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by msluyter 9y ago
Anecdata: for me it's not calories, it's carbs. I used to get so insanely tired in the afternoons that I would take a nap in my car even in the ~100 degree Texas heat. After switching to a low-carb paleo diet, I entirely stopped g
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by msluyter 9y ago
The best introduction to logic and critical thinking I ever experienced was in a high school english class. In particular, understanding the various informal fallacies (hasty generalization, post hoc ergo propter hoc, argumentum ad populum,
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Hmm, I guess I was going of benchmarks such as these, which suggest Go is, well, faster some of the time? https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/go.html However, perhaps as you indicate these are including JVM
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Like someone mentioned, it's hard to answer this in the general case. Factors to consider would be: a) are you dependent on the JVM and Java ecosystem? b) Are you already familiar/comfortable with Java/Scala? "Yes"
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For a mathy discussion related to this topic, I ran across this interesting and depressing paper a while ago: http://www.danielsusskind.com/research The depressing conclusion: " In a static model, increasingly capable
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Seems like there's some debate over what "memory leak" really means. On the one hand, you can just inadvertently grow some resource -- say, by appending to a list indefinitely -- until your sever crashes. But in this case, if
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Noticed this from Pycoders Weekly. Looks interesting -- I was curious what the motivation was to write it?
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"Another dangerous decision is to use a lib for reusing code. This is particularly bad if the lib contains domain logic." Question about this: if we're to take the above to heart, doesn't that imply that we may impleme
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I recall Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex.com) proposing the tears/bullying hypothesis somewhere, but I can't seem to find it at the moment.
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Tyler Cowen's mentions our decreased mobility in his book "The Complacent Class." Here's a bit from an interview in the Washington Post[0]: WP: Some of the lack of mobility is due to high rents in cities, which keeps ma
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This is cool. Also, there is one little trick you can do to make your shell history easier to search. You can comment your commands and then search via comments: % big hairy command here # foo the bars! Then you can history search fo
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Some other possibilities: Socialism: there are two snakes, and the 10 points for eating an apple gets split between them. Communism: the game starts as Capitalism with two snakes, but then the game switches to Socialism, and the 50$ (or rem
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Relevant to this discussion: A Model of Technological Unemployment http://www.danielsusskind.com/research
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A Model of Technological Unemployment(danielsusskind.com)
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I've seen this argument before, but I don't really buy it. Why did they subtitle their book "elements of reusable object oriented software" if they didn't intend to present "patterns" as "templates.&q
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by msluyter 10y ago
Not that you asked me, but here's one reason: I have keratoconus and even with glasses and multiple eye surgeries don't see 20-20. Moreover, my right eye is considerably worse than my left, which means that I can't quite get
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by msluyter 10y ago
I think that depends on the length getAge(). If it's 3 lines, 'p' probably is fine. If it's 200 -- which, perhaps it shouldn't be but that's another issue -- then person is probably a better choice because you
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by msluyter 10y ago
Since when has reading the article ever been a prerequisite for discussing it on HN? ;) </snark> That said, iirc, someone often helpfully posts the text of the article in such cases. Why go through the effort of banning somethin
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Though perhaps it's considered a component of 2), one could add Docker/containerization. I've watched folks spend weeks and weeks getting Docker setup for a service that probably didn't need to be containerized at all. A
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by msluyter 10y ago
Hey, sounds like we worked at the same place! That, or the "wedded to Oracle for life" is a common antipattern. I'd add "shared everything architecture" to the horrors. Yeah, once you get that deeply entrenched in O
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A lot of projects I've worked on have utility libraries consisting of mostly stateless, pure functions -- I have a theory that these constitute some of the longest lived code. That, and database models, which tend to be easier to expan
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I've found that there are a number of different prescriptions for RSI pain, and that you have to experiment until you find what works for you. But that's complicated by the fact that it's hard to run experiments on yourself b
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by msluyter 10y ago
A similar take on the issue in this old Slate article: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/kausfiles_sp... Choice quote: "But why should we expect the deadlock to be broken at all? Think of it in
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by msluyter 10y ago
A couple of jobs ago, I worked at a company that did a ton of SQL and we used right justified keywords, which looks like: select t1.col1, t2.col2, t3.col3 from table1 t1 join table2 t2 on t1.col2
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Slate Star Codex: http://slatestarcodex.com/ , for a lot of interesting socio-philosophical discussion on a variety of topics. Meditations on Moloch is one of my favorites: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014&#x2F
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by msluyter 10y ago
Any way to bind the mac command key (⌘)?
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My general rule is that the greater the scope -- lexical or runtime -- of a variable, the more descriptive its name (which often means longer but not always!) So, for a short lived variable, I'm personally ok with it being short, as in
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Another antipattern, not specific to standups: everyone sitting around absorbed in their laptops not paying attention to anything until their turn comes around. (Another reason to actually stand during standups, I suppose.) Another mentione
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Warning: anecdota. Having taught music and dancing at various points in my life, I've noticed that -- at least in these sorts of fields that require some sort of body mastery -- the best teachers often weren't the most naturally
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1. Godel, Escher, Bach -- Because it sparked my interest and got me started down the path. 2. The Pragmatic Programmer -- a classic. Reminds me that I need to re-read it. 3. Effective Oracle by Design, by Tom Kyte -- Not that I use Oracle a

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