owyn

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by owyn 4y ago
This is great! I don't know if I'll have a project that I expect to last long enough to worry about bus factor, most of the work I do is either throw away stuff for myself or already part of a large shared team effort. But I love
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by owyn 4y ago
Pair programming is designed to level up someone while bring down the other Wow, that is not what pair programming is "designed to do" at all. I never felt like pair programming brought me down. One of the best ways to learn som
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by owyn 4y ago
The other cult classic that I would put in a double feature with this one is Six String Samurai. Another weird movie that absorbs and reflects a lot of genres and tropes (post apocalypse, martial arts, Vegas, Elvis) and that indie DIY aesth
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by owyn 4y ago
The surreal and dreamlike plot summary reminds me of this strange black and white indie sci fi movie / musical from 2001 (or 2005?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Astronaut A throwback to vintage seria
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by owyn 4y ago
In this context, "Subject Matter Expert" (it's explained in the article) and "Benevolent Dictator For Life" (humorous title applied to the leaders of Linux, Perl, Python, etc)
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by owyn 4y ago
Check out https://ferret-lang.org ? Mostly Clojure syntax (files are .clj) but reduces to C++. Seems to be mostly for embedded/microcontroller applications, Arduino, raspberry etc. Doesn't depend on the stdlib and can r
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by owyn 4y ago
There's a good series of blog posts about this. [1] In particular I took away the idea that a bigger army needed more wagons (and donkeys, horses, cooks etc) and was NOT necessarily always more effective. There is a natural limit to th
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by owyn 4y ago
And are those features going to be developed in the best possible way? If I had ideas for how to revamp a service I would talk to the people who knew how it worked and come up with a plan to develop those features and make a big deal about
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by owyn 4y ago
Elixir compiles to bytecode for the Erlang VM (BEAM). I would put it in the same relationship category as Clojure and Java or Kotlin and Java. Different language but there's a lot of synergy in the libraries/ecosystem/etc. If
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by owyn 4y ago
Just wanted to say thanks again for the detailed and thoughtful response! It was just a thought experiment but thanks for making me think it through a little more. I was originally thinking "hey, some corporations already buy carbon cr
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by owyn 4y ago
At some point I need to do the math and get an economics degree and use this idea to start a think tank. The standard federal tax deduction is $12.5k and average US income is about $30k and US GDP is around $20 trillion and GDP per capita i
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by owyn 4y ago
I have this half baked idea that taxation could be "inverted" in a way that would let people actually enjoy the game of taxation in a very capitalist way. Here's the scenario: Individuals shouldn't pay tax on regular inc
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by owyn 4y ago
Pistol shrimp do though! Original article [0] and HN discussion from yesterday [1]. [0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/pistol-shrimp-sport-... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by owyn 4y ago
The 2015 MB Pro may go down in history as the best laptop of all time. I still have mine, just got an official apple store battery refurb because it was swelling, but now it's as good as new! Was working at a startup for 5 years and us
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by owyn 4y ago
Cool, I will definitely check that out! Finally time to make sure everything is triple-backed up and wipe it completely and do some experiments. I've actually still been using it as a print and media server but it does burn a lot of wa
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by owyn 4y ago
Ha yes, 2008 Mac Pro here. Would be perfectly usable if it wasn't deprecated.
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by owyn 4y ago
I still have a 2008 Mac Pro (tower). At the time it was possible to order the bottom of the line system and add your own memory, video and drives, just like a "normal" PC. I think it cost about $3000 new which was still the most I
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by owyn 4y ago
Definitely. Some bands work almost entirely with rhythm. For example what Meshuggah (the Swedish metal band) has been doing for the last 30 years. :) This is a video of a breakdown of two riffs from one song from their new album. https:&#x
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by owyn 4y ago
I really don't see the advantage of C++. To me it feels verbose and the code is difficult to read, especially templates! What is the point of all that syntax? Is there some actual advantage or purpose to it? :) (Types, yes I know...)
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by owyn 4y ago
It's Sunday, my dad was a COBOL programmer, sure I'll spend 15 minutes checking it out. The main site link on GitHub is a 404 though [0]. The "getting started" link in the README points to a release notes page and do you
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by owyn 4y ago
Interesting this is almost the opposite for me... I do have a two phase work day but I usually respond to emails, notifications, and code reviews in the morning. I mean, I have a cup of coffee and they're just there and it feels produc
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by owyn 4y ago
I wish I could downvote this a million times. Do you literally have to do that at work and do you actually talk this kind of wine tasting algorithm bullshit in interviews? This has nothing to do with software engineering as far as building
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by owyn 4y ago
Okay, I guess I have been in a position to interview senior software engineers who can "design new systems" all day on a whiteboard with artificial "interview" constraints but who could never actually solve this problem.
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by owyn 4y ago
Why do you think that's a bad question for a senior engineer? I think it's great. This is much closer to the actual work that software engineers have to do! That's what I do most of the time when I'm working with code, i
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by owyn 4y ago
They might "get mad" but so what? Do you think (insert your favorite famously cut-throat and successful entrepreneur) cares about that? I certainly wouldn't offer them MORE of a stake in the business out of some sense of guil
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by owyn 5y ago
This is unrelated to the parent topic directly, but I just read that article in 6 minutes. I saw this comment before I actually read the article, so I was reading at a normal speed rather than just skimming, to retain enough that I feel lik
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by owyn 5y ago
It really doesn't sound like Office Space at all. Maybe more like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind crossed with Vanilla Sky and the classic sci-fi novel Dayworld (That future world of 7 people each living one day with the rest in
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by owyn 5y ago
Oh, there's a good sci fi book which tackles that idea. It's not the only idea in the book, but it's a major theme. It's right there in the title. Neal Stephenson "The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrate
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by owyn 5y ago
As a hiring person I've interviewed great engineers with cool side projects who just weren't a good fit for the particular role I was hiring for. But also famously "I created homebrew" didn't get him a job at google
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by owyn 5y ago
B&H photo has something like this too. When you want to buy something, they bring it up from the warehouse. [1] https://www.core77.com/posts/81735/BnHs-Innovative-Overhead-...

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