dickeytk

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by dickeytk 7y ago
Oh my, I’m that guy today. Whoever said it, I have a super hard time believing DHH couldn’t implement bubble sort on a whiteboard. Am I the only one? I get that people hate whiteboard/algorithm interviews, but bubble sort? for i
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I get your point, but why would you pick bubble sort? That’s one any engineer should be able to implement without any help. It’s the more complex/useful ones worth discussing. Even Obama knows this: https://m.youtube.com&#
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I think it’s super weird today, let alone 10 years ago.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Truck/suv sales are certainly up, but I think the F-150 has traditionally always been the top selling vehicle—more having to do with fewer options in the domestic full-size market and fleet sales though
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by dickeytk 7y ago
People are going to be reluctant to start companies because Google gets broken up?
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by dickeytk 7y ago
There is a difference between big companies and monopolies. Big companies will likely always be the ones offering the highest salaries and they'll always exist. Once they monopolize the labor market though: they'll no longer have
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by dickeytk 7y ago
If you use vim + tmux this plugin[0] is super handy. It allows ctrl-h|j|k|l to switch between tmux or vim splits so you don't have to know whether it's a different terminal window or a vim split—just that you want to go right (for
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by dickeytk 7y ago
In the same exact way the garbage collector is. You never touch it but the fact it's there makes it easier to write code.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
You just explained a bunch of implementation details but at the end of the day my point remains: having the GIL makes it easier to write parallel code . I didn't say it magically makes everything threadsafe.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I would argue the GIL is a feature put in place to make it easier to write parallel code. If you want to do this in a more performant way you should be looking at a different language. People talk about the GIL as if it’s just some drawback
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by dickeytk 7y ago
As an outsider not following this too closely, it reminds me of what happened with Boeing and McDonnell Douglas[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/11/boeing...
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by dickeytk 7y ago
> The biggest example in recent history was the kneeling movement in the NFL and the NFL's stance of blacklisting and penalizing prominent players won. Did it? I'm genuinely asking and seeing contradicting results trying to sea
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by dickeytk 7y ago
my favorite radiolab episode is about this: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/from-...
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by dickeytk 7y ago
A defense mechanism that is triggered by a hormone? Doesn't seem terribly far off
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I don't even think you need to be in the sciences. Perhaps it's a result of a protestant upbringing, but I grew up in blue-collar America where virtually everyone was a tradesman. If I may generalize: these are people that while t
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Work is the way you contribute back into society. Going to work and doing my job is my way of knowing that I'm giving back into the system that allows me and my family to live. I find it far more fulfilling than anything else. Hobbies
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by dickeytk 7y ago
that frog only exists within proverbs! real frogs jump out!
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Yeah and you really want FIDO. It's such a better experience.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
https://www.no-thanks-extension.com/ It’s not free, but works very well
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by dickeytk 7y ago
yeah I worked from home for years and you're totally right. I very rarely worked out of the house—but those times I did go down to a coffeeshop it was often when I needed some extra motivation and it worked really well.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
there is also https://gitless.com/
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I’m not a sysadmin type at all, and I haven’t used the competitors really. But it’s so easy to use! You don’t need to install anything on the servers. It’s basically just a way to run ssh scripts on remote servers in a way that makes comple
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by dickeytk 7y ago
It seems they’ve held onto the “everything is a string” pattern too
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by dickeytk 7y ago
It simply shows what happens when investors lack due diligence. It also shows that the process for going public works: it lays bare the problems with private businesses that current investors are unable or unwilling to uncover themselves. T
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by dickeytk 7y ago
Your argument is it’s not worth spending time on? What would you rather I be doing?
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by dickeytk 7y ago
TIL, but that’s my point. If after many years of doing this and leading the development on one of the top utilities on homebrew I don’t immediately know the answer to these things, how could anyone. UX is FAR more important in the CLI than
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I would use rg. My original point is not that fd is a do anything tool, it’s that fd and others are a much better replacements for find, grep, etc that when I want to do something complex they’re much better starting places.
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by dickeytk 7y ago
find has awful ergonomics that are completely unlike any other common unix tool. I can never remember the syntax, how the flags work, or what order things need to be in. Let's use an example I just dug up of using find: To list and rem
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by dickeytk 7y ago
This suggestion is exactly why fd is so helpful. With zmv I can rename files in a directory. Great. But what if I want to count the number of total files within each directory? Create tarballs out of each directory? Rename files that contai
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by dickeytk 7y ago
I would do alias ls "exa" alias ll "exa -ll" That way you get the nice shorter output which comes in handy for piping ls things like: ls -d | xargs ls Lists the files in subdirectories.

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