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by davidwf 6y ago
This article was really great, and this gem stood out to me: > When the hypothesis failed, we again rushed to move on with another work. We didn’t take the time to analyze why our theory was wrong. We didn’t question the experiment’s val
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by davidwf 6y ago
Our son at ~8 months had managed to get his leg in between the slats in the crib past his knee. I agree with OP -- this was instantly distinguishable from a normal "pick me up" cry.
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by davidwf 6y ago
I write a lot of Python and didn't know about this despite it being a 2015 blog post! The real kicker for me is: * [ExitStack] easily scales up to many resources (including a dynamic number that's acquired in a loop)
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by davidwf 6y ago
Sure they can! However, in this particular instance, I was simply pointing out that, in contrast to the OP's statement that " any possible answer is a conspiracy theory.", there is a possible narrative where a group of socie
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by davidwf 6y ago
I don't think that there's a conspiracy in any way! The way that I interpreted this article and how it fits into the current moment is that there's a substantial portion of those dissatisfied with the current political order
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by davidwf 6y ago
I've found two important self-reinforcing principles to be more important than the details: * Don't let bare files exist at the "top level" (~), have a limited number of buckets * All new stuff goes into an inbox (pragma
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by davidwf 6y ago
You mean like the microscopic bacteria keeping our teeth healthy described by the article? :-)
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by davidwf 6y ago
Great article! I've found myself going through the same cycle of getting something working in the REPL and then regretting not having tests some time in the future several times! In my experience much of the value of unit tests comes f
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by davidwf 6y ago
FYI I think Redwood is trying hard to be Rails for TS/Node... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537944 )
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by davidwf 6y ago
"Banned" may not be the right word, but I do agree it's the wrong question. Story points and velocity measurements are about giving a reasonable guess about what's "likely" to be completed at any given point in
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by davidwf 6y ago
Fascinating to see "systems programming" in Guile -- anyone actually using this for real work?
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by davidwf 6y ago
Not consensus, but here's a counterpoint to all the folks implying "spend a year learning emacs". I made a failed run on "Practical Common Lisp" twice because I also tried to learn emacs at the same time, partially
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by davidwf 6y ago
I similarly have loved programming ever since I was a teenager, and had grown super-cynical about the whole enterprise until about a year ago, and now am 100% back in love. The biggest reason for this is shifting my focus from "program
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by davidwf 10y ago
I wish I could highlight this a million times over. The idea of story points (which I have mixed feelings about regardless, but are not as bad as the author of the article mentions) is to produce a useful measure, which becomes instantly us