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by davidrupp 4y ago
If I want information on medically related things, Wikipedia is my go-to. I skip Google (actually, DuckDuckGo) altogether and just start my search on the Wikipedia home page.
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by davidrupp 4y ago
Sr. SDE (L6) @ Amazon; everything expressed here is my personal opinion; I do not speak for my company. On the whole, I think the article is good. I would rather they quantified the bit about "most Amazonians seem to get satisfaction f
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by davidrupp 4y ago
More info at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spiel . Pronounced as you (gp) spelled it phonetically because it's borrowed from German.
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by davidrupp 4y ago
> It's on github ... at https://github.com/kanaka/mal Fun fact: I got to work with Joel at a Clojure-based startup, LonoCloud (since acquired by ViaSat). Super sharp dude, and very helpful about MAL. Definitely
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Generating websites with SPARQL and Snowman, part 1(bobdc.com)
50 points by davidrupp 4y ago|9 comments
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by davidrupp 4y ago
They also evolved from the original Airline Control Program (ACP), which was written in the 1960's, at which point assembly was pretty much the only way to get the level of performance required. I think there was some incidental "
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by davidrupp 4y ago
I worked at multiple airline reservation shops in the late 80's and 90's, all of which used IBM's Transaction Processing Facility (TPF). There were C compilers available towards the end of the 90's, but they were slow to
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by davidrupp 4y ago
I was not. My coursework did require me to understand things like algorithms and Big-O notation much better than I had as an undergrad, so I think I was better prepared for Amazon's interview. I also think the degree made me more attra
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by davidrupp 4y ago
I did my MS in CS roughly twenty years after my BS. I can’t prove causality, but my pay went up about 25% with my first job after graduating, and it’s only gone up since. I found that the coursework re-kindled an abiding interest in the “sc
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Amazon shuts small Seattle office after spate of crimes in area(bloomberg.com)
90 points by davidrupp 5y ago|119 comments
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by davidrupp 5y ago
I read it as a euphemism for "give other contributors a chance at presenting the opening keynote going forward, not you (DHH) every year by default". It is vaguely worded, so I suppose they could mean sharing in the sense of sprea
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by davidrupp 5y ago
"Learning to draw is much more about learning to see than making marks." This was the most helpful thing I learned from _Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain_. That book alone took me from "poorly drawn stick figures"
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by davidrupp 5y ago
It does, according to https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/cleaning/a18731/how-to... , but it's number four on their list; preceded by [spoiler alert] 1. bleach, 2. microwave, 3. dishwasher.
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Maclaurin Integration: A Weapon Against Infamous Integrals(arxiv.org)
2 points by davidrupp 5y ago|0 comments
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by davidrupp 5y ago
Yet Another Introvert here. I paired full-time for three years when I worked at ThoughtWorks, and I did not enjoy the forced socialization aspect of it, but I can't think of a single day where I didn't learn something from my pair
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by davidrupp 5y ago
Where do you live?
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by davidrupp 5y ago
I'm a senior SDE (L6) @ AMZN (currently IMDb) with seven years tenure -- opinions my own, obvs. I've had some negative experiences with individuals / organizations over that time, but on balance I can honestly say I love work
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by davidrupp 5y ago
I lived in Dublin IE for a year (mid-2017 -- mid-2018), on temporary assignment from my US-based position. I relocated from Florida with my wife and teenage son, who attended a public school and seems to have enjoyed the experience overall.
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by davidrupp 5y ago
"fortunate"
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by davidrupp 5y ago
Colloquially: You can rewrite source code into a different form as it's being evaluated , then have it be further evaluated as if it were originally written in the new form. One fairly simple example is Clojure's `when`, which is
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by davidrupp 5y ago
You'd have to ask them. I don't do anything deliberate myself to avoid that perception. Fortunately, 30+ years gives you time to go broad and deep, if you care to.
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by davidrupp 5y ago
Spoiler alert: This article is from 2005, written by Steve Yegge and typical of his trademark blend of perspicacity and prolixity. At the time, "people with 20 to 30 years of experience" would have started their careers in the mid
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by davidrupp 5y ago
https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/education/campus/2021... "Hessy Fernandez, UF director of issues management and crisis communications, told the Gainesville Sun in a text message Sunday the un
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by davidrupp 5y ago
Obligatory quote (attributed to Dijkstra, but see [1]): "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." It's possible to be a good computer scientist without being a good programmer, and vice
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by davidrupp 5y ago
So have I, except it's been three companies. One of them, ThoughtWorks, had built-in code review in the form of pair programming. I don't really have data on productivity, one way or the other, nor a strong opinion on the desirabi
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by davidrupp 5y ago
Counterpoint: The actual review of an "extremely trivial" change may not take much time (seconds), but it can take orders of magnitude more time (minutes to hours) to coordinate and execute that review (notify team of pending revi
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by davidrupp 5y ago
Thanks for your willingness to engage and instruct on this. I've learned a lot. Cheers!
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by davidrupp 5y ago
> each new binding pair is actually inside a nested scope Can you point me to something that demonstrates this? I've both decompiled this form and traced its compilation: (defn foo [a] (let [b a b (+ b a)] b)
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by davidrupp 5y ago
Also, I don't think your (incorrect / incomplete) transliteration of the C code example to Clojure demonstrates anything we don't already know; namely that `(inc a)` in Clojure has different semantics from `++a` in C. Of cour
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by davidrupp 5y ago
Nice strawman. Now, how would you restructure the let bindings (without the println) at https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/let#example-542692c7c02... equivalently? Wouldn't the ordering of the function execution

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