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by cranium 3y ago
A good technical writer produces clear and concise text. A 1000 word essay about the company is more of an exercise in creativity (and one might even say an exercise in "brown nosing").
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by cranium 3y ago
Good points, but it does not invalidate the content. I particularly like the structure of this blog post: each title is direct and the paragraph below gives its substance. Structure is paramount for technical writing.
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by cranium 3y ago
Try talking to students and you'll get a different answer. I asked a room of a dozen eighteen years-old if anyone did not use it regularly, and no-one raised their hand. They use it as a better Google to get understandable answers,
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Gitlab: Code Suggestions for VSCode available in beta(docs.gitlab.com)
5 points by cranium 3y ago|0 comments
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by cranium 3y ago
I hope we will progress as a specie and we'll start to see these statements are all as ridiculous: - You are missing a hand? OK, I understand. Now can you deliver those boxes to the 3rd floor without elevator? - Everyone has some ups a
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by cranium 3y ago
The thread dates one month ago which is before the API pricing fiasco. I'm not sure if Reddit is still A/B testing this strategy of alienating everyone on mobile that does not use their "one and only" app.
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by cranium 3y ago
For non-Americans like myself: 8th graders are 13-14 years old.
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by cranium 3y ago
Nintendo is famous for being trigger-happy with DMCA requests. They shut down tons of Youtube videos that no other gaming company would even think of striking, like speedruns. Some Youtubers won't even cover Nintendo games for fear of
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by cranium 3y ago
I loved Elm as soon as I had a running app that I could refactor and be (reasonably) sure it would work once the compiler was satisfied. However, I don't like the way the project is run. It's one Benevolent Dictator that has a par
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by cranium 3y ago
Cases like that arise when you want to force a certain monetization practice and it does not match perfectly with the reality. To make it more palatable, HP should offer a way to buy the remaining ink or ask to return (free of charge) the c
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by cranium 3y ago
I journal daily, morning and end-of-(work)day. It's interwoven with my daily planning so it looks more like a TODO list with personal comments than a plain journal. For the benefits: - Writing: I'm faster and clearer than before,
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by cranium 3y ago
I can't check the code on my phone right now, but does it handle mDNS queries (xyz.local)? It's kind of a special case but really useful in a home setup.
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by cranium 3y ago
Surprised to see South Korea and Vietnam in there. Is there a particular cyber-history with Microsoft? (I know the History with Vietnam, I'm asking for specifics.)
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by cranium 4y ago
Mic is plugged directly on the camera, so audio and video are always in sync.
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by cranium 4y ago
I bought an Elgato Cam Link 4K to use my Sony A7II for video calls. I didn't have a webcam before the pandemic so I would have spent at least 100$ for a passable one. Sound was already solved with an Antlion ModMic 5 on a good pair of
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by cranium 4y ago
A controversial $35k spending also gives you a good ad spot on HN. Well done sir.
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by cranium 4y ago
Good point, and also why the topic of performance is so prone to heated discussions. To paraphrase Knuth "97% of the time, don't optimize except if it's an easy 12% improvement". I don't think there exists a good he
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by cranium 4y ago
A 10000x performance gain could still be insignificant, see Amdahl's law. That's why you need to understand bottlenecks in your system before going around and start optimizing things, as it could be pointless or even counter produ
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by cranium 4y ago
You can optimize even further by creating a custom chip to compute the area of shapes in the order of billions per second. But what's the point? Where is the value? Can't say it better than Knuth: We should forget about smal
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by cranium 4y ago
Don't forget it was written in Nov 2017, AlphaGo Zero was just released at this point. Seeing how the field evolved in a 5-year span, I can understand the desire to be at the forefront. Personally, I want to keep working on things that
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by cranium 4y ago
Other than questionable ethics, it can lead to immediate termination. But as always, there's lying and "lying". Saying you quit when you were laid off, I would consider lying. Telling you needed new challenges when in fact yo
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by cranium 4y ago
The Blind format rewards edgy comments. I don't think anyone would really advocate for lying during the recruiting process.
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by cranium 4y ago
I put off starting my blog for so long because I didn't feel I was good enough. Each idea worthy of a post felt so inadequate when laid down, because of my weak writing. It's agonizing to reread the text and be bored by your own c
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by cranium 4y ago
I finally bought it a month ago after years of "trial". It's an expense that student me would never had approved, but now I'm glad to give back because the font makes me so happy.
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by cranium 4y ago
Craftsmanship is not valued the same way by everyone, and it costs a lot more. The people paying for software (either in salary or in license fees) have to choose their battle: quick and cheap is generally the default target. Most likely, y
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by cranium 4y ago
Speaking of good enough computers, I'm really happy with the power of mobile processors right now. With my usage (dev, some Docker, browsing, on a light Manjaro+i3), I can shop for form factor and utility and know it won't feel sl
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by cranium 4y ago
Human Behavioral Biology, a Stanford course taught by Robert Sapolsky. It's a thorough look on some of our behaviors through the lens of hormones, neural/nervous system, and how evolution shaped us. Also, Pr Sapolsky is a great sp
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by cranium 4y ago
I set "noprocrast" in my profile: maxvisit=30 and minaway=360 (just upped from 120). So 30 mins for looking at the frontpage links and writing a comment if I want to. Then 6 hours where I'm reminded that I'm opening HN o
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by cranium 4y ago
It would work for most "classical" software development. In this case, the author talks about conformance tests (a HUGE collection) from an external vendor. Most of them will fail at first, then you make them pass slowly but stead
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by cranium 4y ago
You advise to be human and kind but automatically categorize "difficult people" as being on the spectrum? And no worry, some engineers don't need to be on the spectrum to be difficult. Conversely, people on the spectrum are n

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