
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Is migration from Linear supported? Looks awesome but I don’t want to manually copy over dozens of open tickets.
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I agree with you that a level system creates bad incentives for everyone. But what they do provide is a rubric for the ambitious 23 year old who wants to climb to the top of whatever group he’s in. If you get rid of levels, what’s the new h
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by brhsagain 4y ago
How do you stop the measurement of impact from degenerating into exactly the same situation we have now? In fact, I’m pretty sure at many bigcos “impact” is already the official metric for promo. The real thing you’re getting at is that peo
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I agree with you that promo culture is pretty much the root of modern big company rot, but under your system, how do you propose an industrious, ambitious IC move up, whatever that means? Even if you think the status is fake and dumb (and I
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by brhsagain 4y ago
If you have to ask, don’t do it.
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I like how it teaches me things about Python that I didn't know. Just in the example, I didn't know about Path.read_text or str.startswith(<tuple>).
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by brhsagain 4y ago
The competition argument is getting weaker and weaker, IMO. The point of competition, in theory, is to facilitate a kind of darwinian process that iterates toward an optimal solution. We have basically found that: Gmail pretty much just wor
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by brhsagain 4y ago
> Intellectual determinism dismisses free will as theology because for us to be truly the way we experience ourselves, we must possess non-physical minds — or something like souls. A soul, like Hinduism’s atman, or a Godhead linking ind
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Ask to switch to the team in charge of processing the data manually. Use your solution and don't tell anyone. Do 1 hour of work, pass it off as 8, spend the other 7 enjoying cocktails on the beach.
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I'm building https://codeperfect95.com in C++, but it's more like C with C++ conveniences. I use instance methods, some weird template/con/destructor magic macros, auto, lambdas. Besides that it's pretty
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Before you try to differentiate yourself with new/niche features, you should make sure you're bringing table stakes. The biggest thing stopping me from using DDG is, sorry, the shittiness of the search results. Often I try 3-4 dif
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by brhsagain 4y ago
> First of all, pretty much all languages ever will make vacuous claims of "higher programmer productivity". The problem is that for a business this usually doesn't matter. Why? Because the actual programming is not the ma
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by brhsagain 4y ago
I'm not totally convinced this makes things better. To me, the problem with Redux is the whole act of having a ritual ceremony around every mutation you want to make to your state. To put things in perspective, I'm currently build
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by brhsagain 4y ago
That doesn't entirely contradict the author's statement. Redux may do all of those things, but the proximate need of most people who use Redux is sharable state. Then they use something like Redux because it provides "structu
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by brhsagain 4y ago
All of these supposed "flaws" of leetcode are by design. Big companies want people who are smart enough to do the work, but obedient enough to put up with all the bullshit that comes with working at a big company. What person bett
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Could be different era/circumstances, but when I was in school this would've been impossible. There was just way too much material to cover. If someone from my high school had claimed they aced all their classes by actually learni
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The whole game of studying is predicting what's going to be on the test, rather than nobly mastering the material in general and then doing well on the test by applying your knowledge. Anyone saying this is cheating either did badly in
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by brhsagain 4y ago
Yes, this is true and a real problem. The empire-building types. My personal favorite non-leetcode interview format is having the candidate spend 2-4 hours building a toy version of your product from scratch. It's hard, relevant, and f
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by brhsagain 4y ago
The problem I see over and over is that the new "job relevant" interview formats are always way easier than the old interviews. It is not even close, maybe as high as by a factor of 10. People argue that we should make interviews

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