jmchuster

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by jmchuster 5y ago
Understanding networking is basically a "superpower" of sorts for programmers.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
There are portions of the world where we don't have our older family members off living on their own.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Not all forms of death are necessarily equivalent. By all accounts, covid seems like a relatively long and painful one, slowly suffocating to death.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
So if everything is visible or not, then isn't the cognitive load now on keeping track of all the windows that aren't visible? How do you handle "secondary" windows, so like something you don't need right now, but w
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by jmchuster 5y ago
The parent theorized there was no way for a 1:1 to be effective because there are no overlapping common goals and incentives between managers and employees. So then I've presented two common examples of how such goals might exist. I wo
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by jmchuster 5y ago
From the employee standpoint, that means they've never tried to achieve the goals layed out by the company and their managers? And from the manager standpoint, that means that they've never tried to assign work that matches up wit
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Hmm, i don't think they're directly interchangeable. I think of clean as specifically what impacts your ability to write new code. If the code performs horribly, doesn't scale, has lots of security holes, that could still b
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Code needs to be able to do what you need it to do. So anything that makes that job harder, could be considered not "clean". That might include... - code that is inconsistent. This causes additional overhead and mental burden wh
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I don't know if FAANGs are so deserving of such vitriol. I would probably say that big companies overall just fundamentally have a set of issues, and FAANGs are probably above average in many aspects relative to the rest of the big on
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I thought the idea was that if you didn't spend months studying, you'd only have a tiny chance, regardless of how skilled you were. And that the months of studying is what's then required on top to get that offer from at lea
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I dunno if it's that ridiculous. Having to spend a couple of months studying to get a 100k raise, seems not a completely unfair trade.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
For a simple example with services, I manage six services that are all interconnected, but serve different groups and use cases for the company. And each time i switch the service i'm working on, it's almost like i'm putting
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I think it might be more useful to think of this as a list that could help you expose "unknown unknowns". These aren't ironclad rules, but they are each a piece of gathered advice that hold some truth in some context. So if
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Why does the harness need to be on the moving part in the first place?
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Hmm, if we were to really support user-swappable themes, one of the first major problems that comes to mind, is how do you split what the user should change vs what they shouldnt. Where do you draw the line, and then how do you make sure th
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by jmchuster 5y ago
uBlock is supported on Firefox on Android. I'll mirror the parent's sentiment. It blows my mind every time i see someone else use YouTube and see ads.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Yes, i think that cultural divide is what confused people. In the US, those are cars that yuppies buy after their first paycheck.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
as my dad loves to say, 3000 years of chinese medicine _can't_ be wrong
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by jmchuster 5y ago
> It’s been two weeks since I started using Sublime Clojure REPL myself. And you know what? I started to really enjoy Clojure exceptions! Short, concise, pointing directly to the error, formatted in Clojure naming convention, not in Java
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by jmchuster 5y ago
That's more of an analogous example. In Chinese you would shorten 一万五千 to 一万五.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Ah, yes, shorthand, which the language loves. So the shorthand here is that if you don't add a unit qualifier then by default it's the next largest power of 10. So, "1,500,000" can be shortened from "1 million 5 h
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Chinese (and derivatives) basically just count like English, but without the inconsistencies. 4444 = Four thousand, four hundred, four ten, four. Though it is interesting that they group by powers of 10k instead of powers of 1k.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Presumably there are people who are in charge of designing the ranking algorithm, so they would look at the #1 spot, but they would also look have to look at numbers 2 through 1 billion, and evaluate over long timescales and have a lot of r
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by jmchuster 5y ago
It's coming at the problem from different directions. The documentation gives you the general bottom up approach, but lacks details and examples. SO shows what it should look like at the end, and adds details on edge cases that the doc
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Ah, sorry, I misread your original statement then. Were you trying to say that getting an estimate right within 2 days was lucky, but something like 1 week would've been totally normal? It's hard to tell the percentage, since OP
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Not all the time, but most of the time, yes it cancels out. If you work in a business like consulting, you'll quickly learn that you make more money by being able to give estimates in this manner. And when it's part of your job,
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by jmchuster 5y ago
You definitely want to have a couple of warmup interviews to get back into practice, into shape. So queue up your "practice" companies first and save the ones you really want for later. You can keep this shape up to some extent b
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I don't think that style of interview provides as much signal as you think it does. I would probably say that watching someone work through a problem provides more signal than having someone explain a problem they have already solved.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
There's probably also some sense of people trying to paint the lesson of "sometimes rookie errors aren't actually errors, and your seniors will tell you you're doing something wrong, when in actuality their solution is w
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Ooh, that's a pretty bad miss on my part. I read > This is the best book ever written on how to practice at the piano! > This is a work in progress, some sections have not been copied over, there are probably a few formatting err

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