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by languagehacker 2y ago
The advice seems reasonably good but I needed to bail on the post because of the cartoons. The anime crossed with precious moments style of illustration is just too creepy and inserts a lot of doubt to me personally on the authoritativeness
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Importing * is universally discouraged by most Python linters and best practice docs. You can always "import helium as h" if you're looking to type less. This looks largely like common workarounds that most people will write
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by languagehacker 2y ago
"McKinsey is a very different firm today than when these matters first took place" No they are most certainly not. Corruption is in McKinsey's DNA. Outside of the specific harms that McKinsey has caused across the country and
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Someone recently asked me if they could use an old Stack Overflow post for something like this -- technical English language learning. Cool name for it.
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Coming from the Poetry world, I'm loving ruff and uv. It's awesome having one single binary to handle linting for both convention and format, and uv itself is amazingly fast. I do miss being able to shell into an env, but it hasn
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Oh man, good to see you on here, dude! Yes, extracting the real human-readable text from a Wiki was a lot harder than you'd expect. There was also a question of investment. I think even with some early successes quantified with A/
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by languagehacker 2y ago
The licensing on that stuff is complicated, and I haven't looked at it in a while. It does allow you to take your toys and leave, but for those that don't, it would be simple enough to prevent ethical AI scrapers from extracting t
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Sure, but think about something as low stakes as, "Does such-and-such a character from my favorite TV show have any siblings" vs. "Is it safe to consume XYZ" Even with the great structured and semi-structured data that W
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Former Wikia engineer, here. I left right around when they changed their name to Fandom and kind of saw the writing on the wall. Despite the tremendous amount of information they have at their disposal, they never really saw themselves (or
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by languagehacker 2y ago
"Should we just fire all the people on strike at the ports" is how container shipping started in the first place
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by languagehacker 2y ago
> childless Google employee yikes
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by languagehacker 2y ago
There's some cognitive dissonance to me about using Ayn Rand's words about open-source efforts. What seems to be missing from both forms of discourse is this nagging term "public good". That is, if you're doing what
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Stuff like this and CCRU is some of my favorite literary junk food. There's an Instagram account called @cyborg.asm that famously matches up quotes from this text with Hajime Sorayama illustrations. Gotta love a good gimmick.
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Super interesting, though I doubt they'll pay a bounty on something they've already fixed.
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by languagehacker 2y ago
I was hoping this would be about using the metrics GitHub easily provides to figure out if people are doing their job or not. If it's solely up to a manager to come through with review feedback at this minute level of detail, then it&#
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by languagehacker 2y ago
I'm currently reading "When McKinsey Comes to Town" and just finished "The Man Who Broke Capitalism" about Jack Welch and GE.
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Quite a few authors have pointed out that the "financialization" of American businesses, with a focus less on innovation or investing in their workforce and more on massaging their numbers to meet shareholder expectations, has cre
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by languagehacker 2y ago
I share this doc with the most promising people I get to work with. When I worked at Lookout, Jeff Hodges shared this essay as a presentation, and ended it with a corollary: don't pretend that engineering isn't political. People t
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Good post-mortems should provide ammo and action items to review existing business processes. If you don't have an advocate in your engineering organization who is working across departments to improve these processes, that may be a si
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by languagehacker 2y ago
I know that it's not a real post-mortem, but this is the opposite of what a good post-mortem looks like. It includes: * Blaming the tools (and the author) * Not focusing on facts in the timeline * Not considering improvements But tha
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Good point! My POV assumed some amount of revenue generation.
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Did this guy just write a blog post about how he completely rewrote a functional feature to save $800? In all seriousness, the devil is in the details around this kind of stuff, but I do worry that doing something not even clever, but just
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by languagehacker 2y ago
We say that open source is "coding in public", but we often omit that it's also being a professional in public. Even if they were well intentioned, it doesn't sound like Tim's actions were too professional. That kin
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by languagehacker 2y ago
Something about the tone of this book gives me the "time cube" vibe. Nobody "just" refactors their monolithic code into a new architecture. Any sufficiently advanced organization with a microservices architecture has a p
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by languagehacker 2y ago
This is interesting. I'm wondering what compelled the author to use the division magic method for arguments instead of the more intuitive and commonly used approach to passing parameters.
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by languagehacker 2y ago
"Hoisted on the petard of the our own decadence" seems to be a valid interpretation only if you think that the last 200 or so years of family structures in capitalist, Western nations is the only valid way of raising children and
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by languagehacker 2y ago
I'd be curious whether there's any security concerns on this one. Could an attacker craft a message that gets access to execute commands into a client terminal?
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by languagehacker 2y ago
First thing I tried was `apt-get install emacs` and it hung on downloading. Editor preferences aside, I assume any nonstandard package will have the same problem. Interesting idea, but apart from trivial glue you may not need more than a co
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by languagehacker 2y ago
The dude who made LyricWiki basically had a successful acquisition to Wikia, which is great because the legal trouble that wiki had was needless and profligate. This is one case where the creator had the best outcomes by parting ways with h
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by languagehacker 2y ago
I worked there when it was Wikia. I'm disappointed that the APIs have been hobbled, that the name became something so honestly lame, and that you can't even view images with mobile ad blocking on. It really is about moats and ensh

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