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by dkarl 3y ago
I'd approach it the other way around: find good teachers, and trust them to choose the tools they use.
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That's not the kind of software I work on, but if you go to a classroom, you'll probably see that when students are practicing via a "video game," they still get all the elements of instruction that we did when we were k
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I grew up in the eighties when being nerdy wasn't cool, but math was something that people recognized as real, not a nerdy invention, even if it was weird and nerdy to enjoy it. Other nerdy pursuits like D&D or fantasy (or, at the
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by dkarl 3y ago
The answer to your question is "no," because there are a significant number of people who feel that they are more productive in Ruby than in any other language. My organization has a large repository of Ruby scripts for doing manu
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> What fascinates me about the occult personally is that it's a fundamentally inferior ontology - where it's what you believe when you don't have belief These characters are fascinating when they're safely in the past
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by dkarl 3y ago
When the only way to get feedback on something is to go live to random customers, yeah, that's a difficult decision. I was thinking of situations where you are getting feedback on pre-launch software from a customer or from your own pr
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It's interesting that people almost never disagree with this when they're the customers. We love seeing progress, even if it's a small portion of what we need. When frequent updates show that progress is slow, we're glad
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by dkarl 3y ago
If by "technical debt" you mean something that requires updates and maintenance, then yes, because it's a living language. Perl has the advantage of being frozen in time, but it has the disadvantages of not being a living lan
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by dkarl 3y ago
My experience was more than five years ago, so if I get the itch again, I'll take another look.
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> It's great if you like 'shake and bake' style open source projects that barely work and have a lot of time to tinker with them. I think this is a cool way to relate to technology. Is there a word for technology that peop
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by dkarl 3y ago
The author should check out Quill[1] as prior art. Compile-time query generation where you can see the generated query just by hovering over the code is chef's kiss . One of the terrible things about most ORMs is that you can't s
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by dkarl 3y ago
> The amount of time/effort required to create a reliable estimate would probably double the cost of the completed project (ie, even after taking into account the overshoot on the informal estimate). I've seen it done, and it&#
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I'm going to guess that in AI those terms have been so cheapened by now that they are useless.
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> You seem to be missing the rather important point that chemical elements are a thing. I fundamentally disagree with this. Elements are a human-created categorization of atoms (granting that atoms are real) by atomic number. > Maybe
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by dkarl 3y ago
I don't think that's what people mean when they say "natural key." People say "natural key" when they're talking about a unique identifier (that's the "key" part) that is part of the domain
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The periodic table groups atoms by the number of protons they have and ignores other differences. Uranium 235 and Uranium 238 have the same "natural key" according to the periodic table. The periodic table is useful for solving a
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by dkarl 3y ago
Having a feature is not the same thing as having API compatibility with Node's implementation of the feature. I think people are worried that an exciting project that aimed to have a different approach and a different set of trade-offs
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by dkarl 3y ago
It's essentially making a scientific field responsible for delivering what people want from it. What people want from it is a collection of one weird tricks. They want good news. They want to hear that it's okay to eat as many don
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by dkarl 3y ago
There's a theory that C programs are better designed from an implementation perspective and from a feature perspective precisely because it's so difficult to work with. The cost of implementing architectural complexity is so high
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by dkarl 3y ago
Each one of these things is worth adopting by itself, if adopting all of them at the same time is intimidating. Item 5 can be interpreted in more than one way, though, so I think it's worth digging into. At a fundamental level, with vi
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by dkarl 3y ago
I used to hate that I could never stick to things. I'd set a schedule for myself, feel good while I was on it, and then I'd fall off and go back to hating myself. One day I was making nasty fun of myself for being really good at s
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by dkarl 3y ago
Coworking in general is a hideous working environment. The offices are fishbowls. There's no privacy. It's worse than open plan offices, because at least at the office, everybody works for the same company. The only times I'v
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by dkarl 3y ago
I'm making a generalization that doesn't include every single element of the right, but these days the rhetoric against federal law enforcement has no chance of getting turned into policy. Distrust of government is an integral par
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It can cut both ways, though. If your primary source for a crucial resource is a country that could potentially benefit from harming you, that can be strategically intolerable and eventually lead to finding an excuse to start a war.
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Mainstream conservatives/Republicans swung hard in the direction of supporting domestic spying and surveillance in the early 2000s and have never swung back. They hate the government but (with some justification) assume that law enforc
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The parent is claiming that Imran Khan is a religious fundamentalist.
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It's interesting that there are a variety of English accents, with differing connotations for Americans. YouTube channels that make informative, content-driven videos tend to demand English accents from their voice talent. For videos a
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by dkarl 3y ago
My impression (from western sources) is that he adopted religion and married a religious wife to distance himself from his western playboy past and broaden his political appeal. He chose a wife who is Sufi, which is a form of Islam that is
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The omnibar is a mixed bag from a usability standpoint. It favors the bold and confuses the meek. For some non-expert users, they eagerly mash in whatever they want, without understanding that the browser treats "hot women near me&quot
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by dkarl 3y ago
I often feel like highbrow journalists allow themselves to get a little bit loose and sensationalistic when they take on the tech industry, because tech is looked down on in their circles and nobody is going to hold them to their usual stan

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