pkrumins

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   by pkrumins 6y ago

   Note to myself: Hire this guy.
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   by pkrumins 6y ago

   Wow! I nominate this as the must read article for all SaaS companies.
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   by pkrumins 6y ago

   This is another sad day for us, C++ programmers. Even more features have been added to the language that we didn't ask for and that are nearly impossible to learn and use in practice.
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   by pkrumins 6y ago

   You should never design for the future use case. You don't know what the future will be. You should only design for the current use case you have today and deploy. When the future comes, you return to the code that you wrote and update
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   by pkrumins 7y ago

   Very exciting! Does anyone know a good howto or a tutorial about it?
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   by pkrumins 7y ago

   Which tools would you have to give up?
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   by pkrumins 7y ago

   Urxvt is a great alternative for Linux!
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   by pkrumins 7y ago

   KNUTH vs MCILROY https://comic.browserling.com/knuth-vs-mcilroy.png WHO WILL WIN?!
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   by pkrumins 7y ago

   I once saw and saved this snippet that prints 30 English words: echo {w,t,}h{e{n{,ce{,forth}},re{,in,fore,with{,al}}},ither,at}
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    by pkrumins 7y ago

    I have been using i3 for a long time and here are some advanced features that I'd love it to have. 1) Workspaces of workspaces Let's say I'm working on five projects at the same time. Each project usually has totally differe
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    by pkrumins 7y ago

    Why wouldn't we use it? It's so effective at getting Unix tasks done. I'll be writing more bash than ever in this decade.
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    by pkrumins 7y ago

    I'll be writing shell scripts till 2030 and possibly beyond. Once you learn all these tricks, it's very effective at getting Unix tasks done.
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    by pkrumins 7y ago

    You're hired!
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    by pkrumins 7y ago

    I can't imagine programming in any other programming language than Perl.
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    by pkrumins 8y ago

    Woo! My book is in this new bundle. Go get it!
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    by pkrumins 8y ago

    This space reserved for JELLY STAINS!
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    by pkrumins 8y ago

    This inspired me to create this comic: https://comic.browserling.com/13
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    by pkrumins 8y ago

    My book is in there. So go get it!
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    by pkrumins 8y ago

    I implemented Busy Beaver the other day. Here's the code and nice looking graphs: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/busy-beaver/
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    Here's an idea that I once had about how to visually determine if a program terminates or not: Convert a program to a Game of Life equivalent program. Observe if there are any run-away gliders. If there are, the original program doesn&
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    You should try Twist ( https://twistapp.com/ ). I switched to Twist with my team and haven't looked back at Slack. Twist organizes discussions around tasks. When the task is finished, that conversation is pretty much ove
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    I learned Game Theory from this Open Yale course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6EF60E1027E1A10B 24 excellent lectures by Ben Polak.
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    Question to fellow coders: Can anyone comment how, if at all, these books are different from classics in the field, such as The Practice of Programming, The Elements of Programming Style, The Pragmatic Programmer, or Complete Complete? I ca
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    I don't like people who hedge. I like risk takers.
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    I've noticed that knowing less is more.
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    Because they wasted years of time learning useless garbage that universities teach that is of no use.
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    Come work for me. I only hire people without college degrees. I consider college degrees a red flag.
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    Lesson zero: You don't need an education.
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    I've switched to using TwistApp ( https://www.twistapp.com ) with my team. Unlike Slack where you have channels where everyone talks about everything, TwistApp bases conversations around threads. Every problem that's bei
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    by pkrumins 9y ago

    I got my first 10 customers by going to all the Hackers/Founders and 106 Miles meetups and just demoing Browserling to every single person that I met on my tiny 11" macbook air.