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by lackbeard 9y ago
Apologies for the incivility, but his article contradicts what you wrote and cites the relevant data.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Scott Alexander posits a theory which addresses why programming has a high gender disparity but law, medicine, biology and (undergrad) mathematics don't: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Well, if it's placebo and it works anyway then what's wrong with that?
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Because it not a helpful comment. It's wrong in a lot of ways and misleading in others. Like dragonwriter said, having coroutines in your language or a fiber library is not close to the same thing as the language having a scheduler tha
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by lackbeard 9y ago
But that just shifts the question on to the starting premise. What is the chain of logic that leads you to conclude that it's correct to tax people based on how the taxes impact the quality of their life?
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by lackbeard 9y ago
That's a true statement, but there's no logic here or reasoning as to why that makes it okay.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
This essay, which touches on the subject of whiteboard coding, has some good food for thought on the subject: http://lacker.io/tech/2017/04/05/why-you-cant-say.html .
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by lackbeard 9y ago
> Titles are B.S. but people listen to developers with "architect" as part of their title. I would be careful with this advice. It might get you a cushy job and a higher salary at bad companies, but I think it's bad for yo
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by lackbeard 9y ago
This advice is situational, but if you find yourself on a team with some experienced, talented, productive programmers, pay attention to what they're doing and learn as much as you can from them. (Things like: what they choose to spend
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Polynesians ate pig. They took pigs with them wherever they went. (Yes, even on long ocean voyages.) I'm not arguing for or against the quality of fish protein, just pointing out Polynesians had pigs...
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by lackbeard 10y ago
I can't articulate why exactly... but I have a very bad feeling about this. > We also believe tech companies have an opportunity and an obligation to reduce the polarization we've helped create. I'm pretty sure this kind o
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by lackbeard 10y ago
That part really resonated with me as well. Well the whole article did... it really matches my professional experience with Clojure (except I've never looked at transducers.) I still don't feel great about error handling in Clojur
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Fourteen Months with Clojure(blog.skyliner.io)
300 points by lackbeard 10y ago|187 comments
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by lackbeard 10y ago
Calories-in, calories-out is the golden rule, but what a lot of people forget (like you have here) is that what kind of calories you put in affects calories-out (along with lots of other things.)
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by lackbeard 10y ago
Yes, please set up an rss feed. Thanks!
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by lackbeard 10y ago
Many of the design decisions in this game seem bad and arbitrary. Why have bans and why limit to 1 of each character per game? Why not let everyone play who the want?
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by lackbeard 10y ago
I certainly do not have this expectation. What makes you think "people worldwide" do?
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by lackbeard 10y ago
That's fine, you can live wherever you want, but jobs are moving to cities and if we want to make life better for the people working those jobs then we should build housing for them in supply adequate to make it affordable.
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by lackbeard 10y ago
This is the insanely simple and insanely correct answer.
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by lackbeard 10y ago
In Seattle some higher-end restaurants have done away with tips and added an automatic surcharge of 20%. They're very diligent about making sure customers know this before they order, and they make it clear that the money is split betw
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by lackbeard 10y ago
The Blind Side, The Hard Thing about Hard Things, Sex at Dawn. If asked, I would say those aren't the books I've found most amazing but they're the ones I felt compelled to give as gifts.
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by lackbeard 10y ago
But the hard part of calc 1 (for me at least) wasn't the calculus; the concepts are simple. The hard part was figuring out how to apply those concepts to the problem at hand and then grinding through the pages of algebra to get the res
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by lackbeard 10y ago
My favorites: Power Grid, Terra Mystica, Dominion, Race for the Galaxy.
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by lackbeard 10y ago
If you're still looking for a job: apply to other companies. If not, reapply at Google and Amazon in 6-12 months.
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by lackbeard 10y ago
No one is starving in the US anymore. The poor are fat, and have cell phones.
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by lackbeard 10y ago
Heh, I only ever used del.icio.us to access the site... I think it may have redirected to delicious.com for a while which is how I ever noticed that became a thing. It's crazy how many different incarnations the site has had.
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by lackbeard 10y ago
I haven't used GitHub a ton, but GitLab is really crappy in my experience. I'm constantly frustrated by the UX. CVSweb and Trac do a better job, and did so 10 & 15 years ago. I've also used BitBucket quite a bit; it'
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by lackbeard 10y ago
What's a good example of a 3D puzzle?
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by lackbeard 10y ago
Sometimes you add a new protocol (or interface) and you really want some existing types to implement that protocol. Some languages make that impossible (or really really ugly) when you didn't define those existing types yourself. What
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Robots didn't take our jobs(chrisstucchio.com)
91 points by lackbeard 10y ago|90 comments

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