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by da39a3ee 5y ago
The best programming language book ever written is the O’Reilly Rust book Programming Rust by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff. (It’s for people who are already programmers.)
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I joined a startup a decade ago which was great and taught me a lot in the early years. I stayed all that time though because of options. Made a bit from them, took some time off for personal study/projects, and eventually moved to a
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I really like this idea. jq is great too, but the jq language just seems to be too different from anything else for me, so it only works if I use it every day, which I don't. But I guess an issue is that I'll still need to use jq
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Not a bad effort from The Guardian on a somewhat deep topic. It's sort of fabricating drama of course: if you only need predictions, then you use a neural network. If you want to understand mechanism, then you develop theory and use ex
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I think chongli's point was fair. "University-level mathematics" usually means proving claims. But they were doing calculations.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
OK thanks. Does it (despite the name) take place in a conventional class room? Just wanted to check that the implications wasn't that it was particularly bad for covid transmission, like a big crowded gymnasium or something.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
What’s Study Hall?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
It's cool but it's not going to be that uncommon a story around here! I also switched my parents from Windows to Ubuntu 20 years ago. However, I subsequently switched them to Mac 10 years ago. They'd have been mostly OK stayi
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Can anyone explain clearly and objectively and succinctly what an NFT is, for an audience who knows how the internet works, what a hash function is and what properties they have, and how bitcoin works.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> “mindless kids who put PRs up thoughtlessly”. Sorry, I wasn't accusing you of holding that position. Some embarrassing idiot on the emacs-devel mailing list said it.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Right, exactly. It's moving to issues and PR-based workflows that's the important thing. If GitHub becomes problematic in the future, they can switch to some other provider of similar functionality, and all the millions of program
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
It’s fantastic that Python is moving to github. It’s so frustrating that projects like django, emacs, python, etc have insisted on using these antiquated development workflows and that some of the old timers even insist that they are better
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I've never wanted that sort of backup in the last 20 years of computer usage. I think it's a bit old fashioned honestly. Nowadays a computer is an ephemeral thing; all that's persistent is files in the cloud, git repos, and p
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
leetcode is testing a broad range of algorithm design concepts. It's an intellectually rich area, not boring or "thinking in one particular way". And it's an area of computer science that indeed does involve creativity.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> PRs are an afterthought and not what you want to spend your time on as an engineer. Couldn't disagree more, and don't even understand where it's coming from. When you've dome a substantial body of work, it certainly
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Fair enough, that all makes sense. I do push branches and hope people won't look at them if they aren't connected to PRs :) > I don't trust any backup that requires me to remember and take a manual action. (Google drive ha
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yes, I think I stick to my ground. I'll address your points below. There are two camps here: 1. A large number, possibly a majority, of people who aren't yet familiar enough with git. Those people think of commits as being final:
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
This tool Dura is totally unnecessary for people who are comfortable with git. People are thinking about commit wrongly. You should commit all the time, and make use of branches liberally, and push branches to a remote for backup. Then, you
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> There are too many gaps between "what I want to commit to a repo" and "what I would hate to lose in the event of a total system failure". You’re thinking about commit wrongly. You should commit all the time, and mak
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Lest you thought this was s joke, looks like Google’s version of this document is just as bad: https://developers.google.com/style/inclusive-documentation I’ll mostly use these documents to remind me to use these terms
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
If you’re talking about programming jobs in the US, and you’re a good programmer, no one will give a shit. They probably won’t ask but if they do you could say you were working on personal projects / studying some stuff you’d always wa
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Why was there doubt surrounding an entire chromosome trisomy? My understanding was that it is easy to have high confidence about that since allele frequencies in the sequence reads are skewed across the entire chromosome.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Don't fuss about your "social life" directly. Find a romantic partner, probably using dating apps, and then build your social life on top of your shared life with your partner.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Exactly! We're all free, and that freedom includes the right to be self-contradictory.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Haha! Surely you see the flaw in your argument? If he's free to boss people around from his high horse telling them not to use Discord, then I'm free to remind him that bossing people around is not an appealing sight. And you&#x2
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Please don't tell other people what to do.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I am over 40 and ever since I was 10 or so it has been my opinion that spiritual belief, though giving rise to some positive social activities, is a childish delusion of adults and mental abuse of their children.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Eee, back when I were a lad… (This has to be said in a Yorkshire accent)
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> If you'd asked my younger self 'what is a shrub?' I would have said 'uh, like a small bush?' Would your younger self have felt that one could always decide whether something was a bush or a tree?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yeah, no, fair enough. I didn't mean that people would express it in that terminology, or appreciate the distinction between paraphyly and polyphyly! What I'm trying to say is: anyone who has ever poked around in some wild vegetat

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