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by slewis 15y ago
If anyone has trouble with throwing code away: trust your source control system! If you need to, keep a file called "threw_away.txt" also under source control as an index of stuff you deleted but that might be useful later.
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by slewis 15y ago
This is article is very light on evidence, citing one engineer the author spoke with. Having worked there I'd say the article is unfairly one-sided. There are plenty of Googlers who maintain a normal work-life balance.
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by slewis 15y ago
Is it valid to compare the "fragmented Android OS means writing code for old versions problem" to the browser fragmentation issues we've been dealing with on the web for so long? I can't really answer this as I haven't written any Android c
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by slewis 15y ago
Fixed.
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by slewis 15y ago
Thanks! We'll let you know what we end up doing.
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by slewis 15y ago
I fixed all the issues except 1). Sent you an email.
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by slewis 15y ago
Thanks!
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by slewis 15y ago
Wow fantastic feedback. Consider all of this done. What browser/OS are you using?
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Review our weekend project: Bundlenut
29 points by slewis 15y ago|12 comments
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by slewis 15y ago
So we can only use "his" or "their"?
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by slewis 15y ago
But your initial decision was to turn off ads, in opposition to your desire to support sites you like, which led to your current notion of where things should be on the page.
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by slewis 15y ago
Can correlation be assumed without sources and facts as was done in the article? "Not all engineers are [figurative] robots" is certainly a fact and was meant as an upper bound on the number of engineers who believe that photography is mere
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by slewis 15y ago
How do you know this is true: "Engineers who become photographers generally spend an outsized amount of time making their images sharp, have true color, be adequately lit, etc." Not all engineers are robots. It doesn't take an artist to rea
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by slewis 15y ago
No. His point is not about keeping a car on a road. Read the "Iteration" section.
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by slewis 15y ago
Can you give some examples of some bad habits you might learn? 40 hour weeks?
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by slewis 15y ago
I have to add a second priority: get enough sleep. For me sleep is more important to my productivity than exercise (though of course exercise helps with sleep). I don't know if everyone is as dependent on a good night's sleep as I am, but I
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by slewis 15y ago
Its appealing simply because a compute by bus is generally faster. You're right that the public transportation situation sucks, but wrong that people shouldn't want a new solution that works for them personally.
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by slewis 15y ago
Couldn't agree more... happens to me all the time.
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by slewis 15y ago
I've found my poor sleep correlates with how late I'm working on a problem. I try to go to bed around 11pm. If I'm done working by 6pm I'm more likely to sleep ok. 8pm is pushing it. Any later than that the problem won't be out of my head b
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by slewis 15y ago
The above study lacks all the important details (who was tested, on what content, and with what prompt), at least on the page linked to.
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by slewis 15y ago
You guys don't care but they're reporting that the majority of users do. They're not saying its rational.
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by slewis 15y ago
Its a well-written tutorial on using mapreduce to process a specific large music dataset. Now someone can jump right in and start writing their own processing code without worrying about all the boring details. Maybe the headline is a bit m
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by slewis 15y ago
Why are people comfortable with paying for tiered connection speeds, but not comfortable with a monthly data cap (that can be removed by paying more for a business connection)?
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by slewis 15y ago
Isn't it possible for a company to have more than one purpose? The people who run these companies aren't necessarily just greedy corporate bastards. Many of them want to change the world in positive ways. Ads are the funding mechanism. The
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by slewis 15y ago
Regarding putting things in the hands of others: another good example is data analysis. Say you're the sole programmer at a startup and all your time is focused on building your product. But you also have lots of data coming in that needs t
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by slewis 15y ago
I believe doing stuff like this is one of the big contributors to making a "10x-100x" programmer. The best programmers don't have to perform 20 clicks in their browser every 10 minutes. Everything is streamlined so that real work can get do
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by slewis 15y ago
From the article: "Thus the result is not a language for real-world use but one that I hope embodies many different unique and novel design decisions in a way that triggers thoughts and ideas in those that take the time to play with it." So
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by slewis 15y ago
dpatru might be using definitions you don't agree with but he/she is still positively contributing to the discussion. Seems on topic to me, just highly abstracted: what are possible systemic solutions to the article's issue? So I've upvoted
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by slewis 15y ago
I went to craigandtim.com and there's no scrollbar in Chrome :(. I had to highlight text to scroll down.
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Simple ajax debugging(shawnmlewis.wordpress.com)
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