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You can't use rand() to compress a file(community.onelonecoder.com)
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by lordleft 7y ago
That first article she wrote, exposing the culture at Uber, was profoundly upsetting and an important moment in the history of our industry. Kudos to her for standing up to one the most egregiously hostile work environments I've ever r
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by lordleft 7y ago
I know, and I guess if I'm mobile would I be doing heavy gaming anyway? I'd probably just play roguelikes and magic arena
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by lordleft 7y ago
I love thinkpads but I wish one came with a decent mobile gaming gpu. I guess that's not at all the audience the thinkpads are for though.
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by lordleft 7y ago
>It’s like Nabokov’s book about Gogol where at the end he says that if you really want to know anything about Gogol, there’s no way around it, you gotta learn Russian. It’s sort of discouraging. As a programmer who loves Russian lit, thi
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Procedurally Generating the Universe(youtube.com)
2 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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How Graphics Worked on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance – MVG(youtube.com)
1 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
I don't know why but I'm always fascinated by quotidian details of the lives of people I admire; the excerpt about his being swindled by a taxi driver was marvelous.
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by lordleft 7y ago
I didn't really expect our cyberpunk future to look quite like this
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by lordleft 7y ago
I love this site; I refer to it constantly. Thank you for creating and tending to it so lovingly.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Sometimes I look at my closet filled to the brim with expensive boardgames, sometimes packed with well-honed mechanics and expensive miniatures, and consider the irony of the fact that in our age of ceaseless digital distraction, we have mo
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by lordleft 7y ago
I know our industry will debate the merits of google-style interviews forever. I think that the system may be a decent way of capturing good programmers, but that it also allows for awesome programmers to fall through the cracks. Don&#x27
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by lordleft 7y ago
Architecture matters. When I walk into a brutalist space, I feel minuscule and irrelevant. When I walk into spaces that I (subjectively) regard as a beautiful, I feel changed, for the better.
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by lordleft 7y ago
I like that Dan acknowledges that he sometimes get ridiculed for his ideas, but continues to post whatever is on his mind. I think that's admirable, because he might be occasionally very right despite the opprobrium of the world. I som
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by lordleft 7y ago
> Based on my interviewing history I'm not in the 95th percentile of programmers - I'm routinely outright rejected and don't even land the on-site interview. And this is basically my best skill for which I've invested
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by lordleft 7y ago
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how well-written this is? Super engaging and fun to read.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Even the best case scenario of this story is egregious in a democratic society, and it's really shocking to see folks scramble to defend it.
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by lordleft 7y ago
I got the quote from this brainpickings article: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/01/seneca-on-the-short... ...which uses: https://www.amazon.com/Shortness-Life-Penguin-Great-Ideas/d
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by lordleft 7y ago
We can be a Socrates anywhere. We don't have to literally be on trial for "corrupting the youth" to exercise reason and pursue virtue. We can strive to live well on even quotidian place like the workplace or our local communi
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by lordleft 7y ago
I would like to point out that Seneca was contemptuous of busyness for its own sake. The point is not to work, but to spend the finite time we are alive well. Maybe that includes periods of rest and repose. There is a tradition of meditatio
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by lordleft 7y ago
It was this essay, along with a choice quote from Epictetus, that induced me to finally leave my day job to go back to University to study CS. I graduated a month ago and began my first full-time SWE position last Monday. I spent my twentie
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by lordleft 7y ago
I had the pleasure of reading Middlemarch during my last semester at University. To paraphrase Rebecca Goldstein, reading her work is an enormous experience that can really enrich your inner and moral life. Btw, George Eliot was not only an
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by lordleft 7y ago
Honestly, Apple is asking for this kind of scrutiny when they apply the 'pro' moniker to any and every product. My iPad Pro is incredible and I love using it, but there is still so much friction involved in doing certain things
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by lordleft 7y ago
I'm increasingly intrigued by Rust. Can anyone recommend a good analysis / benchmarking of Rust compared to C/C++ code? Curious how it fares on a performance basis.
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by lordleft 7y ago
I like this post. There are Socratic echoes here: "I know that I know nothing", though pg is making a different point. It seems cliche and low effort but often times deep truths ARE cliched. The older I get, the more okay I am wit
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The Decembrist Revolt: The Event That Inspired War and Peace(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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The New Testament Doesn’t Say What Most People Think It Does About Heaven(time.com)
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by lordleft 7y ago
The example of an error message in the blog post is the kind of thing that makes me seriously consider trying out rust. It's excellent. Are most rust error messages like that?
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by lordleft 7y ago
What a phenomenal article. It's shocking how entitled people get about 100% free software. Some really emotionally intelligent insights here.
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How Red (State) Is Marx?(theamericanconservative.com)
1 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments

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