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by msluyter 14y ago
I used dvorak but stopped because a) I developed wrist problems for a while (despite using dvorak) and reverted to hunt & peck to minimize finger movement and b) ctrl-c/ctrl-v were almost impossible to remap on windows (at the time). Th
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by msluyter 14y ago
Woah. Kasparov vs. Deep blue. I'd forgotten it had been that long ago.
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by msluyter 14y ago
Thanks so much for posting this. I had just recently gone through a bit of Omni nostalgia and was wondering where to find copies of the originals. It's hard to specify, exactly, but I think Omni had a powerful influence on my life (perhaps
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by msluyter 14y ago
I'm just curious: are there any java programmers out there who don't use eclipse or intellij? Having gotten used to intellij recently (and it didn't take that much effort), I can't really imagine using a plain text editor for (java) devel
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by msluyter 14y ago
Out of curiosity, how does Metro look to color blind people?
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by msluyter 14y ago
I'd just like to express my appreciation for the depth of this article. I always learn something from Armin Ronacher.
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by msluyter 14y ago
A lot of great books, but it's unclear to me that most of these are actually "undervalued." Check out the blurb on the back cover of Philosophical Investigations, for example: Immediately upon its posthumous publication in 1953, Ludwig Wit
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by msluyter 14y ago
"Even so, I’d be a lot happier paying taxes if there had been a moment where I was given the choice: pay taxes and have these benefits or be left to your own devices." Except that there's no (current, easy) way of excluding you from vario
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by msluyter 14y ago
FYI, so I thought "Ok, I might try it for something simple" and signed up. Got an error that I hadn't accepted the terms/conditions, which incidentally, are very easy to miss. So I checked the button again, after re-entering my password. Th
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by msluyter 14y ago
I actually sleep with wrist braces precisely for this reason. If I go on vacation and forget them, I always end up with some wrist pain.
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by msluyter 14y ago
I'm not really asserting any sort of causal effect; I just thought it was interesting. Here's a bit more detail on the topic: http://biasandbelief.pbworks.com/w/page/6537201/Is%20Bias%20...
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by msluyter 14y ago
Cordelia Fine, in "A Mind of Its Own," makes a similar point: Fine says, "that your unconscious is smarter than you, faster than you, and more powerful than you. It may even control you. You will never know all of its secrets." So what to
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by msluyter 14y ago
As an ex aspiring classical musician, this is a topic near to my heart. I think the article is somewhat besides the point. You can agree with all of it, and yet still believe that you'll succeed in your chosen field because you're better.
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by msluyter 14y ago
I wonder if building these mental models has become more difficult with the rise of multi-layered/full-featured programming frameworks. I'm thinking of things like Spring or Rails. A given webapp might involve a dozen layers or so: a databa
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by msluyter 14y ago
Yes. Having been on both sides of the process a lot recently, I'd agree that restating / asking questions / talking through the problem as you do it is helpful. But beyond that, I think that simply practicing typical whiteboard questions is
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by msluyter 14y ago
You can also do it in one, if you imagine the line to lie on the surface of the earth and to wrap around the entire earth three times.
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by msluyter 14y ago
1.) newString gets re-created every iteration of the loop, so it always contains a single character, and at the end of the loop it contains the first character of the string. 2.) Strings are immutable (in Java), so "newString = newString +
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by msluyter 14y ago
I agree with you, and for the record, I was only approaching this as one developer (out of several) doing an interview. It's just that, after several iterations of, 1. "Hey Mike, can you interview this guy tomorrow" 2. Looks at resume, sees
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by msluyter 14y ago
I totally agree with the article. Perhaps if you're a startup moving very quickly, you might need someone with a specific skill set; otherwise, you're probably excluding better candidates by focusing on skills. I've performed a fair number
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by msluyter 14y ago
No doubt there's some truth here, but I would hesitate to write off the incredibly distracting and addicting power of the internet entirely. Even when I'm working on something I really enjoy, I find myself breaking to check HN, for example.
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by msluyter 14y ago
I expect this to be a busy thread. I think the point about state has some traction. For example, Chaper 15 of Effective Java (awesome book on Java, btw) is entitled "Minimize Mutability," so I think this idea is one that has caught on even
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by msluyter 14y ago
If you want a challenging economics blog, I'd vote for Marginal Revolution. Tyler Cowen writes on a wide range of interesting economic topics from a unique (libertarian oriented, but minimally ideological and empirically grounded) perspecti
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by msluyter 14y ago
I'm sorry, but although I'd agree vim is awesome, there's no way I would call its commands "intuitive." Take 'y', for 'yank.' Would anyone really argue that the word "yank" is a natural way of expressing "copy?" "Yeah mom, just yank and pas
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by msluyter 14y ago
Coming from Texas, I didn't find the country/republican correlation at all surprising. But here's my question: has it always been this way, or would this be another example of "the Big Sort,"[1] where cultural and political affiliations are
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by msluyter 14y ago
I'm not making that assumption, but perhaps I am assuming/implying that this issue isn't enough on the radar of most republicans to have much of an impact in a primary race. And as noted by waterlesscloud, a democrat can't win this district
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by msluyter 14y ago
His district is comprised of rural areas and wealthier parts of Austin/SA in a republican state, so that seems highly unlikely unless he somehow alienates his base and faces a strong republican challenger.
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by msluyter 14y ago
As someone who used to read a lot of books on Zen, I've been enjoying these. The one on triggers made me laugh -- at work we have a running joke about triggers. I've expressed so much dislike for them that when discussing a problem people w
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by msluyter 14y ago
I love Cygwin, but I have experienced what I would describe as rot. (manifested via errors on fork()). I think that's caused by things changing around it, via windows dll updates, but I don't have a lot of insight into windows' dll handling
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by msluyter 14y ago
I have the exact same problem, s/.NET/java/. I think it's become increasingly common these days, because there are so many different interesting competing technologies. I went through a long period of dithering, trying to figure out where I
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by msluyter 14y ago
Ammending: I made a typo -- 12-bar blues should be (I-VI-I-V-IV-I).

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