pjungwir

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   by pjungwir 11y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with 15 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliable, easy to wo
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   by pjungwir 11y ago

   If you are replacing a bunch of employees, then a house painting company or roofing company might pay $30k. For that price I think it's going to be sold to a company that earns money with it. Another thing I left off my initial list: s
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   by pjungwir 11y ago

   Some humble things I can imagine a robot doing: - Mow my lawn - Stain my deck - Paint my walls - Roof my house - Spread moss killer on my roof - Clean my gutters - Spray Raid into hornet nests - Hunt down and destroy dandelions Maybe some o
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   by pjungwir 11y ago

   I only have a little German, but I was so glad to read an article that mirrored my feelings learning the language, which no one around seemed to share. Not just that they smash words together, but that they do it with such humor and whimsy.
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   by pjungwir 11y ago

   If you want a couple old-school examples of this for inspiration, take a look at Adventure Construction Set and the scripting language from ZZT. As a kid I made all kind of stories with both of those.
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   by pjungwir 11y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with 15 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliable, easy to wo
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   A mystery with memory leaks and a magic number(rachelbythebay.com)

   6 points by pjungwir 11y ago|0 comments
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   by pjungwir 11y ago

   I would not read it if you called it a "productivity book". But maybe I misunderstand. Books with "tips, tricks, and techniques for more productive development" could include The Pragmatic Programmer, SICP, Hackers Delig
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   by pjungwir 11y ago

   It's not even that tough. Just guess "piano" and you'll be right 40% of the time. If you get a second guess try "violin".
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    I loathe security questions too, but those aren't even that bad! My credit union's default security question is "What was your first musical instrument?" I wonder how many guesses you get?? I always answer these question
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    I remember this blog post about how optimizing method calls becomes much harder with refinements (from MRI Ruby 2.1): http://blog.headius.com/2012/11/refining-ruby.html It looks like JRuby has refinements now but
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    Interesting discussion here about whether candidates and companies should reveal their range up front. Personally I would not quit freelancing except for something really exceptional, so I lean toward talking numbers immediately. That saves
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    Thanks for the reassurance! Sorry if I sound critical. There will always be a tradeoff between speed and purity---Java vs C# is a actually a pretty interesting case study---and for a language that is as experimental as Rust, I think taking
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    I've been experimenting with Rust for a few weeks, and I really like it, but I hope they improve how you write functions that return iterators. I can't find all the discussion now, but here is some of it: http://stackov
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with 15 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliable, easy to wo
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    It depends. I recall one project with flaky tests, and shortly after joining I decided to investigate. It turned out to be a problem with floating-point values in the shopping cart logic. Tests were using random item prices, so sometimes it
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    If you want a game where the secret is different each time, you should try Eleusis: http://matuszek.org/eleusis1.html http://matuszek.org/eleusis2.html If you try it, this tip is really important: "Rem
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    I agree with T-shaped, but I will add: don't just expand the "breadth" part by learning new languages. Sure, learn a language or two a year, and experience a variety of paradigms. But more importantly, broaden yourself with s
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    I'm 38 but only noticed a few years ago that calendars say "Winter begins". I feel like as a kid it was "Winter solstice." I always assumed the solstice was the midpoint of winter, not the beginning. Doesn't
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    I like to think one of my better skills as a developer is asking a lot of dumb questions, and one rule in particular is to always ask what new acronyms stand for. Sounds like it wouldn't help me much in government. . . . :-)
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    One way this might affect ordinary people is the choice between investing or paying down a mortgage. The day you get the mortgage, it probably feels like a good risk-adjusted return to pay it down. "Risk-free 5% return!"[0] But if
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    Rising interest rates also mean that house prices should drop (or deaccelerate), right? If you figure a buyer has a fixed budget, the more they are paying in interest the less they can pay in principal. Not saying 0.25% will have much effec
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    The #1 thing I look for in a job ad is a salary range. I don't see one in the ad he links to, and I don't see any discussion of salary in the article. Without that I won't bother to apply.
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    I've worked with jsmn, and it was really a pleasure. I loved that you had one big memory allocation up front (which could even be on the stack) and then no more. In my case I was filling in a data structure where I was comfortable capp
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    If it's possible to abuse it then it's not really unlimited. Why not just decide what is appropriate and put it in the contract, so everyone agrees how much vacation they can take? Also there's no reason everyone has to recei
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    I agree you and your manager should talk and agree on what number of days is reasonable. That's why you should have a number and not "unlimited".
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    Back in the 90s Fetch FTP was a charming and ergonomic FTP client for the Mac. (And it still exists.) It's fascinating how back then there were so many software products I felt affection toward. BBEdit Lite too, Aldus PageMaker, File
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    This is why the states are sometimes called "laboratories of democracy."
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    How many significant figures does it need to have, do you think? And that makes me wonder, how does this simulation deal with irrational numbers and real numbers? How does it represent pi and radical 2? The Greeks were afraid of these numbe
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    by pjungwir 11y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with 15 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Ember, although I've also done some iOS/Android and Python Machine Learning&#x2