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by jowiar 11y ago
FWIW, I'm a dude. But I've learned at least as much that affects how I write code over the years from talks, books, and whatnot by women as I have from men, if not more so. People have different life experiences that shape how the
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by jowiar 11y ago
Saying "highways should exist" isn't racist. Saying "highways should exist, and we're going to bulldoze neighborhoods where mostly darker-skinned people live to build them and route them to connect mostly areas wher
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by jowiar 11y ago
There's a reasonable argument for busways over light rail -- the non-disaster failure mode of buses is a lot more reasonable than the non-disaster failure mode of rail. If a bus has mechanical issues, it doesn't stop the entire bu
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by jowiar 11y ago
It depends on the school -- Some schools have a broader general education focus, with less major-focused work, and enough of an opportunity to explore before declaring a major. Others require you to pretty much declare from day one, and it
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by jowiar 11y ago
You seem to be blaming the student. Did I know as a 17-year-old applying to college what the hell the difference was? No. Did I study CS? Yes. Was it the right decision? Probably not (though I did stay in it). And I had about every advantag
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This isn't the students' fault, though. In industry, we're asking for a "Computer Science" major, and often times our hiring processes are very CS heavy, when for most of us it only covers a portion of the skills we
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by jowiar 11y ago
The Ph.D. process weeds out anyone who has any desire to become an expert generalist.
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by jowiar 11y ago
Dude. Gonads. Really? The last thing anyone wants to be thinking about when doing frontend development is your junk. Like it or not, shit like this affects how people view our whole profession. Do us all a favor and act older than 13.
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by jowiar 11y ago
Readability is a very important contributor to reliability -- minimizing WTFs is important. That said, writing code that fits the construction of the language is probably more useful than siding between "loops or recursion". If I
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Drawn as a graph, it ends up minimizing: - Node size (think small functions and objects, not big ones) - Degree (minimize dependencies. Also, an O(m+n) many-to-few-to-many is probably easier to reason about than an O(mn) many-to-many),
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by jowiar 12y ago
The original iPod? The Emeco Navy chair? A decent chunk of Dieter Rams' work? Feel free to say "I don't like rounded rectangles". But categorically calling rounded rectangles "not beautiful" or "nauseating
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by jowiar 12y ago
That's pretty sweet!
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by jowiar 12y ago
A lot of the pattern comes down to primes being relatively prime to smaller numbers, which means, for example, they're 1 modulo 2, 1 or 2 modulo 3, etc. You combine these together and find that, for example, they're all (aside fro
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by jowiar 12y ago
I see far more similarities between Tufte and Lupi's work than differences (and works/talks by both of them are among the biggest influences on my approach to visualization and things I want to work on). Both have as driving princ
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by jowiar 12y ago
Regarding poor-weather performance, I'm assuming self-driving cars will outperform human drivers sooner than in good conditions, rather than later (as long as it is made a priority). The information a self-driving car can gather and pr
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by jowiar 12y ago
Battery life is long enough such that MagSafe isn't as necessary as it used to be. Back when you had to haul your power cord to meetings, coffeeshops, and the like, cord tripping was a serious problem. Now? Far less so.
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by jowiar 12y ago
Business depends on solving problems. Code is a medium for implementing solutions. I can count the number of times I've needed to put my CS degree to use on one hand, but knowing to whom, when, how to ask the right questions has been w
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by jowiar 12y ago
This article seems to put forward a good theory on interviewing someone who you want to lock in room with a problem and have code come out the other end. Unfortunately, most of us work in the real world, where that's a very limited por
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by jowiar 12y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. I saw it white and gold for about 5 minutes yesterday, and then it gradually transitioned to black and blue, in a "well, I guess that's blue" sort of way, until it was "no way that'
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by jowiar 12y ago
I don't like the shot at Flipboard here. HTML was designed for marking up (hypertext) documents. It's a perfectly fine language for marking up documents. It's a terrible kludge for defining application user interfaces, as any
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by jowiar 12y ago
In my experience, one or two orders of magnitude more than those who are willing to look at "code".
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by jowiar 12y ago
Excel is, by far, the most successful programming-for-the-masses environment ever created. I'm not talking about VBA, either -- Just the sheet and formulas are a brilliantly accessible functional programming environment.
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by jowiar 12y ago
Scala is an interesting language -- It's big - there are a lot of concepts, and on first glance, I didn't particularly like it because it wasn't very opinionated - there are 5 different ways to do anything, and no real indica
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by jowiar 12y ago
All the React code I've written tends to be much more functional/declarative in nature than OO. When writing web frontend code, there is the giant blob of state known as the DOM that has to be dealt with in some way. More than any
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by jowiar 12y ago
Reading this article and its sequel, I feel like the author is handwaving one key bit. I absolutely agree with his position on dependency elimination as a primary goal, but by saying "Oh, a class that operates on a dependency is hard,
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by jowiar 12y ago
It's not my job to be a backseat parent. But the attitude in our field of "Up with CS, everything else is crap" needs to stop. There's a certain ego endemic to our field, stoked by politicians who worship the "STEM
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by jowiar 12y ago
Two issues: LAX->SFO->PDX isn't an equivalent product if you're going to SFO -- the airline can rebook you on any of a number of options (in case of weather, capacity, mechanical difficulties or whatnot) that may or may not
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by jowiar 12y ago
I think "getting banned" is far less of a risk-by-way-of-misunderstanding than "the airline isn't compelled to deliver you where you want to go". When I've bought ticket A->B->C, my actual travel has incl
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by jowiar 12y ago
Airline economics are a bit complicated. What exactly constitutes "below costs"? Let's say I have a plane flying from A->B that is typically 90% full, and a plane flying from B->C that is typically 90% full. You want to
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by jowiar 12y ago
IANAL, but I would imagine that they're in a similar situation to ThePirateBay -- "We aren't doing anything wrong - we're just giving information to other people how they can". I'm curious how the case is going

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