felideon

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by felideon 4y ago
> I know what I need from a language that matches my particular quirks as a programmer and helps me shine and it's not Lisp. Yes, but the argument is that, once you've experienced Lisp, your quirks as a programmer completely ch
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by felideon 4y ago
Clarity is certainly important, in which case I could have said “OOP should have been...” Except: Smalltalk still lives (Squeak) and Erlang takes messaging to the extreme.
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by felideon 4y ago
Which is funny, because OOP should be[1] about the in-between of the objects: the messages[2]. Not about the objects themselves or the classes and GOF design patterns. With Common Lisp you get generic functions and design your classes aroun
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by felideon 4y ago
> Obviously you can't eliminate those completely but if you hire the right people your org will generally succeed in spite of a lack of organization and process. This is true. I like Marty Cagan's take on it in his article &quo
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by felideon 4y ago
OT: Nice site! Also built with Svelte, it seems.
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by felideon 4y ago
Interesting. This is kind of like Camunda without the BPMN baggage and a full blown IDE that integrates all the frontend/UI aspects with the backend workflow stuff. With Camunda, you have to build your own frontend past the auto-genera
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FTC Takes Action to Stop Opendoor from Cheating Potential Sellers(ftc.gov)
140 points by felideon 4y ago|2 comments
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by felideon 4y ago
Have never worked for FAANG/MAGMA, but the theory is that if you have `n` years of, say, MUMPS experience at an insurance company, the next candidate with `y` years of Python experience will have a better chance of getting hired---even
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by felideon 4y ago
Of course, but as parent comment suggests, not everyone knows this.
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by felideon 4y ago
Yes, my heuristic for ibuprofen vs. acetaminophen is whether there is swelling involved. Ibuprofen helped me a bit to manage a sore, swollen throat due to COVID. (But the corticoids I was prescribed are what really did the trick.) [Edit: IA
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Edits to a cholesterol gene could stop the biggest killer on earth(technologyreview.com)
1 points by felideon 4y ago|0 comments
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by felideon 4y ago
The screenshot in the tweet is from https://www.trueup.io/layoffs
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by felideon 4y ago
It also detracts from the main point, which is this could happen to someone, but, since it’s hypothetical, makes it sounds a lot more unrealistic. The "fireproof but not lightning-proof" safe gave me pause, for example.
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by felideon 4y ago
For Common Lisp, just stick to SBCL or CCL: https://common-lisp.net/implementations
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by felideon 5y ago
Yeah, I either had never really noticed the Save functionality, or never thought to use it as a pseudo-todo list. Will definitely give it a try.
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by felideon 5y ago
You either mark it as unread if you are going to get to it as soon as you wrap you what you're currently doing, or you click "More actions" and select a "Remind me about this" option.
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by felideon 5y ago
> Even had instance of waking up chocking, which was again due to a short loud thud noise disturbance by another flat. Do you mean choking, as in gasping for air? This is a sign of potential obstructive sleep apnea, and it feels that sol
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by felideon 5y ago
Leaving it open means that when you click on a Zoom link, the app opens much quicker and you are already logged in. But yeah, not worth the privacy hit.
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by felideon 5y ago
He also describes one of Cadegiani's other studies with some helpful color.
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by felideon 5y ago
Oh, you mean Cadegiani, the same "crazy person [that] decided to put his patients on every weird medication he could think of [... and] helpfully designated some random patients in his area as a sort-of-control, and then synthetically
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by felideon 5y ago
Developing countries do have a higher prevalence of worms[1], as Scott Alexander discusses in his post[2] on the subject. [1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20587392209599... [2] https:/&
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by felideon 5y ago
Yes, good point. Learn how to balance parens with rainbow delimiters (if anything) and, once you you're comfortable with sexps, give paredit a try.
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by felideon 5y ago
When we first started working with Irish teammates, we were confused about who people were referring to when they talked about Owen as there was no Owen in Slack at all. There was an Eoghan, though.
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by felideon 5y ago
Well, it is a US territory and our most western one, at that.
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by felideon 5y ago
Though I haven't gotten one yet, the Kyria also has some nice thumb clusters. You can print out the layout[1] to test how it lines up with your fingers. [1] https://docs.splitkb.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600
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by felideon 5y ago
From the 2014 incarnation: > Just to put this paper in an appropriate historical context, I wrote it back when I was trying to convince NASA that flying Lisp on a spacecraft would not be a completely insane thing to do. The Powers That B
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Fitbits Detect Lasting Changes After Covid-19(nytimes.com)
7 points by felideon 5y ago|0 comments
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by felideon 5y ago
Heh. Report back in August.
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by felideon 6y ago
Not sure if you were joking, but that issue was promptly closed and marked as spam.
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by felideon 6y ago
> the appeal of Roblox compared to Disney+, arguably the finest destination for 8 year olds, is that, on the face of it, Roblox is "free." Um, no. Roblox is a gaming platform with a somewhat kid-friendly social network. You&#x2

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