mekoka

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by mekoka 1y ago
Some solo dev projects are used as a platform to sell books, training, ads, speaking engagement, consulting, and development.
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by mekoka 1y ago
People are constantly looking for definite tendencies and magic patterns so they can abdicate situational awareness and critical thinking. We observe that fast delivery has often correlated with success in software and we infer that fast de
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by mekoka 1y ago
This is wild. Wilder would be to see that the government runs the same after the loss.
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Or a piece of cake.
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by mekoka 1y ago
The paradigm I'm alluding to is eager to lazy, not 2 to 3. E.g. dict.items() in v3 works like dict.iteritems() in v2.
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by mekoka 1y ago
Crossing my fingers that it goes through this time. Been in the top 3 of my Python wishlist for nearly a decade.
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by mekoka 1y ago
If everyone starts favoring lazy imports with not much fuss then it means that lazy should have been the default behavior and eager is the keyword we're missing. This isn't the first time Python revisits this paradigm. Many cons
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by mekoka 1y ago
3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353986
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by mekoka 1y ago
Many programmers think that the way DS&A work is that one beautiful spring morning, some requirements fall onto your lap where the words "nodes" and "edges" are neatly circled, thus marking a key moment in your life
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by mekoka 1y ago
The word "ineffable" is a common one in the literature that documents altered states of consciousness for good reasons. You must be an initiate. Once you've dabbled in spiritual contemplation, breathwork, or psychedelic journ
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by mekoka 1y ago
Do you have some links handy? I'd be very much interested in the description of experience from people that have gained sight after congenital blindness.
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by mekoka 1y ago
Anyone who was part of the HN/YCombinator scene at the time PG wrote that piece (and many years later) would know what the title alludes to. Why would it ruin this article's credibility?
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by mekoka 1y ago
If the language is limited to only single and shallow inheritance, then super() becomes a syntactic convenience that saves everyone the burden of spelling out the inheriting class. But in Python, even if your code emulates these constraints
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by mekoka 1y ago
If I had but one design pattern I would just LOVE to see disappear from Python, it's the need for super(). Don't get me wrong, super() is a clever piece of engineering, but if your code actually needs what it's useful for (
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by mekoka 1y ago
> As a French person I never met anyone who thought it was a good idea. If they serve it, whether in "good" restaurant or in fast food in France, it's probably because the strange people that pay money to enjoy them do exi
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by mekoka 1y ago
The tech equivalent would be having companies line up to meet you, so that you can perform some particular upgrade of their system. The exact same each time. Then having every one of them praising and thanking you profusely after. Hell yeah
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by mekoka 1y ago
I think only those actually selling Hawaiian pizza know how popular it is. From observing how often I've seen it as an option, over the counter, or frozen, in various countries, my personal suspicion is that it's indeed actually
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by mekoka 1y ago
I wouldn't mind doing the exact same thing over and over every day, if it alleviates someone's pain or suffering.
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by mekoka 1y ago
I likely misunderstood the article or inferred the wrong thing. The study is indeed very focused on the effects of psilocin/psilocybin. The monthly spacing of doses threw me in a different trajectory.
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by mekoka 1y ago
Two things. First, please correct me if I'm wrong, but is it possible that the article made a mistake either in the dosages or the substance that was administered? It calls 5mg/kg of psilocybin a low dose. To me, this is an insane
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by mekoka 1y ago
Memoization is deterministic caching, meaning that the structure is a perfect stand-in for a deterministic function. The "determinism" of the function itself is relative to some agreed upon lifespan, during which if you feed it
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by mekoka 1y ago
> I think you’re quibbling. I can assure you I'm not. There are absolute claims to make, they just aren't the ones you're making. Determinism is an absolute claim of memoization. "Local rather than shared state"
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by mekoka 1y ago
DP is a resolution technique that uses progressive (i.e. "dynamic") memoization (i.e. "programming" as in "tabulation", or resulting data stored in and retrieved from a table) as a way to curtail the cost of
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by mekoka 1y ago
The key difference between caching and memoization is not global shared state, it's determinism. That's why the latter mostly applies locally. In that sense, they're only semantically different. Data in a cache can be expecte
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by mekoka 1y ago
When you say "I actually can get things done quickly", does that include reading that same source a year from now?
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by mekoka 1y ago
No. Even in France and beyond (i.e. outside of Quebec) you could hear "dépanne-moi", meaning "help me out (with money)". Dépanneur as convenience store could be a Quebec thing.
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Having only recently been made aware of Quakerism myself, I also came to the conclusion that it should have a more prevalent mention as a sub-current of Christian Mysticism. That association may potentially create a bridge to other similar
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> because you're essentially the new guy on your own project. Wow! Lol. One sentence to rule them all.
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> How do I sell my SaaS to SMBs and large corporations when they don't even reply. If that's your target, then you might possibly be operating under at least a few wrong assumptions. As they say, you always want to sell to stak
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by mekoka 1y ago
> You are assuming... I made no assumptions. As I pointed out to another commenter, you might be in too much of a haste to play at being a contrarian. It might be more useful to pay closer attention to what you're objecting to. Evol

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