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by qznc 6y ago
Tolkien rejected the idea to compare Sauron and Hitler. He rejected that LOTR was his way to handle his war trauma. His biggest argument is that most ideas existed before WW2.
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by qznc 6y ago
Are there any celebrity programmers streaming? Would be interesting to watch Jeff Dean, Fabrice Bellard, or Donald Knuth code.
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by qznc 6y ago
Some feeds are just paginated. Following "next" links would work. Feeds readers don't do this though as they assume people are usually interested in the new posts.
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by qznc 6y ago
Off topic but since we are talking about RSS feeds: Is there a web service to replay feeds? Use case are old blog archive one wants to (re-) read sequentially from the start but not in binge mode. So maybe one post per day or week. I'm
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by qznc 6y ago
The “concentrate on one subject” part is interesting. I reminds me of "get good enough in one skill to see the meta game" [0]: > There seems to be something in getting good at a skill tree that helps in latter life. I’d like to
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by qznc 6y ago
I gave away my Diplomacy box after playing it once. It is so much easier to get a round started online. On the other hand, a wall of board games is for signaling as well and thus your lament is valid.
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For me there is still a big question how much process and people matter for the quality. This article suggests process should be the primary focus. Books like Peopleware suggest that people matter most.
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There is also no commute in his calendar. Thursday and Friday morning is free?
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by qznc 6y ago
I would love to have a prediction market for the plans at work. I fear management would mostly not appreciate such honest assessments though and nobody is prepared to think in probabilities.
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by qznc 6y ago
Story points work differently. This is the best article I know to describe how they work: https://writemoretests.com/2012/02/estimating-like-an-adult-...
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> you can just start by writing down start and end dates of each chunk of work in your process End date is usually easy: "when someone closes the ticket" but maybe "when it was released" is better? I have trouble dete
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Could you expand on "I completely see where they're coming from"? I kind of learned this over time. So when someone shows off something lame, I just keep quiet. Sometimes I try to find something praiseworthy. Personally, I do
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by qznc 6y ago
I just realized that Klein and Kahneman conditions are a good argument for apprenticeships in programming. One condition is that the you get quick feedback about your decisions. For example, if a surgeon makes a mistake then blood splatters
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You can often guess who the reviewers are as well. The most obvious tell is "also cite paper X" which is their own 99% of the time.
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Touch works for me due to :active.
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Working in a corporate setting. I think my management tries to actively counter that with arbitrary deadlines. That strategy does not work well either.
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by qznc 6y ago
> 50. The Map Is Not the Territory: Reality will never match the elegance of theory. All models have inconsistencies, but some are still useful. Some maps are useful because they’re inaccurate. If you want to find an edge, look for what
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by qznc 6y ago
You can just go into some embedded domain. I work in automotive and in the current project, we have a budget of ~2MB RAM. Also, you still worry about small amounts at Google scale: > “It’s pretty slow,” Jeff said. He leaned forward, stil
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by qznc 6y ago
Zettelkasten in its physical version is just a certain way of pen and paper note-taking.
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I'd describe it as a certain style of private wiki. It comes with certain conventions how a wiki page should be. The article describes it as atomic, self-contained, permanent, and concise.
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by qznc 6y ago
I don't see the "unified API across vendors" there. At least not for the actual cloud part. Unified is only the part interacting with the market place. Devils advocate: So you get this EU-verified catalogue which lets you pic
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by qznc 6y ago
What they build though is a service catalogue with some metering tooling on top. What is the magic second step which spawns this "high-performance, competitive, secure and trustworthy data infrastructure"?
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by qznc 6y ago
Why a mini language instead of a library? Python has Numpy to satisfy most array programming needs, for example.
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Yes, "boring" as unpleasant associations and this is why it works much better as a title. Consider these two titles: * Choose boring technology * Choose well-known technology More people will click on the first one because it come
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Wikipedia says it was Conrad Gessner in the 16th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
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I recently stumbled upon [0] this quote from Walter Benjamin: > Und heute schon ist das Buch, wie die aktuelle wissenschaftliche Produktionsweise lehrt, eine veraltete Vermittlung zwischen zwei verschiedenen Kartotheksystemen. Denn alles
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Side tracking: What is complex about implementing generics? It is either monomorphization or type erasure. It is not complex in the sense of "stuff entwined with other stuff".
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I mostly agree. Recently I started with the Zettelkasten approach (120 notes now), so not much experience yet. I did not use something like this for my phd thesis. Thinking back, I don't think it would have helped significantly because
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I think you are technically correct that we often use the wrong word, art instead of technique. However it is common use of "art" to mean "high level of technique" for example in martial arts. Likewise many people curren
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Programming can be everything. I agree that most programming is craftsmanship. Code like the Obfuscated C Contest is art. The code that orchestrates your cloud servers is more like engineering. Prototypes in language research is science.

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