rabidrat

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by rabidrat 10y ago
It's all kinds of things. I recently read a suggestion that you should be able to remove everything from a function's source except the declaration and the comments, and still know exactly what it does. I'm thinking about a
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TidBITS: The Death of Documentation (1998)(tidbits.com)
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I love backquote for the escape char. It's better than ctrl-anything because it's one less keypress and the location is one of the easiest to hit blindly from a UX perspective (even ESC is more of a reach).
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Can Ken just put up that content as his own webpage, which Wikipedia can then reference as a primary source?
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Yes, the company I'm at now has the 'unlimited time off' policy. Which has been shown to reduce the amount of time off people actually take, and means they don't have to pay out vacation when you leave. And that's
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I've been asking for 80% time for 10 years, and my current company is the only one who has ever approved it. Companies say that only the work matters, and they want to be flexible, and yadda yadda, but corporate culture expects you to
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Firmware Engineer on a wearable product. C, Python2, ARM, FreeRTOS. Side project: a "long serverless" crossword analysis website. Python3, AWS.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
In an assembly context, cmp means 'set the flags as though you subtracted but don't do the subtraction'. This particular misdesign is from before C.
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by rabidrat 10y ago
Yes, be wary of hiring geniuses if you have poor management. Why do we expect that someone who is fantastic at twiddling bits, to also be good at documentation? It's like saying to a Program Manager "great, you specified how it h
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by rabidrat 10y ago
I'm not looking for a co-founder, but could really use someone like you as a project partner. And I have a pretty interesting project right now.
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by rabidrat 11y ago
Many of the advantages of smoking can be chalked up to breath control. Sometime, try standing up, walking around your desk, and pretending like you're smoking. Inhale just as you would a cigarette, but just plain air. It works remar
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by rabidrat 11y ago
Neither satisfaction lasts forever. But some last longer.
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by rabidrat 11y ago
This is actually pretty brilliant.
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by rabidrat 11y ago
Relaxing that 'iron law' would be a significant blow against capitalism itself. That's what Occupy* wants, and not what VCs want. But VCs write the rules and there's no real pressure to write them differently.
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by rabidrat 11y ago
And building an AI that can play better than itself :)