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by ken 7y ago
It was all the dinosaurs had, too, and then it was gone.
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by ken 7y ago
Sleep is great but I don't think it's ever been a factor for me when it comes to burnout. When I've been burned out, I was still getting a good night's sleep. After changing industries, I've worked some exceptiona
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by ken 7y ago
The flip side of this is that because digital plumbing is "boring", the industry is constantly seeking ways to avoid it. Writing assembly language was (usually) really boring, so we developed good compilers to do that for us. I
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by ken 7y ago
Is that feasible? Last I used Common Lisp, I seem to recall the spec being rather ambiguous on a number of important practical points, so any real program couldn't depend on only CLTL2. For example, Maxima lists a number of implemen
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by ken 7y ago
How tall is that hill? I wrote C# professionally every day for 3.5 years. The last day was as painful as the first. I can appreciate making an investment in tools that make me more productive in the long run, but at some point it has to s
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by ken 7y ago
Counterpoint: I feel like static typing is a bandaid for the fundamental problem that the language isn't powerful enough to allow one's code to truly be OAOO. Back when I wrote C#, static typing was indeed helpful for making large
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by ken 7y ago
I would say people talk too much about fonts. I can block all web fonts, and that will not only save 100% of the font download size, but make most pages easier to read. Programmers and designers discovered that fonts were a possible axis o
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by ken 7y ago
Just because everybody needs to read doesn't mean everybody needs custom web fonts, and just because some webpages are hard to read doesn't mean web fonts would improve them. For most webpages I want to read these days, I hit &quo
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by ken 7y ago
What are they doing with this data? Or is this simply the “they are bad people who hate user privacy” hypothesis?
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by ken 7y ago
I would guess that the vast majority didn’t start by creating a solid plan for transitioning their data off Slack.
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by ken 7y ago
There’s always some (client, feature) tuple that isn’t supported. This very post is about Slack’a own web client not supporting smartphones!
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by ken 7y ago
Tasks versus goals, same as always. It's exactly the same as the question of why it was once recommended to carry a rifle for safety when traveling from St. Louis to Portland, and now it's recommended you leave it at home. The go
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by ken 7y ago
Looks fine to me.
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by ken 7y ago
I generally assume most charities are bogus until and unless I specifically research it and discover otherwise. For example, the Seattle Marathon has long claimed to help UW medicine, and then it turned out that less than 1% of their money
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by ken 7y ago
What’s your scope? One obvious answer is Google search.
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by ken 7y ago
There's no one universal questionnaire. No such question exists at any blood center I've donated at. If you answer any question in a way that would lead to the blood being unusable, they wouldn't go to the effort of taking a
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by ken 7y ago
It looks like the standard blood "Donor Battery" includes anti-HCV, so regular donors are already being screened. Of course, you shouldn't donate blood for the purpose of getting tested for a disease.
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by ken 7y ago
True, but it's a two-way street. An academic honesty policy seems predicated on the assumption that the system run by faculty is inherently honest. > [...] said the SpotterEDU app has become a nightmare, marking him absent when he’
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by ken 7y ago
> “They want those points,” he said. “They know I’m watching and acting on it. So, behaviorally, they change.” I can't tell if he realizes that his students find electronically-tracked attendance points more valuable than his lectur
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by ken 7y ago
I don't agree with this advice. Why do I need to be inspired by what people are already doing? Someone is already doing that. We don't need more. Fred Rogers said "I went into television because I hated it so". I ca
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by ken 7y ago
They realized there's a lot of technical people who like open-source software, so they found a way to insert themselves into the middle of that.
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by ken 7y ago
I'm not sure what these are examples of. Is Android "open-source"? Is macOS? I tried to compile Android from source this year, and spent weeks reading about it, finding distributions and tools to help, downloading packages,
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by ken 7y ago
Depends on the company. "Big company" isn't one company, or one position. I absolutely believe it. At the big company I worked for, it took weeks just to get all your accounts enabled. Releases were planned months in adva
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by ken 7y ago
Do you have an email address, or telephone voicemail? If you could get in trouble with the GDPR simply by having the capability of receiving unsolicited personal data, these are legal liabilities, too.
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by ken 7y ago
I'm curious what CS/CE undergrad program consists only of sitting in lectures and reading textbooks. That sounds like it's missing 90% of the point of classes! I would think university had little value, too, if we didn&#x27
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by ken 7y ago
That sounds like making up a new definition of "apprenticeship". Why would an apprentice not need to be paid? Is this only for the independently wealthy, or do they have to get a second job on the side in order to eat?
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by ken 7y ago
> It's crazy to me that modern adult life is nothing like a traditional classroom format Dozens of people sitting in the same big room working at desks?
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by ken 7y ago
> what is an apprenticeship, really? Is it not merely an education with very low student-teacher ratio? No. There are legal requirements for it [1]. In particular, it is a job . Even if you taught algebra one-on-one to students, that wo
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by ken 7y ago
Those don’t sound like the “fundamentals” of databases at all. They sound like pretty high level concepts. When I studied databases in college, we started with how pages are stored on disk. That is fundamental to both data and indexes, and
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by ken 7y ago
As someone now working in a different industry, let me just say that there are very few professional tools of any kind which cost less than $100. I don’t see how a $90 tool, if it provides any value at all, can be considered overpriced. T

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