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by jrumbut 5y ago
I think this is great. One thing I would emphasize more heavily is that your objection was not to the problems, your objection was to the insurmountable barriers to fixing them. Every organization has problems, that's why they hired a
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I don't want to completely write off progress, because there's been a lot of that and I don't envy medieval peasants, however I think there's a tradeoff. They were bored most of the day waiting for the bocce-precursor or
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Jimmy Carter was the other engineer-president. His post-presidential career has burnished his image a bit but on the whole engineers who become president haven't been too popular. I've been meaning to read that Hoover biography fo
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My favorite part of this excellent answer, and to me the most important part, is the yearly reading tradition. The other idea might be to encode your website in a song that's popular today but complex enough to be worthy of study by fu
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This was approximately what I thought the first time I read it, except I didn't find the vendetta story interesting. On subsequent reads (and especially listening to it read aloud and as an audiobook), my opinion turned on its head. Th
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by jrumbut 5y ago
The first 5-6 years of my career were in that kind of environment (though not quite as comically bad). I went 100% remote but eventually found an opportunity where I had my own office, and after several months there I realized I had never h
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Many engineers would be very hesitant to devote their career to an organization that was shrinking/stagnating at all. In the 1960s, NASA was growing and at the center of the national consciousness. That had to be good for recruiting. S
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I was agreeing with your point about regexes, that it's good to avoid trying to deal with all the corner cases yourself when you're just trying to write a small script.
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Well there you go, for the sake of my pride at least it's an extension. It's funny searches for awk CSV seem to yield a bunch of SO questions where the answers are increasingly cumbersome regexes instead of this extension. Of cour
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Yeah, I don't want to have to write a CSV library each time, that's what I'm trying to get at. I just end up using Python/Perl but I do have a soft spot for awk so it would be cool if good support was built-in.
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by jrumbut 5y ago
That's a beautiful use of the language, it reminds me of some of the awk CGI efforts out there. For example: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/html_node/...
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by jrumbut 5y ago
The thing that prevents awk from being a major part of my daily routine is that it (amazingly) has poor CSV support. Consider the following: col1,col2,col3 1,2,3 4,"hello, \"world\"",6 "7 buckets",,9 To get the
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by jrumbut 5y ago
We've kept a lot of drones in the region, and have continued using them (though at a reduced pace). I hope you're right that it will become an impossibility but I really doubt it.
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I've seen a lot more blanket skepticism and cynicism, but these new views are often as uncritical as the credulity they replaced (and as easily exploited). I haven't really seen an increase in people doing the hard work of gatheri
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This is what the article is getting at, there are questions to be answered before you ever get to scientists evaluating evidence for and against different policies aimed at solving a problem. What problem are we solving, what is or isn&#x27
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If someone is robbing Peter to pay Paul, Paul doesn't have much motivation to stop the robbery.
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When there are announcements like this, I really love it when they begin with just a few words to orient me on what the project is about. "Grain, the programming language that combines the latest research innovations with the speed and
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by jrumbut 5y ago
It's important to distinguish restaurants that are good because they provide novelty and those that are good because they make the best darn chicken parm you've ever had. I find a lot of reviews don't do a good job making thi
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I think if Rails didn't exist and someone released it today, it would be exciting and worth switching to.
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Regarding getting hired again, I went through something very similar to what he did (except my employer was highly supportive, so I had nothing complain about online) and I can't blame him for writing this. He may have disqualified him
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I want to say they tried some different brandings for different areas at some point. Not the OP but I found the site back when it was frequently on top the Google search results for any lyrics, but it's a fun site to browse and I even
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I think part of the problem with the bullying described in the article and the "approve everything" approach starts with the framing of code reviews. Instead of "please write this code, submit a pull request, and I'll te
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What's interesting is that PHP and Ruby are not just popular, they're increasing. I am curious about that Scala number though. 2% of 10 million is quite a lot: 200,000 Scala websites? I would have never guessed!
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I agree with what you're saying (except I have heard of university data breaches because I follow that sort of thing), but also the information in this study is extremely personal and sensitive. While I'm sure there was a lot of a
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There's only one way to find out...
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This is very cool and something that appeals to me as someone does a blend of web and data work. A constant problem I run into is making good reports quickly. Like you mention, I don't have time to hand code it, but no code dashboards
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They were popular! But there was also the tradition in higher end A/V equipment of selling components instead of complete systems so it was limited to the low end. I think the issue with Smart TVs is that people became aware of the ext
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Or even Perl!
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The real advantage of CSV, in my mind, is that if the CSV is valid and normal then it's going to be a rectangular dataset (ignoring semantics within the dataset). If I import JSON data I have no idea what shape the result will be in, a
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I went on a lot, or at least I thought it was a lot, before I met my wife online. My usage ended years ago though, while I connected more on a friendship level with a lot of the people I met they all started as dates. I've heard from a

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