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by jkaptur 7y ago
Yeah, I'm sort of surprised that there isn't a semi-popular "web grep" tool for people who would rather use regex, some understandable ranking algorithm with knobs to tweak, etc. Of course, you'd have to read a manu
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Where can I read more about this?
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Any advice for getting started in QMK? I'm an experienced programmer, so every tutorial that starts with git and the basics of C is frustrating, but I don't have a lot of experience with hardware, keyboards, etc. For example, I ha
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Languages face enormous pressure to add features, just like any other product. There's a culture of picking languages by counting checkboxes - "if your language doesn't have X, it's Blub", where X can be anything fr
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These are the tests that are no longer being considered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT_Subject_Tests . They are not "the SAT". It makes intuitive sense to me that MIT wouldn't find these useful. They
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> the risk of multitasking Do you worry about iOS's overaggressive autocorrect? (I'm just kidding, I know people are actually pretty close to as fast and accurate on mobile vs. desktop/laptop: https://userinterf
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I don't say this lightly, but it's irresponsible to report on this without addressing the possibility of the Texas Sharpshooter effect.
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Logic in the database has been less buggy in my experience too... except the time when someone had the idea to push a lot more logic into that layer, at which point it became equally buggy, and much harder to debug.
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The link says “ March 3-4 hiring event applications are close and we...” Should that be “closeD”? Or is it meant to inform that the event applications are imminent?
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Sadly, most programmers are known for being bad at package management.
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I've thought a lot about this. It's certainly easy to dunk on spreadsheets being error-prone (and even easier to dunk on VBA!). It's a decades-long running joke: https://dilbert.com/strip/2007-08-08 But
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Even subject to similar high-minded criticism: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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FYI, that was how the menus worked in previous versions (Alt-f for the file menu, etc.), so ribbons didn’t expose any new functionality in that regard. In fact, Microsoft bent over backwards to ensure that every old pattern people had use
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> What NASA needs most, he says, is some imaginative PR... The astronauts he has met could provide reams of picturesque copy; they are hard-drinking, fast-living, generally “wild and weird.” The editor of Rolling Stone was certainly payi
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I don’t know much about the EU - why is the physical location of the office important?
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12TiB, not PiB! Hope you read this before you spent $50,000,000 dollars/month (although you might be able to negotiate a discount).
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You'd love the work of Barbara Ehrenreich, who has erudite, anthropological, book-length rants about this sort of thing (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Bright-sided-Relentless-Promotion-Pos... )
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by jkaptur 7y ago
I interview a lot of candidates as well, and I agree. My philosophy is that an interview is an opportunity to talk about a problem together and sketch out some code. The only reason we choose to talk about algorithms and data structures is
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by jkaptur 7y ago
I think that the "partners" in that comment refer to trading counterparties.
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AFL might be security-oriented, but I think it should be part of the testing strategy for any software that reads input. Right now at work I'm modifying an old C++ codebase, and knowing that AFL can't crash it is just one of the m
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by jkaptur 7y ago
Many of those gaps take place at night. Last time I visited London, I was nastily surprised to find that the tube has a several hour gap during that time.
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Like what?
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It's common for companies to outsource work that's more of a one-off "project" with a discrete deliverable than a continuously developed "product", whether that work is coding, graphics, or anything else. For e
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I read a different analysis [0] arguing that comparing the market cap of Tesla to that of Ford and GM isn't really comparing apples to apples, since the latter have enormous pension fund liabilities. 0: https://mondaynote.co
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And yet we don't simply pass the station map to Graphviz. There are goals beyond "where is the nearest station entrance?"
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I think they're referring to the "incident" that they experienced (on the storage unit in the datacenter), not the situation as a whole. The implication is meant to be that they prepared for many things, but not something a
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by jkaptur 7y ago
Most engineers I talk to insist that they don't have an emotional connection to products or software. Then we start talking about their favorite text editor...
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For those interested in metrics, Dan Luu wrote a really cool article that measured input latency on computers from different times: https://danluu.com/input-lag/
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You’ve read my mind! I’ve been meaning to give a talk where I just go down the list of string methods and point out how each one is a hideous source of bugs.
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I wonder why no one seems to have published an article titled "Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines True?" edit: who else? https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/03/18/was-betteridge-rig...

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