michael_j_ward

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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
> these discussions have become so tedious and predictable that there is no curiosity left in them and no learning possible Given your experience moderating this site, do you have any thoughts / insights on how to build a platform t
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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
Early in my career, I noticed a mindset among senior developers disparaging ORM's with "I'll write my own SQL, thanks." Although I noted their thoughts at the time, I didn't really do anything with it - there was a
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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
I've thought that wiki-style tutorials where you can branch and ask questions at specific decision points solve this. Lot's of effort goes into one-off tutorials. This is great but those go stale and are scattered throughout the i
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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
The dark side is only dark from our perspective on earth. It still receives two weeks of sunlight a month. If you wanted to minimize sunlight, you'd want to put a telescope at L2 [1], which is in fact where the James Webb Space Telesco
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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
Having issues with gitlab myself
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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
Luca Palmieri[0] is trying to fill that gap with his series called "Zero to Production" in Rust that assumes the reader can solve project euler problems and is instead going to focus on "how do I build and deploy production s
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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
Combine `argdown` with something similar to `roam research` and you have the makings of a 21st century platform for knowledge production. When we have conversations in person, there is a natural Clarify -> Challenge -> Refine loop tha
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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
Besides the other comments, which are accurate, the two books that leveled up my Python personally are "Effective Python" and "Fluent Python", in that order.
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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
Maybe not "liberal" but certainly "not-conservative" https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20983053/google-fires-fo...
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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
Have you discussed elsewhere about io_uring plans? It isn't mentioned at all in the linked roadmap
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by michael_j_ward 6y ago
Really interesting read, thank you. How Influx Data plan to incorporate this? (Or did I miss that in the article somewhere?)
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
> Channels are just queues and passing methods. My understanding is channels in `go` are 0 sized by default- and thus turn into "rendezvous channels" that can be used to synchronize progress between threads. This article compar
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
If someone has some good, open source examples- please share!
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
What do you use for orchestration?
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
This? $ python -c 'import datetime; print(datetime.date(2019, 3, 12) + datetime.timedelta(days=366))' 2020-03-12
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Doesn't address the OsString complexity- but the author has another post on strings in Rust that you might be interested in [1]. It at least addresses how Rust does hide a lot of regular `String` complexity that `C` doesn't. [1]
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Do you have any good resources in learning more about these models / approaches?
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Gracias for the information. I had to look up biologic medicine to understand what the difference is with other drugs like say acetaminophen. This article from forbes laid it out [1]. TLDR: 1) Biologic / large molecule drugs (insulin)
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Are you 100% certain that it's the exact same vial? This [1] article claims that Humalog's patents expired in 2013 and 2014. If you're right, do you know why no generic producers of the drug were able to enter the market by 2
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Hey since you seem to be familiar with the "evergreening" process, would you mind weighing in on my question above? [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22184942
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
You are saying that step (2) has no effect on patent X from step (1), and thus patent X still enters public domain in 2020, correct? Note- I understood this to be your position from your other comments. I asked the clarifying question to un
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
>They prevent other companies from creating their own "generics" through a process called "evergreening" where they change patents in small, insignificant ways while still maintaining the patent on the core product. T
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
The number was merely an example. The alteration I proposed would be equivalently applicable to "5 years post FDA approval."
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Explode prices for this first 5 years , maybe it would. But then, the improvement would have to be enough over the most recent generic that the consumer would actually pay the increase. As to not investing in cures, I'm not saying t
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
In addition to reducing regulatory barriers that prevent generic producers, why is no one suggesting altering the pharmaceutical intellectual property system? Twenty years to hold monopoly production rights is an obscene amount of time. Yes
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
In terms of a practical takeaway, how much would FOSS maintainer's lives be improved if you could actually require a runnable example before filing a bug?
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Whenever you fill a prescription at your pharmacy, ask what that cash price for the drugs would be. Frequently at my local CVS, they have "coupons" available to cash buyers that makes the cost less than my copayment.
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Do you have any write-ups on this? I might be looking to do this for a large java codebase soon.
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by michael_j_ward 7y ago
Just adding a more recent video on it from CppCon 2018 where the presenter goes over a specific worked example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy8jQgmhbAU

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