megrimlock

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by megrimlock 16y ago
What's the best way to instrument an algorithm for visualization? Snapshot its state at periodic, well-named points, and render illustrations? I can imagine doing this with an A* search: snapshot the graph, including which nodes are open o
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by megrimlock 16y ago
I think your advice holds in general, but one interesting exception can be implementing a model, in the MVC sense. This can require a lot of communication across the language wrapping, and definitely become a hotspot. This is less of a pr
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by megrimlock 16y ago
According to Wikipedia, the Ship of Theseus problem questions whether an object that has had all of its components replaced is still fundamentally the same object. <pedantry> If each part is replaced in series, and the identity of t
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by megrimlock 16y ago
You should ping them again once some time has passed, just to inquire as to how things are going. It will only take you a moment, and there's a non-zero chance they may have grappled with the problem enough to have changed their mind and b
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Even putting the IDL over the sparsely populated Pacific is inconvenient enough that it was drawn to zig-zag across 40 degrees of longitude, or 2.5 hours of timezones, to be less annoying! You know... we should optimize the IDL with a graph
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Media is most appealing when it seduces the reader into a sense of insight. Obvious errors in reporting on familiar areas pierces this illusion, and makes one wonder how accurate coverage is of other areas.
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by megrimlock 16y ago
> If I want to apply for a position over the internet, I ABSOLUTELY must do things to stand out from the piles of emails Agreed! Regardless of your background, taking the time to write a specific cover letter and tweak your resume to h
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by megrimlock 16y ago
> open, democratic, decentralized social enterprise management 6 words and you've already lost me. This is followed by a complicated screenshot with arrows pointing in various directions, then a manifesto in typefaces that jangle like a
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by megrimlock 16y ago
What's really needed here is not more distance between hotkeys, but instead universal lightweight undo for user interactions. The most precious resource is the user's time. There should be no interaction that irreversibly discards the user
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Mostly agreed... but Dominion seems like it doesn't have much real human interaction. It's more like playing simultaneous games of solitaire with your buddies in a race to the victory conditions. I haven't used all the cards yet so I coul
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by megrimlock 16y ago
> Why is it so unreasonable to bring people in on an intern-like trial basis? We do that, in addition to an interview process biased towards false negatives. We still find it expensive to make hiring mistakes, enough that we are still
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by megrimlock 16y ago
> not the biggest fan of the transparent movement Completely agreed: the fact that OSX UI (and iTunes) change in arbitrarily small ways with each release seems like evidence that they are orbiting a local maximum rather than making abso
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by megrimlock 16y ago
There's a school of API design that believes you can guide users to reflect on what they are doing by deliberately excluding certain things, without explaining why they are absent. This springs from a prescriptive viewpoint that presumes th