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by ryandv 3y ago
> It's how I can get a new job and call myself a Data Scientist, but as Rachel Dolezal is mentioned in the article, cannot alter her appearance and be Black. This theme was already explored in the literature [0]: > Former NAACP c
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by ryandv 3y ago
I am disappointed by the absolute paucity of reasoned discourse in this comment thread so far. All I have witnessed are lazy dismissals and thought-terminating cliches [0] without anyone actually engaging with the substance of the article.
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Yes, Julian Jaynes also expands on this point in his book, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" and the section on "Divination." He posits that forms of divination, augury, sortilege, etc.
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by ryandv 3y ago
It's a fascinating psychological technology for saturating your brain with associations between anything and anything else. Eventually you can start to read numerical coincidences or synchronicities into anything - bus route numbers, t
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by ryandv 3y ago
> To be fair to these authors that option was not really viable when they first wrote the book. Instead of 200 15 second reliable playwright tests run across 20 cloud based workers completing in 3 minutes you were faced with the possibil
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by ryandv 3y ago
> If you think you can't safely refactor without reliable unit tests and you can't get reliable unit tests without refactoring then you are stuck. Books have been written on exactly this problem; Michael Feathers' "Wo
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> I experienced this first hand when I first started learning to do TDD with unit tests. We had a badly designed system and we adopted a unit testing strategy that said every class needed to be tested independently from every other class
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One issue with mocks is that you have to ensure that the way they are mocked accurately represents the actual behaviour of the thing being mocked, in production. Otherwise your mocks may end up driving the system to a state that is never ac
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by ryandv 3y ago
If tests are written first, (_and_ the dev has a good eye for design, which is not always given) then it is likelier that you will write a more ergonomic interface (e.g. methods having smaller number of parameters/dependencies, "i
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020759/
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Yes, yes. It just works, but if I need to I can pop open the hood and shell in, and then I'm back at home with Linux.
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by ryandv 3y ago
Since Naur is on the front page again [0] it may be worth mentioning that one would do well to know how to read grammars and the ABNF [1] that shows up time and time again throughout RFCs. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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As much as I love the hacker spirit of cracking open hardware and software and bending it to your will (whether or not it was designed towards that end), I enjoy my reMarkable precisely because I can get away from the ubiquity of computing
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The most difficult and time consuming activity of software engineering is not the production of source code as a textual artifact, but building a mental model of the software system - why it was built a certain way, how it may be extended,
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by ryandv 3y ago
I had the privilege of working a co-op term at Stein's lab at the OICR. I encountered quite a bit of Perl during my short time there, and have yet to see it elsewhere in the modern enterprise tech world. BioPerl in particular stands ou
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by ryandv 3y ago
I remember a time when HTTP was used to transfer HTML _documents,_ and not these "progressive web app" monstrosities. It felt a bit unusual to visit blogs or news sites and be bombarded with megabytes of JavaScript from over a doz
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by ryandv 3y ago
I find it disturbing that we consider emoji sufficiently expressive to stand in for the depth of meaning that a well-crafted passage can convey. In particular, I have lamented the paucity of information that modern short form social media -
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by ryandv 3y ago
My question was more rhetorical and for _synchronicity's_ sake than anything; I wanted to see what sort of replies would pop out. As a recreational student, I've already committed to this text, difficulty be damned. I am no strang
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by ryandv 3y ago
How well does this book work for solving problems in Walter Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis?"
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by ryandv 4y ago
This is a textbook strawman. Did you understand the passage quoted? John Stuart Mill clearly admits of a hierarchy of knowledge, ranging from the absolute truth of mathematics to progressively less "objective" fields (or perhaps,
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by ryandv 4y ago
I don't think so either. However, I have seen the argument made many times that opinions originating from particular political ideologies should be suppressed (which is a solution I recognize you have stated some qualms with), because
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> it also seems anti-intellectual to deny that information flows through complex systems in viral and unexpected ways Does this principle apply only to information of a particular political leaning, or is it a property of information in
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If the intellect and judgment of mankind ought to be cultivated, a thing which Protestants at least do not deny, on what can these faculties be more appropriately exercised by any one, than on the things which concern him