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by dasmoth 9y ago
Have you had much luck finding such a setup?
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I'm another who thinks the original has stood the test of time pretty well (with the "quiet" looking more precious than ever). But were I updating, I'd be thinking about something like "do you compare your developer
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Mission and working environment have already been mentioned plenty of times, and are certainly important. One that doesn't show up a huge amount at the moment, but which holds huge weight for me (potentially trumping salary) is autonom
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Greg Bear wrote a number of books (Slant comes to mind, but there are others) where “Thinkers” play an important role. Not sure how they’ve aged, but interesting in that they predicted AIs as mainframe-scale things with few individual inst
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by dasmoth 9y ago
"an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned." Some epithets are negative. But certainly not all.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
This has been posted a few times before, but when I think about living alone, it's the story of Paul Lutus that comes to mind: http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Thanks, I'd somehow missed Bayadera. Something else to take a good look at!
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Who's the numpy competitor? R? Eigen? Neanderthal? HMatrix? (Yes, none of these are exactly 1:1 equivalent with numpy, but there absolutely are options. And from my point of view, having some options which aren’t tied to Python is
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I’m glad that I’m not the only one alarmed by Vee. One thing that I think is true of most current children’s TV, but which struck me particularly during Chuggington is how consistently anti-individualistic it all is: teamwork is always th
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Yes [1]. Beryllium is, I believe, the material of choice (although comes with its own problems, e.g. stupidly toxic dust) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_reflector
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Curious why would one think agile is micromanaging? (At least in the case of Scrum): because some of the most vocal advocates say so[1]! The premise seems to be that fine-grained oversight is less objectionable if it comes from “the team
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Do other "emerging" languages also do well?
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Why do offices put up with meetings?(theguardian.com)
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Nice compilation, definitely some segments I don't remember seeing before. With those out of the way though... they've attempted 10 landings so far this year and all have been successful. Third flight of a reused booster is plann
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Agree an allowance would be a sensible way to go about this. But given that, as far as I can tell, most of the motivation for an LVT in the UK is some variant of "stick it to small private landlords", I think it's unlikely.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Probably PhD work for me, too. It's a slightly different experience in the UK, I think, but did afford me quite a bit of autonomy. Has been hard to match since. (I get the impression that the trend has been gradually towards more str
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I'd point to property taxes as a plausible way this can happen. They're already a non-trivial consideration for people looking at low-tech self-sufficiency, and I can only see this getting more pronounced. (This is something in t
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by dasmoth 9y ago
[(x (func y) z)]
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Good point. Although could, in principle, make space-between-list-items higher precedence than function application. E.g.: [x (func y) z]
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Haskell makes a reasonable job of combining infix operators with no commas between function arguments[1]. You sometimes end up with a few extra parentheses and $s instead, but things generally seem to work out. Does use commas for lists an
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by dasmoth 9y ago
There's absolutely no reason why everyone who wants one shouldn't have a static block of IP(v6) addresses. If they're hard to get, that's an ISP problem rather than anything else.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
One thought is that a lot of the current/recent tools in this area focus of synchronous collaboration. And it's not clear to me that sending your collaborators a regular stream of non-maskable interrupts is the best route to gr
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I'm inclined to agree, but it seems to have stuck, and is at least more specific than "server side rendering".
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Potentially a better term is "isomorphic", a label which is specifically applied to setups where you run the same rendering code client-side and server-side. That's still a comparatively new concept, at least as something
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I make and fettle software. Mostly bioinformatics/genomics in practice, but not especially wedded to that field. Have never been especially comfortable with the "software engineer" label, although it seems to be what a lot of
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Really interesting schedule. Could see something along those lines suiting me pretty well. Do many/any of you colleagues work weekends?
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by dasmoth 9y ago
For me, ideally permanent. I'd like to get the chance to know one place, really really well.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
"Digital nomad" is far from the only lifestyle enabled by remote work. Another example (which strongly appeals to me) is being able to move somewhere you can afford enough agricultural land to get a smallholding off the ground. I
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Thanks for pointing out Bard, I'll take a look!
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by dasmoth 9y ago
David Moon designed a post-Dylan language called PLOT: http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/ (Not implemented as far as I know)

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