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by davidrupp 3y ago
Considering implementing AbstractPatternConfigFactoryBuilderFactoryConfigPatternAbstract. Just to see if anyone notices.
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by davidrupp 3y ago
Who is the number one “hoarder” of houses in the U.S.? When I bought my house, all I had to deal with (as far as I know) was the bank and the prior owner, who seemed happy to sell.
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by davidrupp 3y ago
Okay. [citation needed] on all of the above.
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by davidrupp 3y ago
Perhaps followed by progressively higher tax rates on subsequent books and apples?
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by davidrupp 3y ago
Why do you not think there’s any acceptable reason for owning several homes?
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by davidrupp 3y ago
Full title: "Respecting What Came Before, Premature Optimization, the Pitfalls of Sensationalism and Technology Enthusiasm"
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Respecting What Came Before(medium.com)
1 points by davidrupp 3y ago|1 comments
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by davidrupp 3y ago
I smiled. And I assumed it was tongue-in-cheek.
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by davidrupp 3y ago
(Some of) Werner's advice in his own words (from the linked article): * "I always urge builders to consider the evolution of their systems over time and make sure the foundation is such that you can change and expand them with the
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by davidrupp 3y ago
Bookmarked; thanks for that link. Bonus points for sentiment analysis.
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Monoliths are not dinosaurs(allthingsdistributed.com)
266 points by davidrupp 3y ago|234 comments
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by davidrupp 3y ago
Not sure how this translates to "rules" in a cellular automaton, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-instruction_set_computer
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by davidrupp 4y ago
I like both Hooktheory and iReal Pro [1] for hearing what chord progressions sound like in practice. [1] https://www.irealpro.com/
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by davidrupp 4y ago
Friendly vocabulary note: I think what you mean by "pneumonics" is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mnemonics .
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by davidrupp 4y ago
I was just discussing something like this with my team <usual-disclaimers/>, and dropped the obligatory Knuth quote: “The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can
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by davidrupp 4y ago
I've asked my team at Amazon [usual disclaimers] to read this, and highlighted my favorite takeaways: "Well-timed sleep was probably the most important thing I did", and "Using sleep to do the heavy lifting on algorithm
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by davidrupp 4y ago
Ideally: Travel point-to-point, rather than constrained by roads, turns, intersections, all competing with similarly-constrained traffic. Congestion en route would largely go away (although we would probably adopt "lanes" of trave
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by davidrupp 4y ago
I had just switched from IBM 370 mainframe assembler to Java in mid-2000, worked for several months at iXL, a then-typical consulting company with high margins and correspondingly high "bling" -- elaborate office furnishings, mass
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by davidrupp 4y ago
Bummed that I can upvote this only once. Excellent work.
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by davidrupp 4y ago
I haven't yet, beyond some quick comments I've posted on other HN threads. I may capture it in long form after I've retired. My career has taken a meandering path, and there have been aspects of it that I think might be enter
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by davidrupp 4y ago
This was the model when I joined Eastern Airlines' reservation system (aka, System One) out of college, although the training was entirely in-house; IBM was not directly involved, that I could tell. I enjoyed spending the first few mon
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by davidrupp 4y ago
I made the switch from IBM/370 assembly to Java around this time. It was a good six months or so, with Beer Cart Friday, weekly free massages, and massive plasma TVs in the conference rooms (at iXL in Denver). It was a rough few years
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by davidrupp 4y ago
$50/hr, good heavens. My salary for my first professional job out of university was disappointing even for the time; it wouldn't qualify as minimum wage these days, some places (U.S.). But I worked with great people on interesting
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by davidrupp 4y ago
My go-to was Softpro Books in Denver. I would scan the shelves at B&N and Borders too, just in case, but Softpro had a much better selection.
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by davidrupp 4y ago
The part that specifies "which transitions are possible and which are not" (more precisely: which state results from a given state and input) -- known as the state-transition function [1] -- is a necessary component of the state m
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by davidrupp 4y ago
My first job after completing mine gave me ~25% pay increase, and it's gone only up since. I don't claim this is causal, but I'm not displeased with the correlation. Personally, I found I enjoyed the coursework more than I ha
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by davidrupp 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmbGs290qeM -- Dr. Knuth sets the record straight at a talk being given by Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame). Spoiler alert: "I only met him a couple of times [...] and in each case I was im
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by davidrupp 4y ago
Because people are more than just the skills they have that happen to apply to their current job function. And because management requires a skill set that -- like many others -- can be attained by someone who is willing to work to attain i
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by davidrupp 4y ago
I don't speak for my company, but in my opinion they still get more value from me, net, as a non-manager than they would as a manager. I also think some of the most valuable work I do is not in the code I write or the systems I build m
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by davidrupp 4y ago
[Everything that follows is my personal opinion. I do not speak for my company.] Seven years and counting for me, and likewise proud. I have found it a good experience, on balance. I have witnessed -- and been subjected to -- behavior by in

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