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by nicolashahn 4y ago
This was the reason for iOS handicapping app's ad tracking, not "privacy"
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Max, Ultra, Extreme... at some point they're going to run out of adjectives with high enough magnitude to signal that it outclasses the previous one.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Shouldn't be news, the same would happen with literally any ad-based app.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
I did, especially with Gorilla tag, but the more I've used it the less it affects me.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Few engineers work with neural networks, even fewer build them
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Absolutely ancient in Rust's timeline (2019) but I wrote a thing on coming from Python and learning Rust (and Go): https://www.nicolas-hahn.com/python/go/rust/programming/2019... I actually don&#x27
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
He said, in the room full of software "engineers". (I am one)
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
You can use all of these things without you personally knowing calculus. The point of the question is that it's posed by the people who aren't going to go on to create weather reports, credit card payment systems, video games, etc
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
I agree with this. A less tactful way of explaining it: "When am I ever going to use calculus in my life??" You? Probably never. But we're teaching everyone on the off chance that one of you goes on to do something useful wit
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
As a retail investor, how do I take advantage of this?
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Find a "koans" repo you can work through, first of all. Advent of code after that. Then, implement a super basic Lisp.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
how do you do this?
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Entering my thirties still single, I think about this a lot. First read about it in Algorithms To Live By.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Not "mainstream" but still fairly popular on the internet is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: http://www.hpmor.com/ . Yudkowski's Harry Potter makes a pretty good case for seeking immortality.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
The Recurse Center: https://www.recurse.com/ Their motto is "never graduate."
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
My issue was with lumping in Rust with D when saying they both have "notoriously low usage" when Rust has, conservatively, probably >10x the usage of D.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
> Hardly any job postings. Job postings that mention using Rust from July 2022 Who's Hiring thread alone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31948363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32070322
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Fair, but like any language this becomes a non-issue given enough time with it.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
> The usage of both D and Rust is notoriously low in the industry Rust usage is not "notoriously low" (don't know how you came to believe that) and it's growing very rapidly. The fact that it's a major supported
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Rust is far more widely used than D in the industry, so it's no surprised that it's more supported at Meta. Re: Go, it's use cases overlap with the officially supported languages, so there's no broad need for it.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
Go is mentioned and supported in specific use cases, just not as widely used as the other languages. It fits in a niche that overlaps with the supported languages, so there's no broad need for it.
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
I still use https://github.com/nefarius/ScpToolkit to let me use my PS3 controller with my computer. It's the only way I've found but the driver has a bug that bluescreens my computer after it comes out of sl
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by nicolashahn 4y ago
I ordered one of these almost solely because I thought it'd be really fun to develop for.
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by nicolashahn 5y ago
> If someone is competent enough to sustain 2 jobs, they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary if they are working one job Haha, at what company? I've met few people who've been able to work at a company long enough
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by nicolashahn 5y ago
If OCaml gets good tooling and ecosystem I'm totally in. I've heard it's close to Rust but GCed and that sounds extremely enticing.
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by nicolashahn 5y ago
Or they know that the DA will not prosecute, so why bother.
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by nicolashahn 5y ago
This states that thefts under $950 are still illegal, but the actual amount of prosecution that happens is still up to the DA. I'm interested in how many of these cases (as a percentage) are actually prosecuted.
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by nicolashahn 5y ago
sometimes, you can build different walls
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by nicolashahn 5y ago
You got a job with a lower barrier to entry and then transferred to development. It's much harder to go straight to development with no industry experience. And once you have any amount of experience it's much, much easier to get
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by nicolashahn 5y ago
Interviewed with them back in 2017. Was very impressed with what they were doing and the apparent talent of their team. Didn't get an offer because I hadn't leetcoded enough but left a good impression on me.

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