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by jkaptur 6y ago
I was nodding along to this, but this gave me pause: > Assertions must always be side-effect free and should be defined as Boolean tests. When an assertion fails, an explicit recovery action must be taken, e.g., by returning an error co
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by jkaptur 6y ago
I think it stands for "North Charleston" in this context.
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I guess I might have some misconceptions of OCaml. Are there other companies that use it? I ask because whenever someone says "OCaml is used in industry, for example, Jane Street", they say it like it's just one example, but
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by jkaptur 6y ago
In a file of utility hacks near get(), post(), and ajax() // we alias at import // to keep all the code short min(max(number, min), max)
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by jkaptur 6y ago
I like the concept of an "innovation budget". For example, if you're using a compile-to-WASM system for the first time, just use the database you already know. If the system is all completely new to you, then pick a very smal
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by jkaptur 6y ago
So you're saying it's an area... without a lot of competition...
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The date parsing being discussed has been the behavior for at least 20 years, probably more like 30. Your comment about graph paper echoes a comment from a former Excel PM: "The gridlines are the most important feature of Excel, not re
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by jkaptur 6y ago
It's important draw a distinction between a "design doc" and "documentation". tl;dr: "ought" vs "is". A "design doc", as described in the article, is a tool to help make a decision . I
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by jkaptur 6y ago
I'd add some nuance to that - in my experience, networking is a multiplicative (not additive) effect to your actual skills. You can get a letter of recommendation from a Nobel Prize winner, but even then it has to say something other t
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by jkaptur 6y ago
It's worth noting that Pocket does check if your clipboard currently contains a URL and does show such a banner. I think it's a handy feature.
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The London subway shuts down at night.
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Ask HN: do you make any distinction between "working from home" and "working from home during a pandemic"? I see a lot of people arguing that WFH is the new normal, citing long reopening timelines, their own preferences,
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by jkaptur 6y ago
FYI, most trading floors are very quiet as well, for mostly the same reasons.
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In case folks from the team are reading, I think you mean "our logo evokes the feeling of a rule set" (rather than "eschews").
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> My parents knew how to put the cassette in and load a program > The computer came with a manual > some example listings were given > my mum bought home a computer > she was volunteer librarian at the school > I spent qui
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by jkaptur 6y ago
Holding on to equity grants after they vest is probably a bad idea. It's precisely equivalent to using a larger salary to buy stock in your company. Is that what you'd do if you got a raise? You should evaluate what your ideal inv
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by jkaptur 6y ago
Interesting to contrast this with [1], which works on formalizing rich text editors (for HTML). 1. https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-1...
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by jkaptur 6y ago
I think you're comparing an idealized version of a GitHub-based interview to a, at best, mediocre version of a whiteboard coding interview.
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by jkaptur 6y ago
You may want to check that assumption (particularly if you expand to violence in general).
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by jkaptur 6y ago
Just so you know, the model of "alpha wolves" is considered simplistic and outdated in the study of actual wolves. Just one link: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/wolves-fact-and-fic... . I've fou
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by jkaptur 6y ago
> using spreadsheets as a prototyping tool and letting those who understand the business hammer out the logic, before handing off to developers, is a great approach. A working spreadsheet is definitely the best requirements doc in the wo
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by jkaptur 6y ago
Programs that benefit richer people aren't framed as "social programs" and generally aren't saddled by Kafkaesque bureaucracy and scrutiny. Compare the sheer toil of using food stamps vs using the mortgage tax deduction.
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by jkaptur 7y ago
This would be an interesting interview question. (/ducks)
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by jkaptur 7y ago
From that link: "So that’s a lot of technical details, but what does it all mean for you? Well, by applying BERT models to both ranking and featured snippets in Search, we’re able to do a much better job helping you find useful inform
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by jkaptur 7y ago
Very cool ideas. I'm surprised that the article didn't mention R1C1 mode [0], which seems to be a big step towards the "intensional" view of a formula. 0. https://bettersolutions.com/excel/formulas&#
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by jkaptur 7y ago
> Testing is necessarily incomplete but if you beat the crap out of the subset of the API that you actually intend to use, it’s possible to become reasonably confident that it will work in practice. This is the kicker for me. I'm no
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by jkaptur 7y ago
I'm no expert, but just looking at the hospital that got built so quickly in Wuhan [0], you can see that some sort of prefabricated modular construction units are involved. Do you happen to have more information on these? 0: https:&#x
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by jkaptur 7y ago
The folks I talked to who worked at Microsoft Research Asia said that they worked on Bing, Office, etc.
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And if you do a gradual rollout, newer clients can connect to older backends! And if clients can talk to each other, there can be THREE versions involved. Also: rollbacks. I’m curious if anyone has a system for managing this that they love.
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by jkaptur 7y ago
I think you mean “old fashioned”... which goes to show that even skilled, disciplined, knowledgeable folks can make simple mistakes. When the stakes are high, it’s important to use tools to augment human judgement.

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