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by sseagull 5y ago
Still used a lot in scientific programming. Especially with long-lived projects, but even now new C++ projects start up. It’s a combination of institutional knowledge, domain-specific libraries, and low-level, hpc capabilities that keep C++
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Yes, I feel like the focus on making money is misplaced. I started lessons in my early 30s, (although had a strong background in music before). Never had an interest in performing. I view it like going to the gym. I don't lift weights
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by sseagull 5y ago
I suppose that's true. I usually live in college towns, where buying apartments is rare or impossible, so for me apartments were always rented.
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by sseagull 5y ago
I lived in apartments for a while (although not in cities). Another thing is that they would need to inspect the apartment once in a while (with notice) to make sure you aren’t damaging it. Even with notice it is intrusive. I am sooo much h
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Also, I look forward to even more bloated websites and applications now that developers have faster computers. It will be fast enough on their machines, but they will forget some people don’t like/can’t afford these machines.
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by sseagull 5y ago
I think that was more Snapchat’s earnings and realization that Apple’s privacy changes can actually cause significant problems for these companies.
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I didn’t know that. Sounds reasonable. I had never used Credit Karma’s tax service anyway, but good to know.
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by sseagull 5y ago
Also why I was disappointed when Intuit bought Credit Karma. I will never use Turbo Tax, just out of principle. I cannot support a company like that.
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There was a post here a while ago about packaging or virtual environments. Within a few minutes, there were quite a few responses about better ways to do it. Unfortunately, each response had a different recommendation. I wish I could find t
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I came very close to writing almost this exact code just the other day (except it was username or user id for me), but came to my senses. It's just so tempting in a dynamic language... In a static language, you either can't do it,
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This is absolutely how I feel. I've mentioned previously taking over a project, and just not knowing the type of anything took me months to overcome. Also, type hints really help your IDE, even catching errors before you even run tests
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Ok, it's going to find a book on the shelf by its author/title or dewey decimal number, vs. looking it up in the card catalog by subject (and then going to the shelf). That should appeal to the older crowd.
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> Users don't have the mental model to differentiate search terms and a URL Why don't they? This is a somewhat serious question. Part of it, in my opinion, is we are moving too fast, and giving up on users to quickly. With enou
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They are also afraid of breaking things, which isn't entirely unreasonable. I think we've all had relatives do something and then be unable to "get it back". Task bars deleted, icons deleted, etc. So they don't try
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by sseagull 5y ago
I do. Some anyway. I have seen some very smart acquaintances start talking about how bitcoin will replace the dollar or become the reserve currency of the world in just a few years. It really does feel like a cult or something. It’s so far
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by sseagull 5y ago
Blast from the past: Around 2004 I made a package manager for windows with that same name. I had a prototype, but I quickly got in over my head, since I wasn’t the greatest programmer at the time, and was in college for something other than
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by sseagull 5y ago
> I think it's the media's fault for this Sort of, but not completely in my opinion. In some sense they give people what they want, the same as Facebook giving people content that they "engage" more with (which is oft
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by sseagull 5y ago
Moisture meters aside, I use plants as an example of the “expert problem”. Experts give advice that seems helpful, but only if you have intuition already. “Completely dry” (or “plant is not hefty”) is not helpful to a beginner. There is bas
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> non-standard ports is confusing if you're a large team I think this is the key part. For me, this is for very small teams or for my personal server, which I need to be able to access with a password from possibly anywhere. For a l
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I do it on my personal servers for ssh. I move SSH to a non-standard port, which cuts down a ton. I typically only get a couple emails a year.
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My guess is not much. However, there is also the cost of consumers needing to upgrade hardware when things start getting slow again because of these developer choices. There’s a figure floating around that if consumers kept their phone for
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Maybe experience shouldn't be thrown outright, but there is a history of "obvious" stuff that falls apart under scrutiny. Observer expectations can be really strong. For example, does sugar make kids hyperactive? No real evid
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> Public health officials need to understand that their primary job is managing public perception of a situation first and foremost. They can go push their glasses up and pedantically spout off technical corrections behind closed doors a
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Tech companies don't know what to do with all their money (although Intel perhaps a bit less so). Google's core is search & advertising. But they are also in email, video streaming, messaging & video chat, cloud computing,
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by sseagull 5y ago
Leonard Bernstein has some lectures that might be helpful. This one has some good stuff about why notes an octave apart sound similar, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fHi36dvTdE
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Similar experience (as a user) at a medium-sized college. The information system (class registration, bursar, etc) could be accessed via a TUI over telnet/ssh. It was amazingly fast, and all the older professors could move around that
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Don’t think of “argument” meaning a statement in support of something. Think of it as a synonym for “debate”. “There’s no debate” as in “it’s so obvious, there’s no one on the other side debating that it is not true”
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> Humans have a fixed decision budget, we can only handle so much complexity before our brain turns off. Do we want to spend that solving domain problems or on huge software stacks? Bingo. Sounds like we are fairly in agreement. Scientis
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Short version of rant, unrefined and unpolished :) I basically agree about bringing modern software development into science, and I teach grad students and postdocs all over the country as well. But I'm looking for a better way. A majo
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> The problem is that people aren’t willing to start over and rewrite software If I had to continuously re-write projects in new languages, I would never get anything done. There are a lot of projects that we all depend on that are prett

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