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Understanding write-through, write-around and write-back caching (with Python)(shahriar.svbtle.com)
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by stephenbez 7y ago
What do you mean O'Reilly doesn't make books anymore? I've read books from them recently.
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by stephenbez 7y ago
Nice. I've done a similar thing using spaced repetition software like Anki to practice everyone's name right after I join a company.
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by stephenbez 8y ago
This is what I do: 20 or 30 minutes before lunch I eat an apple. There was a study a few years ago that showed you can crowd out unhealthy food by eating an apple or pear before every meal. I bring in frozen vegetables from home and I have
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Bigger, Saltier, Heavier: Fast Food Since 1986 in 3 Simple Charts(nytimes.com)
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by stephenbez 8y ago
Rent control. If you live in a unit constructed before a certain year, you have rent control and the landlord is limited to a small increase in rent each year. If you have been living in same place for years it's possible your rent is
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by stephenbez 8y ago
> Here's how ordinary, regular people can help. When people start being extreme and a bit divorced from reality and engaging in violence, unsavory almost-violence, and untruthful agenda pushing, people need to call it out, and also
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by stephenbez 8y ago
This sounds pretty cool. I do backend development and if I wanted to learn modern web development or functional programming I could see myself potentially using a service like this. (Of course someone saying they would be interested and h
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by stephenbez 8y ago
You may find this useful: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/25/mental-health-on-a-bud... It seems like bibliotherapy and free support groups might be a good match for you. I'll ask a lot of questions, d
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by stephenbez 8y ago
EC2 has per-second billing: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-...
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by stephenbez 8y ago
Yeah that's what we do. As a developer you spend a large amount of time reading/reviewing existing code and making changes to it. I'm surprised there aren't more companies that test for that skill.
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by stephenbez 8y ago
The US M1 Money Supply has tripled since 2000 according to the St. Louis Fed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL There have not been issues with high inflation.
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by stephenbez 8y ago
Summarizing about the AUTHOR's views on microaggressions: Let's say someone comes up to you and says "Where are you really from?" The motivations for asking this question can be ambiguous. One way to interpret it is as a
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by stephenbez 8y ago
Sorry if I was being unclear, the books explains the views much better. The author's want us to avoid the fallacies of emotional reasoning. Some quotes: "Sages in many societies have converged on the insight that feelings are al
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by stephenbez 8y ago
I wish there was someone at Cruise I could talk to in order to tell them to make their cars follow CVC 22100. I frequently see their cars on Folsom street in the Mission. I've seen their cars make right hand turns without being fully
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by stephenbez 8y ago
I saw the same thing recently as well
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by stephenbez 8y ago
I just read the book "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure". About 1/3 of the book is how kids these days are being taught values that are pretty much th
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by stephenbez 8y ago
It's interesting, I feel like it's the opposite and Go excels at large projects. Compared to other languages, Go doesn't let you use as many abstractions, so writing code takes longer, but it is much more straightforward to
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by stephenbez 8y ago
Same thing happened to me, where the title was changed from "Java Creator James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle" to "Why I Quit Oracle". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15163932 It doesn't make sens
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by stephenbez 8y ago
I haven't tried it, but I've heard good things about interviewing.io. You do a practice interview with someone for free and they give you feedback. https://interviewing.io/
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Dehumanization policy: Creating new policies together(blog.twitter.com)
2 points by stephenbez 8y ago|0 comments
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by stephenbez 8y ago
I view this like software performance optimization. First thing you do is profile the application. Would anyone suggest spending a lot of effort to speed up the part of the program that is taking 0.03% of the time? There definitely is envir
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by stephenbez 8y ago
This is definitely true. "Lines vary at field offices, but Gonzalez [DMV Spokesperson] said the average wait time is about two to three hours -- an assertion that Patterson [Assemblyman] is challenging." "People have got two-
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by stephenbez 8y ago
There is an awesome book written on this exact topic: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NCV2RIR/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... "How to stop worrying & start living" by Dale Carnegie It has very actionable and
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China's social credit system has blocked people from taking 11M flights(businessinsider.com)
4 points by stephenbez 8y ago|1 comments
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Facebook now requires your Social Security number to buy political ads(money.cnn.com)
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by stephenbez 8y ago
If you get a call from someone who claims to work at the credit card company you use, instead of trusting the caller (who could be a scammer) and potentially divulging private information, you should just hang up and call the number on the
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by stephenbez 9y ago
I'm in the same boat. I had worked out on my own seeing reasonable progress for a year and decided to work with a trainer to see if I could improve my routine. He had me do some deadlifts and it caused injuries that set me back over
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by stephenbez 9y ago
(Slightly off topic) Has anyone else been around the Cruise Automation self driving cars in SF? I have and I can't believe they are allowed on the road given how poorly they drive. While biking to work today, there was a Cruise car be
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by stephenbez 9y ago
I suggest reading the book "Clean Code". I've worked with traders/business analysts who do some coding but it isn't their full time job and their code quality isn't great. After having them read the book and t

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