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by snicker7 5y ago
For software engineering, four hours of actual work per day is probably average even on-site.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Check out Guix via Nix package definitions. Nix looks far more hacky (embedded shell scripts are standard). Guix package defs are declarative and readable (even for those with little Lisp exposure). Guix is not tied to any kernel version. H
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by snicker7 5y ago
Check out some Guix package definitions. They are written in a declarative style. It looks closer to YAML than code.
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by snicker7 5y ago
It's a shame that JuliaDB was basically abandoned. I work in the financial industry, and I could see Julia competing with KDB+. Unfortunately, the Julia data engineering stack is far behind the data science stack.
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by snicker7 5y ago
DuckDB is an embedded database. That is, it is a library one loads into their application. This is in contrast to a server database like Postgres where the database and application live on different processes (usually on different machines)
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by snicker7 5y ago
???
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by snicker7 5y ago
I am referring to a hypothetical dockerless OCI compatability layer built on top of `guix shell --container` or `guix system container`. I sort of got this idea from runj [0], an attempt to create an OCI compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails
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by snicker7 5y ago
Guix supports exporting to Docker containers. A guix.scm file then becomes a reproducible alternative to a Dockerfile. However, Guix has its own container implementation. And this is significantly lighter than Docker (instead of layers, lin
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by snicker7 5y ago
My team is distributed across the world. We ensure that we have multiple SME’s for the most critical systems in each region. No one has to wake up at 3 AM.
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by snicker7 5y ago
At a certain income threshold, rent becomes irrelevant. The difference in top decile salaries between, say, NYC and Pittsburgh is far more significant than the slight difference in a rent.
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by snicker7 5y ago
I work at a hedge fund. Despite a recent return-to-work mandate, literally no one in my team is in the office. Our job is super stressful and emotionally taxing. Not having wearing to pants makes it somewhat bearable.
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by snicker7 5y ago
I think the issue with code vectorization is that the compiler must know that the given loop can run out-of-order. I don't know if that is something that LLVM can do reliably.
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by snicker7 5y ago
It comes down to timing, really. Just like most technology fads. Python is interpreted/dynamic, open source, general-purpose, relatively popular, and is easy to write low-overhead wrappers to C/C++/Fortran libraries. In 2008-
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by snicker7 5y ago
Except that institutional credibility is literally a made-up resource that tax payers like myself are subsidizing.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Does it do time tracking / habit tracking? Agendas? Org mode is more than just a todo app.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Keep in mind that AMDGPU.jl requires ROCm, which is basically dead (no recent GPUs support it and none of those that do are consumer-grade). The problem with AMD GPGPU is not software, it is that AMD literally does not care.
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by snicker7 5y ago
People are being overly cynical. People are not born as senior engineers. You must start somewhere.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Putting more of your application logic in your database is great for DB vendors. Its pretty much impossible to migrate to a competitor.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Built on top of pandoc and used to build the Julia Data Science book: https://juliadatascience.io/
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by snicker7 5y ago
The Lisp and APL families of languages do not have operator precedence at all.
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by snicker7 5y ago
This sort of language cruft makes me realize that Lisp had it right all along.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Author argues that a wealth tax will encourage short-term over long-term growth. But a wealth tax is also a disincentive for public ownership. And some argue that short-term thinking prevails to satisfy the whims of the public market.
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by snicker7 5y ago
The main take away from this article is doing FFI between two language (Ruby wrapping Julia), taking into account the particularities of their divergent runtimes.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Well. Code should be optimized first for correctness, and simple string concatenation will not work for URL params.
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by snicker7 5y ago
> however when things did go wrong, there was nobody to run ideas by and nobody to really help me…I had built all these things myself, and I also had to be responsible for fixing them when they broke. You are responsible for your supply
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by snicker7 5y ago
People confuse strong typing with static typing all the time. I guess this was the case here.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Possible explanation: lots of terminals paste on click. A single miss click can execute who know what from your clipboard.
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by snicker7 5y ago
My understanding is that rental car companies car about car depreciation (it is one of their main costs). The Tesla makes a good choice.
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by snicker7 5y ago
You are describing the web developer today.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Evil mode supports leader keys. It’s pretty trivial to setup.

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