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by parpfish 2y ago
every once in a while i start thinking "it'd be really nice to build a declarative language to do this", but then I realize that: - that just means that I'm bored and would rather be writing out the logic to handle a mor
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by parpfish 2y ago
sure, you can find data and spin up your own db but you still need a tutorial to a) explain what the data/tables are and b) guide you through some things to build. for most programming languages you can make some sort of little widget
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by parpfish 2y ago
i love SQL but it was really hard to get started for two reasons: - it's hard to start tinkering unless you have a database to write queries against. most tutorials never really get past the most rudimentary hello-world-esque stuff b
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by parpfish 2y ago
that sounds great and i wish i could've done something like that in the past. however i'm used to not quitting one job until i have the next one lined up (especially now that the interview process can take months to go from applic
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by parpfish 2y ago
But you can join and then quit. What does an “official” period get you that you don’t already have?
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by parpfish 2y ago
What kind of consequences would a dev have for quitting early? I think you can do that at any job. The consequences are always about your next job and whether you can explain leaving a position quickly
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by parpfish 2y ago
I see two problems with bringing in your code for an interview: - I don’t know how long it took you to do it, and being able to do things in a reasonable amount of time is part of all jobs. Also, I don’t even know if you’re the one who wrot
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by parpfish 2y ago
Really? My new-ish car (2019) just has the pedal connected to the throttle body with a cable. I’d assume that other changes to fuel injection would happen because it sensed more air coming in
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by parpfish 2y ago
In the US it’s context dependent. If you’re running low on diesel you’d say “I need to get some gas” and you’d get it from a gas station But if you’re talking about tractors saying that something has a “gas engine” specifically means it is
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by parpfish 2y ago
Unless it’s diesel, because there the accelerator causes more fuel to squirt in rather than opening the throttle body. But can do you call diesel gas?
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by parpfish 2y ago
I always thought “lifestyle business” meant something else. In this article it means “small business that supports the lifestyle of its owner/employees” I thought it meant that it was a business that provided a non-essential usually-
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by parpfish 2y ago
It’d probably work at small companies where the HR rep is “manually” outsourcing their hiring process to chatgpt by drag and dropping docs into the chat window
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by parpfish 2y ago
Good luck getting everyone in your company/org to successfully install an additional browser plugin
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by parpfish 2y ago
I love meet because of how well it’s integrated with google cal
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by parpfish 2y ago
Do you mean audio feedback, or just one user that complains a lot?
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by parpfish 2y ago
That’s how you, an experienced programmer, use it. What does this do to beginners that are just learning to program? Is this helping them by forcing them to become critical reviewers or harming them by being a bad role model?
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by parpfish 2y ago
From the title, I was expecting this to be about some new strategy invented by private equity vultures. I’m happy to learn that it wasn’t
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by parpfish 2y ago
I knew people in undergrad that could not add or multiply fractions— Something they should have learned at age nine. If somebody had the reading level of a 9yo, we wouldn’t give them a degree. But with math, we just let them through
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by parpfish 2y ago
a long-time peeve of mine is that people who frequently talk about the value of a 'well rounded (liberal arts) education' almost always have an implicit exclusion of math. they think it's great to have some basic knowledge in
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by parpfish 2y ago
how DARE Americans use their own vernacular to communicate when there are other people that commit is different ways!
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by parpfish 2y ago
And in an interesting coincidence: ScarJo recorded a Tom Waits cover album in 2008
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by parpfish 2y ago
I roll my eyes when somebody says that they’re “the idea person” or that they have “the vision”. I’d wager that most senior+ engineers or product people also have equally compelling “the vision”s. The difference is that they need to do actu
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by parpfish 2y ago
I remember Myst being eerie and kind of scary due to the vague story and sense of isolation. It had a nightmare-like quality to it. Riven added a lot more world building and that lore took away the mystery and isolation that gave the origin
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by parpfish 2y ago
you’re right, I got confused between the two. Side note: I played obduction a while back and it looked great, but the PlayStation fans were going nonstop
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by parpfish 2y ago
I believe that the versus for sale on steam now allows for a modern 3d first person mode and a VR mode
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by parpfish 2y ago
Wouldnt various whistleblower protections apply if you were reporting illegal activities?
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by parpfish 2y ago
I could see that connected scatter MAYBE working if it were an animation or interactive plot. Maybe. But on its own, it’s horrid
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by parpfish 2y ago
Agreed. dual scale plots are a great visualization to emphasize correlation between time series. I think of it as depicting an intermediate step in computing a Pearson R when the data have been z-scored but before you’ve collapsed across da
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by parpfish 2y ago
Because starting at zero can cause scaling issues that mask meaningful trends and variation. That can also be abused to mislead, but a simple rule like “always include zero” ain’t the solution to that.
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by parpfish 2y ago
i think their other linked example of "Belvedere" is far more impressive because it's building an 'impossible object' out of lego rather than making a normal object and distorting it with photography after the fact

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