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by sireat 8y ago
It's not the worst type of puzzle except if you do not know of a solution it might take a while to figure it out. It does relate to programmer's ability to amortize worst case running time. Once you realize that 1 egg requires lin
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by sireat 8y ago
What's your solution to finding medium term (5-10 years) motivation? The more I read on cognitive science (Strange Loop was the first and then you understand what was behind GEB) the more I concur with your view. It is depressing thoug
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by sireat 8y ago
Going back to Gibson's Neuromancer 10 years before 'Snow Crash' is also eerie: "He stepped out of the way to let a dark-suited sarariman by, spotting the Mitsubishi-Genentech logo tattooed across the back of the man&#x27
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by sireat 8y ago
Doesn't have to be Bash either, Python is pretty good for this too: sorted(set(foo.strip.split(' '))) #although we need to open the file first just to be on the safe side Perl's not too shabby either for this kin
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by sireat 8y ago
12 Rules for Life reads like a skilled astrologer would write: many vague clouded truisms, lots of exceptions, covers pretty much all bases. No wonder people are getting insights out of the book. It is practically impossible not to!
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by sireat 8y ago
This is a dicy ground to enter. As Voltaire said about God, same goes for absolute morals. They ought to exist because without absolutes society is liable to collapse. That does not mean that absolute morals exist just that we sort of prete
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by sireat 8y ago
I similarly love plain React and ES6 as it reduces my cognitive load. create-react-app is fantastic as well. What I do wonder about is inline styling in JSX that I encounter so much in React code. It feels "wrong" to me as inline
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by sireat 8y ago
This is a problem/misfeature with cryptocurrencies: You are never truly sure that you own any of it, until you spend/send it elsewhere. No matter what layers of indirection(multi-party-sigs,bio-metric based encryption, etc) you pu
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by sireat 8y ago
With all due respect to Kurzweil his predictions fall within the window of him being alive to see it. He keeps pushing the dates further and further away yet close enough that he could conceivably be alive at that date. Going by Gibson&#x27
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by sireat 8y ago
Admirable, what type of stack did you use for the back-end? I remember there was a movement to be completely JS free in late 90s/early 2000s.
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by sireat 8y ago
Only problem is that you do not see the new dawn. You need to sell yourself a broken bit of goods(that you will see that dawn) every real morning. We are quite good at local min-max because there is no global one.
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by sireat 8y ago
Jetbrains actually wanted to cut off access completely at first. Initially JetBrains didn't even want to offer rollback licenses when they went to subscription only model a few years ago. There was a big uproar among programmer communi
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by sireat 9y ago
When does it makes sense for a European to start a Delaware LLC? Let's say you have a lifestyle side-business and many clients in US. Where is the legal tax avoidance here? You still have to report the pass-through income to your home
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by sireat 9y ago
What best practices do I teach to complete beginners to Python? I am teaching adult beginners and it would be best to avoid the messy parts in the beginning. I thought I could get by with just pip and briefly touching on virtualenv. I sin m
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by sireat 9y ago
Interesting problem. I imagine the juicy part is that there is no clear cut formula for determining the rotation from the area needed. Thus the task is to come up with a fast approximation algorithm to work backwards. So brute force way:
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by sireat 9y ago
As convoluted Spaced Repetition sounds I am debating using it to brush up on algorithms. 10 years ago I was pretty handy with CLRS, but now I'd be hard pressed to implement quicksort without looking it up.
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by sireat 9y ago
I do wonder how many 40+ programmers are able to keep up with "young ones" in these contests. I fear it is like chess, the cognitive decline starts to become noticable in the mid 40s and only gets worse from then on. There are a f
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by sireat 9y ago
At 44 i've realized, nothing matters, everything matters. "After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box." That is whatever little world you've built around you that's all you've got and all you ar
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by sireat 9y ago
Good to see that you made a success of the newsletter. Your newsletter was one of the few that I tried to read at least weekly. That said I did not subscribe despite enjoying the free subscription: The value proposition was not there in my
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by sireat 9y ago
Hilarious and technically correct! As others have pointed out, this is just a filter for Google to see who wants the job the most and is willing to jump through the most hoops. Google misses a lot of good candidates but the ones they get ar
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by sireat 9y ago
One tiny practical suggestion: Add some basic CSS to the site such as lightly shaded boxes for paragraphs. The stark red and black styling defaults on chrome leave an unsettling impression. As others have commented, your best practical cour
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by sireat 9y ago
Probably 99% of bookmarks I am not ever going to see again, but finding that 1% is such a lifesaver. As in I am doing a research on some topic and I already have a whole bunch of links nicely tagged and ready to go. The problem is that you
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by sireat 9y ago
Over 20k bookmarks on pinboard.in half of which were migrated over from the original delicious Started with the $11 forever plan but then actually started paying for archive option on pinboard just in case. Link rot is a bit of problem I th
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by sireat 9y ago
How familiar are you with the early history of Scribd? They were a darling of HN(YC financed the early rounds) here at first in the late 200Xs following the classic Youtube/Kim Dotcom growth strategy of allowing pretty much any conten
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by sireat 9y ago
If you want modern Javascript I'd say React is a better choice than Vue. I spent 10 years doing embedded Javascript(not web) and wanted to see what modern webdev was like. Vue came highly recommended but I do not feel like I am writing
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by sireat 9y ago
LinkedIn is particularly adept at repeatedly asking you to share your e-mail contact list. Don't think there is an option: Never share my contacts and stop bugging me about this option.
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by sireat 9y ago
Google Reader first release 2005, discontinued 2013. Google Code Search was another notable casualty and many others. Now, one can point to Microsoft's web authoring efforts having cancelled a number of products(Frontpage etc) as well
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by sireat 9y ago
I remember 'w' from reading Cuckoo's Egg some 25+ years ago as a teenager. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg I still do it instinctively on my own boxes.
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by sireat 9y ago
I love Python but as a long time C programmer I can't understand the preference for spaces in PEP 8. Tabs are semantic and only take one key press for movement back and forth and to delete. If you see 1 tab you know it meant one indent
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by sireat 9y ago
The list is practically endless: Joel on Software, patio11, DHH, Seth Godin, Tim Ferris, countless SEO blogs, and so on in increasing order of cringiness. It is the whole modern melting of personality/advice/authority/promoti

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