pjungwir

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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   Wow, this was a pleasure to read. Things sure have changed! In high school I did a ton of hiking in the California mountains in the early 90s, including several week-long Sierra trips ending with Mt. Whitney. I would love to hike the PCT so
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   As an amateur trying to read up on quantum computing, I can say these papers are very accessible. The first is the talk referred to in the article that launched the field, and the latter starts with a great literature review: Feynman, Richa
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   I do mostly web development, so this would be tricky, but I'd love to see a Balsamiq-like Bootstrap theme, so that you can present a "working wireframe" with the same connotations.
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   I use Linux as my desktop but have an Air for traveling. Switching between them is not so bad. :-) Lots of great advice here, but I still remember being surprised that on OS X (and BSDs I think?) a trailing slash in a directory name is sign
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   https://github.com/pjungwir/db_leftovers - Rails without the data loss. ;-) https://github.com/pjungwir/aggs_for_arrays - C functions to compute stats on PostgreSQL arrays.
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   This sounds like great news for low-wage workers, but the article seems to punt on the Why. Since so many people have been under -employed the last 8 years, I wonder if the increased turnover is due to over-qualified employees who were jus
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   I've got a side project webapp I'd like to use to learn some Haskell. What is the most mainstream Rails-like web application framework out there? By Rails-like I mostly mean convention-over-configuration, with a strong ecosystem o
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   I will +1 Moby Dick. Maybe it's just me, but I think it's all you said and also funny . Isn't it? It's a dry kind of humor, like the kind your strange professor would drop into lectures and you'd almost miss it, bu
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   by pjungwir 12y ago

   If you want to learn to "think like a sysadmin", the book Time Management for System Administrators by Limoncelli is short, funny, and excellent---and covers far more than just time management. That will give you some sense of w
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I'm curious (as someone who's only dabbled in Clojure): could you write an Ember app in ClojureScript (or Angular/React/Knockout)? Is it like Coffeescript---i.e. just a compiler? If you wanted to build a SPA in ClojureSc
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Came here to recommend Brothers Karamazov and also add David Copperfield. I've read Dickens was a favorite of Dostoevsky, and David Copperfield has characters you'll remember all your life. It is especially good to read as you&#x2
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I'm reading QCsD right now and loving it. But in high school? That sounds crazy. It'd help a lot to already understand Godel's proof, big-O notation, and P-vs-NP. Also relativity and quantum mechanics. And maybe some group th
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I don't think it's that you're charging extra for normal office hours, but you're charging extra for rapid response and for making house calls. I try harder than most programmer freelancers (IMHO) to simply answer my pho
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I upvoted this comment as soon as I read it, but just to follow up: that link is amazing. I read lecture 9, then 10, 10.5, 11, . . . Eventually I bought the book and am reading it from the beginning. Godel and the Halting Problem has been a
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I like deck.rb for writing the presentation in Markdown then showing it as a webpage. (Hit f11 to hide the browser chrome.) But I'm considering switching to LaTeX and generating a PDF, so the whole presentation lives as a single file.
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Hey, fellow English/Classics student here! :-) In fact my first years learning Greek and Latin were in Boston. Been programming since I was 8, but always favored the humanities for formal schooling. I like to say if you can read Greek
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    > First understand the existing code. I think it is a chronic weakness of even good developers to write too early. First read! My first year programming a project manager remarked, "I've never heard a programmer praise another&
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    My thought also. The cosmic griefer sounds like a pGF problem, not an fGF problem.
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Since you say these coincidences are positive: - serendipities - run-ins - meetings - fortuities - hookups - trysts - rendezvous - dates - picnics - kisses - embraces - touches - bumps - blends . . . inspired by thinking about: lovers, aste
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    This strikes me as a perfect application for quantum computers---but I'm just an amateur, so I'd love to hear an expert opinion. My understanding is this 1982 talk by Feynman [1] more or less launched the study of quantum computer
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Something that really frustrates me is people who are more expert than me but can't justify their pronouncements. I had a high school friend who I'm sure was smarter than me claim, "No one does object oriented programming the
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Re "Nice to have"---acknowledged, but. . . . The junior programmers I know will still be intimidated by that list. And the intermediate/senior programmers will see it and wonder why you're offering so little. So it seems
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I see you've defended the salary range elsewhere in this conversation, but I second the feeling that it's low. My rule of thumb is that if an ad/recruiter says "competitive salary" it probably isn't, and it wor
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Sometimes this is called "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics"---if you want something to Google for. I feel like the order of the world is vaguely miraculous. You might also want to read about Euclidean and Non-Euclidea
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Ha, I just did this. We built a VirtualBox VM with Vagrant and Chef then distributed the .box file. I think it worked pretty well, and we got good feedback about smooth installs, although there are a few small things I'd do differently
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with over 14 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Javascript, and Chef, although I've also done some iOS and Python Machine Learning/S
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    My normal advice is the advantage of one over the other is dwarfed by the advantage of whichever you're skilled in. In your case that's not so helpful. :-) So I think Rails is (moderately) better for web development and Python is
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I agree re data science. If you're doing statistics or machine learning (one huge industry there is finance), Python is unrivaled. I do mostly Rails, and I'm very happy there, but I've thought about learning more Django just
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    I don't really get why it's better than Hipchat, but all my clients have switched to it. At least one switched because Hipchat had a long period of downtime right at the peak of Slack hype. I wonder how many customers that drove a
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    by pjungwir 12y ago

    Ha ha, this reminds me of the days I had sudo access to `vi` but not a lot of other commands, on a box that IT didn't really want to support. . . .