davemp

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by davemp 7y ago
Believing your own lies?
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by davemp 7y ago
That honestly seems conservative. The times I've missed an entire night I've been essentially useless or an actual detriment.
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by davemp 7y ago
From your 0th citation: "Please don’t cite or circulate it beyond the workshop."
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by davemp 7y ago
AFAIK professors are routinely at the top of job satisfaction surveys.
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by davemp 7y ago
Getting up and running on a Linux environment after the first time is pretty fast. Here's how I'd set up a new machine for C, CPP, Rust, and documentation - install arch (partition, video/wireless setup, etc) - pacman -S i3-g
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by davemp 7y ago
A solution to an increased number of applications per candidate is to use a modified version of the stable marriage problem. [1] This is how medical rotations and a few other positions are filled. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by davemp 8y ago
Just mmap C structs to files and give people the headers!
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by davemp 8y ago
Top three replies to the PS thread: > . . . It's a miserable language, full of unexpected behaviors and badly designed features. . . > I haven't met a single person who likes PowerShell. It's perhaps the textbook exampl
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by davemp 8y ago
To be fair, people could just be annoyed about losing valuable HN browsing time!
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by davemp 8y ago
If the saying "A rising tide lifts all boats" doesn't hold in your company, I'd say that's definitely a dysfunction.
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by davemp 8y ago
My hate for spreadsheets come from working in institutions that copy/paste around hideous VBA infested sheets for metrics/reporting instead of using a database. There is a lot of painful excel abuse in business.
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by davemp 8y ago
> ~37,000 people die from car crashes every year in the US, from about ~35,000 accident OP reads correctly to me
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by davemp 8y ago
Reality is a bit more complex than that. But if I were to design a tax system, it likely wouldn't have withholding. I'd probably mess around with some weird purely transactional/continuous tax system though.
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by davemp 8y ago
> Without the painful transparency, it becomes too easy for the government to nearly invisibly turn up the tax rate on individuals to pay for whatever boondoggle or foreign war they see fit. Non-sequitur. Taxes are already seen on every
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by davemp 8y ago
It doesn't help that there's no unambiguous CFG for Markdown. Any new implementation is more or less on their own with many using odd tricks to get around the inherent ambiguity.
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by davemp 8y ago
Are the ICE numbers due to collisions? I think there is a significant difference between a car catching fire as a result of a collision and during normal operation as `spontaneously` suggests.
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by davemp 8y ago
Shell scripting just comes with the turf wrt Linux. Even just editing your `.bashrc` can technically be considered scripting. Elsewhere in the survey ~50% of devs claimed to used Linux, so it doesn't seem unreasonable.
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by davemp 8y ago
Never underestimate/write-off the placebo effect.
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by davemp 8y ago
I can't easily find any sources to support this, but AFAIK the reason so many old photos/paintings have fruit bowls in the background is a display of wealth. Because fruit was harder to come by, having them showed you were doing w
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by davemp 8y ago
I usually recommend Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to people who have trouble finding enjoyment in/motivation to exercise. * There's a point--learning how to use your body/leverage. * It's social. There will be fellows to motivate
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by davemp 8y ago
> I've noticed in the past year or two my windshield is much, much cleaner post drive whereas years ago I would almost be forced to clean my car after each trip. I've seen mentions this phenomena floating around. I wonder if th
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by davemp 8y ago
*assuming legality is important
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by davemp 8y ago
It feels weird to say but the zune marketplace was the best music platform so far. Who knows if it would have stayed that way if it ever got a decent market share though.
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by davemp 8y ago
> They will be forced to make iOS more powerful and that MUST include things like proper file management, multiple windows, displays, mouse support etc...aka a Surface Pro. Apple has been working to get iOS apps running on macOS with mar
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by davemp 8y ago
> Humans have a dark side and seem completely unaware that their believes are driven by self-interest, envy and hate rather than making systems that work. There have been a few flawed but widely successful attempts at this style of syste
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by davemp 8y ago
I'm guessing that's probably for cross-platform behavior. Maybe a linux specific std replacement crate could probably solve the problem.
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by davemp 8y ago
Issues like this are almost entirely solved with rust-esque enum pattern matching. The compiler with fail if you don’t have every match case handled. There is ‘_’ to abuse the system but doing so should be fairly obvious. —— Rust in general
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by davemp 8y ago
I disagree. The quote is for where to place personnel in a leadership hierarchy. A leader without the appropriate aptitude is obviously harmful; but I would say there are actually no grunts in software. Every developer has to lead at least
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by davemp 8y ago
Here’s a famous quote about organizing personnel: “I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and indu
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by davemp 8y ago
This is a harmful tautology. There really is a such thing as bad code. Some edge cases are introduced by the bad code itself and changing the paradigm can make many difficulties disappear. Having the same people who wrote the code work on t

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