msluyter

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by msluyter 8y ago
Incentives matter, as they say, so I'm sure you're correct to some degree, but by how much? Don't forget about the importance of relative status. At least some -- my guess would be a large majority, but part of the problem wi
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by msluyter 8y ago
I only skimmed the parent article, but I tend to agree with you. I would add that a lot of the job entails quickly learning new things and solving new problems. For example, just yesterday I had to work with RavenDB, which I've never s
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by msluyter 8y ago
Incidentally, BG1, BG2, & Icewind Dale are available on iOS and play quite well on an iPad pro. Perhaps even better than on a PC, as using the touch screen is easier than moving a mouse around.
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by msluyter 8y ago
I'd love the idea of living in a quiet, small community, were it not for a number of practicalities: Schools -- We're trying to provide the highest possible quality education for our daughter, which means living in the best public
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by msluyter 8y ago
Back in the 90s I had a club (a girlfriend bought it for me for Valentine’s Day, because it was red.) After a while I stopped locking it when I put it on, reasoning that if someone was determined enough to see it and still break into the ca
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by msluyter 8y ago
My wife is fond of the reddit /r/personalfinance/ group. Bogleheads is also quite good ( https://www.bogleheads.org/ ). Mr. Money Mustache is quite popular. In the end, most of these tend to converge on similar
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by msluyter 8y ago
Toastmasters — I only did it for a few months but it was enough to get over the general fear of public speaking and make it pretty easy for me to get up and give presentations. Highly recommended.
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by msluyter 8y ago
Readline —- I’m sometimes amazed at the number of relatively seasoned developers who don’t know simple commands like ctrl-r. This one really pays off because almost all shells and repls like ipython or the mysql client implement it. Sample
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by msluyter 8y ago
I've been pretty happy with PyCharm, having come from a java+Intellij background, but I'm open to other options. So I'd be curious if someone can comment how VSCode compares to PyCharm wrt language aware features, such as: co
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by msluyter 8y ago
Sure; it wasn't clear to me whether the letter fields could be repeated.
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by msluyter 8y ago
Seems that the goal here is to sort via the letters 'a', 'b', etc combined with capturing the original ordering? You could do this, although it's admittedly uglier than your example: In [1]: sorted(enumerate([(&
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by msluyter 8y ago
Brian Caplan's recent book, "The Case Against Education," is relevant here. His basic premise is that college is mostly signaling game that represents a net burden on society. (Ie, the time/resources collectively spent j
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by msluyter 9y ago
The Elephant & Piggie series, by Mo Willems. IMHO, the best kids book we've encountered. Some of the nice features: a) well drawn and sharply delineated characters. (One of my pet peeves about some kids books is difficult to distin
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by msluyter 9y ago
re: Relative poverty is also a form of poverty. There was a recent thread[1] on twitter by Noah Smith on this topic, related to a study[2] that suggests that a) relative life satisfaction tends to correlate with their relative ranked inco
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by msluyter 9y ago
My undergrad degree was in music and when I decided to move into software development, I got into a master's CS program that was heavy on theory, light on practicalities. I graduated quite green and unconfident with basic tools/sy
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by msluyter 9y ago
Here I'd distinguish between system/integration and unit tests. Unit tests as a whole tend to amount to a mirror of the code base. If a given function f returns '17' and a test validates that fact, all we've done is
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by msluyter 9y ago
It's been a while since I've tried it so perhaps someone can comment whether things have changed or if there was something I missed. When I last tried fish, I liked it but I couldn't get past the lack of ctrl-r (backward hist
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by msluyter 9y ago
Austin resident here. My wife and I have been talking to renovators and have heard several times that projects simply take longer these days because many workers now must live farther out from the city core than they used to. I wouldn'
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by msluyter 9y ago
"...it's hard to argue that a flood of low-educated, low-skilled illegal immigrants does not have an adverse effect on the low-educated, low-skilled US citizens..." It's not hard to argue. At a minimum, the topic is un
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by msluyter 9y ago
Where there is a problem there is (sometimes) a market opportunity: a service that periodically autoposts innocuous kitten photos into your Facebook feed, says "Happy Birthday!" to your friends, and the like. (Might actually be an
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by msluyter 9y ago
Perhaps, or perhaps enough developers adopt a given project that it becomes a viable platform. I'm thinking of DropWizard, which is mostly an opinionated collection of libraries and which has a large impact. (Or at least it did... been
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by msluyter 9y ago
It's unclear to me that anyone is aiming for a 50-50 distribution, nor am I implying that that should be the end goal. Megan McArdle has a new article in which she generally agrees that there's probably a biologically rooted diffe
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by msluyter 9y ago
"somehow (almost) everybody fell asleep at the wheel and forgot that equal opportunity trumps equal outcome" It may be that as a lot of folks have argued (including Scott Alexander[1]) that women are simply less inclined to go int
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by msluyter 9y ago
Well, technically I'm facing 8th floor windows, but my blind is down. Others are partially open though so I can glance to the side and see the outdoors, which is nice. So it's not quite as bad as facing a wall, but it is true that
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by msluyter 9y ago
On the general question of open vs. private offices, my views have tempered over time. The first time I worked in an open office, I hated it. But I've come to realize that a lot depends on the layout of the office and that there are be
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"But this, on the other hand, would create an odd situation where actually the vast majority of people might actually wish for rebellion, but none of them actually acts out on that wish." AKA, collective action problem. https:&#x
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by msluyter 9y ago
Except that inflation was worse in the 70s-80s when the lower/middle classes were apparently reaping greater income gains vs the subsequent decades, when they weren't: https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Infla
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by msluyter 9y ago
This is especially relevant if you're running in the cloud. We've recently run into slow performance with gettimeofday on Xen systems, such as EC2 (see: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/03/08&#x
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by msluyter 9y ago
After tiring of squinting at my Pebble, I bought the Series 2 a couple of months ago. My expectations were fairly modest given some of the early negative reviews of the series 1. But thus far I've been quite happy with it. I generally
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" There was a time when most people could make a career out of a skill, or stay within the same type of job, but workers today constantly need to adapt. They must become lifelong learners: Teach a student one skill and you got him one

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