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by morty_s 6y ago
I’ve had similar thoughts, but walked them back to “oh, they’d probably keep it to themselves or drop it in the NSA’s amnesty box.”
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by morty_s 6y ago
It’s clear police and their supporting systems don’t want to change. Dumb question—what about introducing a competing agency or agencies? How bad of an idea is a “for profit police force?”
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by morty_s 6y ago
Echoing a similar sentiment here, Thank You!!!
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by morty_s 6y ago
Haven’t really read Fowler’s stuff, but I have read Martin Kleppmann’s Designing Data-Intensive Applications and that was helpful. Haven’t seen it mentioned here (though I haven’t looked thoroughly through the comments). Just thought I’d me
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by morty_s 6y ago
I’ve tried following the “take a break once in a while” advice and it does not work for me. I started to write daily and was able to realize being inconsistent with medication led to inconsistencies for me. I was hesitant to take any medica
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by morty_s 6y ago
I felt the same way. My wife and I bought a model y in November and we love it. If I could get an electric Tacoma I would, but I think I’m going to have to get into the cyber truck if I want an electric truck.
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by morty_s 6y ago
See this clearly: https://youtu.be/182JKOm1LY0 You can see the “violent few” drag and beat an officer to death. You can see and hear the surrounding mob cheer themselves on. So how many people need to witness a murder in pr
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by morty_s 6y ago
I’m in a different, somewhat awkward, but good position where my company champions work/life balance. The pace is slower than I expected and I have ADHD. I struggled at first especially since I want to respect other’s WLB. Sometimes I’
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by morty_s 6y ago
Oh wow, is this not common knowledge?
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by morty_s 6y ago
> Windows, have a much longer list of “shit _I_ put up with” Yikes. This is painfully true. Maybe Apple knows they have a ton of breathing room here. I’ll jump through a few more hoops to continue using the machines they make. Then again
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by morty_s 6y ago
Came here for this. A: “Passing control” B: “Taking control” A: “You have control” B: “I have control” This is how I remember it (6174, UH-1Y).
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by morty_s 6y ago
>people with low-vision. What does this mean? How does this relate to current logo? Is this a color blindness issue?
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by morty_s 6y ago
Keep going. Don’t be afraid to “go deep,” learning begets learning. Read more. This might sound obvious: the more you read, the more you _can_ read. You might find it helpful to stop memorizing info in order to just ceremonially regurgitate
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by morty_s 6y ago
In my experience... Reinventing (or rewriting) the wheel is a fun exercise. It’s even more fun to write it in rust (biased). Occasionally, the new wheel is better. Mostly, I learn how some of my assumptions were wrong and/or how I didn
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by morty_s 6y ago
Hmm. Couldn’t they use isotopic analysis to determine where and when someone grew up? Would this also be robust across different planets (if that becomes a thing)?
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by morty_s 6y ago
Ah, I wonder if “intuitive” is really as much of a feature as it’s trumpeted to be (under the assumption that intuition could be a crutch used to “get to places we’ve already been”)
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by morty_s 6y ago
Currently having a blast with Haskell. Rust is probably my favorite overall, however, for pure fun: Scheme. - Scheme: pure fun. Pairs well with, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Elixir: also a lot of fun, I really enjoy t
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by morty_s 6y ago
Yes! Very true. I found that I get distracted easily when reading, stopping at an unfamiliar term/concept, looking it up, possibly taking notes, annnddd then not really getting back to what I was reading. Now, I read differently, where
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by morty_s 6y ago
My thoughts exactly. People do this sort of thing to spice up training that must done. This is done in other fields as well like software development, eg. “in this tutorial we will be building a game with space zombies where...” On the othe
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by morty_s 6y ago
Recover? You seem to be in pretty good shape. You know databases and how business intelligence works. Good. You’re almost there. I’m not sure if I’d tackle ML/DL unless you have the chops for it (I don’t mean to discourage you, just sa
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by morty_s 6y ago
- vim - grep (now using ripgrep) - code navigation - rust - functional programming (scheme, Erlang, Haskell, Elixir, etc; structure and interpretation of computer programs).
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by morty_s 6y ago
Looks good! This definitely fills a niche! I think markdown is a great choice. There is an alternate universe where people learned a small amount of markdown syntax instead of learning Microsoft Word (really would’ve had to be something lik
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by morty_s 6y ago
> complexity in tooling and unnecessary tension when working with libraries Yep. I’m currently feeling this. I’m thankful I’m not a complete beginner and thankful for the Haskellers that blog their opinionated experiences. But this is su
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by morty_s 6y ago
I’ve found myself thinking similar thoughts (as OP) at a startup I joined. It seemed like no one valued code quality, yada yada. If the things you value are valuable in your new environment, you’ll find the tact, time, and patience to impro
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by morty_s 6y ago
Yes. This. Man And help pages are great (and grep-able, ripgrep-able ha). No ads. No pay wall. Damn I love man pages.
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by morty_s 6y ago
I have great respect for consistent and coherent CLI interfaces. The first piece of software I released was a command line app. I put a lot of time into designing the interface before I wrote any code. I “designed” the commands (the grammar
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by morty_s 6y ago
Same. Or similar, it’s taken longer than it should for me to appreciate the functional paradigm. Rust and Scheme have been gateway drugs ha. I found I really like OCaml-y languages. Now, I’m very interested in Erlang (and to some degree eli
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by morty_s 6y ago
This. Being a pilot is a lot of work. Depending on the craft, there’s a lot of things you must know and commit to memory; some things shouldn’t be committed to memory (best if technical manuals, standard operating procedures, etc are used).
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by morty_s 7y ago
What’s the culture like at cloudflare?
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by morty_s 7y ago
>So I come here being humbled Humility is something many never get an opportunity to learn. But at the end of the day humility does not pay the bills. Read or listen to Enders Game, by Orson Card.

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