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by cdoxsey 9y ago
If you get rejected for a code sample don't take it too hard. You're probably being graded by an engineer who views this part of their job as a distraction and tries to get it done as fast as possible. Sometimes code will fail to
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by cdoxsey 9y ago
> But a man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced when he finds that everything proves it. And the more converging reasons he finds pointing to this conviction
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by cdoxsey 9y ago
Yes. Persistent memory: http://pmem.io . This a storage medium accessible like memory and much faster than traditional disks. It blurs the line between memory and disk and will fundamentally alter the way we build systems. For ex
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by cdoxsey 9y ago
I was just writing about using PNACL for a project the other day: http://www.doxsey.net/blog/juggle-tutor . In some ways the death of PNACL is kind of sad - as I think it was probably a technically superior solution. Bu
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Juggle Tutor(doxsey.net)
2 points by cdoxsey 9y ago|0 comments
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by cdoxsey 9y ago
Just a reminder that low life expectancy is largely the product of high infant mortality rates bringing down the average. If you were to survive to adulthood in the ancient world you would probably not die at 30, but something more like 60.
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by cdoxsey 9y ago
The important point about Go in this case is that it's fundamentally more efficient because it has real modules and can do incremental compilation. Sometimes people don't realize this because they always use `go build` which, as t
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by cdoxsey 9y ago
Yes but if you've ever purchased property the titling process can be really expensive. A block chain provides a way "to publish notice" that's indelible so could lower costs. In countries with poor property rights it cou
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On Counting(doxsey.net)
1 points by cdoxsey 9y ago|0 comments
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by cdoxsey 10y ago
California has term limits.
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by cdoxsey 11y ago
Gasoline is not untaxed in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State... . Public transportation, except for perhaps NY, is actually less efficient than driving because no one uses it. It'
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by cdoxsey 11y ago
This is true of programming too. You're better off learning how to code first and then learning the theory. Once you've got a few simple projects under your belt data structures and algorithms will make a whole lot more sense. You
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
It's a curse, in a way, to have (be?) a brain trained to recognize and solve problems, optimize expected outcome, and see through bullshit when the popular solution to existential debilitating dread — religion — crumbles at the sl
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
In 1977 Jim Fixx published the best-selling book "The Complete Book of Running" which popularized running for sport, and purported to demonstrate its health benefits - including increased longevity. 7 years later he died of a hear
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
Completely agree. You can do something like this: 1. Statically compile your application so that it can run standalone. For ruby, python or java that means including the interpreter and any dynamic libraries. Hard at first, but once you hav
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
Except all those dire predictions turned out be wrong. We didn't run out of food or resources, and birth rates have now declined in almost every country in the world. Population growth is basically now a complete non-issue. In retrospe
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
It's the paradox of happiness. Pursuing happiness as your goal in life is the one sure-fire way never to achieve it. More than that, the cold, calculating, statistical logic of a utilitarian hedonism that you see so much of in a "
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
Most routes are prefix matches, so a trie (or one of its variants) would work well.
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
Worth a listen: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/11/angell_on_big_p.htm...
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
> Cool, let's just bank on the generosity of companies. Because banking on the generosity of the government works so well for people. I'm suggesting precisely the opposite of this. Rather than everyone seeing themselves as vict
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
> In the US the only legal guarantee you get is that you can leave for 12 weeks unpaid and you'll probably still have a job when you get back. (1) Most companies provide better benefits than what is legally required (2) The US has a
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
All news is like that. When they cover stories we actually know something about we see that its all misinformed BS, but then for some strange reason, on other issues, we're perfectly happy to have every thing voxplained to us. (or the
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
In my experience solutions generally fall into two camps: 1) Create a "generic" version of the function using reflection / typecasts 2) Create a specific version of the function for your use-case I don't have a ton of ex
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How Go Is Unique: Static Linking, Composition and Russian Doll Coding(doxsey.net)
5 points by cdoxsey 12y ago|0 comments
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
Actually this is entirely achievable right now, with very little code. You can use WebRTC in chrome / firefox, which implements all the nasty details of peer-to-peer communication for you (and uses TLS-esque security). All you need is
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by cdoxsey 12y ago
> we have a political system in which the federal government, having devolved virtually all decision-making power to states That's definitely not true. Just look at the ACA. > California's high-speed rail progress—its propos
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by cdoxsey 13y ago
I agree that a law which wasn't as specific would be better.
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by cdoxsey 13y ago
Deciding how to educate their children is part of their religion. If you tell them "you must send your children to a public school" you are limiting their ability to practice their religion. And this isn't just an ad-hoc excu
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by cdoxsey 13y ago
Perhaps you don't realize this, but many parents choose not to use the public school system for religious reasons. Are you willing to trample all over their religious liberty and lock them up in pursuit of your utopia? You probably jus
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by cdoxsey 13y ago
Makes sense. A farm is private property. You don't have the right to come into my house or my place of work and film me. (Even if you suspect I'm doing something wrong) Also makes sense that falsifying a resume in order to do so w

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