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by davidthewatson 3y ago
My observations: 6 of the top 10 are rust. 4 of the top 10 are postgres. Postgres needs little explanation given its history and Stonebraker's reputation. I now understand why teams I've occupied had the strange loop crowd resigni
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Because Postgres has been profiled and tuned for performance for decades? All hail Michael Stonebraker and Tom Lane. The Turing award and Wikipedia cannot be wrong.
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Why? I'd give more time to groceries if the experience of gathering them resulted in better nutrition, fun, and groceries existed in a third place that I really enjoyed like the old working space I occupied for a few years. I guess the
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I was fortunate enough to see and hear Randy Pausch describe Alice's development in a lecture at CMU while he was still alive. I remember it being quite compelling as he discussed teaching young kids concurrency by animating a figure s
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There should be an ACM award for retro-computing like this. I miss Aperture so much that it's difficult to express. I dislike photo editing deeply, but for some reason, the Aperture design just made sense to me, being a person who coul
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I'd suggest books like: https://equalityfiles.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/thomas_sza... and any of Byung-Chul Han's philosophical books over the last ten years, though The Burnout society is probably the
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Agree with the sentiment, but I'm sad that meaningful words like fortnight that once colored language are mostly archaic. Mike Meyers deserves credit for trying to keep such language alive 30 years ago: https://www.imdb.com&
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+1 I'll buy your book. What's it called?
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Thanks for your response. This reminds me of doing updates via SSH on a train speeding across Philly ~2009 on the G1. I'm curious what software enabled the device management? I worked on device management software in a few forms.
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Right! That's why I used the term alert fatigue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue The misclick point is beyond truth, particularly given the storm of marketing that is mobile web.
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Been there, done that. The paradox is that every device I use interrupts me non-stop with modal dialogs ad nauseam. But the production delete? You said,"drop", we said, "gone". Either production database deletes need to
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I found IHP straightforward: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/ despite not remembering much haskell! This assumes you can get past nix for the install. I find IHP well-designed. I just wish the licensing scheme were more tr
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I'm sad because I run rust on hyprland and love the idea. Does anyone know why "it doesn't work on Wayland"?
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I think you need an absurdist lens to not get lost here. Camus had a point. Think about it, I could say I'm going to adopt a modal diet, which is really what monk mode is, a modal diet of information attention. How would my modal diet
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"No pointers, no cry" was worth the price of admission. There are features and benefits here that seem magical. I may be misunderstanding, but does this mean that you could compile directly into containers like podman? That is, is
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
To the credit of the poor adjunct who taught my freshman psych 101 course in college, and assigned reading Thomas Szasz as part of it, what I've learned is that Thomas Szasz, while outspoken, was not wrong: https://www.googl
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Direct, RCT is non-existent, emergent, or difficult at best. My vote for off-topic, but close, and on point is something like this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001048252... I get flow o
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Good point. I can relate. I worked in Ruby on Rails and our particular culture of Rails was not the purity that DHH encourages, but a kind of hipster collection of things like Cucumber, where the intent diverges from reality. That is, we un
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
It's worth noting that the pattern you describe here is an emergent property of programming languages that changes with the era: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html Sadly, the culture of programming language choice in
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Anybody Using Apache Liminal?(liminal.apache.org)
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User agency is a good way to think about this but like any real, useful metric, it's difficult to measure real impact, and this leaves you needing a proxy. The other problem is that David Foster Wallace said over a decade ago: “As VR p
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I was working in C++ on OS/2 at the time when a resource editor was hard to find and that chasm from the command line to the GUI was what made the jump to commercial software development feel like the Khumbu Icefall. I worked in a sma
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Thanks for your comment. Indeed, smashing the catcher at home plate was common whether initiated by the catcher or the base runner. For over one hundred years, MLB has debated whether there is any place for violence at home plate between ba
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I'm happy to see someone mention peewee, having used it for numerous startup prototypes since its inception. Coleifer does not get enough credit IMHO: https://github.com/coleifer/ Peewee has been solid since I beg
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Only Americans could invent a more violent form of golf while not realizing that baseball and golf feature watching grass grow as a spectator sport.
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The post-modern labor dichotomy between robots and human robots is mirrored on the hiring side in ATS and HR, respectively. Sadly, this is not new: https://medium.com/@jannaq/the-robot-takeover-is-already-her...
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To me, the most compelling telling of the Grothendeick story is this: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201707/the-mad-g... A different telling of another profoundly gifted character is this: http:
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I'd agree with that assessment. Given this: "The Hidden Fee Disclosure Act, HR 4508 , requires that providers give patients transparent cost data from price comparisons before providing treatment. The text of the bill explicitly a
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That's right... commodity fetishism manufacturing consent: https://www.alexanderrea.com/project/mcdonalds-happy-world/ Because what could be more fun than praying for autonomy at speed in a self-driving car w
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Having held roles with all of the titles you mention, I'd say relax and take the advice of a few here: * "do you really want to move to Switzerland?" * "Roles are meaningless" * "sounds like a sig

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