ruraljuror

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by ruraljuror 4y ago
I graduated with a humanities degree from Penn, spent a decade working and eventually became a self-taught developer, then obtained a masters degree in computer engineering through Boston University’s LEAP program. While I agree with most
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by ruraljuror 4y ago
This is why many Stripes on blind are not angry. They will get more shares next year.
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by ruraljuror 4y ago
One awesome UI feature of slack is that if you paste a url onto selected test it will automatically create a hyperlink. GitHub markdown does this too. Once you use, it is frustrating when clients don’t implement it. Looking at you, Jira.
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by ruraljuror 4y ago
Barbara Oakley talks about it in a Mind for Numbers: “I generally liked to work on my more difficult subjects, like math, in the morning, when I was fresh. I still practice this approach today. I have some of my best mental breakthroughs in
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by ruraljuror 5y ago
My pizza place offers SMS text ordering and it is definitely the best option for ordering, especially when ordering a custom pizza. The only issue is that! he automated response includes a wait time which can be inaccurate, but I recognize
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by ruraljuror 5y ago
This is a great explanation and perhaps this is the author's intent. I think this example is so specific it is not a good way to start. It is better to start by eliminating broad categories and narrow in: can we assume ascii or do we a
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by ruraljuror 5y ago
> Asking questions like: “Can strings be multi-character?” can provide you with critical information to the problem. I don't understand this example, which immediately leads to imposter syndrome kicking in because this is supposed t
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by ruraljuror 5y ago
Unless I am missing some irony in it, the last sentence contradicts the preceding claims. Denying activism ia activism itself; you are enforcing a reactionary culture.
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by ruraljuror 5y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I think there is a need. If your code imports dependencies A & B and they depend on C at two different versions, how can you handle this unless C is structured with versioned dirs?
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by ruraljuror 6y ago
> If you see those things as "the boring bits" that you don't want to do then you're not a developer. You're a hacker. This point parallels the distinction made in the Software Engineering at Google flamingo book
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by ruraljuror 8y ago
Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone and G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories.
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
I believe Kent Beck does a mentorship program like this at Facebook.
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
If we're talking about the same book, it is available for free: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf I bought the book for sale on Amazon. The printed version seems like a print-on-demand copy
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
Do you eat insects? I personally find the idea repulsive, but that was just how I was brought up.
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
It depends what you consider specialty. Things I eat regularly, like tofu, almond butter, and coconut water are much cheaper at whole foods than my local grocery store. I think trader joes could be cheaper than wf for those things, but last
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
> because 'this' was evidence was that Google(his workplace)'s diversity initiatives and censorship were harming the company. I am not sure I follow exactly. Is there evidence that Google's diversity efforts hurt the
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
>What he said had at least some spark of originality and insight, otherwise it wouldn't have gotten nearly the attention it did. I actually don't think the public response suggests insight or originality on his part. I would at
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
I am really enjoying Death's End so I was glad to see it nominated. Will have to check out the winner's work.
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
> It pointed out where statistically measurable differences exist. > So Damore and this professor agree? No, they don't agree. Grant is arguing that the statistics don't bear out Damore's argument that: "the distr
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Wharton professor: Google memo greatly exaggerates gender differences(linkedin.com)
10 points by ruraljuror 9y ago|5 comments
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
I have done some work in angular2 (and rails, fwiw) using emacs. There are modes for javascript (yegge's js2-mode is one of the more feature rich modes I have seen for any language), angular, and typescript. I have not tried eslint but
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
My thought exactly. The authors seem to have gotten it completely backwards.
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
You might be interested in Walter Isaacson's The Innovators because it tries to show how collaboration rather than individual genius is at the heart of innovation. Isaacson writes about these ideas rather explicitly.
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by ruraljuror 9y ago
At the very bottom: If you use one of my links and purchase a mattress or other product you should know that the respective companies pay me a small referral fee.
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Etsy cancels internships two weeks before start date(bloomberg.com)
4 points by ruraljuror 9y ago|2 comments
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by ruraljuror 10y ago
Very cool write up. If you like this, and aren't familiar you should definitely check out Pat Metheny's orchestrion: http://www.patmetheny.com/orchestrioninfo/
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by ruraljuror 10y ago
I think you could interpret the situation as your employer being dishonest (it sounds like it, and that is troubling) or you could say they have will to do things with tech like React or TS, which could be an opportunity for you. This could
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by ruraljuror 10y ago
In the movie The Devil's Playground there is a discussion about how the Amish adopt technology. If I remember correctly, the criteria was based on whether the technology was disruptive to the community (i.e. how it affects the relati
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by ruraljuror 10y ago
To expand on my comment below, I assumed zero-based indexing was a natural extension from binary. When using bits (in this case three bits) as a representation, you start with 000. Naturally that would be referred to as 0.
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by ruraljuror 10y ago
I assumed that indexing started at zero because of binary representations. For example if you're using two bits to represent four states, the first one will be 00 and the last one will be 11, which is three.

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