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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
This is why I find prototype-based object systems so much more natural. Inevitably any dynamic object system ends up having to represent classes as objects, but that retroactively opens up a lot of mind-bending complexity. Prototypes on the
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
There might also be a relationship between those quotes about great software engineers being lazy and ADHD often looking like laziness from the outside...
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
While using military terminology in non-military organizations is cringy, there's a good reason that military allusions come up frequently in business writing. Armies were the first large scale organizations in history and suffer from
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
Yep, had a similar annoyance using my AirPods with my gaming laptop. The laptop wouldn't reconnect after going to sleep for an extended period of time. I ended up replacing the stock wireless card for an Intel AX210 based one and then
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
So turns out it was a dirty fibre connection leading to really bad buffer bloat!
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
Agreed. As I mentioned there’s the additional side of having kids soon enough such that my mother is young enough to enjoy them as well.
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
Great analogies, thank you! The first one in particular seems like a particularly apt one.
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
The benefit of being male is that I thankfully can defer this choice indefinitely, but man, what a trade off (especially as I’d like to have kids for my mom’s sake, and she’s not getting any younger).
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
I’d agree with others that solitude isn’t natural, but if you care about your work it’s kind of necessary. I find myself wishing I hadn’t moved in with my partner for this reason. But it’s hard to disengage from that choice once it’s been m
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
In general I agree, but if your partner isn’t used to that type of work they don’t really get it. Nor do they understand how a simple question can ruin an entire train of thought. edit: In explaining this to my girlfriend, I showed her this
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
I find this to be the absolute hardest part of living with someone. You’re at the mercy of their ability to interrupt you and I find it incredibly demoralizing.
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Ask HN: Investigating EM Noise
4 points by rmckayfleming 4y ago|6 comments
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
PAIP is easily one of my favourite programming books. It’s chapter after chapter of excellently presented programming. Each chapter takes you through a problem, a solution (typically multiple iterations and extensions) with detailed explana
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
I've been interested in PEGs recently. Do you happen to know of any literature on what's bad about them?
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
Common Lisp the Language: 2nd Edition by Guy Steele. It's a bit hard to come by as a physical copy (I ordered mine from Abe Books), but it's a fantastic example of technical writing in many facets. I pretty much read it cover to c
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
I've found rainbow block-level highlighting to be even better: https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el
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by rmckayfleming 5y ago
Would you happen to remember which book that was?
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by rmckayfleming 5y ago
Older ones I guess. According to Stats Canada over 6/10 families own their home.
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by rmckayfleming 5y ago
>...about something that isn't socially acceptable for no obvious reason... What was the thing?
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by rmckayfleming 5y ago
Have you used it extensively by chance? I was recently exploring Pharo with "Pharo by Example", but found it really hard to approach because the UI seems to change every major version (with things like the System Browser changing
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by rmckayfleming 5y ago
Yep, if anything they’re just a way to make long drives or stop and go highway traffic more tolerable. When I got my first car with those features it seemed like a gimmick, but they really help to reduce fatigue.
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by rmckayfleming 7y ago
That's where the difference between participating and non-participating preferences come in. Participating meaning that they also participate in the remaining surplus (so on your example $28M). Non-participating means they choose which
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by rmckayfleming 7y ago
Take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb
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by rmckayfleming 8y ago
THE FAANG of its era.
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by rmckayfleming 8y ago
The market value of a company is (in theory) the sum of the lifetime value of all of the customers. No idea what Atlassian's ACV is but $160K is $30K/year over five years (not a crazy estimate for the lifetime of line of business
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by rmckayfleming 9y ago
My dad up until recently worked at the public library in Waterloo. There were a number of homeless people well known to the staff that came in regularly. Mostly to get out of the heat or the cold, but they'd use the computers for thing
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by rmckayfleming 9y ago
Great Britain is the island. So an analogy would be North America and United States of America. Roughly of course.
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by rmckayfleming 10y ago
And Bombardier.
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by rmckayfleming 11y ago
I seem to recall that different areas in Japan walk on different sides of the sidewalk. So it's not a national thing but a regional thing irrespective of the road direction.
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by rmckayfleming 11y ago
The phone support is useless though. They just open a ticket for you :/

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