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by dasmoth 9y ago
There is a harbour at VAFB. It’s the only way Delta IV boosters can get there. Was originally build for the shuttle, I believe. Whether it’s big enough for BFR, I’m less certain... Edit: https://spaceflightnow.com/2014&#x2
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by dasmoth 9y ago
This certainly seems like a legislative overreach and worth watching if it progresses. But not really clear to me why code should be a specific exception? I’m a little disappointed in Github for trying to carve out a specific exemption jus
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Quite. I’m sure I’ve seen “no true scrummaster” used in the past to describe this form of debate.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
When looking at one tail of a distribution, a somewhat-logarithmic view can often make sense. The 90th percentile of a normal distribution lies almost as close to the mean as it does to the 99th percentile. See also, the UK definition of “
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Make sure there’s a clear description of what the organization does. For things like programming where there’s a lot of variety, some stuff indication of typical working environment is really nice. Daily standup? Lots of pairing? This
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by dasmoth 9y ago
3.5% end up with a meaningful income? That’s probably an order of magnitude more than I’d have guessed! Interesting...
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Mercifully, yes! Click the “three dots” icon in the top right and it should be obvious from there. (The “accessibility view”, accessed in the same place, is also worth a try)
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Readability is in the eye of the beholder! (and no, I’m not a K expert — but try working through a few problems and it does gradually start making sense) If you want a slightly more “English like” language which still gives you the array st
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Nothing I’ve seen recently. Seemed to be tied to K5, and there’s been at least one re-write since then.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Arthur Whitney seems to have been developing this stuff pretty steadily. There's a sparse-but-quite-informative website at http://kparc.com/ where you could follow the development of the K5 and K6 dialects. It's
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I’m stealing that.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Graduates: I won't say all, but I do think many modern graduates allow themselves to be too easily distracted on a mobile computer they own. While I think there’s some truth in this (and, ahem, not-so-modern grads...), it seems like
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by dasmoth 9y ago
For a long time, it seemed like Just Another Blogging platform -- maybe slightly nicer page layouts than some. But I'm now rapidly losing patience with the frequency with which it nags me to log in...
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Very much depends on the people. Two people can work okay, the chance of adding someone incompatible increases rapidly from there. There seems a lot of reluctance to give the worker bees privacy. I don’t know if it’s a status thing or a
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Nobody sees how much you are invested into your day to day work. They just see bunch of commits / builds and the little gray or green presence indicator on your messenger app. But if you are struggling for 3 days x 10 hours per day to
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by dasmoth 9y ago
There’s also a JavaScript impl of K, one of the ASCII APL-like languages: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Yep. But that somewhat matches recent UK policy (lifetime ISAs, for instance). I think the logic goes that the (currently) middle-aged have benefitted disproportionately from house price rises. Which might on average have a degree of tru
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Emacs (other text editors are also available). The great thing about software (and I definitely do include interactive/UIish stuff here...) is that the barrier to entry is pretty low. No need to do anything special just because you’re
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by dasmoth 9y ago
The fact that you’ve named an IDE vendor rather emphasises that there is a substantial gray area. By no means everyone wants to use an IDE (let alone that specific one...)
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by dasmoth 9y ago
others went heads down for half an hour and then came back up with the answer How did people who took this approach fare in your scheme? Thumbs up for solving the problem or penalised for “not a team player?”
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Yep, a tool that did all of this might be enough to convince me.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
At times it becomes hard to see what code you wrote and what somebody else wrote, which is a good thing. I suspect this is the big point of disagreement between lint-advocates and many of those who are dubious. I generally don’t see big
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by dasmoth 9y ago
I wasn’t doing a lot of “ops” type stuff at the time but I get the impression that a few years ago some people were using the term to mean “you build it, you run it”, without necessarily requiring as much tooling and infrastructure as seems
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by dasmoth 9y ago
If it absolutely had to be one thing for everything (including projects where I have to work closely with others), JavaScript. For solo stuff Clojure/script. But please don’t let it come to this. I’m happiest as a polyglot.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Financial independence (in the "work becomes a choice" sense -- not necessarily after idleness...) is a pretty attractive prospect. Beyond that point, money has rapidly-diminishing returns for me.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
No. Without freedom to mess around and experiment with different styles, how are you supposed to learn why it matters, let alone develop your own style? (Reading/modifying nicely-written code is a good exercise to try early on, though
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by dasmoth 9y ago
The Google that released something new every week (and had beta tags everywhere) did at least seem to be able to innovate. And some of that innovation stuck (and even some of the things they probably rated as “misses” had lasting impact —
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by dasmoth 9y ago
remember it only took one really abstract thinking Willy Wonka and a bunch of oompa loompas to make really great candy An interesting difference between software and mass-produced physical goods is that a single Willy Wonka can do a fair
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by dasmoth 9y ago
Programming. Blank file or modify something existing, I don’t really mind. Ideally something reasonably open-ended, though. Evaluation which emphasises results more than “ways of working” stuff.
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by dasmoth 9y ago
While there are better than open plan (and sometimes the only way to get small offices which still receive a bit of natural light) they’re still a pain if you find motion in your peripheral vision distracting. Frosted glass helps.

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