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by juancn 6y ago
Really? Because they're back to normal while the rest of us don't have lives anymore. There's so much fear of dying that nobody is living, we survive and endure, but that's about it. There are worse things than dying, li
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by juancn 6y ago
I think it's a yearning of simplicity. Software engineering today is complex, slow, and extremely removed from the machine. Forth is one of the simplest environments you can build that allows you to build complex software.
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by juancn 6y ago
I'm still baffled about the concept of consciousness still being used in the sciences. It's such an ill defined concept that makes me think that one of three possibilities exist: - consciousness is the wrong concept - anything tha
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by juancn 6y ago
I'm actually the opposite. When I'm reading something difficult, such as a paper, and I'm having trouble with an information dense paragraph, I read it aloud slowly and with emphasis on the most important words to be able to
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by juancn 6y ago
That's a very good point. We also make the most of the software we use (even crappy one) because we can usually see the thought process behind it (even if it's misguided and twisted).
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by juancn 6y ago
A bit of hyperbole hasn't hurt anyone (hopefully). I work with very good software engineers that were originally mathematicians, physicists, linguists, electronic engineers among others. But once they become software engineers, they ki
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by juancn 6y ago
I've never been rejected in a job I interviewed for, but I tend to stay a long time once I find one I like. Is that so unusual? I'm really picky about jobs. I hardly never interview unless I think we're going to be a good mat
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by juancn 6y ago
I would be surprised if we didn’t get great software for making software. We have the domain knowledge. Software engineers are not meteorologist nor doctors. We don’t want to know or understand meteorology or whatever doctors do, we like so
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by juancn 6y ago
Valve uses a holacracy. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployee...
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by juancn 6y ago
It's interesting, but the conditions on Venus are of such high pressure (93 bar) and temperature is so high, that using the fact that phosphine does not appear naturally on earth (by that I mean by non biological means) doesn't me
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by juancn 6y ago
I don’t get why people keep using desktop office apps. Google docs is more than enough for everything I’ve ever thrown at it.
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by juancn 6y ago
The US is oddly concerned about race. I remember the first time they asked me about my race filling a form. WTF? How should I know? Also the categories are so arbitrary, I ended up picking other and be done with that.
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by juancn 6y ago
I’ve been part of a couple no code/low code platforms. They pop up every decade and do ok for a while and then wither and die, only to be replaced by the next gen of them. 4GL (fourth gen languages), BPM systems, things like clipper or
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by juancn 6y ago
Coding mostly. I know by heart most of IntelliJ shortcuts. Things like find usages, type safe move and copy of code, rename of entities, etc. are F-key bound by default. I don’t customize because customization of defaults makes it harder to
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by juancn 6y ago
Macos uses cups for printing. So anything supported on macOS should work on Linux.
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by juancn 6y ago
Information has mass (and thus energy). As in a full hard drive weighs more than an empty one. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5123794
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by juancn 6y ago
I wonder if this can be used to build a 3D display? Since they can control propagation speed, you can control the intersection point of two laser pulses. Let's say that each pulse is not enough to excite some medium to emit a photon, b
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by juancn 6y ago
I know that. I'm still loving it, once I stop loving it, I'll start looking for the next great group of people to work with (probably, or start one, who knows!). The point is that if you found it once, it's likely that you ca
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by juancn 6y ago
That redirects the output to say's stdin. You probably want '&&' and '||'. ./some-lengthy-job && say Done || say Failed
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by juancn 6y ago
You can also save your signature (draw it with a mouse or take a picture of it) and use it to sign PDFs
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by juancn 6y ago
The touch bar is a no-go for me. I really use the F-keys a lot, so I have it on F-key all the time. My ideal setup would be to make the trackpad a tad smaller, add the physical function keys again and the touch bar above. I don't thi
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by juancn 6y ago
Why do you do clean installs? I've been moving the same MacOS image since 2006. Four machines, without any issues using whatever MacOS provides at the time.
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by juancn 6y ago
I think it would be relatively easy to write a MacFUSE driver that uses the mdfind APIs to provide a fake directory of symlinks to the actual files. I might give it a shot. Sounds like a nice side project.
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by juancn 6y ago
I think one of the most magical moments was when I sent a job to print to one printer that was out of paper at the office, and it failed. I just used spotlight to open another printer and dragged the job from one printer to the other and it
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by juancn 6y ago
I still don't get why not all cards have two-factor purchases. Just have my bank or a Visa (or whatever) app send a push notification that I can approve or reject the charge.
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by juancn 6y ago
Simple, company emails. People use work emails for all sort of crap, intentionally or not.
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by juancn 6y ago
At one point, a few years ago, I was in your place. Really bored and completely miserable. I got tired of huge companies (one in particular) and went to a "goldilocks zone" startup. By this I mean the ones were they have enough mo
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by juancn 6y ago
I love Wavefront for metrics and Sumologic for log queries. They make troubleshooting and monitoring thousands of servers a pleasure. Both have excellent UIs and they are truly powerful. Avoid any Graffana based solutions, the only good thi
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by juancn 6y ago
Git is not really that complex, it is conceptually really simple. Most of the issues at the beginning have to do with an incorrect mental model of how it works. It's almost impossible to lose something you committed in git by screwing
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by juancn 6y ago
Who should own the copyright of brush-generated art? The question is moot. The tool cannot own the copyright. The AI is no different than a brush or a hammer or a screwdriver.

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