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by sah 18y ago
This is nonsense. Ruby's MRI interpreter can be beaten by an unusually wide margin because it is unusually slow for an interpreter of a language like Ruby. Go look at the benchmarks on http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ -- on many bench
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by sah 18y ago
I'm not sure it really can help you gain valuable insight into your personality. Has anyone measured that value? Do people who have seen their Meyers-Briggs results do better in some measurable way from people who haven't?
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by sah 18y ago
Sure it does. It sorts people into bins based on what they say. So if you would answer these questions the same way now as you did then, it will produce the same answer. The aspects of your personality that it quantizes haven't changed e
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by sah 18y ago
"Also, the fact that the responses to this poll skew massively toward INTP/INTJ tells you something doesn't it?" It does. I voted this up, because finding out about personality traits that correlate with voting in polls on news.YC is at
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by sah 18y ago
It's instructive to read the prose about all of the types this test partitions people into. Do it before you see your results. Can you pick the one that describes you ahead of time? They're all flattering and describe experiences that I t
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by sah 18y ago
Most accurate against what other measure? Has this been tested in some way, or is it just something people say?
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by sah 18y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. I sometimes see people create an entire class wrapping a single factory method, and then override that method in various subclasses to construct different types of objects. The class, the subclasses, and
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by sah 18y ago
I can't stand it when people use Factory in Python. In Python, classes are objects -- you can just pass a class into a function as a parameter!
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by sah 18y ago
How is the title of this submission related to the content? The article is about research on counterproductive motivations of software designers. There's nothing like the phrase "don't know how" in the article at all.
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by sah 18y ago
By "worst example", I meant that I thought it was a poor example of your point, because the notation you quoted is okay. A lot of the other ones were worse code (and better examples of your point).
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by sah 18y ago
This article misses the point badly. Sure, web apps are becoming thicker clients. But they're clients which run on any OS (and often on your phone), and can be downloaded with no install process and few worries about malware. And how man
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by sah 18y ago
I agree with you that many of these shortcuts are obnoxiously read-only, but that was probably the worst example you could have picked. That notation is nicer than Python's standard ", ".join(["foo", "bar", "baz"])
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by sah 18y ago
Thanks for pointing out Workrave! I used to use xwrits when I used Linux, and have been looking for something similar for Windows for a long time.
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by sah 18y ago
I used xwrits.
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by sah 18y ago
I talked to my computer for about six months. It was a much-needed break for my wrists, and a lot more practical than I expected. I found I had to be very careful not to hurt my voice, though. Talking to a computer puts more strain on you
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by sah 18y ago
I find that a very large fraction of the typing I do while programming is not code entry. An amazing number of keystrokes go to navigating between and within files and directories, running tests, and looking up documentation. A good examp
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by sah 18y ago
I know a bunch of people who swear by these. They helped me, but the Goldtouch helped more. The way the Kinesis Advantage lays out space, enter, and backspace so they're all under your thumbs should become the standard keyboard layout. It
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by sah 18y ago
jwz's writing about his wrist problems is helpful: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/wrists.html I have continuing RSI myself, but I've gotten it to the point that it's manageable. Here's what helped me: - Less stress, more happiness. This was
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by sah 18y ago
There's nothing wrong with doing things that way. I know a bunch of smart people who did that. But if you're going to be teaching yourself on the side anyway, part of the value of being in school in the first place is reduced. Depending o
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by sah 18y ago
In my experience hiring software engineers, possession of an undergrad CS degree was not a helpful filter for resumes. I did find that candidates with advanced degrees or undergrad EECS degrees tended to be a little bit stronger than the a
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by sah 18y ago
As a self-taught hacker, this just isn't true of me. I'm constantly reading about things that I have no immediate use for. In fact, one of the reasons I dropped out of my CS undergrad program was that I felt like its focus was too narrow.
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Memory Fragmentation in Firefox(blog.pavlov.net)
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by sah 18y ago
When people get nerdy about clickiness, I always worry that they're optimizing for the wrong thing. Maybe getting this tactile feedback right does allow people to type faster, but how does it interact with RSI? For me, small, fast movement
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by sah 18y ago
Strive not to work for or with people who value your agreement over your true opinion.
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by sah 18y ago
Simplifying the key observation: free votes put more power in the hands of users who vote more. Users who vote more are, in his estimation, users who waste their own time. So social news sites based on free voting tend to promote articles
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by sah 18y ago
I don't think that's what he was saying. He was just complaining that he needs better filtering mechanisms, so he can find the 1 in 100 posts by e.g. Cory Doctorow that he would enjoy, without having to read the other 99.
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by sah 18y ago
This post is the best analysis of the problems of content filtering and social news that I've ever read. Fun, too!
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by sah 18y ago
I was looking for something like this just last week. This is a web service that will produce web page images, but it's useless to me because they don't specify which browser's rendering they're capturing: http://webshots.velocitysc.com/
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by sah 18y ago
The phrase "hash functions" refers to a general category that includes "cryptographic hash functions" (which are hopefully one-way) as a special case.
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by sah 18y ago
I'd say stick with PHP for this project, and try doing the next one in Python or Ruby. If you feel like you need a framework, slowly build it up one piece at a time as you need it. Don't re-write your whole app before you're making money.

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