mattxxx

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by mattxxx 4y ago
Some context: I've worked with massive PostgreSQL db's, containing millions of daily records spanning multiple years (allowing for potentially massive numbers of returned rows). I also exclusively MVP simple db architectures in SQ
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by mattxxx 5y ago
The resolution here: Librarian: Happy Easter X feels eerily similar to an ending from a National Treasure / Tomb Raider movie. In fact, I think we can go ahead and assume that some globe-trotting high jinx occurred. Maybe th
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by mattxxx 5y ago
I'm with you on this. Challenging your own anxiety - and breaking out of your shell - should not be part of some group exercise. The article implies that a group of people were let loose with instructions to bother people: > Once we
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by mattxxx 5y ago
This is kinda required reading! Also, while it's really talking about stuff going on at its own time, War with the Newts is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_with_the_Newts
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by mattxxx 5y ago
> "Look, beyond a certain size, almost nothing you can do will save or destroy a company. At that point, people mostly go to work to play politics. Occasionally, as a side effect of the political maneuvering, work sometimes gets don
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by mattxxx 5y ago
I like this idea at first pass! I think augmenting reality with a tap into the digital could be a nice new dimension to how we look at the world. I do however think that giving tech companies + ad companies the ability to tap into this is r
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by mattxxx 5y ago
I think preferring to use the website/app's own login makes initial sense, but distributing your personal information around opens you up to more opportunities to get tracked/pwned/leaked/whatever. I used to priorit
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by mattxxx 6y ago
Here's a better explanation of the visitor pattern than Wikipedia: https://sourcemaking.com/design_patterns/visitor ^ Helped me understand why-on-earth anyone would introduce this pattern
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by mattxxx 6y ago
Once they remove cookies, Google will still be able to track you... they'll just restrict the ability of others. Personally, I think anonymizing the web and de-incentivizing companies from collection data is a good thing, but privacy s
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by mattxxx 6y ago
Same. Perhaps it’s really saying that it’s a rule set they derived with fuzzy logic? Either way, I came to the comments to see if anyone is explaining how it uses/applies fuzzy logic.
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by mattxxx 6y ago
In my experience, sqlite is rarely the wrong choice for a first pass at almost anything. It’s - Straightforward - Portable - Performant So, unless you have a good reason to not use it: - Human-readable/editable file format - Non-trivia
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by mattxxx 6y ago
Linkin_Park_-_One_Step_Closer[128kbps].mp3 If you know, you know
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by mattxxx 6y ago
nah
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by mattxxx 6y ago
I see a lot of comments are criticizing the article, because it seems to damn the fundamentals of how research is funded. I think that response to the article is justified. That is, yea - science needs a way to be funded, and it should be w
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by mattxxx 6y ago
Maybe it will incentivize universities to grow talent locally
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by mattxxx 6y ago
Headline-crafting has gotten out of control; headlines like this really play off people's anxiety/insecurity, just to get a view.
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by mattxxx 6y ago
:fire: Two things: 1. From my own personal experience, I think the observations here are _accurate_ 2. I really appreciate that is article offers an implicit good-side to tough time. That is, success in tough times is made by ditching
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by mattxxx 7y ago
yea, "toothbrush" mustache.... :thinking_face:
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by mattxxx 7y ago
What's worse is that someone who is faking-it can impact the income of many people. For example, if you're a young engineer that works at a company that switches a good CEO for a bad CEO.
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by mattxxx 7y ago
Docker may be over-used, but, when managing hundreds of instances of machines, it's really useful to have deploys/redeploys/updates: - Immutable (the instance is effectively frozen as an image) - Has dependencies baked in (
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by mattxxx 7y ago
these twO as amazing: - the braids on teiresisas - all of zeus
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by mattxxx 7y ago
Well, if you have 1,000 workers operating at the lowest wage, you have a choice to give them all raises or fire all of them. Whether or not this can be gamed isn't the issue here. I think it's good to increase pressure on compan
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by mattxxx 7y ago
Something about this is interesting: used an evolutionary algorithm to create thousands of candidate designs for the new life-forms Basically, "find a way to combine living tissue together to exhibit this behavior"... maybe
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by mattxxx 7y ago
I've never heard anyone actually say that optimization is evil... probably, because people seem to actually enjoy optimizing code. What's "evil" is optimizing without benchmarks/profiles/etc. Naive implementati
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by mattxxx 7y ago
> I would read borges on pretty much any topic at all. Yup. For example, I read this article without any interesting in learning more about Johnson and Boswell...
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by mattxxx 7y ago
Next season on Black Mirror
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by mattxxx 7y ago
Reminds me of this music video: https://youtu.be/hKosaf5tmpI ... I can't imagine this being serious
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by mattxxx 7y ago
> I've looked into Clojure and like a lot about it, but don't want to have to dig into the Java world. Clojure is the usual go-to for writing production lisp. You should be able to build apps with leiningen, without needing to
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by mattxxx 7y ago
I think this is the right decision. Error-handling the go-way focuses on whether a single operation failed, rather than how a set of operations failed. In Python or Java, you see a lot of try-catches around blocks of code, which can obf
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by mattxxx 7y ago
The reads a bit... snappy and back-and-forthy, but it resonated with me a bit. I like that it connects regrets with eventual achievements.

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