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by ollysb 2y ago
This is what the interviewer should be looking for. If you can fake it with an AI then they're not asking the right questions.
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by ollysb 2y ago
This makes sense in countries where education is publicly funded, it's there to broaden the knowledge and culture of the population. If you're having to take a huge loan to do it then you start having to do a ROI calculation.
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by ollysb 2y ago
What a breath of fresh air, the old docs really were showing their age.
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by ollysb 2y ago
Interested to see how this plays out. Given the level of mimicry that AI can now achieve how do actors, musicians and artists safeguard the likeness, sound or style that they've developed?
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by ollysb 3y ago
For that matter it would be nice to expand any function call in place. That way you could view a full call stack in a single view.
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by ollysb 3y ago
In many countries the official Libre app now supports bluetooth continuous updates on Libre 2 and 3. That said I do much prefer xdrip4ios.
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by ollysb 3y ago
Anecdotal of course but this isn't my experience at all, I don't know of any current or ex-colleagues that are working in offices at all. I think in southern Europe it's common to have more onsite.
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by ollysb 3y ago
The incentives are to get the code out the door then improve things later, if it's worth it. There's a lot of risk in product development, it iften doesn't make sense to craft the perfect software when there's a chance t
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by ollysb 3y ago
Gardening leave is usually for positions where the employee holds competitive information on active deals etc. During the gardening leave they're under NDA which allows for their competitive information to go stale before starting at a
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by ollysb 3y ago
Doing it with `with` is definitely the community standard. There are attempts like https://github.com/vic/ok_jose to make it more like "do" notation.
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by ollysb 3y ago
Keathley did a good job discussing this in https://keathley.io/blog/good-and-bad-elixir.html#:~:text=Av... . The preferred style is to specify the errors in separate functions e.g. def main do with {:ok, res
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by ollysb 3y ago
It makes sense in principle. I wonder if the incentives work though, usually the people that suffer from the bad prep aren't the same people that are responsible for prepping the meeting. It could perhaps work though if people were fre
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by ollysb 3y ago
If they'd had slick WordPress templates they probably would have used them too.
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by ollysb 3y ago
Everyone has their moments no? In person Richard seemed like a super nice guy and the many lectures he did for Elm really showed a passion for helping improve the day to day experience for developers. He was also super active on the forums
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by ollysb 3y ago
ChatGPT is a great UI to both though
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by ollysb 3y ago
Amsterdam has 3.5 times the number of bikes vs cars. An outlier for sure but evidence at least that it's an alternative people can be happy with.
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by ollysb 3y ago
You'd use a switch over the ADT and extract the values as appropriate. This is method dispatch vs function dispatch. In practice you can do the same things with either, but they reflect the focus on behaviour (OO) vs data (FP).
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by ollysb 3y ago
This is definitely an FP vs OO thing. If you wanted to refer to the value in an ADT you'd introduce a new type to refer to it, which in Elm would be: type Message = IncrementBy Amount | DecrementBy Amount
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by ollysb 3y ago
I'm more than happy with either of those variations. My favourite though would be Elm's syntax ;) type Message = IncrementBy Int | DecrementBy Int | Set Int
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by ollysb 3y ago
That syntax does look a lot nicer and makes sense if you're going to do OO anyway. I do wonder if it's trying to shoe horn OO into functional clothing but seems practical nonetheless. Primary constructors would definitely be a wel
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by ollysb 3y ago
Wow this looks great. One to watch for the future.
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by ollysb 3y ago
I've been working with Elixir and Elm the last few years but recently have been working on a mobile app in Flutter. While the recent changes are a good step in the right direction (being able to express ADTs and records) it does feel l
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by ollysb 3y ago
This my experience on an iphone 12. The UX doesn't really work for me yet but I absolutely love the concept, will keep an eye on it (would sign up for a mailist if you have one).
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by ollysb 3y ago
Elixir doesn't currently have a type system built into the compiler. There is a separate package Dialyzer which does type checking but it would be fair to characterise it as a bolt-on rather than part of the core tooling. Work is now u
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by ollysb 4y ago
You can use opaque types to encode constraints that the type system isn't able to express. That way you can have factory functions that apply any logic that's required before allowing construction of the opaque type. Now whenever
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by ollysb 4y ago
Started exploring machine learning in Python 6 months ago. Despite all the resources for learning Pandas I couldn't ever get to a point where it seemed coherent. It felt like a grab bag of tricks that accomplished various different job
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by ollysb 4y ago
I wonder if they're displacing other sugars with Honey. Speaking as a diabetic I find it very hard to believe that a spoonful of Honey in the morning is going to improve my day :)
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by ollysb 4y ago
https://www.roc-lang.org/ looks very interesting, it's from Richard Feldman who's done a ton to promote Elm over the years and also happens to work at NoRedInk.
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by ollysb 4y ago
You can use XGBoost for both classification and regression. See https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/stable/python/python_api.h...
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by ollysb 4y ago
Darts gives you a lot of options, including newer deep learning approaches like NBEATS and NHiTS. https://unit8co.github.io/darts/

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