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by scardine 11y ago
In Brazil the labor relations are heavily regulated. Each hour you are on-call you make 1/3 of a regular hour of work, and while you answer a call and work on weekends or at night you are paid twice the regular hourly wage. You are exp
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by scardine 11y ago
Postgrest has a very clever design. I want to see other tools going this route.
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This is true, but any decent IDE (I use PyCharm by Jetbrains) will hint you are overrinding a global variable. I like to use the underscore as a throwaway because it is explicit - it is far more common for me to override other common throwa
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by scardine 11y ago
Yes, this is the point. The GIL matters only if you are using threads with CPU-bound tasks (most of my work is I/O bound). When I have CPU-bound problems that need parallelism and are not yet well implemented in numpy/scipy, I wou
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by scardine 11y ago
My kid loves the PBS show "cat in a hat". There is an episode about the Tardigrade (#207): > Synopsis: Nick and Sally are trying to guess what animal is the toughest one — is it a lion? Oh no, it must be the enormous elephant!
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by scardine 11y ago
If you have 8GB or more of RAM you should be fine on either OS. 4GB is doable if you refrain from opening too many browser tabs.
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by scardine 11y ago
At the time I was working in the same building of the Sony offices in Brazil and overheard people commenting about the incident on the elevator. I still think it was an internal job. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scardin
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by scardine 11y ago
This is a global market. Brazilians can buy fake ATMs from Russia, rent botnets to Nigerians and commission computer trojans with Serbians.
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by scardine 11y ago
It can't be serious. :-)
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If you really need to drink an engineered solution it is a symptom of something else. Having to skip or delay a major meal should be a matter of absolute emergency. I guess in the USA lunch is not the major meal, but it is sacred in my side
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by scardine 11y ago
While OOP is perfectly possible in Rust, IMHO it is a lot more like doing OOP in C than in C++ (despite nice features like traits and generics). Rust is marketed as a "general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language&quot
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by scardine 11y ago
I guess D feels more like a better C++ and Rust like a better C, but I may be under the wrong impression.
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by scardine 11y ago
You are right, this is Python 3 stuff. I just assumed the parent was talking about Pypy3.
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In variable names, for example. You can do this: >>> π = 3.14 In Python 2: >>> π = 3.14 File "<stdin>", line 1 π = 3.14 ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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by scardine 11y ago
Here in Brazil the US Dollar is 1:4 to the local currency (and the value is raising), so right now the exchange rate is really favorable to a customer in the northern hemisphere. Not only the labor, real estate assets and companies are begi
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by scardine 11y ago
For me it is the Rebirth : during the course of the story, an important event forces the main character to change their ways, often making them a better person. It is also a Comedy : light and humorous character with a happy or cheerf
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by scardine 11y ago
I'm OK with dynamic types, they buy you something, cost you something. My big complaint is weakly typed languages (I'm looking at you, JavaScript). I've just fired SHIFT+CTRL+i and typed the line below in the JavaScript conso
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by scardine 11y ago
When you answer an RFP, most likely you are engaging into a race to the bottom (competing on price). Often an RFP means some PHB made a poor diagnostic, devised the wrong solution and just want someone to build it. That is why I don't
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by scardine 11y ago
The project name is also excellent, Ender's Game is among my favorite books.
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by scardine 11y ago
Do you have a few kittens? Managing developers is like herding cats. The truth is you don't really have real control.
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by scardine 11y ago
This. Autism is a label with a very wide spectrum. Just because my brain works differently from the other 98% of mankind (1 in 42 boys[1]) does not means I'm sick. [1] https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/preva
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by scardine 11y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned people diagnosed in the autistic spectrum, because so many are attracted to engineering and computer science - I guess there are many of us lurking around here...
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by scardine 11y ago
Elixir and Lua are among the few relevant contributions to the computer science field originating from my country (Brazil).
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by scardine 11y ago
It is not cancerous, it is just infectious. And not by accident, it is by design. I used to like GPL, so nobody would "steal" my code adding it to a closed source product. I don't care anymore, just use BSD or other credit-wh
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by scardine 11y ago
Do you know Vega[1]? I'm also a fan of declarative frameworks, and I was amazed by how easy it is to make a custom chart or map. [1] https://trifacta.github.io/vega/
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The PBS show "The cat in the Hat"[1] has an episode on these small beasts (episode 202[2]). [1] http://pbskids.org/catinthehat/video/ [2] http://www.pbs.org/parents/catinthehat&#x
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Ask HN: Do you attend Hackathons?
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Luckily humans and dinosaurs never shared the earth. If being around live hens makes me nervous, imagine the horror of being pursued by a giant carnivorous chicken. No, sir, no. Leave me with the lizards.
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by scardine 11y ago
The Brazilian national anthem is said to be a mashup of several compositions of the time, including the French anthem: you can sing "Allons enfants de la patrie!" in place of "Ouviram do Ipiranga as margens plácidas" The
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by scardine 11y ago
As someone who studied music but never got the commitment and discipline to play it well, I can tell you that learning music theory can be easier than playing it - at least for people like me. This is strange because I can paint and sculpt

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