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by pfarrell 4y ago
I wasn’t aware of a Python connection (not saying there isn’t one) but Smalltalk definitely influenced Ruby. I think if it as a more direct descendent with the way objects pervade it and how “everything is an expression.”
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by pfarrell 4y ago
You can now. I looked at your profile. I'm impressed. You got to downvoting capability in 51 days. It took me like 12 years. Of course, I left HN for like 3 years, but still!
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I don’t know the numbers, but I suspect between the PG era and now, the size of this community has increased by at least an order of magnitude. Probably a lot more. For sure things have evolved, but this site and community is still working
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Agreed. IMO, the down-vote should be used for comments that don’t add to the discussion or devolve to personal attacks, not to express disagreement.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Agree. I’ll admit that, like Agile, I use portions of it as I see fit, not a strict adherence. The core thing I’m thinking of is respect for opposing viewpoints, techniques for debating with people who disagree, and coming to decisions.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Motion passes
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I knew exactly what I’d be seeing. That show was outstanding! It gets funnier the older I get.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Seconded. All in favor, signify by not commenting now.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
IMO, American society would benefit from teaching Roberts Rules in high school. Understanding how to have groups come to decisions without forcing consensus a crucial underpinning of society. Side benefit is understanding that when you atta
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Motion to have the parent comment stricken from the record.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I thought the Global Interpreter Lock limited how effective concurrency could ever get in a single Ruby runtime (excepting maybe JRuby). My understanding was that you could ever only get green threads. My info may be dated, I haven’t kept u
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by pfarrell 4y ago
My original comment was from memory of reading a post about how it worked a few years ago. Looking at what you read, I think the gist of what said is right, though it seems they use a different algorithm than FFT. Totally agree though. It i
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by pfarrell 4y ago
That’s puzzling! Thanks to the author’s sourcing, a quick search turned up a scan of the full article [0]. My initial thought was, maybe it’s a name collision and this National Security Agency in 1956 is an insurance or accounting firm, bu
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by pfarrell 4y ago
IIRC, it's uses a Fast Fourier Transform of the time delay between high notes in the song to generate a series of "hashes" that are stored a db. Those ids can be calculated locally on the phone and then its a simple db looku
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by pfarrell 4y ago
There was a thread a few days which has some recent comments on this topic,”How do you break into a career in machine learning? (2020)” [0] 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342925
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Libstdc++ errors notwithstanding, what about heartbleed? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
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by pfarrell 4y ago
This seems off topic per HN guidelines Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they&#x27
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by pfarrell 4y ago
My favorite line I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admi
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by pfarrell 4y ago
This page [0] includes an analysis of the manual for the possible machine Mel programmed in the story along with a probable photograph of him. [1] is an instruction manual for the blackjack program itself, written by Mel. Classic story soli
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I think that's perfectly in line with what they meant. I certainly don't have a story like that.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
When I thought about it. I actually recognized your username from a hilarious no-bs image host post you had a few years back. My experience is generally the same. I read for content. If I’m interested, I might click a profile link to see
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I have a similar personal project. In that case, I default to create date on the file. I am interested if there’s something more clever (that can be automated). I have a set of photos from 2005 from a digital camera that I know have the w
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Keep a personal resume doc going. List out the projects you’ve done, how you contributed, who benefitted, and quantify the benefit if you can. Keeping a running list like this is how you can build confidence and see a bigger picture to your
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Good points. I occasionally use gitk to browse recent commits. A gui definitely has its place. I like using the terminal, so my workflow is to use `git add -p`. That makes me look at each change, in small chunks,as I stage them. As a bonus,
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by pfarrell 4y ago
The irony is, to effectively use an ORM, you need to be able to debug the SQL it generates when it’s not performing correctly (eg operating on a collection, row by row). I like to use ORM for row based, transactional operations in an OLTP.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
No it wasn’t Airbnb’s main line so I don’t consider it a pivot. I always thought it was a good lesson in being scrappy. They needed some cash, had a good random idea and did it as a side project to raise some money. In the end it became a g
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Just the way it should be.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
We’ll maybe you might enjoy listening to Leonard Nimoy reading it: https://youtu.be/8XOtx4sa9k4
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by pfarrell 4y ago
If you haven’t read it before, don’t read the Wikipedia summary; read the actual story. It’s easy to google and pretty short. Isaac Asimov said it was his favorite story he’d written. He imagines the entire history of the future of humanity
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Maybe it's a demographic thing, and I don't think I'm a fuddy-duddy (though, just this morning, I was horrified by the lyrics of Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" while dropping the kids off at school),

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