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by mekane8 7y ago
I love how readable this report is! If more research study reports were written in this approachable manner we might end up with a more scientifically literate society.
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by mekane8 7y ago
I love the real-world example, but I couldn't help but wonder if this article was more about Sed and Awk than actual regex.
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by mekane8 7y ago
This quote really got me: "A foot rail is not only better for your back, but helps you cut a better figure. Standing flat-footed renders everyone a bit oafish; raising one foot results in a more rakish profile." Delightful!
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by mekane8 7y ago
This was an interesting read. If you wrote more of these stories out into a longer blog format I'd totally read it!
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by mekane8 7y ago
I have <fistname>.<lastname>@gmail.com and I get an eerily similar combination of mistaken emails. There's a real estate agent in New Jersey and a church deacon in Ireland that really wish they had my email address, apparen
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by mekane8 7y ago
Not an exact answer to your question, but another data point: I use PyCharm. it handles everything pretty seamlessly. I really like it.
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by mekane8 7y ago
Very nice visualizations. I used to build lots of little game-type simulations like this and I remember working my way through a very similar progression as I figured out how to draw circles and position things based on angles. This summary
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by mekane8 7y ago
I have to mention "But How Do It Know?" here as well. I came across it from a previous HN discussion and picked up a copy. It's really, really good. And it's a really easy read. http://www.buthowdoitknow.com&#
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by mekane8 7y ago
My D&D group used it for collaboration, mainly debating how bad 4th edition was :-) We liked it, but it didn't break anyone's heart when it was shut down.
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by mekane8 7y ago
I remember watching a presentation that the creators gave. In it they described the issues of email, and how wave addressed them. So those were at least a few problems that it was trying to solve. Once I actually got in and started playing
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by mekane8 7y ago
That's super cool. I really like the rivers that show up sometimes.
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by mekane8 7y ago
The collection of his articles that were published in that book is wonderful. I loved the cruise ship one, and I really enjoyed his articles about the IL state fair and about tennis because I grew up in the same area that he was talking abo
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by mekane8 7y ago
Point #2 is some deep wisdom. I am better for having read it. "Many people leaving the project blame either the project or the people working on it for their departure, rather than recognize that it is normal in life for one's ent
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by mekane8 7y ago
I have to agree - deploying Python code is horrible, unless the environment you're deploying to is super tightly locked down. I had a colleague try to set me up with their R-studio project recently and we gave up because getting the pa
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by mekane8 7y ago
Darn, I would like to see that poster, but I don't want to give Academia.edu (whatever that is) a copy of all my Google accounts!
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by mekane8 7y ago
I really like these tips. My wife and I have followed a very similar approach, and I like to think we have two well-behaved, considerate, and appropriately responsible 5-year-olds. We find timeouts to be quite effective, and we use the clea
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by mekane8 7y ago
“I came from Italy, and know exactly what mafia extortion looks like,” he says. “Yelp was manipulating reviews and hoping I would pay a protection fee. I didn’t come to America and work for 25 years to be extorted by some idiot in Silicon V
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by mekane8 7y ago
This is a good alternative to the article's perspective and I could definitely see both of them being true at the same time.
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by mekane8 7y ago
I would say Zuck is "Accountable" for all of the dark patterns and shady things. That's on him as CEO. The teams that implemented them and the management that signed off all share responsibility. I'm thinking in terms of
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by mekane8 7y ago
So well written. This is exactly what's so scary about this whole thing.
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by mekane8 7y ago
Five years ago I believed this same thing, exactly as you described. I went all-in on Google services and left all the options to send them data on, trusting them to be the benevolent system you described. And believing that the benefit I w
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by mekane8 7y ago
As soon as I saw that whole section on database-related flakiness my mind went from "flaky unit tests" to "tests called unit tests that are actually integration tests". I worked on a team where we labored under that misc
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by mekane8 7y ago
Can you describe (briefly, in plain english) how it is able to securely encrypt on the client side? i.e. how does it hide its secret key from prying eyes?
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by mekane8 7y ago
Man Boeing sounds like such a disgusting place to work. Granted, I'm sure many, many large publicly-traded companies are like this. But the way the article lays it out these executive initiatives reminds me of mobster movies where they
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by mekane8 7y ago
Reducing boilerplate can be very valuable. Why would you want to spend time writing yet another query when you could be focusing on the parts of the application that deliver value to your customer? Maintainability is also something to think
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by mekane8 7y ago
Learning and using an ORM is not an excuse for not learning and knowing SQL + Database concepts. (I'm not saying the author argued that, I just want to sweep away an straw men that say not having to learn SQL is an argument in favor of
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by mekane8 7y ago
Dang, I can relate to this 100%. I had to check the username to see if I actually wrote this myself :-p
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by mekane8 7y ago
I used to work for a software company that did projects for clients and charged by the hour (a consultancy) and we frequently had to estimate projects with incomplete information in order to event get the contract in the first place, so the
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by mekane8 7y ago
A big +1 for this book. I read it with the team of developers I managed (at a consulting company, where estimates directly made the difference between profit and loss on projects) and we found it very useful. It got us to quit using "g
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by mekane8 8y ago
It is refreshing to see a push towards better user experience by reducing JavaScript overhead. I imagine that many development groups building massive client-side SPA's have convinced themselves and others that the "developer conv

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