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by edejong 6y ago
How do you have their problems become your own?
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by edejong 6y ago
Programming in my world is about anticipating abstractions, without actually abstracting. We write code for it to be changed. We know to a certain extend how the specifications, design and code are likely to change over time. We anticipate
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by edejong 6y ago
A hook is not an abstraction. A validation function is not an abstraction. An abstraction would be to say: "These programming statements are actually objects." Or, the time and ordering constraints implied in this program should b
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by edejong 6y ago
I think there is an important difference between anticipating abstractions and actually abstracting. In your example, you were actually implementing an abstraction and anticipating a future use. That is something completely different. What
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by edejong 6y ago
That's exactly the point I want to bring across. As simple as possible, but not simpler. However, solving one problem, but causing dozens down the line is not engineering, even though your problem is 'the simplest'. You see,
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by edejong 6y ago
Well, that’s programming: it’s not about proving one point. It’s about proving every possible point. The level of ability to abstract should be much higher than the ability to add an extra recipe.
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by edejong 6y ago
I tend to think people underestimate the hidden complexity of sequential programming. Each statement has a potential, opaque effect on the complete state. To prove anything in the OP solution would be extremely complex. To extract new knowl
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by edejong 6y ago
Although I’ve seen numerous examples of hubris by creating accidental complexity, I actually think category theory is an exercise in minimalism. But the realization only happens when understanding the complexity of ‘normal’ imperative and o
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by edejong 6y ago
Is the paper "NN-sort: Neural Network based Data Distribution-aware Sorting" [1] not a year prior to the cited paper? It seems to discuss the same approach. [1] NN-sort: Neural Network based Data Distribution-aware Sorting: https
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by edejong 6y ago
I’m sorry to say so, but I find these kind of conditions discriminating to those who have a family.
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by edejong 6y ago
The most redeeming feature is that normal cloud providers have a zero friction onboarding funnel whereas IBM seems to make you want to meet as many “sales engineers” as possible.
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dx of points over time.
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by edejong 6y ago
Bit late to the game. Only when the company is in existential crisis it knows how to act. First step: restore trust with potential customers after gambling it all away with dirty sales tactics.
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by edejong 6y ago
After a long search, we found two workable 'office neutral' solutions: Virbela and its successor FrameVR. I'll be online on FrameVR in my own personal frame at: https://framevr.io/testerdetest Please use head
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by edejong 6y ago
Wow, do you get paid for being on call during the weekends?
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by edejong 6y ago
I guess the HN audience has voted. The result is: hacking around Excel stupidities is itself a stupid idea. If you want Excel to understand your output, perhaps use a library which can write xlsx files.
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by edejong 6y ago
Excel devs, do you hear me? Repent for your sins! Go back to Microsoft and fix those problems. The cost of Excel mishandling numbers and dates must be many orders of magnitude higher than your lifetime salary. Thank you.
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by edejong 6y ago
Yes, we've all used that abstraction. And it is a lousy one. For starters, the novice interpretation of a PC are peripherals (mouse, screen, keyboard, wifi) with a GUI and then down from there. Your abstraction starts without a screen
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by edejong 6y ago
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra in 1982 on "users" [1] (please read the rest of the EWD as it is too much to paste here): "The computer “user” isn’t a real person of flesh and blood, with passions and brains. No, he is a mythical figure
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At the time it was quite sensible. Many in the target audience were computer illiterate or beginners. The context menu is not discoverable and is counter intuitive to the point and touch metaphor. In addition, most of the right mouse button
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by edejong 6y ago
Related question: what would be the best way to store such a value? A float would only use the mantissa-bits, so it would be rather inefficient. Perhaps as a uint16 with a representation of uint16 / (2^16)?
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by edejong 6y ago
I don’t know about bemmu, but I was. Ended up being a creator there.
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by edejong 6y ago
Library dependencies, such as managed by Conda or Pip (from PyPI). Any change in the expected interface from a dependency to your depickled objects will create an error. I author package "FooBar". FooBar creates objects of type &q
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by edejong 6y ago
Pickle's greatest flaw is the complete lack of forward and backward compatibility. The compatibility is not guaranteed between when upgrading any of the dependencies. Dependencies should stay the same over releases, halting forward pro
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by edejong 6y ago
I just have to reply because of that last sentence. I totally forgot that feeling until now. Each rendered frame, the side scrolling, the pixelated sprites (not rectangular, but smoothed due to the CRT). Ignorance is bliss...
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by edejong 6y ago
Really nice! Just got a chance to watch it. Such a nice explanation and he gives very nice examples of how intonation is a puzzle and a bit of an art, even for choirs.
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by edejong 6y ago
Oh yes, sometimes you actually notice this, often when approaching a certain note from above and below. Depending on the harmonic function, the major seconds are not always the same size and you end up singing out of tune. So, one always tr
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Which is why I once sang in a choir for a couple of years. Nothing beats perfect harmony. Similarly, I was once convinced everyone in our jazz-rock band was out of tune after I had experimented with alternative tunings at home the whole day
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by edejong 6y ago
A piano is ever so slightly inharmonic. This is due to the rigidity of the strings. Only a massless, 100% flexible string has perfect overtones.
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And the remaining 0.1% actually read some UX design textbooks from the 90's: 1. Incomprehensible icons 2. No use of color to indicate the most likely new action 3. Weird and inconsistent transitions and dialogs 4. Many different fonts,

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