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by jblow 9y ago
I recommend being careful from whom you take advice.
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by jblow 9y ago
There is something much deeper happening. As you become successful in your field (or wherever), and further internalize the habits that are necessary to be successful, it's clear that many of these things are easy to do, it's just
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by jblow 9y ago
I’ve noticed the word “gaslighting” being increasingly used. I’ve also noticed that my brain responds to use of this word by decreasing its expectation that the text or utterance is worth listening to. Looking at the way it’s used in this c
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by jblow 9y ago
You don’t need to do a generic AST. Have it be a protocol ... that runs in-process via an API. Because you know what, that’s what an API is ... a protocol for communicating with someone else’s code. But you don’t have to run extra processes
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by jblow 9y ago
crc32
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by jblow 9y ago
It's not that "the mapping" makes "the simulation" make sense. You have moved most of "the simulation" into "the mapping". So if you don't do the mapping, the simulation mostly does not happ
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by jblow 9y ago
The hole would be smaller, thus more likely to be affordable with wages / savings / etc.
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by jblow 9y ago
A mapping is a computation. If your mapping is very complex compared to the ostensible simulator, then the mapping is actually doing most of the simulation. So the simulation is not mostly running when the ostensible simulator runs, it is r
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by jblow 9y ago
I would pay $100/hr for a competent freelance system administrator who could parachute in and deal with the various things we need dealt with. Of course the problem here is "competent". On two different occasions people have
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by jblow 9y ago
Exactly. Most proponents of unit tests use horrible programming languages; they are afraid to change code because anything could break at any time. Stop using those languages and most of the problems 'fixed' by unit testing just d
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by jblow 9y ago
Condescending and unnecessary. How do you know he's a poor contract reader? Compared to whom, you? Do you know exactly what position he was in at that time? Have you ever been in such a position? Do you make art independently for a liv
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by jblow 9y ago
More to the point, if this became the commonly-accepted sane way to do things, php would support it directly and it would be easy.
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by jblow 9y ago
Hahahaha So they wanted to claim to offer a high-quality product, but don't think they can actually do that. Startup culture is so terrible.
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by jblow 9y ago
It is my pet peeve that people believe this. If this were actually true, why wouldn’t we have evolved an extreme aversion to touching our faces? Also, have you ever seen a baby? What does a baby do if you leave it alone to crawl around?
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by jblow 9y ago
The problem is that your car-driving case presumes the driver already wants to go to MV and is bringing his friends and they don’t mind coordinating to make that happen. If you change your thought-experiment to a paid service, good luck bei
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by jblow 9y ago
Why do people keep thinking they can use a garbage-collected language for “systems programming”?
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by jblow 9y ago
It was a clickbait headline -- note that it has been revised.
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by jblow 9y ago
> but what about the other countless number of people your age with similar goals? How do you stack up to them? That should be your real metric rather than the 1 in a million success stories. I disagree with that. Most people are not suc
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by jblow 9y ago
The article as a whole is nonsensical. It is a little bit correct when it says that regret is not a useful reaction to a past you're unhappy with, but even that by itself is misleading. Regret is a useful emotion that helps you shape f
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by jblow 9y ago
But she's also not taking computer classes in her spare time, and work is approximately he same number of hours leaving approximately the same amount of spare time ... even if she were taking computer classes it would not be a reasonab
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by jblow 9y ago
It occurs to me, maybe this is another instance of the left engaging in silencing tactics and maybe that is a weakness in the flagging algorithm. I can't vote "don't flag this". So if there are approximately two sides to
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by jblow 9y ago
I don't think it's false and nasty. I was thinking the same thing ... quite objectively. There were at least two discussions that I thought were very reasonable, and they got flagged into oblivion very quickly. So I don't kno
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by jblow 9y ago
This topic, a link to an NYT editorial, has been flagged. This seems highly problematic to me. Discussion here was pretty reasonable last I checked.
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by jblow 9y ago
I am senior at my job and I disagree with that assertion. People skills are indeed helpful and a good benefit, but they are nowhere near primary. Consider the following two people: (A) Understands people hardly at all, is constantly confuse
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by jblow 9y ago
No, I didn't say anything of the kind. I am saying that this kind of mob shaming-and-silencing mentality is deplorable. And if you choose to engage in that, then you will alienate a lot of people, including many of the best people. I a
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by jblow 9y ago
I find pretty unconscionable this line of rhetoric, which I see a lot lately from people on the left: "this isn't a free speech issue, because it's not the government doing the censoring". I want to live in a society tha
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by jblow 9y ago
Did you read the memo? It doesn't seem like it.
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by jblow 9y ago
By this metric just about every single new business is a failure, including 100% of YC startups. At that point is it a useful distinction to draw?
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by jblow 9y ago
For this to be the case, they would have to be applying the principle to everyone equally, which they apparently don't. This has given pause to some people -- for example, Sam Harris, one of the top artists on Patreon, is evacuating th
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by jblow 9y ago
> Am I being irrational here? Not so much irrational as not particular enough; this line of reasoning doesn't really work. The thing is ... at any one instant, the amount of memory you are able to recall / visualize / etc

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