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by gompertz 5y ago
That's what makes it even more unfathomable how these bugs happen... Not only are they using the wrong data type, but they are using signed as well. Everytime I declare variables I think "will this ever be negative", so that
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by gompertz 5y ago
Thanks for saying all this, probably one of the more mature insights. Personally I find V to already be a fine language - it improves on everything I feel Go just slightly missed the mark on. Regarding the hostility towards the performance
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by gompertz 5y ago
Don't forget the post is 2.5 years old... Lots has evolved.
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by gompertz 5y ago
Ironically, V programming language has 2-3x the amount of github stars (decent measure of popularity) to zig/nim, yet has been the brunt of general hate here on HN from day one. (Mostly, as I can tell, due to some single individual blo
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by gompertz 5y ago
It took me a long time to figure this tip out... But also noticed it reverts back to default view after a week or so (on mobile app). Like they wanted to force the "X who you follow liked Y".
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by gompertz 5y ago
The authors reasoning is buried 95% into a (way too long) political / geographical / anthropological history lesson that probably nobody cares to read. Not an effective way to send a message if you're passionate about change.
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by gompertz 5y ago
Strongly agree with this list. Only thing is I'd swap out Lisp for Awk/Snobol4/Perl (given the last bullet on text). Text manipulation will be timeless. Even in the "modern world" of PowerBI tools I spend least time
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by gompertz 5y ago
If I recall correctly, Slack was built utilizing IRC on the backend. I remember that resonating with me as I was sole developer on an in-house invoicing system at a Fortune 500, and I added a whole corporate chat functionality using IRC lib
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by gompertz 5y ago
This somewhat makes sense as it mentions the page content itself was in French. However then "solving" the problem by making a domain with both languages hyphenated only magnifies the issue more - to indicate an expectation you sh
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by gompertz 5y ago
It's fine when you're solely reading something. Your eyes gaze to what you understand. Just like a product manual that comes in 20 languages. Where this approach falls flat is web domains. It requires you to actually type out both
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by gompertz 5y ago
Yeah I had to re-read OPs request a couple times. He's definitely asking where he can blog where the readership is already there (I.e. Not starting from scratch, with his own domain.) This just isn't a thing... You build the great
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by gompertz 5y ago
It's cute in Canada, they would feel the need to go so incredibly far as having the domain bilingual, rather than just registering two separate domains and pointing them to the same address. If you actually (for God knows what reason)
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by gompertz 5y ago
Congratulations from someone who has passed three of the exams, and then bailed. I would hire anyone who has passed even a single SOA/CAS exam in a Data Science role in a heartbeat - likely above most other candidates. While I don&#x2
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by gompertz 5y ago
Actuarial major here (early 2000s). These exams are indeed quite hard - and if not hard (by someone's personal definition), just cover such a grotesque amount of material for a single exam that by the time you get to the last 20% of t
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by gompertz 5y ago
People are larger than the technical problems indeed, but I think that would have been a good thing in the "self hosting" world the parent commenter desired. People willing to put in the proper energy are likely those worthwhile t
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by gompertz 5y ago
This is going to be a bit of a wild answer... But I'm going to say Awk. All the basic programming constructs/concepts are there, without having to get lost in compilers, IDEs, makefiles etc. On Windows you can get coding with just
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by gompertz 5y ago
To learn less new things and just get better at the stuff I already (somewhat) know through application. Too much time in recent years has been spent doing any Udemy or Coursera course that looked moderately appealing. The breadth of knowle
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by gompertz 5y ago
Health Canada may be utilizing the data, but what good does it do if they don't share results analysis with the provinces to make informed decisions?
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by gompertz 5y ago
It's interesting, as I've heard the same reasoning with taxation too. We can have all these sophisticated statistical models, risk models, and so forth; yet what ultimately gets produced is a basic tax bracket step scale that (hop
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by gompertz 5y ago
It's good the studies take place; but cursory glance that's 'diagnostic analytics' more than 'predictive' or 'prescriptive analytics'. Tracking data should be used to get ahead of these things; not to
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by gompertz 5y ago
That's all fine and dandy; except what every comment here fails to challenge is "how did the data make actual decisions?" Because as a Canadian, living in a prairie province, all the COVID-19 measures certainly didn't in
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by gompertz 5y ago
I'm having great results with Kagi as well. I actually forgot I signed up for beta a few weeks back until I saw this post; and started testing it out this morning. Thus far, I'm quite impressed - similar sentiments to what you h
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by gompertz 5y ago
Waiting for the day I see "written in Snobol4" =)
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by gompertz 5y ago
I use clicky.com, it's ultra lite weight and has tons of features.
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by gompertz 5y ago
Great resource that I use off and on! However usually my first attempt on locked down machines will be trying to extract the MSI installer or installing exe with 7zip, to see if I can run the contents directly.
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by gompertz 5y ago
This is excellent, may become my new source! Any other recommendations??
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by gompertz 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation internet Stranger! I just finished the book based on your comment here last week. Great read.
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by gompertz 5y ago
Lean Startup was a surprisingly great book; as many in this topic space are nonsense.
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by gompertz 5y ago
I just finished "Bullshit Jobs" by Daniel Graeber. Excellent read. Maybe I'll try the Debt book next.
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by gompertz 5y ago
Oh! Excellent... Thanks!

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