l_theanine

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by l_theanine 4y ago
I’ve trained hundreds of people across many roles for thirty years. I have two things I’d like to add: - A mistake you are willing to learn from is not just a mistake. It’s a lesson. It can yield as much reward as you’d like, depending on t
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Luckily, I wasn’t replying to you? Weirdo.
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Not the person you’re replying to, but a little common sense would imply warnings along the line of “if you don’t do this properly, a crew of innocent people fall out of the sky and fucking die whilst screaming all the way down”
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I’m talking about code organization, not types. In Julia, methods are grouped together by type dispatch, mostly. There are times when code reuse comes into play where it’s helpful, but mostly it just confuses the issue and introduces ambigu
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Jesus. This is the most tasteful, flexed out but not over the top landing page I’ve ever seen. I love it. I’ve no use for something like this, but I’m in absolute awe at the design on display. Marvelous. I hope Apple or somebody makes this
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by l_theanine 4y ago
C++ is a beaut', compared to Perl. It's ugly too, don't get me wrong. I'll be the last one to hold up C++ or PHP as beautiful, but Rust is just too gross to look at, I have NO idea how people program in it. I think the o
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I haven't used asyncio that much, certainly not in any serious sense, but wouldn't ContextVar lookups be a major factor of performance in serious asyncio code? Using tasks for things that aren't io-bound seems likely to give
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I'd definitely be more apt to have this as part of production system instead of the Rust one. Rust has got to be the ugliest, most unfriendly programming language I've ever laid my eyes on. And I wrote Perl for 10+ years, so that&
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Oh well I didn’t say I thought it was mutually exclusive. Germs aren’t the only part of working a shit job. Whether it’s in person, over a video call, or over email, if your supervisor is a dickhead then your team will be unhappy. I was thi
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I hate the back talking and advertising. I already bought the device, I’m a prime member, why can’t you just tell me the temperature and shut the fuck back up? I hate the stupid thing but my wife has a little more patience for her than me.
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Are there some large users or projects that are committed to the stdlib and not Base that I could look into or read about? Thanks in advance.
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by l_theanine 4y ago
So, you’d say there’s a healthy contingent of upstream devs dedicated to the health and diversity of the built in stdlib? May I also ask, have you worked with Ocaml for any medium to large projects? I’d be curious to hear from major users t
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Ocaml seems somewhat hampered by this weird disconnect between upstream maintainers and Jane Street and other third party major users. Popular media for ocaml learners describes using Base, while documentation focuses on the builtins, which
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by l_theanine 4y ago
In this thread: a bunch of fabricated stories about how AirBNB is “actually a good thing”
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Absolutely absurd to me how much internet traffic is being obliterated by pornography. So sad to think of the magnitude of time wasted, lives ruined, talent shuttered, ingenuity squandered, etc. Wonderful list though, wouldn’t have thought
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I'm not making an argument about Microsoft, but rather about the low regard I have for people who make inflammatory comments about companies online when there's human beings there doing all the work, affected by the negativity. It
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I’ve been reading about microbiomes and things like that over the past year, and I suspect there’s a biological aspect to a lot of mental health issues in workplaces. Certainly the pandemic has renewed public interest in it, but I think to
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Bummer, I guess. I got rich and paid for three kids to go to Ivy League schools, bought a house a mile and a half from the White House, and before too long will leave them a seven figure nest egg after my wife and I are dead. But hey, revel
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by l_theanine 4y ago
My salary doesn’t depend on it, it’s just in my portfolio. I’m just not an idiot… I do consulting and bill upwards of 300/hr worked in the DC area, with several decades of experience and a network built up along the way. I took this po
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I’d love something like this just for python. Especially sans HN style moderation.
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I've worked on contracts alongside MS employees and researchers in the past, and I've been pleasantly surprised. Three decades of experience in the field, and unfortunately, I don't have quite the brooding disdain for Microso
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I think it's deliberately obtuse to claim to represent such an opinion. The people on "git blame" for this will end up being reprimanded in some way, in serious cases. If we're chalking it up to "Microsoft sucks&quo
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Imagine being someone who made a simple mistake, and people on some weird internet forum with no identity verification said "Oh, that guy must be malicious!" and you lose your job. How would you feel? It's justified, if I und
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I think sometimes it’s a misunderstanding of the platform by people with no clue what they’re doing, and maybe a partial language barrier?
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by l_theanine 4y ago
More common than you think on educational repos like this.
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Pretty good curriculum, I’m not sold on MongoDB, I’d prefer someone with Postgres or SQLite experience so they can be immediately useful on a project, but it’s better than nothing, which would be even worse. There’s a rather deep rabbit hol
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by l_theanine 4y ago
Those people are people less likely to be reading HN, no? I have heard some people talk about leaving for woodworking and stuff like that, but most people in my circle who get burnt out just stop doing government contracts and get regular j
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by l_theanine 4y ago
The immediate implication would be to expect lesser price raises from other providers. Akamai recently acquired Linode, and it was definitely perceived as a foreboding piece of news... and now here they go raising the prices.
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I guess you think I didn't already read the article? I'm questioning the legitimacy of the claims. I'm plenty literate, so no copy-paste recap needed, thanks.
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by l_theanine 4y ago
I find it unlikely that somebody randomly shanks someone a dozen times just because of stress, in a workplace environment. Surely these two gentleman either knew each other and something had happened, OR the attacker knew the victim and the

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