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by pfarrell 7y ago
Oaklander here. I watched my normal AC Transit commuter bus go by around five yesterday while I took a walk. It was empty, but I assume it’s for the same purpose, transport for essential workers.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
Haven’t read it but remembered this paper being mentioned in Guy Steele’s fabulous “Growing a language” talk [0]. I don’t want to give anything away about the talk (which is one of my absolute favorites), but Steele says about the title of
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by pfarrell 7y ago
VB was a great and successful language. It empowered a lot of departments to create bespoke programs that, while not having been built on solid comp sci principles, were good enough and solved real business problems without having to invol
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by pfarrell 7y ago
The nethack faq [0] agrees with you, with the exact reasoning you describe. 0: https://www.nethack.org/common/info.html#not
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by pfarrell 7y ago
If you’ve seen it. On the episode with Jerry Lewis. He asks for “a large order of very, very, very stiff bacon”. I’ve wondered about that synchronicity.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
I read the list as inspiration for opening new conversation when you run out of things to talk about, not as a script to be read verbatim. If you’re a manager, a danger is that you end up with blind spots from only talking about the positiv
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by pfarrell 7y ago
In my experience, the importance of the 1:1 is correlated with the size of the organization. At a 1000+ person company with teammates spread across 10 time zones, the meeting is a must because I have no physical cues. This only works, now,
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by pfarrell 7y ago
A single line of communication is a constraint of the problem. And anyway, how does general 2 confirm the answer flare was seen?
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by pfarrell 7y ago
You are /technically/ correct... the best kind of correct. A more accurate version of that sentence would be, "With distributed VCS, a copy of the entire code base, including the history of changes, resides on each developer
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by pfarrell 7y ago
MentalFloss is recreational reading, not a peer-reviewed journal. This particular article didn’t seem to go anywhere. Usually I find articles from the dead tree version of the publication have a bit higher quality a bit more content that c
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by pfarrell 7y ago
Gotcha. I've asked myself those questions to probe my feelings. I think things are going to get pretty ugly as the US starts to grapple with this again.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
Is there anything that shouldn’t be treated like a market? Street lights? Police and Fire protection? Water access?
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by pfarrell 7y ago
> So, let's cave in to peer pressure or management dictates and continue down the wrong path (technically/socially)? That's not alignment. For alignment to happen, everybody should be on the same page. And any party can
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by pfarrell 7y ago
I too read his bio and thought the same thing. As I read it, it reminded me of “The Music Scholar” routine by Scharpling and Wurster [0], where a radio caller personally witnessed like the entire history of ‘70’s rock. Engelbart, Xerox Par
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by pfarrell 7y ago
IMO, the sooner you learn this, the better you can try to understand other people’s journies and the better yours becomes. That whole being rich versus being wealthy thing. Also, after more than a year, I just lost the game.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
I had never heard this of this guy before, but looks like I’ll be digging into his catalog. Some really incredible stuff. I read Townes Van Zandt (a great songwriter, himself) considered Mr. Olney among the greatest music writers who’ve ev
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by pfarrell 7y ago
What happens when what is considered legal gets changed in the future?
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by pfarrell 7y ago
My sarcasm detector just exploded. It’s all a continuum. A great test for mid career programmers is solving a problem from a blank text file. Especially true for more languages with great IDEs like Java or C#
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by pfarrell 7y ago
> It was written mainly for those who are in sales and need to learn how to persuade One of my big revelations was ‘we are /all/ in sales’.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
An admirable goal. Depending on your current consumption, you could be setting yourself up for failure. A more balanced resolution could be at least 1 hour dedicated to ML or side projects per day, no excuses. I did that for six months to l
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by pfarrell 7y ago
The timestamps are gold.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
When managing software engineers, 2-5pm local time is often a time of high productivity. I try never to book meetings or interrupt them during that time.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
You should edit your question to include this person’s Github name.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
When in the interviewer role, I’ve found it essential to know what the candidate is interviewing for. Intern, junior, mid, and principal level interviews should be totally different. But, no matter the interview, I try to hold off making
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by pfarrell 7y ago
Pretty light article. Posteezy: you should write an article about the mechanics of loginless.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
I’d love to check it out, but giving out personal information to access is a non-starter.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
Morning exercise was a game changer for me, too.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
As much as I can, trying to make each of the following goals and being honest with myself that I will fail occasionally, but won’t have to give up everything if I do. Walking over lunch hour and then eating at my desk. Tracking steps and s
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by pfarrell 7y ago
This video “8 Facts About the Circle of Fifths You May Not Already Know” has a click-baity title and the most clear, simple, understandable description of why the Circle is like the periodic table of music. Highly recommend watching it. Ev
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by pfarrell 7y ago
Rick Beato, a YouTuber and former Atlanta music producer and teacher, has a lot of deep content as well as a really great “Beato book”. I’ve known many concepts, but listening to him really brought a lot together.

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