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by mc3 7y ago
I think this is why it's non-trivial to build a distributable exe of the program, right? The exe would need a lisp interpreter/compiler bundled with it, because at runtime it might generate some code and run it!
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by mc3 7y ago
The sheep metaphor broke down about 10 comments ago.
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by mc3 7y ago
Genuine conversations are sometimes risky. Quitting once you have a job secured can be favorable to being fired, for example. Not having genuine conversations is part of the game unfortunately. Most orgs are political.
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by mc3 7y ago
People will still manage in such situations. It will be adhoc and depending on social evolution rather then a formal structure.
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Stretch Timer(github.com)
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by mc3 7y ago
Then the show HN title is a bit confusing / misleading.
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by mc3 7y ago
I coded from 8, but more down to luck of being bored and having a computer than being some kinda prodigy. At 8 I was indeed "just stuck trying to make your stupid loop not give you a syntax error". Probably lack of an ego at such
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by mc3 7y ago
Reminds me of a company years ago that had particularly low morale for various reasons. They then entered one of these good place to work competitions and told us that "yeah it's ironic, but help us by giving us a good review beca
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by mc3 7y ago
Kong? I'll stick to Dong, thanks.
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by mc3 7y ago
Well if you have some colliding neutron stars you can make more gold!
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by mc3 7y ago
Plenty wrong with it. Additional power consumption. Slow down performance for actual work.
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by mc3 7y ago
It would be fun if the bar is run by remote controlled robots, serving you beer at 10pm - maybe someone who just work up the other side of the world is controlling the robot!
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by mc3 7y ago
Or for someone who broke bad a little too much.
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by mc3 7y ago
> Parent could find some simple side gigs Highly unlikely! Maybe for a 4 year old there could be some time during the day. Let's say 1 hour. The type of gig where you can do an hour of work and be paid for it ... won't pay much
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by mc3 7y ago
1 million years = "bout"?
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by mc3 7y ago
You don't replace the human code review. You supplement it. An AI that can replace the code review would need to be an AGI that "sat" down with your team and understood the architectures and meaning in your code. If it can&#x
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by mc3 7y ago
10%! What do they do with all that money? That must be more than they need, do they redonate?
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by mc3 7y ago
I'd say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySO-gryuO-c&feature=youtu.be...
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by mc3 7y ago
Yeah it's just not that valuable for the end users to be dropped. Just like a startup. Why would anyone add startup or startup-like products to your workflow?
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by mc3 7y ago
Yes this is definitely a thing. I haven't seen it in beer personally, but I have seen it in other walks of like. Programming for instance "I worked on a 1M LoC system" "Mine was 10M LoC", or "I worked on a 1000
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by mc3 7y ago
Hey Derric - spotted a typo in your HN title. "featire" instead of "feature".
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by mc3 7y ago
The only time I have ever used it was about 4 years ago to get some help on Haskell. And the only reason for using it was the community was there. Although I sensed there is a positive shibboleth effect when you meet the person in real life
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by mc3 7y ago
"But me a coffee" isn't literally coffee. It's a way of asking for $5 or so but making it sound more palatable as "well you are just buying a mate a coffee" which people normally do rather than "you are tr
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by mc3 7y ago
This is a good thing to be aware of. Also the "field" of floating point numbers is not commutative†, (can run on JS console:) x=0;for (let i=0; i<10000; i++) { x+=0.0000000000000000001; }; x+=1 --> 1.000000000000001 x=1;for
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by mc3 7y ago
The assumption is that developers, like bricklayers, can do a certain amount of work per hour, and hiring twice as many will get twice as much done. One great idea well executed at a company could save the need for an entire team of develop
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by mc3 7y ago
That they created an entire industry out of what I did for fun as a kid, and now I get paid to do it.
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by mc3 7y ago
I'd add Garbage Collection (Lisp was first I think) which transformed how we write programs, allowing more focus on solving the real problem, and less on memory management. Also vms/containerization is worth a mention? The basis f
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by mc3 7y ago
Unit tests make debugging suck a bit lest, because of the ability to change the test case (on local machine only!) / and tested code iteratively in combination with the debugger to find the source of the problem, with fast feedback cyc
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by mc3 7y ago
Yes better to put the account names up for auction and bring in some revenue.
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by mc3 7y ago
> The cull will not affect Twitter's reported user numbers, as the firm bases its usage level only on users who log-in at least once a day. According to its latest earnings report, from September, Twitter has 145m "monetisable&

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