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by philbo 4y ago
Karma police, Arrest this man, He talks in maths, He buzzes like a fridge, He's like a detuned radio.
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by philbo 4y ago
Found this page to be a nice intro to the syntax and semantics: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/LanguageG... This part hits a real sweet spot for me: > Carp borrows its looks f
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How to Evaluate Dependencies(philbooth.me)
1 points by philbo 4y ago|0 comments
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How to Debug(philbooth.me)
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Building Products with AI(readle.com)
12 points by philbo 4y ago|1 comments
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by philbo 4y ago
OP is Graydon Hoare, he created Rust and is more recently a core contributor to Swift.
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by philbo 4y ago
I think there's times when using a max makes sense and times when using a percentile makes sense. For measurements that are entirely within my own infrastructure, I'll always use the max. Outliers there are my responsibility and I
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by philbo 4y ago
I'm sure Strachey was a decent bloke in person but this bit gave me some unpleasant flashbacks to certain former colleagues: > Almost immediately, they had some difficulty prioritizing, as David Barron noted of Strachey, “It was cha
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by philbo 4y ago
They should have named it dumas instead of davinci.
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by philbo 4y ago
I vaguely recollect watching a documentary years ago, which had a blind kid who'd taught himself echolocation using clicking noises that he made with his mouth. I remember that some grownups were trying to discourage him from relying o
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Conway's Law(martinfowler.com)
3 points by philbo 4y ago|1 comments
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Some useful, non-obvious Postgres patterns(philbooth.me)
3 points by philbo 4y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 4y ago
Good for you! What does that have to do with personal taste though? Those things you list all sound like objective measures. All I'm saying is that wine quality is an objective measure too.
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by philbo 4y ago
I used to hold the same opinion, until I studied and sat my WSET levels 2 and 3. Now I disagree. There are concrete and objective quality indicators in wine, which independent observers will reach the same conclusion about (without communic
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Live Feed from NASA’s Dart Spacecraft on Approach to Asteroid Dimorphos(youtube.com)
5 points by philbo 4y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 4y ago
Children learn by imitation, but they also learn by going to school and receiving directed lessons about specific topics. To me, machine learning seems like the imitation part without the going-to-school part.
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by philbo 4y ago
Does anyone here use Copilot with less mainstream languages? Curious to hear what your experiences are like...
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Birmingham telescope discovers two new temperate rocky worlds(phys.org)
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by philbo 4y ago
How to be independent as a developer: 1. Write a book 2. Promote it to chumps on the internet
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by philbo 4y ago
Beer!
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by philbo 4y ago
My tip on writing is to stop thinking about what you want to say and think instead about what you want your audience to perceive. That may sound obvious or meaningless, but there's a subtle difference and it helped my writing become mo
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Qubit teleportation between non-neighbouring nodes in a quantum network(nature.com)
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Qatalog launches Tasks to simplify project management(qatalog.com)
8 points by philbo 5y ago|1 comments
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by philbo 5y ago
If we're bikeshedding the book title, surely "Bright Ideas" warrants a mention.
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by philbo 5y ago
For documentation, an approach that works for me is to think of all the questions someone might reasonably have about the software, and start with those as section headings: * What is this? * How do I install it? * How do I use it? * Is the
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A GCP-secrets integrated config loader for Node.js(qatalog.com)
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Is Dune fascist? No, but the Harkonnens and the Proud Boys have a lot in common(medium.com)
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Things my dog taught me about software development(philbooth.me)
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The Per-Tau Shell: Star-Forming Spherical Shell Revealed by 3D Dust Observations(iopscience.iop.org)
2 points by philbo 5y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 5y ago
> Developers are responsible for learning what kind of environment their application runs in, but ops is not responsible for having some clue about what they’re running? I don't think it's as cut-and-dried as your question fram

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