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by catpolice 9y ago
Oh Hey, I know the author of this! In fact, I think I introduced him to that Spekkens paper. Small world.
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by catpolice 9y ago
Personal anecdote: the weirdest language I've ever used was a domain specific language that was adapted from punch cards used by a bank. It was basically a really weird assembly language. All the variables had 3-letter names, there wer
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by catpolice 9y ago
Know: Javascript, Python, Java, C/C++/C#, some basic knowledge of Common Lisp and a few others (quickbasic, various scripting or special purpose languages like Matlab) Want to learn: Clojure, Haskell, x86 assembly, webassembly, sh
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by catpolice 9y ago
GC is a no-go for a lot of games in general, just because the periodic stop-the-world cleanup causes unpredictable frame-rate-destroying performance hits. That doesn't matter a lot for some games, but it tends to stutter things like FP
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by catpolice 9y ago
Finding my "State Architecture Patterns in React" article series on this excellent list of yours was a nice surprise. Thanks!
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by catpolice 10y ago
Oh right, babies are stateful. I forget these things sometimes.
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by catpolice 10y ago
Why would you need to tell them apart?
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by catpolice 10y ago
Plugging my own, related project from a few years back: https://github.com/j-s-n/mazes A Python program that generates animated GIFs of some maze construction algorithms, e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.c
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State Architecture Patterns in React: A Review(medium.com)
2 points by catpolice 10y ago|0 comments
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by catpolice 10y ago
"HTML & CSS IS HARD" *ARE
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by catpolice 10y ago
43 lbs, ouch.
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by catpolice 10y ago
The thing that's helped me deal with impostor syndrome the most is to really internalize a couple realizations. It's less than my perception of my own competence was too low, it's that my perception of my peers' competen
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by catpolice 10y ago
Here's the deal: I disagree with this guy about a lot of things. I'm not going to address them one-by-one in a comment on a three year old piece. It's not my responsibility to write an essay about what precisely I think is wr
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by catpolice 10y ago
If I saw this linked from a resume, I'd throw the resume out. The projects are impressive and I haven't spent enough time with the essays to evaluate their technical merits, but the anti-harassment-policy rant is like a giant, bli
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by catpolice 10y ago
We have one of these sitting in the lobby at my office, used as a coffee table.
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by catpolice 10y ago
As a pedantic writer, it annoys me that the article starts by mentioning a quiz and making a big deal about answering yes or no to the questions... but there aren't actually any questions. The "quiz" is a list of statements.
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by catpolice 10y ago
I would also like this job.
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by catpolice 10y ago
"Sure, he can be an asshole, but at least he is honest about what he thinks." I hear this kind of thing a lot - the implication seems to be that the speaker believes that not acting like an asshole requires being dishonest about y
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by catpolice 10y ago
"And if you can make it look like it's for grown ups too, that'd be great." THIS. I'm not going to buy a laptop that looks like a prop from a Michael Bay movie. The best current option for a laptop with a GPU and a
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by catpolice 10y ago
Speaking of bad design, on mobile the text on that page slightly flows off the right edge in a way that interferes with reading and can't be fixed by zooming.
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by catpolice 10y ago
Infix notation IS funny, though I figured anyone learning arithmetic would be familiar and we're stuck with it - we probably can't convince grade schools to use Polish notation for arithmetic by default. In general, my attitude is
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by catpolice 10y ago
I guess what I was trying to say is that treating that as a ternary relation is already overcomplicating the matter. Really, there's no need for nth root notation at all, because we already have fractional exponentiation. Why have a th
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by catpolice 10y ago
Ah bummer. Both of those were actually just transcription errors because I was writing formulas out in the course of a meeting, playing with whether the order of the v operator should be that way or the other way around - I don't have
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by catpolice 10y ago
I don't like it for a number of reasons. One relatively simple one is that it doesn't naturally convert to a typed out version. Outside of category theory, where big commutative diagrams really do a ton of work, we should try to a
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by catpolice 10y ago
I've read a few articles like this that start with the assumption that storage space obviously needs to be conserved. I always wonder what these people are keeping on their phones. I always buy the version of the phone with the least s
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by catpolice 10y ago
Most of the modules involved are development side resources that don't end up included in the build. Complaining about the number of modules is like installing visual studio, noticing that it takes several gigs on disk and being like &
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by catpolice 10y ago
Headline misrepresents article. The relevant conclusion isn't "if you're friends with your ex, you're more likely to be a psychopath" - it actually notes that the most common reason people stayed friends with their
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by catpolice 10y ago
I started skimming the rules and was like "this all seems fine" and then noticed "no semicolons". YOU'LL PRY THEM FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS FIRST
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by catpolice 11y ago
I had lunch with this guy a few years back while attending a conference on category theory and the foundations of mathematics. He's super cool, and his talk changed the way I think about foundational topics in math a lot - I wish I cou
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by catpolice 11y ago
I think some of the math going on here is interesting and probably has some interesting consequences for people's expectations about means. But I'm not sure about that paper... I want to be generous here and assume I'm misund

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