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by hawkice 11y ago
When someone brags about how little sleep they get, I've found it difficult to convince them that extreme sleep deprivation impacts performance. It's not too dissimilar to a drunk friend trying to negotiate back their car keys --
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by hawkice 11y ago
It appears to be done without the use of Javascript.
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by hawkice 11y ago
I think number 12 is passing in a string instead of a [ListItem Char].
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by hawkice 11y ago
This comment seemed familiar, so I looked at your comment history. You've left this comment over and over on different stories. In general, it is preferred you leave comments specific to the stories your are commenting on.
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by hawkice 11y ago
China will probably not invade Taiwan. Both Taiwan and China agree there is only one China, so what would that look like? Chinese soldiers killing Chinese people to claim territory for a country they are already a part of? Also, the PRC has
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by hawkice 11y ago
I can't help but think that, even if YCombinator is the same it has always been, I honestly do not understand the culture they are trying to foster. Is it that you weren't meant to have a boss, or that smart investors make good bo
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by hawkice 12y ago
It turns out we can get numbers for how valuable managers are, and indeed, it is more value than the lower level employees, by a factor of about 1.75. In turns out that the difference in increased productivity is roughly in line with the di
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by hawkice 12y ago
Good rule for contrast: If you would refer to the text color and background color by the same word, that's not enough contrast. Compare the good contrast examples, largely black on white or white on black, with the bad examples, univer
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by hawkice 12y ago
I think you're right about the mental modelling that leads to these market outcomes. I am perplexed by the weak arguments from sources -- comparing dev work to 9 mothers trying to have a baby in one month? What point are they trying to
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by hawkice 12y ago
Depends on precisely what you mean by worst. There is a deep, objective sense in which spending more than a year on a site that never got launched was bad. A permanent loss of meaning for that time. But it doesn't hit quite so hard as,
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by hawkice 12y ago
If I asked a potential employer how many meetings a week people in the position/team usually attend, and they say 20-30, that is clearly too much. But I am reasonably certain I would be criticized by you as using the wrong tone if I sa
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by hawkice 12y ago
By "independently" I just mean that you will learn faster and earn more per hour if you work a normal job and learn on the side than spending the same time learning on the job. All jobs require some learning and adaptation, so the
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by hawkice 12y ago
If at all possible, invest in learning independently as much as possible. The tools these days, both free and paid (for almost all price brackets, although it's hard to beat some of the free resources), for independent study are amazin
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by hawkice 12y ago
One upvote on this comment wasn't enough, so let me expand as well: Someone asking for free development work, in modern circumstances, is not someone you should work for, even if they _do_ pay you later. I was a student, right after th
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by hawkice 12y ago
I'm not parent, but here's an idea that's floating around, maybe it can be used as a reasonable guess to as how to make sense of it: There is a concern that high frequency trading is technology that, while creating liquidity,
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by hawkice 12y ago
Perl is water in the cupped hands of our minds. I have yet to meet someone who can keep it from slipping between their fingers without consistent effort.
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by hawkice 12y ago
There is a difference between blog posts and conversations about Haskell. The community is extremely friendly to beginners, but many blog posts are not, and most are largely geared towards experts familiar with the more esoteric terms. If y
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by hawkice 12y ago
The canonical phrasing in the Haskell world is "Avoid success-at-all-costs." [If you don't mind me adding the disambiguating hyphens.]
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by hawkice 12y ago
The minimum band size is 250, so the 0 bucket would be too small. This is the best they can do without the feds bringing down the hammer.
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by hawkice 12y ago
I used to know some people in Yahoo's LA office, and they described it as an intensely dysfunctional environment where it's almost impossible to get things done -- roughly the same thing I heard about Zynga, but not as bad as Mysp
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by hawkice 12y ago
Something to note, for those who want to flood nice people with emails: I sent him a couple emails (probably similarly stupid questions -- I recall one was about his thoughts on Twilio having a "build your own appointment reminder&quot
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by hawkice 12y ago
Typical etiquette would involve being more detailed. I am curious -- what is true, if the above is a lie?
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by hawkice 12y ago
Not a precisely fair comparison, but it's worth noting that Nazis are very much a part of the modern American understanding of Important Events. The Japanese did some horrifying things in WW2 too, not just Nazis. I guess the trouble is
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by hawkice 12y ago
My understanding is that it was reversed from that, where with stack canaries and debug tracing nothing odd was happening, but when things are run without defenses it _stops_ working, instead of starting to work because you're paying l
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by hawkice 12y ago
The metaphor works better when you imagine the courts as part of the runtime (or similar). The comments are available for us to use, as citizens, but when the system is executing, it only cares what's in the code.
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by hawkice 12y ago
Ah, yes, the instability of fake fixes to compiler bugs. I recall a friend of mine once had a bit of C code that would compile and run correctly only if debugging was enabled. His fix, to get it to run with full optimizations without segfau
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by hawkice 12y ago
The issue is an unsafe optimization. If you change optimization to re-introduce the bug, that's a pretty straight-forward regression.
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by hawkice 12y ago
FWIW, works on Ubuntu, not just OS X.
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by hawkice 12y ago
Woah, Louisville is much closer. Loiusville may be the closest city to Point H that has an airport.
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by hawkice 12y ago
I almost always document how to set up a good development setup (live code reloading, tests running, decent error reporting, you know the drill), and how to create a production build (these both should be a single line on the command prompt

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