daxfohl

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901.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I 100% agree, but rarely have found much to put in a functional core. Most everything these days is distributed microservices talking to each other (different argument) and having more than a couple lines in a row that don't call some
902.
by daxfohl 5y ago
For some reason I thought I had clicked on the comments section for the "two sleeps" article and saw this and thought "wow".
903.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Yeah I also quit sugar for like six months and wish I had stuck with it. If anything, the best part about it was the effect on decision fatigue. "Do I grab this snack while I'm in line or not", etc. No decision to make. I gue
904.
by daxfohl 5y ago
"no different", meaning no particular reason to stay off it. Just a bit groggier in the mornings.
905.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Yeah, I don't really drink soda or tea, and I didn't specifically avoid chocolate but I don't eat much of it to begin with. I only had minor withdrawal headaches for a day or so and after that it was fine.
906.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I'll be the contrarian. I was a pot per day drinker and quit for three months and felt no different, just missed the coffee. I quit the quit and I'm back to a pot per day, feeling much better.
907.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I thought steel and concrete were the biggest contributors. Or is it transport and plastic? Why can't we just make digging oil way more expensive and let the rest of the detail work itself out?
908.
by daxfohl 5y ago
The very first episode of This American Life was about an instance where someone convinced himself for a year that he was going to die on a specific day, and then, didn't.
909.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Even more rare "Hey look, I have to design a slightly novel algorithm in 30 minutes while babbling the whole time!"
910.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I think it makes sense to be a moral contrarian in these regards. All big companies are more or less the same, and public perception is fickle. Take advantage of the disparity.
911.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I mean, it's certainly worth trying out for a bit. Even if you don't hang around for long enough to vest much of the RSU, their base salaries are pretty good too. It shouldn't take over a year or so to make up for any RSU you
912.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I wonder if this can also be used to disprove the possibility of any QM based on quaternions?
913.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I find it interesting that the general sentiment here is to disagree with this change, but HN folks also generally seem opposed to whiteboard interviews. That seems contradictory. What's the difference? Or is it just a different group
914.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Fair enough, I think I basically agree.
915.
by daxfohl 5y ago
There's plenty of non-religious homophobia in Europe. Besides, the Bible doesn't talk about homosexuality nearly as much as other things that many Christians ignore (or so I've heard). It's all tribalism at the core. Tru
916.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Never. Even once religiousness goes away, there's still plenty of raw tribalism and xenophobia left to compensate.
917.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Presumably the steady state will happen after the virus mutates into a less dangerous variant (as infecting more people will be evolutionarily advantageous for the virus), and eventually we all get it and build up antibodies, at which point
918.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Yeah I think we can learn what society thinks is acceptable risk just by looking at death counts over the last two years. They've pretty much leveled out. So as the virus mutates into less (or more) harmful variations, we'll see t
919.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Tangent, still no postmortem on the github outage two weeks ago. Just "problem resolved".
920.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I'd imagine if a hiring manager is doing that though, they'd not schedule interviews straddling the gap. The whole article is kind of weird though. The interviewee doesn't really have that much flexibility in scheduling inter
921.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I disagree with not scheduling before holidays. If I like a candidate I'm not going to forget about that just because of a holiday. The first person that makes a good impression almost always has an advantage IMO. The hiring manager wi
922.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Funny, I'd just stumbled across his F# implementation of Hindley-Milner while working on my own inferencer ( https://gist.github.com/praeclarum/5fbef41ea9c296590f23 )
923.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Yeah the real fun starts when it makes a quick hop in the opposite direction after we've let it spread everywhere. I keep feeling like what we've had so far is just a preview, and there's going to be some new variant that has
924.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I think Microsoft and Amazon have the most interesting products as far as dev tooling. Unless you're really into ML I guess. Too bad they don't pay as well.
925.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Amazon isn't known for Silicon Valley comp levels either.
926.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I mean the old adage "if something is free then you're the product". For Netflix you're the customer, for Instagram you're the product.
927.
by daxfohl 5y ago
As they say, if something is free you're not the consumer you're the product.
928.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Netflix isn't free.
929.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I see, yeah sounds like "control plane" vs "data plane", which is a good place to split things.
930.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I could maybe see that for some specialized case, but for the general case it seems like the more independent, distributed things you're juggling, the more likely you are to end up with security holes in the first place. The time you h

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