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by hpcjoe 8y ago
You aren't alone. You need to stay strong and positive for her, but you need to be able to talk with others who've tread this path before. Many have.
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
The message of encouragement is to the family, "you are not alone, and you should reach out to others to help." Regardless if it is easily treatable, or an aggressive terminal cancer. When we went through the process, there was a
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Hang in there ... I've ridden that particular train[1][2]. You have to be strong, positive for the family member. Know you are not alone, there have been many people who've gone through this, and as I discovered, it helps to tal
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
The vast majority of soldiers I know, whom have been blooded in war, do not wish military conflict to occur. "War is politics by other means", paraphrasing von Clausewitz. Its fundamentally backing up one's political positio
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
So ... this is a Turing complete bio-organism? I wonder if we can get them to solve the towers of Hanoi problem ...
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I remember the perl4 to perl5 transition. I had some perl4 code I wrote to automate runs of my code. Porting it to perl5 made me grumble a little, but it was mostly very minor changes. About an hour of work for all my code. But, yeah ...
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I agree with a number of the author's points. For me personally, the biggest single issue is the scope by indentation. I know some folks like this, and think it is good to restrict single functions/methods to less than a page in
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Since Github is now part of Microsoft ... it's kind of hard to see them as SMEs, based upon the text of the articles.
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I'm somewhat north of 40. I stayed longest at the company I started, riding it up, and unfortunately, down. I was the proverbial last one out, and yes, I did turn off the lights. >On a side note, there have been many times a recr
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
It's insane that we must respond to these allegations in 2018. See the ADL's writeup of this [1] which does a effective, factual takedown of this argument. Arguing this isn't for HN. Attempting to call out a state using mi
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
IMO, Julia[1] is Python done right, without all the annoying bits of python, and (much) faster. Perl is (still) a fantastic language to use when you have complex tasks and don't want to spend more time on boilerplate and specific forma
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I think you misunderstand the definition of hilarious. This is not an attack, but an observation. When you are the guy who has to meet payroll for your team, and some (insert appropriate NSFW description here) person/company deprives
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I gave 4 examples of this in an above comment. Yes, it happens. Yes, its wrong. No, people and companies don't care. At the end of the day, this is what sucked the optimism out of me at my previous company. We had lots of people tr
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I had this happen in a previous life, when I was working on designing/building/selling HPC and storage systems. Two of the worst offenders were universities, one was a prop-shop, one a semiconductor processing firm. One uni calle
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
In the truest sense of the process, an interview and hiring/not hiring decision IS discrimination. You are selecting for traits you (in theory) want, and (in theory) rejecting traits you don't want. Well, you are doing it if y
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
"Google had the ability to enforce a JS-required rule on login at least 6 years ago and never used it until now." Um ... this should terrify everyone. 'We had the power to impose this, and we graciously chose not to. You sho
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
This is unfortunate. On all my phones, I find the most annoying malware is spread via javascript. I'll get onto a page I read a few times a day, and suddenly, thanks to ads, I am served some javascript malware that attempts to tell m
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
It's got the support in the core language. That's what is so exciting to me ... its not just numerics, its an excellent programming language in and of itself, before you even get to the interesting type system. It is JIT compiled
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Again, pure FUD. Once you bring the "line noise" mischaracterization up, you've blown your credibility. I encountered this last in the mid oughts with insufferable Pythonistas. Seems not all of them have had time to think d
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Wow. Just wow. FUD. Pure and simple. Perl is doing well, thank you. Perl6 is interesting, but I don't have a project for it yet. There are jobs in perl, there are needs, and we (perl devs) aren't appreciably more expensive th
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Javascript and numerics. That is my takedown of javascript. If you don't know why its bad for numerics[1] or just generally weird [2][3] ... No, JS shouldn't be used as a systems language IMO. It gives you enough rope to shoot
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Oh dear, we seem to have unearthed a pythonista. Perl is still one of the best glue/high level systems languages around, partisan missives not withstanding. Debian's apt system is based upon it, as is git (though it uses C for pa
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I've noticed a plethora of build options over the past decades. I keep hearing how they are all "better" than make. Then to build one particular bit of software, there is a dependency upon a particular version of cmake, whic
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I guess I find it ironic then, that one of the most common programming errors, is of the "off-by-one" variety[1]. It is in part due to differences in convention and notation in various fields[2]. This isn't common in 1-based
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
This early 2010s sitcom clip [1] comes to mind when reading about this. Many of the same buzzwords were used, in the same way. Notice the lack of substance in the product discussion, and the literal dancing around what it (Jabberwocky) wa
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We were too. Until we needed to expand to meet a customers needs. Then we had to take on debt. As I said, a cautionary tale. Call me the ghost of startups past :/
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I enjoyed reading the first part of this last year, and was thinking of it recently. As someone who built a bootstrapped company from $40k/y revenue through $3.5M/year over 14 years, before we were shot in the head by our bank, I
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I wrote a code called genvrml which converted molecular models from any format (using Babel at the time for conversion) to VRML for display. I converted a bunch of my models for this. I still have them here. And if I dig around, I might
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This is not the first time I've seen comments construed to mean something completely opposite from what was intended. This seems to be the argumentation tactic of this time. The poem was specifically about purging targets not aligned
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
There is a poem by Niemoller that seems relevant[1]. The point of the poem is that if you don't speak up against actions taken against groups, you may not have support when action is taken against you. What is going on appears to be p

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