redpenguin101

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by redpenguin101 10mo ago
If your workflow feels comfortable there's really no need to change it in my opinion. The reason I do this is to avoid the frustrating feeling that I'm spending all my time moving around in the text file rather than actually makin
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by redpenguin101 10mo ago
> But for the remaining 2%, it's provably true that mouse is better This is definitely true. The thing is that using the mouse is a habit, and until you break it, people find themselves instinctively using it in situations where it
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Editing Code in Emacs(redpenguin101.github.io)
173 points by redpenguin101 10mo ago|53 comments
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Generating Voronoi diagrams using Fortune's algorithm(redpenguin101.github.io)
204 points by redpenguin101 2y ago|19 comments
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by redpenguin101 3y ago
"Easier to read" is relative. For someone used to lisp syntax, the Python looks quite natural - only the parens are in the wrong place. E: And I guess the lambda and explicit list-cast too. cf. (count (filter #(> % 17) ag
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by redpenguin101 3y ago
It's undeniably true that estimates are often driven mostly by what number will be acceptable. But it doesn't invalidate the points the article makes. Even when this distorting element of business drivers are removed, estimation i
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by redpenguin101 3y ago
This list is missing "entelechy", which is a lovely word to say as well as having an interesting meaning.
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by redpenguin101 4y ago
I think you have that exactly backwards. ONLY successful ideas are being debated more than 20 years after they are proposed. Only successful ideas spawn reaction and counter-reaction, which lead to its evolution - which you say is not happe
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by redpenguin101 4y ago
> My experience with deps.edn is that every time I start a project and make a deps.edn file, I immediately draw a blank and don’t know how to structure it, so I open ones from other projects to start lifting stuff out of them. My new pro
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by redpenguin101 4y ago
I would love to know the answer to this! It sounds like something that would be both possible and very useful. I assume there's a good reason why it can't be done based on how the Clojure / JVM execution model works, but I do
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by redpenguin101 4y ago
> The site should ask for the language used to solve the problem and then use this as semi-scientific data for comparing "time-to-solution" for various languages. I can't believe any valid causal inference about languages
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by redpenguin101 4y ago
Do you have any recommended materials for gaining skill in organizational theory?
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by redpenguin101 5y ago
SICP
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by redpenguin101 5y ago
> business- and team-focused (read: doing what they are told) "Doing what they are told" strikes me as the antithesis of being business and team focused - particularly the former. A non-business focused engineer is mindlessly i