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by sevensor 3y ago
This is unethical, but not for the reasons given. It's unethical because it favors the pre-internet status quo of cheating within one's social circle. It was well known at my university that fraternities and sororities kept libr
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by sevensor 4y ago
I switched off gmail to a paid email provider exactly because of incoming delivery problems. One too many important messages had been aggressively filtered, and I was about to apply for a job. No way I was going to leave those emails in t
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by sevensor 4y ago
I was struck by this note at the end. > Of existing languages, Racket (paired with Typed Racket) probably comes closest to what I feel is the sweet spot for language design, and it may explain why I seem to pick it more than most other l
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by sevensor 4y ago
Has anyone been on the other side of this? As an employer, is termination the only option when an employee's compensation exceeds their contribution? It seems like there's no good way to demote somebody.
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by sevensor 4y ago
If you're willing to tolerate not owning things when they're new, survivorship bias can be your friend. I especially recommend saying yes whenever an elderly relative / friend offers you a hand-me-down. You'll get thin
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by sevensor 4y ago
Likewise. Same reasons, same process, and I've found it just as helpful in middle management as I did when I was an individual contributor. There's an additional benefit. This is the reason I started doing it in the first place:
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by sevensor 4y ago
> Just make a log() function that takes a target (file, socket, etc) and a message. Unless your logger needs to be so flexible as to work in 3rd party apps, why can't it be just that simple? Of all the ways this could have been don
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by sevensor 5y ago
This looks like the same phenomenon as the crisis in staffing nurses that was discussed here the other day. Careerist, indifferent management giving the people on the front line inadequate resources and then blaming them when things start
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by sevensor 5y ago
I've found that having strong individual contributor skills and having written most of the foundational codebase myself are a dangerous trap as a manager. It's very easy to put yourself on the critical path for delivery, which is
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by sevensor 5y ago
The way to think about gradual type annotations is not like types in C. You're not saying "this variable is 8 bytes that we're going to interpret as a floating point number." What they do is let you express constraints
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by sevensor 5y ago
Precisely. We don't merge unless the result passes mypy.
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by sevensor 5y ago
Python enforces its runtime types at runtime. 'hello' is a perfectly valid argument to print. Python will raise a TypeError if you try to use it to index a list though.
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by sevensor 5y ago
I too worked at SAS early in my career, for about half a decade. It was a wild time; I learned a lot, rubbed shoulders with some incredibly bright people, got to visit the Kiheung fabs. I'm not at all surprised by the story, however,
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by sevensor 5y ago
Your milage may vary depending on which martial art you choose. In a very traditional studio, you may know your fellow students only by rank. None of this is to take away from the parent's point. Even in that environment, the stuff
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by sevensor 5y ago
Last time I was in the mall in my town, they'd opened a place where you could go _Office Space_ on old electronics in a former storefront. The anchor stores have gone, of course.
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by sevensor 5y ago
Agreed. C is a great starting point. It's a terrible continuing point though. Novice C programmers write seg-faulty code left and right, which is fine. That's not a problem; everything that's wrong is on the surface. In
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by sevensor 5y ago
I came to the comments section planning to say the same thing. We used to throw around the term "computer literacy." It meant being able to use a word processor like WordPerfect and a spreadsheet like Lotus 1-2-3, and it meant u
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by sevensor 5y ago
I am way late to this thread, but I want to address a big point of confusion -- just because you have equipment capable of very fine resolution, doesn't mean you actually have to use it to produce features that small. You can keep on
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by sevensor 5y ago
In bash, such things are documented in the help system: $ help command command: command [-pVv] command [arg ...] Execute a simple command or display information about commands. Runs COMMAND with ARGS suppressi
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by sevensor 5y ago
Everything social, anything that shames me for not engaging more with the platform, and poor user experience when using a browser that doesn't support Javascript.
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by sevensor 5y ago
> mind bogglingly slow Python is outside of its optimised numerical science ecosystem Granted, but inside its optimised numerical science ecosystem, Python is, in fact, fast enough. If most of your program is calls into numpy, Python w
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by sevensor 5y ago
> What service that gives us 2 day or less shipping. I think you'd find your options opening up if you were willing to concede a day or two here. Amazon has got its customers conditioned to expect instant gratification, but do you
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by sevensor 5y ago
I've been in heated debates about this, and it's good to see the case for my point of view stated plainly and with supporting evidence.
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by sevensor 5y ago
Is there a fundamental difference between a remote administration tool and a remote access trojan?
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by sevensor 5y ago
> It sounds like you really just need Linux and can skip Windows. My point exactly! I've been making that case for a while and I think I'm gaining some traction.
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by sevensor 5y ago
As a WSL user at work, this addresses exactly zero of my problems with running Windows. Windows Defender is still going to randomly spin up and bring my machine to a halt. The Windows Start Menu with its ads is still there. There are sti
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by sevensor 5y ago
If you're listening late at night, you may think the band are not quite right.
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by sevensor 5y ago
I'm quite happy not to be contacted about what I say on this forum. I have neither the time nor the inclination to engage more deeply than I do by commenting here. I've been on HN for most of a decade now, and in that time I&#x2
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by sevensor 5y ago
There are lots of great languages out there -- "the best" will always be hyperbole -- but F# is a really good one. Strong library support, cross-platform, interoperability with C#, a type system that helps rather than hindering y
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by sevensor 6y ago
It's interesting to look at this in the context of ballooning tuition costs. Could it be that part of the problem is that university staff positions attract a high proportion of unmotivated time-servers? How is this possible at the s

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