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by decasia 5y ago
As a point of method: We can and should distinguish "What the author intended" from "what is the unintended side effect of this use of language." I'm explicitly not commenting on what the author intended to mean by
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by decasia 5y ago
It's interesting to think about how one generation's tech becomes the next one's landscape, the next one's heritage, the next one's cultural horizons. Picture this: 25 years after we no longer need to maintain huge
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by decasia 5y ago
I for one would appreciate anyone who has expert biological knowledge commenting on this. I don't entirely dismiss this article since I have a friend who worked with prions in a bio lab at the Univ. of Chicago and I remember he was abs
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by decasia 6y ago
Yes, I absolutely think profiling and then only optimizing the actual problems is always a sound choice. I don't check the docs for every library function I use. I'm just saying, it wouldn't hurt if, when you do read the do
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by decasia 6y ago
It would be nice if it were more common for standard library functions to include algorithmic complexity as part of the standard documentation. Absent that, of course we can potentially read the source code and find out, but I think for the
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Ask HN: What are good questions for job candidates to ask in interviews?
9 points by decasia 6y ago|12 comments
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by decasia 6y ago
Yeah, I know those services are out there. I thought most of them were physically located outside North America though, is that not true?
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by decasia 6y ago
The thing is, you're always going to dependent on someone in the mainstream economic world if you want to have a web presence in North America. Even if you run your own servers, you're at the mercy of your hosting provider, your
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by decasia 6y ago
This article raises a lot of important considerations about how large workplaces operate and what to expect from them as a line level employee. I think it's a reasonable takeaway for newer people to understand that HR in a big organiza
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by decasia 6y ago
It's kind of an amazing tidbit (from the Wikipedia article) that this service has to interface with 8500 different ticket issuing systems. I hope they have a well defined communications protocol.
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by decasia 7y ago
Are there any other Ansible alternatives that avoid the whole YAML mess?
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by decasia 7y ago
Just to put a little bit of economic perspective on this, a "gently used toyota" is easily 15k. A lot of people absolutely cannot afford to pay 15k in cash for a car.
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by decasia 7y ago
It sounds like the answer is pretty straightforward — Mint was acquired and then semi-abandoned for want of providing sufficient revenue/having a sufficiently profitable business model. The question in my mind is: What is the matter wi
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by decasia 7y ago
I think you said it better than I did!
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by decasia 7y ago
Sure. And the pleasure you would get out of this would depend in part on your skill in the relevant medium. But I think there's a significant difference: with music, as you play it, you are also experiencing ("consuming") it.
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by decasia 7y ago
This new moment of marketization is interesting to observe from the sidelines. I'm a musician but I've never gotten paid for making music and don't want to be. This way, songwriting and playing music can remain something I do
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by decasia 7y ago
I agree deeply that "where are you trying to go professionally?" is the required context for any sound answer to the original post. As it happens, I'm in my 30s and trying to shift from "programming is a good job" t
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by decasia 7y ago
Yeah, that's why I used expressions like "closer to the lower levels" — you can descend in orders of abstraction/layers of reality, but it's more asymptotic or directional than anything else. It's not like play
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by decasia 7y ago
I thought the OP was a little bit self-undermining, because as the author points out, C feels "close to the metal" but at this point it's actually virtual metal. But I think "getting close to the lower levels" is st
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by decasia 7y ago
"I don't even know any web applications that have remained similarly functioning over 10 years" I have a WordPress instance that has functioned flawlessly since 2007. I would call WordPress a web application (though I realize
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by decasia 7y ago
Just found a good article about this in case anyone else is curious: "Insurers know exactly how often American drivers touch their phones" https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-distracted-driving-in...
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by decasia 7y ago
That's so interesting, thanks! So it sounds like actually there could be a big technical piece of the solution to this problem, if devices already know (or could know) how to shift automatically into driving mode… If only there were th
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by decasia 7y ago
I know software isn't a panacea, but how hard would it be to design the cars so that if you are alone in the car (and therefore obviously the driver), mobile devices shift into hands-free-only mode? I realize if you had multiple passen
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by decasia 7y ago
Hmm, you know, people don't actually ask me this all that much, because I've just always done both development and anthropology alongside each other. So I've had to make tradeoffs to balance between the two, but I have never
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by decasia 7y ago
I'm a full stack web developer with a PhD in cultural anthropology. Especially interested in building software that fits real human needs and solves real problems. Location: Atlanta, GA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies:
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by decasia 7y ago
Big picture: experience is the main way to get better at this. That, plus watching what more experienced folks are doing. In terms of smaller strategies: I think stepping back and asking "What is the real problem that needs to get solv
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by decasia 7y ago
Maybe take time to investigate what women-built dating apps look like too: https://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/best-dating-apps-for-w...
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by decasia 7y ago
This seems like a crucial problem with the initial question. As with so many puzzles like this, it assumes that the reader will make similar (unargued, unstated) assumptions as the writer. But what justifies that methodological assumption?
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by decasia 7y ago
It really makes you wonder who else may be out there who deserves a medal for their work, but was never properly recognized because of gender, race, or other sociological reasons…
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by decasia 7y ago
Why does Chrome (or maybe other browsers) not just keep a local cache of the most used Google web fonts by default? Seems like an easy performance win if they're used on lots of sites…

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