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by courtf 6y ago
> It’s important to be in the right kind of environment, and around the right kind of people. Namely, people who went to an elite school (which inevitably implies they have rich parents) and aren't going to burden your fledgling c
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by courtf 6y ago
I agree, the meaning of life is just that simple: to be alive. No greater meaning exists, and that's fine. We can live life without so much meta-analysis. To arrive there though, we often need to see other personal sources of meaning e
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by courtf 6y ago
I believe the existential crisis so many are experiencing has been caused by the pandemic, but perhaps not in the way one might expect when approaching the problem rationally. Yes, we are more isolated, and perhaps concerned for the safety
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by courtf 6y ago
We don't really know this with such certainty. Our records have gaps and only extend a few thousand years back, at most. Even then, we often only have bits and pieces for certain populations. It's a large stretch to generalize ove
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by courtf 6y ago
I wouldn't be so sure, history is an awful long time and we don't have great records for most of it.
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by courtf 7y ago
I see something similar happening with functional programming. Beyond measurable improvements (ie, in error rate, etc) there is often a mindset where if a language does not implement the latest syntactic patterns, then the language cannot b
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by courtf 7y ago
I think there are multiple levels to this phenomenon. With Go in particular, after having used it in some high performance scenarios (10k request per second for images that are rendered on the fly by GPUs, on systems holding 200GB of binary
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by courtf 7y ago
Apparently, there are some conditions where it can go airborne, but most transmissions are by droplet. I'll amend my comment. Healthcare providers will been using airborne protocols, which was where i got the idea.
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by courtf 7y ago
I did make a typo, I should have used "incubation," not "gestation." It is not infectious during incubation, by definition. Then there is a "prodrome" period of a few days during which you would be infectious.
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by courtf 7y ago
Thanks! Fixed it
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by courtf 7y ago
My husband is a career public health clinician who organizes vaccination clinics (has given out hundreds of thousands of vaccines for infectious disease, many for free via grants). At the state level here in US, he has mounted responses to
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by courtf 7y ago
A few hot responses! (all in good fun) > polyglot, blub, functional paradigms Damn, one more I would have had bingo. > Go is actively hostile to functional programming Well, it does have genuine first class functions, lambdas and
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by courtf 7y ago
I love these anecdotes, thank you! The greatest programmer I've had the privilege of working closely with could easily pass most technical screens, but he's an odd fellow, and I don't think could handle the stress and anxiety
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by courtf 7y ago
Not sure if they were using this exact method, but I did interview at a place that had a long, grueling process (series of interviews, coding challenge, etc). They also asked for every employer back to high school, as well as contact info f
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by courtf 7y ago
Took the words right out of my mouth! I feel a little guilty when I'm reminded that "the language is just a tool," meanwhile I am loathe to switch unless truly necessary. Honestly, I don't think I have the memory space t
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by courtf 7y ago
There's a lot of talk in these comments about the new 'try' built-in and error handling in general which gives me the sense that errors are more controversial and in need of criticism than the proposed generics design. I see
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by courtf 8y ago
Just insert this slim, minimally intrusive sensor into your anus until the soft beep it emits can no longer be heard; that's how you know it's in far enough. Our team in Copenhagen came up with the sleek design (you should see the
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by courtf 8y ago
I don't agree with this, and I find the pace of writing in Go to be quite quick. I've recently been working on a server that performs arbitrary work pre-defined in DAGs, with an API, full tests and several fancy features. The init
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by courtf 8y ago
Luckily you can implement a stack in 10 very simple lines. And if you don't want to do that, there are many existing implementations.
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by courtf 8y ago
don’t find types to be worth the trouble This is the part I always fail to grok in discussions about type systems. For me it is just the opposite: I typically don't find dynamic typing to be worth the trouble, so I fail to understand
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by courtf 8y ago
As a millennial born in the early 80s, I know a good number of people from my college years who, I have learned over time, live a similarly charmed life. Looking back, there was always something a bit odd about these folks: namely, that the
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by courtf 8y ago
I was responding to these lines: I'm not hiring artists I'm hiring engineer's. I'm not hiring your for your gorgeous code in x language, I'm hiring for problem solving skills and communication. I agree with the se
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by courtf 8y ago
Software is far more art than you think, and rigid, formulaic thinking can be a detriment to good problem solving skills. Especially when solving something you can't just look up on the internet. If your engineers aren't writing c
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by courtf 8y ago
Would you ask a violinist to draw the chords they would play on a whiteboard, or would you hand them a violin?
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by courtf 8y ago
Completely agree. My best decisions are not made on my feet, and I have often been responsible for difficult technical tasks. I also prefer to "communicate my thinking" in the form of readable, well-tested code that can be verifie
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by courtf 8y ago
Yep, once you start leanin' in you just can't stop. In all seriousness, I do wonder how these billionaires can resist just riding off into the sunset. Have some damn dignity.
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by courtf 8y ago
In addition, it's pretty easy to avoid heap allocations in Go, so you can do some basic (but effective) management without breaking a sweat.
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by courtf 8y ago
Yeah definitely a bug. I've worked on systems that allocated and freed hundreds of GB every 10 minutes, written in Go with no such issues.
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by courtf 8y ago
That's not Shalamov's point though, which is what I'm trying to steer us back towards. I think it's fair to take from Shalamov's words that religion is getting short shrift from secular society in the west today. Bu
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by courtf 8y ago
The way it's worded it mostly just sounds like men were generally more cowardly. Of course there could be a variety of pressures that might account for the anecdote, such as women not being given the opportunity to refuse.

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