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by gnat 3y ago
Reconciliation in finance is taking your records of sales and matching them to your bank records. This identifies sales that didn't result in bank deposits, bank deposits that didn't come from sales, situations where you were paid
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by gnat 3y ago
Oh! Pascal! was magnificent. The other influential Pascal text for me was “Elementary Pascal”, where Holmes writes Pascal for Babbage’s engine to solve mysteries. Books these days don’t seem to have the same whimsy.
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by gnat 3y ago
Perhaps it's a typo/braino for LWW, Last Write Wins.
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by gnat 3y ago
A+. Kids come out with their own personalities which will grow and change in response to events. You can provide some of the events but not all. You can't really control how they change in response to those events. The idea that a chil
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by gnat 3y ago
The research: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.06.22283143v...
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by gnat 3y ago
That's the one, thanks. I knew he said it better :-)
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Fifteen years is a long time for code to remain unchanged. Either you constantly work on it and change as the needs change, or you have a boom and bust cycle of productivity. Another way to look at it would be: holy shit, this company made
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by gnat 3y ago
Larry Wall said something like "if you have a complex problem, the complexity will come up somewhere -- either you have a complex language and a simple program, or a simple language and a complex problem. The complexity can't be w
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by gnat 3y ago
As the article says, premium wrenches are already made in America. Consumers pay for comparatively-expensive American labour in comparatively-expensive premium products. The article is about an attempt to onshore the wrenches for a low-pric
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by gnat 3y ago
I'm the same with LDA immediate = A9 in 6502 machine code, from my C64 days. It's disturbing how strongly burned-in those neurons are ...
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by gnat 3y ago
I'm keeping "you either know instantly or you haven't practiced enough". Thanks!
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I find that when it writes code, I can't trust its output. I handle that by being Grumpy Old Programmer: I eyeball it closely and ask myself about error handling, assumptions, off-by-one errors, is it confusing the 1.1 API with 2.0, is
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by gnat 4y ago
Interesting to see The Economist doing modeling. Curious that they see no problem in it being utterly unauditable. Unlike a research paper that would cite specific datasets and model parameters, this is just "here are some numbers we&#
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by gnat 4y ago
https://archive.is/Gc8FF
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We release new on-prem versions every fortnight and it's up to the customer to decide if they want to upgrade to it or not. We ack the maintenance burden but also that if they want a new shiny then they need to accept that it means an
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by gnat 4y ago
You're comparing your blooper reel to others' highlight reel. You're carrying a huge burden with you, and that you can get out of bed at all in the morning means you're stronger than people who stride casually through li
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by gnat 4y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35050915 for discussion
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https://archive.is/FyZNl "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" cost <$100k, opens at the box office Feb 15, made by a Brit horror producer. Is expected to be unremarkable, other than using previously in-copyright
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by gnat 4y ago
https://archive.is/lFysC (the original link wasn't loading for me)
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... and gone again. Not even a Fail Whale!
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... back. Or, at least, loads for me.
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Confirmed here in NZ: twitter.com static template loads, but doesn't fill with content.
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Convenience isn't the point. The rules of society, laws, morality, ethics, compassion as a virtue ... they don't exist as physical laws. They're human constructs, and humans can (and do) choose to ignore them. It's an im
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Ask what development and code practices they use to increase code quality. It shows you care about code quality, and gives you the chance to say "ah yes, I've worked with that", and ask "why nUnit and not xUnit" and
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Yup, that's the GPT-3-as-coder experience in a nutshell: * "I had to spend a few hours writing the integration code" * "I couldn't get it to do the right thing in 20 tries." * "It still doesn't do wha
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NZ had a version of this recently too: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/479858/graham-philip-rec...
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PS you asked for things like courses. I went looking when our first-time tech writer wanted to grow her skills. There are surprisingly few online options for anything beyond 101. If you do discover good 'uns, please share back. Thanks!
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Hi, former O'Reilly editor and current CTO here. "Improve technical writing" is broad. First, I'd make sure everyone knows what kinds of docs it's possible to write. The Diátaxis Framework < https://dia
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> trying to focus less on the things I do at work and more on the things I do outside of it This is an under-recommended but totally solid approach to a happy life. The takeaway I got from Po Bronson's "What Should I Do With My
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The marginal cost of union fees is trivial in comparison to a salary. A union gives you more choices than "surveil or resign". And if the union fails you because it says "no, you have to surveil" then you can still resig

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