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by duggan 6y ago
I’ve been doing a manual version of this for years, creating a shell shim wrapping a venv for cli tools. This is much neater, thanks!
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by duggan 6y ago
CircuitPython describes itself a fork of MicroPython, with the major difference being its deployment workflow. What makes it a “toy” by comparison in your book?
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Sort by Controversial(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by duggan 6y ago|0 comments
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by duggan 6y ago
The hard drive analogy is appropriate; the solution is to buy more/bigger hard drives when you need them. You can’t foresee all requirements, “the map is not the territory”, etc. Similarly, you build a system with the best information
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by duggan 6y ago
It's 25Gbps now[1]. I have a rule of thumb: if I haven't refreshed something I think I know about AWS for more than half a year, it's probably out of date. [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowl
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by duggan 6y ago
As with bugs in general, nobody sets out to write flaky tests. Sometimes organizational imperatives like code coverage goals can result in less-than-stellar tests. Sometimes a developer doesn't understand the system well enough, and so
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Kim Stanley Robinson: The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations(newyorker.com)
49 points by duggan 6y ago|18 comments
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by duggan 6y ago
> when recruiters call and find out I'm married with kids they can't seem to hang up fast enough. I don't really understand why this would be the case. From a purely practical standpoint, people loaded up with a family are
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by duggan 6y ago
I expect there's a fine line here between being generous and being seen as patronizing, but I try to cultivate a similar mindset (with varying degrees of success). I've always found it a sign of someone trustworthy, generally poss
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by duggan 7y ago
I think you also have to account for the cost of acquiring senior staff. If you train them and pay them, your pipeline becomes more predictable than plucking them ad-hoc from other companies. That makes planning (your roadmap) more predicta
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by duggan 7y ago
I think that would depend on the religion, but generally I don't think the comparison is equivalent. I'd always thought the primary difference between vegetarians and vegans was ethical, rather than dietary. That part of the ethic
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by duggan 7y ago
I mean, isn’t a large part of veganism an ethical stance against killing sentient creatures? It’s hard to see how that wouldn’t involve judging others to some degree.
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by duggan 7y ago
As long as I'm paid a software engineering salary to develop software, I could be called a clown for all the difference it makes. If you're programming, you're a programmer. Or a coder. Or a software developer. Or a software
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by duggan 7y ago
I always enjoy demonstrating various combinations of cat, grep, uniq, sort, and cut to folks unfamiliar with the command line; data scientists in particular. Even if you can't ship a bash script to production, they're great tools
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by duggan 7y ago
I received a variation on this mail too. I signed up on their free plan years ago to play with the API, eventually setting it up just to do mail forwarding to GMail from my domains. This move makes sense and I hope it works out for them, th
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Security questions and CAPTCHA don’t just verify our identities but reshape them(reallifemag.com)
1 points by duggan 7y ago|0 comments
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Perkeep(perkeep.org)
2 points by duggan 7y ago|0 comments
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Phrases that people get wrong(phrases.org.uk)
3 points by duggan 7y ago|0 comments
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Effective Video Encoding in Linux with Nvidia Nvenc(weekly-geekly.github.io)
3 points by duggan 7y ago|0 comments
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by duggan 7y ago
I don't believe for a second that there is an endless supply of capable software engineers. The salaries available to folks of even modest experience simply don't support such an assertion. This problem should be self-correcting
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by duggan 7y ago
> I got a couple of months' gardening leave (as it's known in the industry). The most senior guys would typically get six months off work: three paid, three unpaid. I don't understand - three months unpaid gardening leave
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by duggan 7y ago
In companies that I've worked in, the traits listed would (very roughly) distinguish a junior from senior developer. There's various ways of describing these levels, but I think programmer/developer is less clear, and seems t
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by duggan 7y ago
Alas, even the mighty telephone line is not infallible.
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by duggan 7y ago
There is a post published on Jordan's blog covering this, might be easier to read (no Facebook login nag): https://www.jordanmechner.com/prince-of-persia-30th-annivers...
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by duggan 7y ago
You’re a real asshole to say something like this.
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by duggan 7y ago
The word “concur” means to agree. As the article makes no reference to Bhutan, national policy, nor concludes that happiness is a worthy goal, perhaps you intended a different word?
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by duggan 7y ago
I imagine in that scenario that Google and Facebook would get particularly good at resilience and security. Once you've got enough people, 5% of them may as well have been hired by lottery, depending on what you're measuring. Peop
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by duggan 7y ago
Teams is truly mediocre, other than when it rises to irritating. I have no idea how anyone using it could prefer it to Slack. It is imposed on people whose organizations have Office 365 subscriptions, it is not chosen.
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Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) (2014)(pragdave.me)
1 points by duggan 8y ago|0 comments
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by duggan 8y ago
There is a difference between a $172k "gift idea" and the single largest purchase most people make in their entire lifetime as a loan repaid over most of their working career.

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