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by msluyter 7y ago
Whatever you think of the idea, I think the reasoning here is interesting and instructive. 1. Start by questioning a long held assumption ("Do we need modules? Why? Is it because we stored functions in files?" Etc...) 2. Consider
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Almost certainly in the sense of physical hardship -- but perhaps not in terms of total working hours. Here's another more sprightly essay on the topic: https://allthatsinteresting.com/medieval-peasants-vacation-m...
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by msluyter 7y ago
There's sometimes a status/power component associated with feedback. I used to work with someone who tended to make a variety of subtle power plays -- dominating or "guiding" discussions when not the designated leader of
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by msluyter 7y ago
Not the original parent, but the problem I've noticed most recently with make is when people use it to orchestrate building/running docker containers. I've seen several cases where containers will be pulled/rebuilt on ev
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Well when I was 15 and we used to play Counter Strike and Quake 3 the "social network" was hanging out on servers with maps just chatting and walking around the map aimlessly.... Aging my self quite a bit here, but we used to do
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by msluyter 7y ago
Regarding the issue of feedback, IANAL, but I would have to guess that this would open the company to liability/lawsuits. Incredibly vague feedback might not be (directly) actionable, but regularly offering feedback raises the possibil
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by msluyter 7y ago
We went through this with our daughter[1]. I used to laugh at all the incredibly poorly targeted ads that'd show up in the middle of the ABC's song for like car insurance or whatnot. But that was mostly an annoyance. What's m
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by msluyter 7y ago
Interesting question. My understanding is that a 400 response indicates that there's something malformed about the request itself such that the server can't/won't process it. Given that in order to decline the card the s
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OTOH, microfiber pollution from synthetic fabrics apparently is a real thing: https://www.patagonia.com/blog/2017/02/an-update-on-microfib...
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You think that's bad? Check out: a = 17 print("a=", a) print("a=" + str(a)) print("a=%s" % a) print("a={}".format(a)) print(f"a={a}") # python 3.8 =>
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by msluyter 7y ago
I signed up for the free trial last week. To answer your questions... a) Is it real people/computer voice? It's real people (seems like pretty good speakers thus far.) b) The shortened texts are well written. They don't appea
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"... and there may be other influencing factors." Selection bias? Consider the type of person likely to be attracted to languages like Haskell or Clojure. (Note, didn't read the original study so I don't know the selec
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Re: your last point, I recently rewrote parts of a billing system full of hairy logic and edge cases (and bugs). The initial MVP consisted of exactly replicating the existing invoicing logic. Due to the general complexity of the problem dom
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by msluyter 7y ago
For our family, time is the problem. I do almost all of the cooking, and -- much like when estimating software development -- often tend to underestimate how long even a fairly simple recipe will take. As I become a more experienced cook I
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by msluyter 7y ago
If you use PyCharm, you can use cmd-alt-L to autoformat a file (and also reorder/fix imports). By default, I believe it just uses the pep8 standard, which I find generally sufficient, but you can evidently integrate Black via: https:&
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by msluyter 7y ago
I love this! I'm sort of proud to note that my salt score is -0.08, with my saltiest comment being: The iPad and iPhone are especially dangerous when it comes to accidental downvoting. Separating or enlarging the arrows would help tho
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by msluyter 8y ago
I officially mentored someone at my previous company and helped him move from a support tech role into a software dev position. It was incredibly rewarding. But to play devil's advocate for a moment, isn't there something of a nat
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by msluyter 8y ago
I wish I could articulate precisely what -- a the age of cough cough -something -- has kept me engaged and happy as a software developer. In part, I've been lucky. I've mostly had decent jobs and companies that treated emplo
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by msluyter 8y ago
Related: Mancur Olson "In his first book, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (1965), he theorized that what stimulates people to act in groups is incentive; members of large groups do not act in accor
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by msluyter 8y ago
I think people respond well to natural rhythms with contrasting phases (a time to sow; a time to reap...) so I find the general concept quite appealing. One thing that always bothered me a bit about scrum was that it's basically an end
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by msluyter 8y ago
In some cases things went smoothly and there is a little to say. Has been my experience (on good teams.) After a while, you tend to gel pretty well and don't need to spend that much time introspecting. The issues raised are either ge
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I've only experienced OKRs at one company, and I felt a sort of a weird disconnect between OKRs and actual work/performance. On the one hand, OKRs were presumably critically important, but on the other, they weren't directly
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by msluyter 8y ago
Shouting "gender equality paradox!" doesn't warrant a mic drop. Aside from particular policies in Scandinavian countries that might actually limit women's options[1], the underlying issue is we don't know what a &qu
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Yes, the article is definitely overgeneralizing from a number of anecdotes, imho. While I tend to agree with the notion that classical music tends to signal a certain remoteness -- thus correlating with villainy -- that's not its only
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I have a theory that dynamic programming problems have become more popular in part because the lower hanging fruit — reverse a linked list, is this a palindrome? — have become widely known and practiced via books and sites like hackerrank.
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”A lot of what they do is just admit people who will be high income earners.” Aka Bryan Caplan’s signalling theory of education: https://blog.press.princeton.edu/2018/01/23/bryan-caplan-on-...
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Iirc this was pre type hints, so the example might be invalid now, but I’m sure I could come up with other examples that demonstrate the same point.
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It seems odder to me that 42 is a valid type hint than that the LHS can be an expression. But I share with most of the others here the opinion that this really isn’t a problem with Python. Every language makes trade offs, and python gives y
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Perhaps my wording was poor. I'm thinking of geographical regions, not the economy as a whole. Thus, despite a net zero effect globally, any redistributive effects would be unevenly allocated to various regions. And it's easy to i
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by msluyter 8y ago
To your list of issues I'd add extraction by rentiers. My (perhaps naive) understanding is that rents tend to rise to a market equilibrium. Infuse the the aggregate market in an area with X dollars, and rents will rise to consume X.

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