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by pdinny 4y ago
The challenge with publishing the algorithm in the hopes of increased transparency and a broader understanding is that it is still impenetrably complicated to the average user. Even with an open source algorithm the results on the feed for
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by pdinny 5y ago
In general I agree. I've found pair programming to be immensely beneficial and productive for some cases. I wouldn't go so far as to say recurring sessions are always bad, but I do think that not all tasks benefit from having a pa
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by pdinny 5y ago
The post title may be a bit misleading here in the sense that the linked article isn't claiming that only the X-700 had aperture priority. While I can't comment on specifics of the availability of aperture priority in 1980s SLRs,
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by pdinny 5y ago
I see many commenters suggesting that the distinction is a subtle one of ability and scope. This is interesting to observe and definitely not what I had anticipated in the responses. In my experience the titles are interchangeable in practi
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by pdinny 5y ago
In South Africa we've seen _some_ disruption too, but the immediate effects have been limited from a consumer perspective. What I find most impressive is how resilient the overall system is in spite of the many disruptions. I recently
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by pdinny 5y ago
The author isn't arguing against the existence of "good" code or "clean" code but rather advocating for us to try to articulate what is good (or bad) about code because "clean" is vague and encompasses too
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by pdinny 5y ago
Timeline looks really great! I'm a fan of this approach to users owning their data: it enables things that are interesting and valuable for the user, rather than making it something that necessarily requires an audience. I hadn't
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by pdinny 5y ago
A related question for note-takers: what would you estimate as your rate of reference to prior notes? For my own part that rate is so dismally low that right now I get more value out of making notes than retrieving and reading notes. I&#x27
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by pdinny 5y ago
I was also disappointed by this overly simplistic and cheerful view. Async communication, like most things, isn't equally well-suited to all scenarios (never mind people). I worked in a primarily async environment and while I, as an in
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by pdinny 5y ago
This present a false dichotomy of extremes: shitty code and hopelessly overly complicated intended to address all manner of eventualities that never materialize. Both extremes are awful choices IMO. If the code you are writing is truly unli
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by pdinny 5y ago
I feel clickbaited here. I was fully expecting some weird 'Waiting for Godot'/Beckettverse itch.io game. That said, maybe I'll join the jam!
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by pdinny 5y ago
> The employees are incentivized to do so and this is what they measure, so this is what they build I also work in data teams and this is directly my observation too. Closely related are Conway's Law (you ship your org chart) and Go
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by pdinny 5y ago
100% agree. The argument presented in many other threads seems to reason that the easy tax filing systems do not allow for custom deductions or are easy because the tax system is simplistic. I think that in the South African case the tax sy
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by pdinny 6y ago
While it isn't quite the Federated Wiki that the author describes, I've been enjoying using are.na to curate my readings and areas of interest. When I post a link to a channel (as they call it), such as this article, it shows me o
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by pdinny 6y ago
A movie recommender (item-item) that recommends movies similar to a proposed movie. The similarity is based on tags, specifically the tag genome created by GroupLens. This is mostly because I have a personal need for this and I would like a