frankie_t

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by frankie_t 2y ago
I've recently started a mini-project in OCaml, having some Haskell background. The worst thing so far is that you have to declare and define functions before using them. This results in unimportant utility functions being at the top, a
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by frankie_t 2y ago
Do we know the percentage of the total devices used by Hezbollah that got attacked? I guess even if all of them were destroyed, it hardly does any dismantling. But I would expect this operation to open a window of possibility to do some oth
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by frankie_t 2y ago
I guess it could still be considered the same one, just the continuation of it. I was kind of expecting a ground invasion after such havoc in communications has been wrecked. I guess if the "electronic" attack is still going on, m
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by frankie_t 2y ago
I think he's referring to Python, just like other made up names probably refer to Java, Js, C++ and OCaml.
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by frankie_t 2y ago
Wanted to say the same. He straight up conjured a good looking code in CrabML as an example of similar level of "ugliness", while it has about three times less syntax noise.
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by frankie_t 2y ago
To my taste, it looks worse than HoMM3 and has a distinct mobile game vibe.
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by frankie_t 2y ago
Do you maybe know some good resources for self-learning these areas?
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by frankie_t 3y ago
Learning some Haskell and Spanish. No use for any of these skills, just fun. Trying to escape reality: war, uncertainty, etc.
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by frankie_t 3y ago
It really depends on your goals. Why would someone want to become a better software engineer? To me, the things you listed aren't fun, so I wouldn't do them in my spare time unless I see the benefit in it. If we are talking making
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by frankie_t 3y ago
I can't recommend something I haven't read myself, but Mircea Eliade's "History of religion" looks good, but it's quite bulky. I was considering it myself, for the same reasons as yours. Maybe someone who read
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by frankie_t 4y ago
I've had similar thoughts, this development is completely disenheartening to me. I love computer science, self studying and the programming-as-solving-a-puzzle kind of occupation. It looks like the most interesting part of programming
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by frankie_t 5y ago
Approach all my planning from resource (time and energy) allocation perspective. Previously I would just make a dump of all things that I want to achieve, which made any kind of planning unrealistic. Stay afloat but do not try to actively c
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by frankie_t 6y ago
>stopped considering questions in terms of my own preferences and started considering them in terms of how they would connect me to others Feeling connection to others is one of your own preferences, ultimately you act in your own intere
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by frankie_t 6y ago
I had a funny situation with kindle. It was connecting to the internet all the time, I enabled airplane mode and then it started complaining about it all the time. Out of spite I added password to my wifi (I didn't have any and I even
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by frankie_t 6y ago
There could be multiple factors I think, like: your language skill level, translation quality, "closeness" of languages, psychological predisposition towards your native language. Depending on the form of the thing you are transla
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by frankie_t 6y ago
I don't think this is inherent to English, or any other language (perhaps in more specific cases when there is no word with the similar meaning). I think in general we pack a concept in a word and lose some information this way, so whe
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by frankie_t 6y ago
> I find it telling that most people who start an online course never finish them I wouldn't go this far. Enrolling to an online course is essentially an effortless endeavour, unlike on-campus studying. You don't pay anything (
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by frankie_t 6y ago
Not at all, I actually liked the idea a lot. It's just hard for me to take a any positive feedback from a person I pay to listen to the said feedback.
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by frankie_t 6y ago
Yes, I'm overall optimistic about therapy in general. I did get some valuable things out of my sessions, and I think it would've been hard to find these things somewhere else. Therapists tend to get expensive though, when I improv
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by frankie_t 6y ago
I had similar experience, but can't say my therapy was a huge success. When gotten familiar with my situation, my therapist said the we need to build trust and that she's gonna do the work that my parents failed to do. I was initi
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by frankie_t 6y ago
How so? I would imagine it be the case if the job requirements were "3 years exp with k8s, 5 if you are a woman".
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by frankie_t 6y ago
Sometimes they just look for a reason to cut the salary or make you more overtime-compliant, or something else. Basically a tool to squeeze out more. The routine is to take you but make you feel like they do you a favor by taking you with l
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by frankie_t 6y ago
Wow, that resembles something I wanted to implement myself. It's crazy how most of the things you think of doing are already done. I think I will migrate to it eventually, thank you.
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by frankie_t 6y ago
MIT OCW is great, I'm very grateful to them for doing this. Still, it's closer to books for me than to MOOCs by overall experience. I have never used much websites for the on-campus courses, they are rarely self-contained and requ
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by frankie_t 6y ago
I see a screenshot there defines an anki card? Couldn't find any mention about anki in docs or on the github (I only skimmed though). Would be interesting to see if there is a possible interplay. I myself use vanilla org mode for this
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by frankie_t 6y ago
I've seen this one in 'the old days', but never actually took it, just skimmed through the introduction. It was hard for me to grasp what I would take from it, even though it seemed interesting. Can you please summarize what
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by frankie_t 6y ago
I would certainly hope so, in a sense that this being free and available to everyone can really help, especially poor and underprivileged, but also lifelong learners that can't attend a university. On the other hand, making a good mooc
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by frankie_t 6y ago
Well, essentially what I was asking is "is there any good new stuff or is this movement dead", meaning the 2012ish hype of open university knowledge, so I don't think it's a question of a recurring nature. Most of the re
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Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020?
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by frankie_t 6y ago
That actually surprises me a lot. I've seen plenty of critique about lacking generics and exceptions, while haven't seen much complaint about ADTs. From my rather dilettante point of view they are neither too complex for "phi

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