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by phugoid 16y ago
Great. That's sort of what I was hoping for - to see how the same functionality (no pun intended) could be obtained without brewing a whole new language for it.
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by phugoid 16y ago
Yes, that is similar. I hadn't made the connection between this event-based approach and spreadsheets!
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by phugoid 16y ago
If you use the shared memory approach on a distributed system, each node has a copy of the shared memory, and there's infrastructure for keeping all that memory synchronized. At least that's one way of doing it. In the event-based approach
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Ask HN: Do you recognize this approach to programming?
74 points by phugoid 16y ago|35 comments
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by phugoid 16y ago
That's pretty far-fetched. On the subject of downplaying your accomplishments when complimented: "This behavior, and the statements that arise from it, is a performative act of emotional violence against the self-assessment tools and skill
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by phugoid 16y ago
Smoking gives you something to do, and the thinking part happens naturally. It doesn't work as well to stop thinking at your desk and go think somewhere else while doing nothing.
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by phugoid 16y ago
The article makes it look like office smoking is a wild party. It's not. If you're a social person, you'll be a social smoker. But if you're not very social, you'll be smoking alone. I've smoked all over the world, freezing in Montreal's
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by phugoid 16y ago
"Codeless exists out of our desire to accelerate software innovation and thus its positive impact on society." That's horse shit. And it's even worse by implying that you're a team instead of a one-man-show. You can sell this thing as bein
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by phugoid 16y ago
Humor in the workplace is mostly a way to assert dominance.
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by phugoid 16y ago
Hard to smudge a mousepad...
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by phugoid 17y ago
I'm suggesting to start small. Hello World small. It's easier to build on successes than failures.
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by phugoid 17y ago
You'll eventually poison yourself, Frazzydee. There are simple steps you can take to limit bacterial growth. If you have a fridge, you probably have a freezer. Invest 20$ in dollar-store tupperware, and freeze your food in single-servings
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by phugoid 17y ago
Amen. Cooking is an investment. The more you cook, the better you get at it; the faster and tastier the results. And the more you cook, the healthier you will eat overall (at least if you're living in North America). As for hacks, here's
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by phugoid 17y ago
You sound like a sadly stereotypical manager who cares more about making everything look peachy to his superior than about making the workplace tolerable for his subordinates. Your job is to get the best performance from your reports, and t
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by phugoid 17y ago
Put yourself in the shoes of his employer, or of his colleagues who depend on him. Being enthusiastic about new technologies on the side is fine, but no excuse to do a half-assed job.
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by phugoid 17y ago
I can't have sympathy for you. You're admitting to slacking off on the job. People with financial worries don't have that luxury. There are two ways to interpret your Facebook post. Either you wanted to force yourself into this compromis
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by phugoid 17y ago
I find that I procrastinate the most in the early stages of a project. First, it takes time to decide what to do first. There's also the spoon effect. I just made that up. The first steps you take still leave you so far away from your goa
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by phugoid 17y ago
Think of... - a few real people you like, and would like to know better - the most convincing people you know - the best leader you ever followed How do those people fare alongside Carnegie's recipes for success? In my case, I'd say "not t
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by phugoid 17y ago
If you're not sure, then go to school. One big problem with learning on your own is that you'll usually avoid doing the hard boring stuff that seems pointless. For a lot of people, that includes math. But doing that stuff gives you the st
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by phugoid 17y ago
Sorry to correct you on that, but the iron ring doesn't make you an engineer in Canada. At least not in Quebec, where I'm from. They make that quite clear during the ceremony. The iron ring has moral implications, while the title of engin
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by phugoid 17y ago
Hey, I suck at it too. And it's hard to make yourself spend a lot of time and effort on something that you're not really good at, when there are other things you really excel at. So my theory is that I suck because I suck.
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by phugoid 17y ago
The UAE, at least until recently.
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by phugoid 17y ago
Anyone who would fire you for this is not worth working for.
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Advertising Ethics: McDonald's(mcdonaldsarabia.com)
4 points by phugoid 17y ago|0 comments
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by phugoid 17y ago
Wow. I've often wished programming blogs were more polite, but God how it makes them boring. "Some people like to wake up really early and use ternary operators. But some people much prefer to sleep in..." versus "Get up at 5:00, drink yo
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by phugoid 17y ago
Something I read in Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell shocked me into reconsidering my role as a father. I'm not a big fan of that book in general, but I found a pearl in there. I used to think that I needed to set and enforce hard rules, as if
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by phugoid 17y ago
I wrote my own at work, and it turned into a bigger project that integrated a lot of department workflow (parts, maintenance scheduling, metrics, etc.). If I had known then what I know now, I would not have gotten involved.
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by phugoid 17y ago
I just don't have the stomach for anyone calling themself a free electron. Self-praise is no praise. I wouldn't dare call myself a great husband, a great father, a great thinker, or a great engineer. I have my moments.
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by phugoid 17y ago
Smacks of poor engineering to me; switching to another platform instead of finding the cause of the problem. "I was hitting some issues with either the scheduler or the memory subsystem, as my code didn’t have any I/O in it."
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by phugoid 17y ago
Do you have similar beliefs about caffeine and aspirin? If someone with an interesting product (drugs, nuclear weapons) wants to join HN and spark conversation, that's OK by me.

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