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by justinhj 9y ago
There are 7 billion people and a lot of them die every day. We choose as a society about the trade offs between safety, liberty and convenience. When people tell you the raw numbers it sounds bad. When they tell you the probability you’ll d
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A totally uneducated guess is that they will automatically handle the transition. In experiments with humans wearing glasses to vertically flip their visuals they start to see the flipped view as normal after a few days. No doubt birds woul
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I’ve used Duolingo and Memrise for a year learning Mandarin Chinese They both have pros and cons Memrise has native speakers in videos saying the phrases you learned Duolingo forces you to learn the characters rather than letting you get
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by justinhj 9y ago
there’s lispbuilder-sdl which I was one of the founders of years ago, although it maybe suffering from bit rot these days https://github.com/lispbuilder/lispbuilder
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In my experience as a game developer over 25 years, it’s volatile for businesses but not for individuals, as long as your skills are in demand
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Maybe you could get a job at Leetcode
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Andrew Ngs machine learning course as well as both Princeton Algorithms courses were the most challenging and valuable. I did all the Scala ones a few years ago, the most interesting was building a distributed key value store. There’s a rea
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The best way to handle test failure is read the output in detail and see why. If it’s performance (not fast enough) then I usually found that I’d missed a point in the lectures that greatly sped things up. None of the solutions require care
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I got into video game development. It is mostly fun and interesting work and I have never regretted it. Sometimes when I was younger I was exploited for my passion with long hours or poor pay but the game industry largely grew out of that.
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They have learned that in other areas of their business that using and contributing to FOSS is a win for everybody.
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In the early 90's I did a short undergraduate course about the philosophy of the mind. The main text was Searle's Rediscovery of the Mind. I was never convinced by Searle's Chinese room thought experiment and I always wondere
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by justinhj 9y ago
I’ve worked in three Western countries and all of them found a way to make me work more than 40 hours for free... UK brought in laws to protect workers from unpaid excessive overtime but employees were asked to sign waivers. Those who didn’
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I also have Wechat :)
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I worked in a job a couple of years ago with a small team that was hiring quite fast so it was typical to have to evaluate 10 applicants a week. Since as leads and seniors we were very busy Hackerrank was a useful way to evaluate lots of pe
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This is conceptually different to a Monad in Haskell. Monad bind operations have short circuit failure, so in the example above all of the operations would have to succeed or none of them would. cond-> looks like a useful function but yo
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by justinhj 9y ago
I remember that story. The shirt was actually made for the guy by a female friend as a gift
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You can adopt some practices from fp when writing PHP. For example often instead of iterating over an array and doing some imperative sequence of modifications you can do a sequence of maps, filters and reduce... you replace error prone mut
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Data point : I’m working on a several hundred thousand line server using Scala. The incremental compile time is usually 2 or 3 seconds. A clean build of the project is around 2 minutes
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by justinhj 9y ago
A couple of things bother me about this. First the idea that someone would be a data scientist and not want to first learn how to do the most basic things with their computer. Second the idea that it's hard to do anything on a computer
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by justinhj 9y ago
I hear this a lot but doesn’t instagram stories have way less to it than snapchat? It’s a completely different app
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by justinhj 9y ago
Vancouver BC now has this. A standard ticket that works throughout the city on all transit. I hate it though because we used to run on a trust system with no barriers and now there is congestion at busy times due to the barriers. It also re
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by justinhj 9y ago
Failed how? Seems to be thriving for many use cases. I’m a fan lisps and Clojure especially but it didn’t scale to large teams and problems the way Scala does
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This was from personal experience where code that would compile correctly would give a runtime error in the browser. Could be that I didn't know enough about UDash to fix it, but the error was unhelpful so I worked around it.
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I did a couple of blog posts about UDash recently, one of which was to view this very site using functional programming library Fetch (similar to Facebook's HAXL) http://justinhj.github.io/2017/10/11/hack
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by justinhj 9y ago
My generation was working for a few years when the dotcom bubble happened. Even though I was working for a tech company, most of my peers were not that interested in investing in tech startups. What they were largely interested in was buyin
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Maybe desperation? Previous generations could, depending on how far back you go, rely on a job for life, an affordable house and a pension from their employer. Take literally all of that away and add a huge student loan and maybe volatile i
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by justinhj 9y ago
I don’t think that’s true with predictive text
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“(although, for many methods, it can still be bounded by amortized O(1) time)” I don’t follow this. Does it mean that you can build the perfect hash table in constant time? Surely you can’t beat linear.
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In England the sale of goods act specifies that products should be “sufficiently durable”. Personally I feel that dropping a phone from a few feet and having to replace the glass screen fails that test
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According to wikipedia the peak viewing for individual episodes is about 4m. Although it's not a stretch to assume it reached a lot more people than that via legal streaming services and illegal downloads.

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