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by egl2020 1y ago
Lots of apparently unexplored alternative explanations. In times of uncertainty, you don't hire unless you need to. Another junior developer or customer service agent can be delayed, and youngsters in the labor force are most exposed
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by egl2020 1y ago
Shotwell is amazing. She runs SpaceX, which is rocket science, and she has to manage Musk, which is harder than rocket science.
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by egl2020 1y ago
A competitive athletic program is a huge time sink: practices, weight room, travel, meets, game day. That time spent elsewhere can go a long ways to covering college costs, such as taking extra classes and finishing a semester or quarter ea
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by egl2020 1y ago
I experimented with TLA, and the graphical toolbox didn't seem to work or match the tutorial. Kinda disappointing: I wanted to use TLA, and I'm otherwise a big fan of Lamport's work, from the utilitarian Latex to the intelle
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by egl2020 1y ago
When I worked at Google, Ian Lance Taylor was in the pool of randomly assigned code reviewers. He was polite, firm, and informative. It speaks well of Taylor and the project that he was doing this kind of review--- it's a version of
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by egl2020 2y ago
> I don't understand why. Favors minimal text entry. You keep the type information in your head and enter fewer tokens. Historically you also reduced the work and improved responsiveness for the interpreter, which might have been
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by egl2020 2y ago
Heck, one of my co-workers at a FAANG freaked out when he realized that he had used his personal phone to take a picture of a meeting blackboard instead of his corp phone. He spent the afternoon trying to figure out how to scrub the photo.
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by egl2020 2y ago
We hoisted the weight way overhead in the field house on a pulley system. One pulley was for the hoist, and another simulated the anchor point that the leader was falling past. The weight was held by a releasable clamp, and when release wa
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by egl2020 2y ago
I took a belay test in 1970 to qualify to climb with my school's outing club. We used a concrete weight and a hip belay.
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by egl2020 2y ago
I don't find the x86 minutiae objectionable. If you want to build or even just understand an OS that runs on real hardware, you will have to deal with processor and hardware minutiae, and this gives one example of what you might encou
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by egl2020 2y ago
I used and rather liked Darcs in the dark ages when SVN was the best alternative. Then I discovered that it would happily accept largish binary files, but would later refuse to give them back when I needed them. I could have lived with an
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by egl2020 2y ago
Argentina would be a good candidate. Islas Malvinas and all that.
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by egl2020 2y ago
Bad title for the list. The books by Feynman, Weinberg, Sagan, Steinbeck, McPhee, and Levi didn't shape science. At best they are good descriptions of what happened in the century.
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by egl2020 2y ago
I've worked at startups and at a FAANG. For many years, I've told people that they should never do a startup for the $$$; their expected value is higher at a FAANG. They should do a startup only if they're interested in the
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by egl2020 2y ago
Harvard could be the safety school if the kid doesn't get into Delft or Eindhoven.
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by egl2020 5y ago
Four musicians is three too many for the Art of Fugue. Just listen to Hewitt or Koroliov or any other solo keyboard.
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by egl2020 6y ago
"...the child of Bobby's Nordic girlfriend..." does have a role in the modern-day episodes (probably). I didn't figure this out until my second or third reading.
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by egl2020 6y ago
F#
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by egl2020 6y ago
K&R is the best known, but his other books are terrific. Software Tools showed how programs can simultaneously be powerful and simple, and decades later I still use things from Kernighan and Pike. Just today I wrote an AWK one-liner t
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by egl2020 6y ago
Caching is part of what makes AMP fast, and publishers may find that they also have to run caching servers to get AMP-like speeds.
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by egl2020 6y ago
You're completely right, there's nothing for you in lisp. Nothing to see here. Just move on.
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by egl2020 6y ago
"associated with Java, as once was the custom". Like JavaScript. Yeah, right.
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by egl2020 6y ago
I did a lot of interviewing of new grads when I worked at a FAANG. I had the luxury of not needing a prior, and I looked at the resume only after conducting the interview and submitting my recommendation. I rarely looked even then. The d
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by egl2020 6y ago
Shopify? What's a product that Shopify sells other than its ecommerce platform?
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by egl2020 7y ago
You might be surprised by how strenuous electric work can be: pulling a cable bundle through a long conduit run, nailing staples at arm's length overhead, and finishing outlets at knee height.
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by egl2020 7y ago
You might have accumulated too much damage or other failure modes might have kicked in.
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by egl2020 7y ago
I use my owl.